Strange comments here. PVP oriented guilds? Do you think any PVP oriented guild kills the twins? It's not like you walk in and just do it. You need to be dedicated to PVE and raiding for a long time to even get this far. The fight is limited to 15min so you need high enough dps. It is 15min of high damage so your healers mana regen needs to be up for it and your tanks well geared. Think most of you commenting here wont even see these.

I'm a priest and I say this kind of stuff belongs to dps classes. My guild does allow priests to bid on dmg&heal stuff but most decide to let dps get them first. If you spend dkp on stuff like this all the time you are slowing guild progress. You need healing and manaregen, dps needs these. We had one priest that bid on all +dmg stuff. He was holy as everyone in our guild is forced to be. He raided for a long time but his gear was crap. He had high dps but low healing and bad manaregen/spirit. Total sh*t for our raids, not to mention he took some nice gear needed by casters. Finally he went shadow and left the guild. Nice! If you try justfiy you need these for raiding as a healer then you are really retarded. It has low healing bonus and totally lacks spirit and manaregen. Sucks big time.

Now we have AQ40 on farm and killing bosses in Naxx. Everyone has good gear and Naxx has some incredable stuff to offer. So priests can bid on stuff like this because no one else really needs them. They are minor upgrades at best. They have better or equal or wait for tier 3. Mages and locks have their class sets full with dmg stuff, added with set bonuses. Stuff like this is excellent for priests to use in BG. Look at frostfire and plagueheart. Who would even want these over them? Priest love to get stuff like that, druids can get feral gear etc. Stick with your guild helping it and finally you will start to get stuff like this.

We had these drop this week the first time. I think me and another priest were only ones to bid. I have been healing for my guild over a year and I deserve to get some dps gear as I want to do some pvp once in a while too. I have allmost 450dmg&heal. It's really fun in BG to get smite crits of 2000(with power infusion and trinket). Priceless to two shot a noob and still beeing able to heal and that bonus applies to heals too which makes it really nice for pvp. It also has loads of the important pvp stats, stamina and int.

If you are shadow then you should really go for +shadow damage stuff as you get higher bonus but a holy/disc priest does nothing with that like mentioned. You don't use MB much as it is on 8sec cooldown without talents, does not benefit from holy talents like smite. It totally sucks. SW:pain is not good enough reason to get shadow stuff either. A holy priest(if specced for it) has much higher dps than a shadowpriest, mainly because his damage scales with gear much better and his main spell, smite can crit(+10% with talents) while mind flay doesn't. The thing that makes shadowpriest good is other stuff. Silence, 15% physical damage reduction, Vampyric embrace and slowing effect of mind flay. But if they have a pure nuke war, the shadowpriest gets totally facemelted by the holy smiter.

Sure you can get high dmg with blues, but you will gimp your stamina and int too much making your gear crap for pvp and don't come talking about pvp sets, you won't get high rank if you are in a hardcore raiding guild. Getting high rep with WSG or AB takes ages too when you raid 6 times a week.

Best boots for a Warlock , next to plagueheart . Doomcallers suck , less Damage and you really don't need the resistence decrease , curse of elements/shadow is more than enough.

Edited, Jul 3rd 2006 at 8:57am EDT by DerSerp

Edited, Jul 3rd 2006 at 8:58am EDT by DerSerp

Well, so an endgame priest's endgame situation:

*login*
*stand around in orgrimmar for some hours* (optional)
*walk a 4m deep trench between AH and mail box* (optional)
*get invited*
*heal*
*logoff*
Exciting, right?


After 1 Year doing nothing else than healing I got tired of it. So you better do with a well equipped 1year-experience priest that has fun playing, because he got some "Outdoor Survival Gear", than with a well equipped 1year-experience priest leaving the raid/guild/game because of weariness. (healthbars are really not exciting, if you don't believe me, watch this picture for 1-5 hours and imagine the bars are slightly moving ;) http://mitglied.lycos.de/sarunir/wow/tm1.jpg )

Well... I chose to play my priest for exactly one year now because I like healing.
But nevertheless as a priest you are a caster as well ;)


To the shadow gear argument.
Shadow sucks hard in PvE (because you have to spend talent points for being just a bit efficient) ;) You also better go with a well equpped 1year-experience priest specced with 51points in disc/holy (mages always go jumping around when getting my power infusion)than with a 51points shadowtree specced solopriest.

...since priestpatch 1.10 I've cast 2 Mind Blast spells (really, I counted them) and these were because I got counterspelled by the mage.
As a not shadowspecced priest you got an 8sec cooldown on your ONLY offensive shadowdamage Spell (Mind Blast --> skillable to 5,5sec with 15 talent points, a second skill is available at 11 points inside the shadowtree) except the dot (Shadow Word: Pain). (sure you don't know because you obviously don't play a priest)
When you cast Mind Blast, you got 8sec time in which you can't do anything else than cast Smite (of course no shadow spell and so only affected by +dmg/healing. Optionally you can cast Mind Flay 2 times, which is the 11points shadow talent mentioned before) and now stfu with "go with shadow gear" ;)


Just my two cents ;)

Edited, Wed Apr 19 15:05:52 2006

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1.10 holy nova for priests. :)

<3 my ringos

let the +dmg freaks have them 8[

erm..okey being a mage i have to say that these are the best boot's in the game when it comes to spell dmg.

These boot's where not intended for priests to use they where without a doubd created for the pupose of a mage or a warlock!

Honey, I saw it first so it's mine, sorry. Thanks.