Spirit tap *absolutely* necessary?Follow

no talent is *absolutely* necessary ... but it is the most advantageous talent you can take at the lowest tier cost to take for leveling ... just do it! :)

Well, we WSG pretty much every other night and heavy on the weekends, and we level in packs. That sums up the situation as it stands now - it could very well change and I could end up soloing for those levels between brackets.

And thanks for the quick responses. Its one of those things where, when I'm soloing and don't have ST, I'll be cursing myself, but if I do have it during close matches I'll be cursing myself some more ^^

-mel

*edit* Just to respond to the question of Spirit Tap in BGs, I did have this talent with another priest, and while in BGs it rarely, if ever, activated. The killing blow is very hard to get.

Edited, Apr 17th 2007 8:04pm by Melchiresa

I didn't really know what I was doing while leveling :P I ran 3 points in Spirit Tap, long time ago (year and a half or so); I use 3 points right now for farming. Necessary? No. Helps immensely (even with just 3)? Definitely.

I have a few in spirit tap (three as well) and I mainly BG at the moment - I can say that I love it big time. I'm lvl 48 and can get the killing blow very often. I crit more often than not with my mindblast, and it's good for around 700-800 damage which, especially on clothies after I dispel anything that might reduce the damage, is good enough to get a killing blow. It will even trigger when I get a lucky kb off SW:P, it really does go a long way for me in the craziness of BGing. I've had it save me quite a bit when I was running after a flag carrier, killed it with just enough mana, ST procs, some one else grabs flag before I can - and often time have just enough to kill them as well. Without it I would have to blow a pot or just run after them and pray some one else comes along to kill them. That is a very unlikely scenario, but I've had it happen and it made me love having it. Like some one said early, nothing is 100% necessary per say, but some things certainly go a long way to help. I would have also hated leveling with out it!

-Monky

spirit tap is the ultimate tool for farming/leveling/grinding. I'm a holy dps'er with spirit tap, and with 2 trinkets that regenerate mana (bangle of endless blessing, deck: blue dragon) I can just farm forever (not only shadow can do this). I was farming last night for motes of mana in netherstorm and i only eated 2 times in 1 hour. And that's because i was like 1k mana, 1k health. And i don't even wait for spirit tap to end, just go on and on killing. Well.. the mobs there are easy to kill and hit for little, but it's almost the same with water elementals in skettis or fire elem. in nagrand.

imo, spirit tap saves u alot money in total..
couldn't play without it <3, rly love it,

especially versus shaman mobs, since u can onehit their totems, and gain ST from it, too bad the next patch is disabling this "bug"..

if u wanna save money, and dont like to pause, get ST :), or at least get 2/5 or 3/5..

As stated numerous times... it is not necessary, but it is hugely helpful. In regards to it's use in BG's... wait till you get SW: Death. You will be able to steal killing blows all the time and it is worth the extra regen for sure whether you are Holy/Disc or shadow.

As one post stated before, if you Disc heavy then the +spirit bonus is quadrupled in effect as it is increasing your +damage while allowing for greater regen during casting.

With practice on mobs you will be able to have it proc on almost 75% of your mobs in groups as you will be able to time the SW:D to get the kill.

Bottomline, it will significantly increase your speed of leveling and allows for you to have greater staying power in BG's as you will rarely run out of mana.