From Dadanox' post on the main boardFollow

Putting the 'disc' back into 'PvP'.

Nice stuff. Holy didn't need those buffs, but hey, I won't complain. The SoS and SoL procs from Flash Heal and Gheal is a nice touch though, definitely makes our lives a bit easier. Decent disc buffs, but the PW:S one is definitely the major one. Note that that one isn't just for disc either - holy priests will want to use it on near-dead targets now as well. It's also a tiny buff to B&S.

All in all, great patch for us priests.

The tripling of Blessed Resilience’s effect certainly made me raise an inquisitive eyebrow. I’ll be interested to see if Echoes of Light double dips, ticking based on the 160% value of the direct heal, then getting boosted another 60%. That could add up to some crazy numbers, especially when Guardian Spirit and Test of Faith come into play, if it also double dips into their healing bonuses--imagine the crits! This could make mastery incredibly useful for PVP tanking.

The increase to Chastise’s cooldown is painful, but I guess going from 17.5 seconds to 21 seconds after Tome of Light is taken into account isn’t the end of the world.

The boost to Power Word: Shield is great for both specs. I might have to seriously consider dumping Twisted Faith and Veiled Shadows to pick up Improved Power Word: Shield and a little more Mental Agility. Let’s see...assuming I trade spirit for hit rating, I’d effectively lose 615 spirit and add one minute to my shadowfiend (which is mostly a mana restoration mechanic in my Holy PVP). Since the change to Holy Concentration should raise my mana regeneration while casting from 70% to 80%, that could work out okay, especially given the unreliability of the Shadowfiend in PVP.

I dumped Veiled Shadows and got the hit ring and a couple of hit gems instead, because I wanted to have some hit for the occasional Disc spec anyway. TBH I've noticed a lot more mana relief than I thought I would from putting those points on the Disc side instead. Given how many instants I cast, Meditation makes a huge difference, plus Archangel, though situationally useful, is great in those situations.

Really? But what if I don't have a lot of stuff with stats I want to reforge? I suppose I could cut mastery and the rare piece with haste in half, but I've favored spirit so heavily in my buying choices that I probably don't have enough of those to get me to 4% hit. Given that we're probably getting the same general pieces (yours just being one tier higher), which particular ones are you reforging?

And no, I like the advice, good info is why I come here. I mean, first for the recipes, obviously, but then for the info. :)

I confused the PVP hit cap with the heroic hit cap. We need only 410 points of hit on our PVP gear to hit in ordinary circumstances.

With that in mind, here’s my plan to reach those numbers once the new patch hits and I spec out of Twisted Faith on my Holy build:

Vicious Gladiator’s Cord of Accuracy : +159 hit
Vicious Gladiator’s Cuffs of Accuracy: +134 hit
Vicious Gladiator’s Band of Accuracy (reforged to haste or spirit): +80 hit
Vicious Gladiatior’s Gavel (reforged to hit): +39 hit

Total +hit: 412

Edited, Jan 11th 2011 1:09pm by emmitsvenson