Looking for advice on Priest bg healing spec

Hey guys,
I have a lvl 70 holy priest, and have found myself playing a lot in
battlegrounds lately because, at the moment, I dont have the time for
raiding. I therefore am considering respeccing to a more disc-oriented
healing build. Since i am not that good at the number-crunching, and
since a lot of the forum posts i have read are focused on arena-builds,
I am hoping for some advices on how to make a build that is good for
healing (and surviving! ) primarily in normal battlegrounds
(WSG/AB/AV/EoS), and secondarily some casual 2v2 arena.

I have lots of questions but right now i am especially wondering if
"silent resolve" is worth 5 points and if I should go "improved
PW:S"+"deflective shield". When i tried making af build, I intuitively
chose those talents, but I would love to hear what some of you
experienced pvp players are thinking. If you have some particular builds
to recommend I would be glad to see them!

Thanks in advance!

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Jakob

On 25 Jan, 14:44, Jakob <jtonos....DeleteThis@mail.dk> wrote:
> Hey guys,
> I have a lvl 70 holy priest, and have found myself playing a lot in
> battlegrounds lately because, at the moment, I dont have the time for
> raiding. I therefore am considering respeccing to a more disc-oriented
> healing build. Since i am not that good at the number-crunching, and
> since a lot of the forum posts i have read are focused on arena-builds,
> I am hoping for some advices on how to make a build that is good for
> healing (and surviving! ) primarily in normal battlegrounds
> (WSG/AB/AV/EoS), and secondarily some casual 2v2 arena.
>
> I have lots of questions but right now i am especially wondering if
> "silent resolve" is worth 5 points and if I should go "improved
> PW:S"+"deflective shield". When i tried making af build, I intuitively
> chose those talents, but I would love to hear what some of you
> experienced pvp players are thinking. If you have some particular builds
> to recommend I would be glad to see them!
>
> Thanks in advance!

I've tried a holy/disc build and a disc/holy build for PvP healing and
I preferred the holy/disc build.

Pain suppression was nice but I didn't like the fact that it was a
short duration with a longer cooldown meaning that at least 50% of the
time you needed it it was on cooldown. Also, pain suppression has
also been nerfed for PvP since I tried it (in my opinion anyway). I
never really liked reflective shield as you don't see any benefit from
it.

I really like the passive talents in the holy tree that give you
enhanced survivability - Spell Warding, Blessed Recovery and Blessed
Resilience. The first reduces spell damage taken, the second heals
25% of the damage caused by melee (and ranged?) crits and the third
gives a chance (up to 60% I think) of making you immune to crits for a
while after receiving a crit.

I would probably take silent resolve for the same reason as you would
(although looking at my last PvP build I didn't) but as you say it's
questionable whether it's worth it. I suppose that we have shamans,
priests, hunters, warlocks with a felhunter and warriors (only certain
specs?) that have dispel magic as an offensive ability and as a healer
we're not overly bothered about someone dispelling our dots.

Other talents I like are in the lower half of the Disc tree - Imp
Fortitude, Imp PW:S and Improved Mana Burn. The mana burn is a good
damage ability 1v1 against Warlocks, Paladins (and probably Mages with
mana shield up) but I'm not sure how good it is in group PvP for a
healer. It is probably a good thing to have in 2v2 arenas though.

steve.kaye