Originally Posted by Xanrag
Only if staying alive to heal the raid more is selfish. Spell Warding is useful at all fights where the raid takes magic damage, which is a lot.
Help keep the tank whom others usually also are healing get a little less damage in some fights or help yourself survive in almost all fights so that you can keep healing. In both cases it just increases your margin to react. Getting more stamina is one way, speccing into spell warding is another.
A healer surviving isn't selfish. A tank dying is worse, but if the tank really must have the armor buff to survive get someone in a crit gear to keep it up on him. At ~16% crit or so you won't be able to keep it up on him at all times regardless.
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I still don't know why you'd be arguing Spell Warding vs. Inspiration to begin with, since you can easily have both.
Not speccing Inspiration IS selfish. Inspiration keeps your tank safer whenever it procs. It's not so much a matter of relying on Inspiration to keep your MT alive, but one of maximizing the amount of time where your tank can't be insta-gibbed by a raid boss. Not to mention that it also saves you and all other healers mana, especially when not healing means so much to a priest's mana regeneration.