On one hand that this seems like a terrible waste of 5 talent points especially with the fact that spiritual healing now works after +damage.
And this is only for Greater Heal.

That being said, I will have revisit my spec choices after I obtain +2000 healing. (But still 2 points in heal prayers is so much more important)

Just curious if anyone has put thought into some of the new, more creative trinkets that are in TBC for us, rather than the previous best combo (imho) [Shiny Shard of the Scale] and [Rejuvenating Gem].

Currently I have recieved: [Bangle of Endless Blessings] and [Scarab of the Infinite Cycle] and am curious as to what other healers amongst EJ boards think of these two trinkets.

Both are 'chance' type trinkets for regen/spell haste respectively, as opposed to Shards consistent regen. Please post your thoughts on the two new trinkets, or any other new trinkets you have seen.

Is the Bangle 5%? Any idea on proc rate?

The scarab is just generally bad, as it's uncontrollable burst healing. Of course, it has 70 healing so it's far from useless, but I'd certainly never replace a Rejuv Gem or Shard of the Scale with it. If it was a use effect with a reasonable cooldown it'd be great for some fights, though.

The Bangle is more interesting, as both of it's abilities are potentially relevant. The proc has ~56% uptime if you're chaincasting GH, which is about 8% extra regen while casting (20 mp5 with 350 spirit). Assuming you can be out of the 5SR for the duration of the use ability, it'd be 325 mana/2 minutes, or 13.5 mp5. In this ideal situation, it'd be about 33 mp5 total, which is obviously vastly better than Shard of the Scale and Rejuvination Gem. These circumstances aren't very realistic, though. Everything I've seen so far indicates that chaincasting heals in PvE is pretty much a thing of the past, even without significant amounts of spirit.
If you assume a casting pattern along the lines of GH, GH, GH, rest 6 seconds (perfectly possible in parts of the 5-man stuff), you have a 15% chance for it to give you 105 mana (proc on the first GH), 12.75% chance of 82 mana (proc on second GH after no proc on first GH), and a 11% chance of 45 mana (third GH), for a total of 31 mana per 15 second cycle -- 10.4 mp5. If you spend half the use ability under the 5SR and have 20% regen while casting (meditation + bangle proc guess), it's 195 mana/2 minutes -- 8.125 mp5. Total benefit under this model/guess would be 18.5 mp5, only slightly better than Shard of the Scale.

Of course, if you can get an innervate during the use effect it's obviously amazing, and I expect to see some druids eagerly picking it up for that.

Karazhan has tended towards spamhealing on most non-trivial pulls so far. Damage is high and fights are short for most of the instance, and Shadowfiend significantly increases your endurance on the occasional long fights. The high demand for heal throughput may change once tanks get some proper gear though, they're being crit left and right at the moment.

As such, the Scarab is a better choice than Shard for a lot of the fights, and reasonably close to Rejuv Gem. The Bangle is obviously similar to the shard, and was covered well by Sustori.

I think this thread has run its course so I'm closing it. Plus Elerion started a sweet new priest thread here: http://forums.elitistjerks.com/viewt...284889#p284889