Do you not raid with a Discipline priest alongside you? I'm pretty sure mine would bite my arm off if I tried shielding a tank.

Just as a piece of information for everyone who is interested in Discipline throughput.

WoW Meter Online tracks shields (both Power Word: Shield and Divine Aegis), it is very interesting

With the changes in 3.1, I'm trying to determine what the desired amount of haste/crit/spi is for holy and disc. Currently, Armory shows me as dual speccing holy/shadow, but that's not accurate. I'm holy for my main spec, and I'm trying to decide on a disc spec before setting it as my secondary spec. My guild currently only runs 10 mans with the occasional 25 man, and I'm trying to tweak gear before heading into Uld tonight.

Speaking for Disc... Spirit is rather a waste. It is important to stack Int for regen not Spirit. The other stats are going to depend on what buffs you have available and what role you will be filling. I tend to run with a BT'd raid buffed haste of ~50%. My raid buffed crit runs upwards of 35%. With those stats I don't have any issue with tank healing or providing raid healing support.

Intellect is a better regen stat for both holy and disc priests.

Spirit is good for holy because of the spirit -> spellpower conversion, so it double dips as a regen + throughput stat.

so I'm one of those people that uses empowered renew talent etc so i use the renew glyph, i also use the flash heal glyph because that is one of my main spells i use and it helps save a bit of mana, i normally use circle of healing as my third glyph but as of 3.1 I've been thinking of switching over to the new guardian spirit glyph because it seems pretty useful... i was wondering what other people think about this glyph and if u think its a better choice to use then the circle of healing glyph.

I just added this glyph on my shadow priest. What I'd like to know is if the 10% increased damage to Mind Flay is 10% total, or 10% per tick. Obviously it makes a big difference.

Also, is there a way to tell how much video lag takes away from your DPS? I'm getting a new computer with a decidedly superior video card and I expect my DPS to jump a little. Should I look for 100-200, or could it make as much difference as 600-1k? (Apologies if this is in the wrong place; I didn't see any kind of technical forum here.)

I look forward to contributing more as I absorb more about my class. /salute

Actually it doesn't... 10% total and 10% per tick result in the same total damage.

Look at a Recount/WWS/WMO parse of your dps on Patchwerk, check your dot uptime, # of mind blasts, and # of mind flay ticks vs. their theoretical maximum, if they're close to the maximum your dps won't change much. Hardware doesn't have much of an effect unless you're getting, like, <3 fps in raids.

For Ulduar25 what are holy priests looking for in terms of raid-buffed crit%, haste% and regen?

Beginning Ulduar.25, you should be running 21% raid-buffed haste (8% from raid buffs), 30% raid-buffed crit, and ~ 500 Mp5 I5SR, not counting Replenishment. Only ballparks, numbers can vary wildly depending on how much crit you've stacked.

You can tell pretty well by the PTR values of my BiS gear from Naxx scaled with a Shirt of Uber. Take everything you have going into Ulduar, then scale by 13%.

What is the best way to calculate equivalency points for stat weighting in 3.1 for shadow priests? I have searched and cannot seem to find any real answers on this in threads. Are there any spreadsheets that have been updated to account for DOT crits? Obviously, I do not have Ulduar level gear, otherwise I wouldn't care so much about this, but can anyone help me out as there are a lot of gear choices to make at my current gear level?

I've been raiding as shadow for most of WotLK, and am starting to flex a bit back into holy. I'm finding myself using up my Serendipity on PoH, and almost never Ghealing. Which is making me wonder what the value of Divine Fury and Improved Healing are. Is something like Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft viable for the first 20 points? I know it's pretty marginal because the utility of the talents that are being picked up aren't exactly game breakers, but I just find I'm getting zero value out of the 8 points in Divine Fury and Improved Healing.

Most people just go by the results of the simulator. If you want, you can download it and add a character with your stats and run a set of simulations with scale factor enabled to get values more specific to your character, but with semi-decent gear they tend to be close enough to what it uses by default.

Has any other priest tailors thought about changing their Darkglow Embroidery to Lightweave Embroidery? I haven't seen this discussed anywhere, but it might be worth it for the increased throughput, assuming one does not have mana issues of course

Or am I reading the tooltips incorrectly, and lightweave only procs off damaging spells?

@Alvira: I have had Lightweave embroidery proc off heals, it works for both damaging and healing spells.

What is a good addon to keep track of Serendipity stacks? I tried Power Auras but it won't show the number of stacks I have.

What I have done is to set my power aura to only trigger when I have the third stack of serendipity. This way, you know you need to at least cast one more flash heal when your aura is not displayed.

Wouldn't Lightweave be more beneficial to a Discipline healer than either of the other two alternatives being mentioned? Considering shields don't overheal you would get the full effect of your +250SP?

I used 3 Power auras events, one for each number of stacks. They are of the same shape, same dimension, same location, but their color changes depending on the number of stacks.

That's a brilliant idea. Is there a way to get the timer to work with it? I couldn't seem to.