Comments on: BETA: Instance Discipline Talents: Did Matt Choose Right?

By: BETA: WI - Spiritual Guidance: Utgarde Keep and the Nexus as Discipline : World of Matticus

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:07:32 +0000

[...] few days ago, I had the opportunity to run Utgarde Keep with my WoW Insider colleagues. I said would do a writeup of my experience and how it handled. One instance run is hardly enough [...]

By: Shyraia - Icecrown

Shyraia - Icecrown — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:47:44 +0000

Utgarde…hmmm not an enormous amount of interupts. Otherwise if you would go into Azjol-Nerub I would suggest sticking 2 points in healing focus.

By: luke

luke — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:55:08 +0000

you maxed the shield talents, and got the 51 pointer, and that is important. This is a beta test, right? what better to do than test out all the neat new shielding talents.

i think it was probably wise leaving off power infusion, too. not really all that needed in this case, as you point out.

you’d probably want to pick up inspiration, though, if you are going for the disc GH crit build, but this is still just 70.

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so now you have to tell us: how cool are the pumped up PW:shields?

By: Wynthea

Wynthea — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:29:18 +0000

Not true. Matt is right sometimes.

(Example: He decided to let me write for him!)

By: megan

megan — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:03:01 +0000

Matt is never right, end of post! megans last blog post..Better, Faster, Holier

By: Matticus!

Matticus! — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:12:14 +0000

Tulani: Man oh man, you have no idea how handcuffed I felt. Thank god respecs are only 1 copper. I must’ve redone the entire thing 30 times today. And you’re right, I want to try deep disc first at 70 and see how it goes.

Would I do it if were live? Nah, probably not. I’d switch to a standard deep holy build of some sort.

By: Tulani

Tulani — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:16:05 +0000

Interesting spec. While I myself am not terribly impressed with Discipline after seeing some math and such over at EJ, I’m still very curious as to how it pans out, especially with Divine Aegis and aggro.

The only thing that I can spot is that the lack of full talents seems to make going healing Disc at low levels not a good idea. With how much you’ll be spamming GHeal, full Divine Fury seems necessary (admittedly .1 second isn’t a big deal, but everything adds up) and no Inspiration will make your very tank-healing-centered spec feel like it’s missing something. Not to mention the lack of Healing Focus and Imp Healing….

But like I said, that’s just because you’re still 70. At 77+ the spec would probably be more ideal. For lower-level dungeons though, I would see heavier-holy being better, personally. But like I said, I can’t wait to hear your evaluation of it!