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Some PvE tips/advises for our Class throu my corrent experiance playing with a priest as main char since TBC poped up

- DISC SPEC -
As we all know this tree is ment for helping with damage reduction.Week against raid healing, very usefull against single targeting healing - the tanks. Imagine yourself a bit as a paladin like this, but with using your very own different spells and combinations.
The spell sequince is like this : Always have reniew up in your target /shield / mending whenever is out of cooldown, keep using flash heals (save penance for a case of need-when tank having low hp for example).Note that every time you use your Shiled on a target,you get a buff named borrow time - this is a great time to cast at almost double speed your Greater heal,keep using it like this.
Disc priest lacks in spellpower vs holy priest,so your gemming/enchanting priority is 100% to get as much as +sp you can get.Disc priest have way more crit and int than holy ones,so no need to waste gems on crit and intellect better focus second prio gemming on haste.
Save your Pain Suppresion spell for an extreemly heavy dmg on tank situation or to use when your raid leader says so.It has 3mins cooldown so basicaly on most fights you wont be able to cast it twice.
Preferable Major Glyphs : Glyph of Flash Heal / Glyph of Penance / Glyph of Power Word: Shield

- HOLY SPEC -
My favorite of alls.You get more sp on this spec but less mana pool and crit.Holy is mostly used for raid healing so AGAIN your first priority on gems/enchants is spellpower to get more outcome with your Circle of healing and mending jumps through raid members while keeping a decent mana regeneration rate with at least +500haste on gear.Crit is not so vital here,its good to have a 20-25% to get more pops on free flash heals with no cast time thou.
Casting sequence will bet like Circle of Healing first (so the 6secs cooldown will start counting down to use again) and then a combo of flash heal with reniew - flash heal with mending - flash heal with reniew till Circle of healing is ready again.Depends on the fights.Some other fights that require lots of raiding healing (like Twin Valkyries on totc) you will have no time for reniews and flash heals.Heavy raid healing is with CoH-mendings-Prayers (always using your CoH and mendings first so you get the cooldown back again asap)

As Holy even if you are on raid healing assigned,you must keep an eye on tanks ALWAYS! and cast asap your guardian spirit if the tank is low on hp.I have personaly saved raid from wipes this way coutless times,and even if tank dont use your guardian spirit you will help a lot the tank healers for 8secs with 50% + heal recieved on the tank and your spell will be ready in no time again as long as you have the glyph.
Preferable Major Glyphs : Glyph of Flash heal / Glyph of Circle of Healing / Glyph of Guardian Spirit

- Priests addons needed for raiding: -
1)A boss encounter addon, i personaly use DBM
2)Decursive - priest without decursive installed and working = wtf!!!
3)Addon for Raid frames - i use X-pearl
4)Addon for counters (not nessesary but good to have)
5)Addon for focus bars (not nessesary but good to have)
6)Healing addons - like healbot (i personaly dont use any)