Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore isn’t here this week, and Fox Van Allen is just being his usual shadowy stuff. Instead, you’re stuck with Matt «Matticus» Low of World of Matticus and Plus Heal!

Playing a discipline priest is all the rage these days, it seems, especially now that many raiders are busy messing around in Firelands. There is a small selection of discipline priests who exercise the Atonement and Evangelism style of healing to great effect. In the past, I wasn’t really a fan of it at all because I felt that there were better options. The buffs Blizzard made to Atonement back in patch 4.1 involving Holy Fire made it increasingly more attractive. Maybe I didn’t give it enough of a chance.

So the past few weeks, I’ve been trying to master this style of play. It isn’t easy, and I definitely wouldn’t recommend it for a priest who is new to the game or new to raiding. This week, I’ll share with you a few tricks about what I learned and picked up.Continue reading Spiritual Guidance: How to play an Atonement priestFiled under: Priest, Analysis / Opinion, (Priest) Spiritual GuidanceSpiritual Guidance: How to play an Atonement priest originally appeared on WoW Insider on Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore isn’t here this week, and Fox Van Allen is just being his usual shadowy stuff. Instead, you’re stuck with Matt «Matticus» Low of World of Matticus and Plus Heal!

Playing a discipline priest is all the rage these days, it seems, especially now that many raiders are busy messing around in Firelands. There is a small selection of discipline priests who exercise the Atonement and Evangelism style of healing to great effect. In the past, I wasn’t really a fan of it at all because I felt that there were better options. The buffs Blizzard made to Atonement back in patch 4.1 involving Holy Fire made it increasingly more attractive. Maybe I didn’t give it enough of a chance.

So the past few weeks, I’ve been trying to master this style of play. It isn’t easy, and I definitely wouldn’t recommend it for a priest who is new to the game or new to raiding. This week, I’ll share with you a few tricks about what I learned and picked up.Continue reading Spiritual Guidance: How to play an Atonement priestFiled under: Priest, Analysis / Opinion, (Priest) Spiritual GuidanceSpiritual Guidance: How to play an Atonement priest originally appeared on WoW Insider on Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments