Armory: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...lvolt/advanced
Stat weights & Gems
Your stat weights should be: int > spirit > mastery > haste > crit
your yellow gems should be mastery/spirit(green)
blue should be spirit
and red should be int/spirit(purple)
How to play the "Top-healing Style" of Discipline Priest
You're going to be top heals if you utilize spirit shell correctly. That is where you shine. So you said you're on tanks on will of the emperor, correct? On will for tank healing, greater heal, penance, and PW:S are going to be your main abilities when single target healing. using PW:S for rapture and for emergencies is what you need to be doing. Penance and greater heal accordingly (smite inbetween large hits). Use inner focus with your greater heal. You want to use spirit shell 14 seconds before the room-wide aoe begins.
When you hit spirit shell you also want to hit arch angel (with 5 stacks of evangelism) and also hit PI all in one fluid motion. then spam prayer of healing switching between each group until the spirit shell buff wares off. Once that happens the aoe will be hitting your raid, but you're numbers will be good. Keep PW:S up on the tank, and hit cascade for raid damage, then go back to singletarget/smite heals. If the raid is low for some reason, hit some poh (off the tank if possible).
If you do that for every single aoe phase, you'll be top heals no matter what.
This is something that can be applied for nearly all of the current raid fights. Stack evangelism, hit PI/archangel/spirit shell 14 seconds before large aoe, spam poh on the raid and make sure everyone have a spirit shell from poh. when the raid damage starts hit cascade and continue to prayer of healing. when it dies down go back to PW: / smite / penance.
Always prayer of healing for raid damage, and if you're tank healing you can often times prayer of healing off the tank and switch between prayer of healing, PW:S, smite, and penance. Also make sure PoM is always on somebody.
Additional Notes:
In order to be good as discipline priest you have to watch a lot of things. rapture cd/PW:S use, making sure you keep PoM up, making sure you have 5 stacks of evangelism every time spirit shell comes off of cd. making sure you only use PI with a spirit shell/archangel combo. and making sure you time your spirit shell with a large aoe thats coming in 14 seconds. It can be overwhelming sometimes especially on fights like wind lord where you might have to also CC with a spear AND dispel an add (or more) while also trying to break people out of amber. After practicing a lot in LFR, and in your normal/heroic raids, you'll become more comfortable with this style of playing discipline priest and you will see a significant increase in your hps.
You'll also start to notice when you need to hit spirit shell and you'll immediately notice when you hit it at the wrong time because your numbers will be lower and you'll see spirit shells being wasted (not absorbed by aoe damage). On top of that you'll start to learn who you need to spirit shell off of per group, per fight, this can be pretty important because if you're hitting, say a tank on stoneguard with spiritshell->poh and it only puts up 2 shells because of range, then you now know to never hit that tank with spirit shell on that part of that encounter where he is far away.
Again, its a lot to get used to, but once you do, you'll be doing very well.
Timing SS in 10m vs. 25m:
14 seconds is the time needed to optimize spirit shell in 25mans, it might be better to hit it closer to 7-10 seconds in 10m. I have yet to confirm this myself. In 10m its easier to spiritshell-cap everybody, so it might be a waste to hit at 14 over 7-10 seconds away from an aoe.
My Logs:
Imperial Vezier:
http://worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-rr...?s=1152&e=1540
Garalon:
http://worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-rr...?s=5961&e=6370
Wind Lord Mel'jarak:
http://worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-w7...?s=3226&e=3686
Heroic Stone guard:
http://worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-w7...?s=6596&e=7009
Heroic Feng:
http://worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-w7...?s=9317&e=9814
Heroic Garajal:
http://worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-w7...=10761&e=11108