Originally Posted by
FemaleGoblinMage
My initial assessement on the priest is that Holy appeared initially to be for Tanking mainly since its Renew and generally single target healing is huge, however, since it also has a "mode" for AOE, I think what we have is:
1. An "arcane", novel spec, Discipline, which can do both but it's a bit weird. I mean, it does healing in conservation while DPSing, how weird is that? [plus it heals in AOE by popping some automatic shields and other weird things like that]
2. A traditional spec. It will do big healing on tanking and big healing on AOE, but, it needs some traditional "skills" [the switching [mechanism] from single target to aoe healing is technically 'weird' but practically once it's done healing returns to 'tradition']. e.g. It won't save you easily with popping a shield for a while. It will need your proper big heals with a rotation-ish.
What do you think?