[Warrior Priest] - Need help leveling and understanding this class

[DirkDaring]

I would carry 2 sets of gear, if you find yourself in a sc that is light on heals, you can slap on a shield and go grace with shield which used to be pretty good in small scale, and in dungeons, or you can swap out your armor, and still be semi ok, as most of your heals are core abilities, divine mend, healing hand, group heal, even the group bubble is core.

If I remember after the healer patch, even grace heals are two part now, with salvation affecting part of the grace lifetap heals .

[Kylashandra]

To be honest with you, melee healer specs have been pretty underwhelming in pvp since healer patch last year. While the full dps spec (dw dok / 2H wp) shines with huge damage numbers, you wont heal much besides yourself in this setting. The shield spec still works pretty well in PvE, but the WP lacks the tactic that makes the sdok still semi viable in pvp (Transferred Focus - makes the 2 healing builders undefendable), furthermore sWP requires a very good gear to be able to survive and a guard from a tank, so better played with friends.

Regardless of what you want to play, you should always have 2 sets of gear and a spec swap saved on the class trainer. You can easily swap gear with the ClosetGoblin addon (1 click and it's done) so basically it's 2 clicks swap at the start of any SC. If you end up being the only healer of your group / entire SC, don't hold the rest of your team hostage by refusing to swap to a book spec, that's the most frustrating thing with PU dps healers.