Respec'd!

I respec'd my priest. I didn't really feel VT was worth it for soloing or even for small groups. I prefer to be able to heal better in groups when called upon to do it.

So, I put just enough points into Shadow to get shadowform, and the rest is going in to holy. I have enough points at level 52 to get to Holy Nova, which is fun for when the opportunity to AOE exists. For example, I healed for a group last night that asked me to heal for a ZF run. Since I couldn't find anything else to do, I decided to go along (I still want that vodo mask, adn the witchdoctor's staff) When we got to the scarabs, someone pulled too many, so I spammed Holy Nova and helped kill them all. Recount shows that I did 800 dps during those 10 seconds. Sure, I was totally out of mana, but I still had a mana pot in reserve, and all the bugs were dead. Wheee!!

When looking at the Holy tree, there really aren't that many talents that directly contribute to pure healing, as in being the healer for a 5 man group and standing there doing nothing (conserving mana) but healing. I've got 11 points into it now, but I can't really get the next talent I want until I've got 18 points into Holy. I guess I have to spend on some talents I don't really care about.