Priest -> PvP Rewards

[Kardus]

As a priest, do you think I should go for the HWL staff, or Blade/Book? I REALLY love the look of the staff, and it it has a little more SPI and +10 more stam than the knife/book combo. The knife looks nice, but I don't fancy the book as much. I'm not one to really care about looks, but the knife/book combo does +20 more spell damage and has a few INT over the staff. Another pro on getting the blade/book is that I can buy them individually (at half the cost of the staff), so at least I have something to use while I grind out the rest of the honour.

What would you guys do?

[Leonavice]

the hammer and the book, if you are a dedicated healer.

[Weebull]

1.) hammer and (healing) book - if you are holy/disc spec'd (if I was holy spec - that hammer is really, really nice)

or 2.) dagger and destruction tomb - if you are (staying?) shadow spec'd

[Lalaust]

Guess it's up to you, and how you want you priest to look. Personall I dont prefer to wear any staff - I'm a dagger + book priest. It just looks more pro IMO.

[Kardus]

I'm Shadow. I guess it all comes down to looks in the end...the benefits are so similar and can be matched with a simple enchant. Look wise I prefer the staff, but the thing is that if I get a new 1h or offhand, I won't have to replace both (although there aren't many better things since I'm just going to be PvPing.)

[Leonavice]

Do you have Anathema? If not, take the mageblade and tome of shadow force from AV.

[bhroam]

Yeah I'm with Leonavice... if you are in a guild who runs MC, get the eye of devinity and get your benediction/anathema. You have ~100 healing and ~70ish spell damage in the same weapon... along with 37 int and other kickass stats. It's really a beautiful weapon (and my druid drools over every damn priest he walks by who has one). Put a 30 spell damage on it and you're good to go. If you're not in a guild who runs MC, you probably could find a guild to sell you one...

If not, then yeah get the mageblade and an offhand. I'd actually suggest the GM/HW offhand over the tome if you have the honor. It has 14 less spell damage, but the stats are well worth it IMHO.

[Kardus]

I'm planning to PvP 80% of my play time (either BG, world, or arena- some form of pvp). The other rest will be doing the occasional instance or farming. I already have a 60 dwarf priest that's retired, so I don't care too much about endgame PvE experiences. PvP at this point is what keeps me playing WoW- my friends and I are always on vent with eachother, so organized PvP is not a problem for me. Basically, I just want to know what other people think I should get for my current char- my UD priest (shadow spec). I will be getting almost all of my gear from PvP rewards.

[Leonavice]

If just PVP, the mageblade and the GM tome. If you feel that you have enough time and willing to spend the effort to get the GM tome, go for it. Tome of Shadow Force is at least 15000 honor cheaper than GM tome.

[sacrengreus]

The only problem with having Bene/Anathema in PVP is it's like painting a big target on yourself...as if it wasn't bad enough for priests anyway. :D

[Leonavice]

True, but so do the people who carry Thunderfury and leave a trail of lights behind them to track them.

[Kardus]

Yes, but people with TF aren't squishy. It's a warning, not a target ;)

I'm leaning towards the HWL blade + tome right now...still have eyes for the staff though...The HWL one looks so amazing...! I'm awhile away from obtaining anything yet as I'm not 60 on this priest, so at least I have time to decide/wait for level 70 rewards.

Staff: http://thottbot.com/?i=38046
Dagger: http://www.thottbot.com/?i=53624
Offhand: http://www.thottbot.com/?i=53625

[Baboon]

Imo the Spellblade is something special because it has damage/healing (a lot) where for example bene/anathema has either healing or shadow damage. So you can actually do damage and heal at the same time in a batteground with a holy/disc or disc spec.

And I'll probably go holy in TBC (spirit tap, spiritual guidance) so that knife is the thing for me.

[Leonavice]

Yup. Bene/Anathema transformation has a cooldown of 30 min IIRC.

The Mageblade is a bargain at 22500 honor. Frankly I will think it is not that easily replaced due to the fact that I don't think they will throw a +72 spell damage weapon at you in BC that easily.

[Kardus]

Screenshots:

http://www.imagefilez.com/out.php/t50954_book.jpg (http://www.imagefilez.com/show.php/50954_book.jpg.html)
Dagger + Book. Dagger actually look pretty nice in my opinion, especially with an enchant.

http://www.imagefilez.com/out.php/t50955_staff.jpg (http://www.imagefilez.com/show.php/50955_staff.jpg.html)
Staff. Awesome looking! The shoulders and staff is the ultimate glowing combo combined with shadow form :tongue: . I want to look like I was involved in a nuclear accident.

[clouds]

I got the staff.. is nice:thumbsup:

[Kardus]

I'll probably end up getting the staff....Since BC is coming out and My gear is probably going to be replaced with level 70 PvP gear soon enough, I don't mind sacrificing that 20 spell damage to look cooler :). I'll have plenty from my other gear anyways, I assume....Although slashing people with a knife to mess up their casting is fun :p

[Leonavice]

Horde's HWL mageblade looks sooooo much better than the Alliance GM mageblade, which looks like a friggin triangle.....

[Weebull]

I'm still leaning toward the HWL blade and book. (shadow spec'ed) But because I'm at work I can't compare them all stats wise.

Can someone post the stats of the HWL staff, HWL blade, shadow book and (if there is one) HWL book off-hand. Thanks a lot!

[Gyoza]

HWL Spellblade/AV Tome of Shadow Force

[Redmumba]

Agreed, but holding onto the GM staff is probably worse... either way, I think people just have a "Priest" beacon. They MIGHT target a priest with Benediction, but it doesn't matter how well you hide yourself, every warrior, rogue, mage, warlock, and hunter will find and kill you. :(

Anyways, if you're going for the staff, that means you're willing to grind for 45k honor. If so, go for the Mageblade/Tome, as everyone has suggested. You can get a semi-decent OH from Scholo or Ony, and if you can ever get into Naxx, Anub seems to drop that damn OH all the time.

[GamerX]

...
What would you guys do?

Are you already so well geared that you don't even think a moment about some of the FM armor?

Is your problem at this moment that you don't do enough damage or that you will be killed too quick?

I'm rogue and just had the blue PvP set and the Lobotomizer, and even if nearly all rogues went at first to the GM weapon vendor, I picked as my first items the purple shoulder and the purple glove. And now I survive much more fights than before = more honor = more items = more survive = even more items. I think you got it ;-)

[Kardus]

From using the full warlord PvP gear, being undergeared isn't a problem for me, this choice is more trivial than anything else. On this character over 85% of my playing is some form of PvP, so I don't plan on doing many if not any instance at all until I'm grinding from 60-70 in BC.

[rootkit]

lol i have the same doubt has you... Dagger + Book or Staff.... The Staff is Awesome Looking, but the dagger i could use already (almost have the honor for it) with my "crappy" Tome of Lost... And later get the Frost book or GM book... (I'm a mage...)

[Leonavice]

I find the dagger is more flexible than the staff. You never know what you can find in BC, either a good offhand or a good 1H weapon. At least you can mix or match. If you take the staff first, if you find an awesome off-hand, you can't really use it cos you have crappy 1H weapon and vice versa.