@Jbs: I agree with Lilitharien that Disc-curious is awesome but i think that Matticus has the best one with ambi-spec-tirous. (pardon the spelling)

~ Oh you thought you could kill me? Thats cute.

@Jbs: I like that, “Disc-curious.” Glad you find my posts helpful!

…yes? I think so…

…hi, my name is Amber and I’m a fail Disc/Shadow priest. :D

I’m not doing any ToC25 heroic yet (starting soon) and my stats are:

Spellpower 2410 and intellect 1355. I follow socket colours but gem towards spell power then intellect

Gobble gobble.

And yes, early morning sucks. D: (Especially if, like me, you’ve yet to go to sleep.)

I missed your comments on Intellect/crit/mp5 and Spirit/Intellect. I blame the early morning.

433 haste is the character-sheet value – without the 6% from talents.

Again, sorry for rubbing you the wrong way.

I did mention that Intellect gives MP5 and crit rating as well as a larger mana pool. I also mentioned about Spirit and it’s link to Intellect and referenced Zusterke for further explanation (he’s way more mathy than I am). Also never said that SP was a 1-to-1 basis on any spells.

As for haste—is that 433 including the 197 (6%) you get from talents or not?

(And, yes, lists don’t work in comments. I stuck asterisks where you would have had bullet points. :P)

But, thank you for pointing all those little details out. I’m sure anyone who reads this will also take note of your comment. :)

I know it’s an introductory post, but there are a couple other things I’d like to point out:

(here’s hoping that lists work here!)

* It’s true that SP increases how much your spells heal for, but not on a 1-to-1 basis. Each spell has a spellpower coefficient that dictates how much benefit they get from your spellpower. For instance, Power Word: Shield gains about 80.7% of your spellpower; each tick of Penance gains about 53.6%.
* Intellect isn’t just about increasing your mana pool; it also influences your spell critical strike chance and the amount of mana you get back from Spirit-based regeneration. Every ~167 Intellect gives you 1% spell crit; the relationship of Intellect to Spirit-based regen is more complicated, but suffice it to say that the more Intellect you have, the better Spirit is.
* Your instinct about Spirit gear giving less regen than MP5 gear is spot-on; MP5 is cheaper in an item’s stat budget than the amount of Spirit needed to get that much non-casting regen. (Remember, at best we get 50% of our Spirit-based regen while we’re casting.)
* I tend to recommend that Discipline priests gear to 433 haste rating; because haste is multiplicative (instead of [haste from gear] + [Enlightenment] + [Borrowed Time], it’s [haste from gear] x [Enlightenment] x [Borrowed Time]), that’s just enough to get the GCD to 1 second while Borrowed Time is up.

That may be more complex than you wanted to get in this post, but from experience it’s easy to overlook small details when you’re writing a post, so I wanted to make sure this stuff was said. :)