First Report

Ok, here's a link to the first "full" report. (I am fully aware that my web design fu is negative. Hopefully CSS will save me someday.) This structure of report should mostly stay the same (I hope). For each class I've generated 4 spec/build reports, one specialized for each talent tree (31 points or more in a given tree is considered specialized) and overall. Each report lists the top 10 specs, and the top 10 builds within each spec. There's way too much information for me to come close to discussing this, so if you find something you want to discuss, blog about it and let me know and I'll mention your blog here.

New Build Shop up - Priest 23/38/0

WoW Insider's Build Shop has a new entry: A Priest PvE healing build. I've got a 60 priest waiting in the wings but I suspect he'll be taking advantage of this build after hitting the cap.

1st Million - Priests

Healers! Every party needs them. Out of the first million, 36,205 level 70 priests exist. Let's take a look at the numbers:

1. 23/38/0 - 3947 (10.9%)
2. 28/33/0 - 3102 (8.57%)
3. 21/40/0 - 2534 (7.00%)
4. 14/0/47 - 2479 (6.85%)
5. 11/0/50 - 1232 (3.40%)
6. 31/30/0 - 1086 (3.00%)
7. 20/41/0 - 952 (2.63%)
8. 0/0/61 - 947 ( 2.62%)
9. 13/0/48 - 890 (2.46%)
10. 10/0/51 - 882 (2.44%)

5 Holy/Discipline specs, 4 Shadow/Discipline specs, and the scourge of the priestly nation, the full-on Shadow spec. Unsurprisingly Holy/Disc takes the tops spots, but Shadow makes a strong showing as well. And when looking a specs overall, Holy keeps the lead with 17,376 priests (48%) with Shadow coming a close second at 14,054 priests (38.8%) and Discipline crossing the finish line a few minutes later with 4,602 priests (12.7%). That leaves 173 priests who can't make up their minds, and 2 who are completely out of the loop with no talent points spent.

Pre 2.1: Most Popular Builds - Priest

You know the drill: 1,849 level 70 priests. And the top 5 builds are:

1. 25 characters: 0/0/61 - Over the Discipline, past the Holy, nothing but Shadow. Everything in the tree except Shadow Resilience.
2. 10 characters: 0/0/61 - Second verse, same as the first. Skips Improved Fade instead.
3. 9 characters: 7/0/54 - Ditches both of the above and Spirit Tap in favor of Unbreakable Will and everybody's favorite talent, Improved Power Word: Fortitude.
4. 8 characters: 23/38/0 - Discipline/Holy. It looks like Discipline is just to get Improved Divine Spirit, which makes it impossible to climb up all the way to Circle of Healing Holywise.
5. 7 characters: 0/2/59 - 2/2 Healing Focus, then all over Shadow. This one kind of confuses me since going almost entirely Shadow implies to me that the character would be in Shadowform almost always but it's been awhile since I pulled out my priest so I could be wrong.

59/1,849 represented in the top 5 priest builds. Just under 3.2%. What do you think about these builds?