Thanks to patch 1.10, there now exists a wide variety of builds that a priest can choose from, as both healers and damage dealers, all with their own pros and cons.  .
 

So far I have identified 6 different damage dealing builds and 5 different healing builds.

Dealing Builds

1. Player versus Player Shadow
2. Tri-Spec PvP Shadow
3. PvE Shadow
4. Disc/Holy split
5. PI-Smite
6. Spiritual Guidance Smite

Healing Builds

1. True Holy
2. True Discipline
3. Holy/Disc Split
4. PvP Healing

This is not to say that dealing is now more effective than healing for a priest (quite the opposite).  Blizzard has done such an excellent job of breaking up the trees that there really do exist no cookie cutter builds, there are really only general ideas that make up each one.  Each and every talent point is at the discretion of the priest as to what he allocates. As someone prone to experimentation, I really like it. Others might not.  For those others, I will shortly be supplying template builds.

If you are aware of an end game build that is not in this list, please email it to me with an explanation, I would love to add it to the list and experiment with it.

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