Leaked Priest Changes?

[Calantus]

Though on your build, I think it would be folly to not throw 1 point into Inner Focus.  Its a very nice ability, and I'm sure you can redirect 1 point from somewhere ;).

Now that you mention it... yeah, there's another 1% crit I could lose to get it. That's what I will probably do.



On the subject of lightwell, if bandages did not leave a "recently bandaged" debuff on the person then I would agree that it is useless. How it stands now though melee often find themselves where they need a bandage but can't because of the debuff. The lightwell would be good in this instance. I still don't think it will be spectacular enough to be something you'd shoot for, just something you'd grab because you're there anyway and it's kinda nice.

[Evil Elvis]

There are too many good talents now to get Lightwell.  I'd say they need to make it more appealing, but the disc/holy changes are so good, it'd be criminal to make em even better. 

They could have improved shadows talent line more.  Part of the shadow/disc popularity was based on how much holy and end disc talents sucked.  Spirit tap should work on any kill you received xp/honor for.  Then maybe do something like make Imp. Mind Blast a 3 point talent, make shadow reach a 3rd tier talent, and put in a new 4th tier 2-point talent that gives a 5%/10% chance of reducing your next spell by 1.5 seconds when hit by a melee/ranged attack.

Templates:

General - My favorite.  For those who like to PvP, and raid

General2 - Variation of above with holy nova.

Raidbot - Because you're the guildmaster's bitch

Shadow - 'Cuz you haven't seen the writting on the wall yet.

[Phred]

I can see the lightwell spell being useful for fights like flamegor in BWL. Oft times I take a series of hits from his ae and have to duck around the corner and my bandage is still down from the last time I had to duck out of combat. A lightwell would allow me to heal back up and get back into the fight a bit quicker.  Unfortunately I can't think of too many fights where you can duck the AE like flamegor though. I certainly haven't seen any in either AQ yet, so unless there are some in Naxwhatever I guess this spell will be of limited usefulness.

[bhodi]

I can see the lightwell spell being useful for fights like flamegor in BWL. Oft times I take a series of hits from his ae and have to duck around the corner and my bandage is still down from the last time I had to duck out of combat. A lightwell would allow me to heal back up and get back into the fight a bit quicker.  Unfortunately I can't think of too many fights where you can duck the AE like flamegor though. I certainly haven't seen any in either AQ yet, so unless there are some in Naxwhatever I guess this spell will be of limited usefulness.

I'm pretty sure you're thinking about firemaw, yes? Flamegor's AoE isn't worrysome unless he's in a frenzy.

Generally we have a non-subelty druid standing in the cubby healing the DPS with rejuv.

The only two fights I can think of right now where I'd ever use lightwell are firemaw and golemagg, however any fight that you deliberately try and distance yourself from the monster are the ONLY times you'd ever use this ability. As for the recently bandaged? I'd say firemaw is the only one I've ever wanted to bandage and been unable to do so.

As for the +1% crit, hell, I figured people are all over crit... what's not to like? Crit rocks, but maybe that's just me being a rogue. I'd take that over everything else.

[Merusk]

Crit, if you're a decent healer, is pointless because you're timing well enough that your heal fills the bar almost, if not completly full anyway.  Crit heals just waste healing points, AND draw extra-aggro.  Yeah, 2 things you REALLY love doing as a priest.

[bhodi]

Crit, if you're a decent healer, is pointless because you're timing well enough that your heal fills the bar almost, if not completly full anyway.  Crit heals just waste healing points, AND draw extra-aggro.  Yeah, 2 things you REALLY love doing as a priest.

I'm probably biased by both my rogue AND my druid. Rogues are self explanatory and seal fate builds like mine are notoriously crit hungry. Druid regrowth talent is +50% to crit, and with epic gear it's assumed you can break the 75% mark.. so you begin to count on crits even more than you do normals... I guess for a priest it's detrimental though.

[Calantus]

I'm into PVP in a big way and crit heals can often help there for combatting mortal strike or a train, especially when they proc inspiration. Even then it's not much of a deal to lose 1% crit.

[Phred]

I'm pretty sure you're thinking about firemaw, yes? Flamegor's AoE isn't worrysome unless he's in a frenzy.

Ya my bad. I mean Firemaw.

Generally we have a non-subelty druid standing in the cubby healing the DPS with rejuv

Sometimes I'll get a heal tossed my way but it's not something we usually have enough healers to count on.

[Zetor]

goddammit, now I have to level my 36 priest to 60 or something. 

The new IAE-style holy nova is amusing. I can see it now, priests going boom boom (getting no aggro) on the Strat skeleton zerg, Rivendare's servants, whelps, AV... yeah, I can imagine how it'll change the typical magebomb / fearbomb aspects of AV.

calantus: Why no Inner Focus? It's the pwn.


-- Z.

[MrHat]

goddammit, now I have to level my 36 priest to 60 or something. 

The new IAE-style holy nova is amusing. I can see it now, priests going boom boom (getting no aggro) on the Strat skeleton zerg, Rivendare's servants, whelps, AV... yeah, I can imagine how it'll change the typical magebomb / fearbomb aspects of AV.

calantus: Why no Inner Focus? It's the pwn.


-- Z.

I'm def. throwing all the priests in the same group after the patch, want to see what happens when they're all healing each other. 

[Teleku]

Heh, you could actually make a pretty good tri-spec for PvP:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/priests2/talents.html?50023013000000020505130202015000502300100000000

Guild leader would probably hate me, but oh well ;).