Its about time

[Weena]

Priest
Shadow

* Shadowform now let the periodic damage of your Shadow Word: Pain, Devouring Plague, and Vampiric Touch spells benefit from haste.
*Improved Devouring Plague: This spell now deals 10/20/30% of its total periodic effect instantly, up from 5/10/15%.
*Shadowform: This talent also now causes Devouring Plague, Shadow Word: Pain, and Vampiric Touch to benefit from haste. Both the period length and the duration of these spells will be reduced by haste. In addition, the mana cost has been reduced from 32% to 13% of base mana.
*Vampiric Embrace: This ability is now provides a 30-minute buff that cannot be dispelled, instead of a target debuff

Glyphs

* Glyph of Mind Flay now Increases the damage done by your Mind Flay spell by 10% when your target is afflicted with Shadow Word: Pain.
* Glyph of Shadow Word: Pain changed to - The periodic damage ticks of your Shadow Word: Pain spell restore 1% of your base mana.
* Glyph of Shadow now increase your spell power by 30% of your spirit for 10 sec. (Up from 10%)

Dunno about you guys, but im pumped for ICC.

-Be nice to see how people feel about these changes and get some numbers going, ill be back later on.

[skypunk_lx]

Don't forget these ones

Priest

* Power Word: Shield; This spell can now be cast on non-raid/party friendly targets.
* Improved Devouring Plague: This spell now deals 10/20/30% of its total periodic effect instantly, up from 5/10/15%.
* Shadowform: This talent also now causes Devouring Plague, Shadow Word: Pain, and Vampiric Touch to benefit from haste. Both the period length and the duration of these spells will be reduced by haste. In addition, the mana cost has been reduced from 32% to 13% of base mana.
* Vampiric Embrace: This ability is now provides a 30-minute buff that cannot be dispelled, instead of a target debuff.

[iLive]

FU Priests :P

[skypunk_lx]

FU Priests :P

Don't be meanie, we can show them some Druid love to them

[Xnzz]

I didn't really think bliz would be able to fix everything in once patch(pve wise), but i think theve done that.


awesome haste scaling, maybe not as great as other classes but.. from going from 0 haste scaling to this was kind of shocking tbh

Beter spirit scaling, seeing as im at about 800spirit raid buffed this is good.

Mf Glyph is nice, if base range gets upped to pre-3.3 range it would be sweet.

with MF glyph and 4pc t10, will only be mind blasting every 12secs to keep up replenish... if we have enough hunters/rets i will drop it all together

If MF glyph was for MB instead, then i would be super happy,atm im just happy .

[spkrb200]

It's pretty awesome. I'm not sure if haste will have a higher ep than crit, but I sorta except to see a lot of priests stack haste more than crit. Guess we'll see. Keep in mind though, that all that could change since it's still just the ptr, after all.

[zsun]

now dont jinx it or else they will nerf it.

Now i cant wait till 3.3

[smapple]

Ridiculous; priests get haste scaling with all their dots with one talent point, whereas afflic locks have to give up a glyph slot for ONE dot.

Thanks, Blizz.

[Juicebox]

Don't worry my fellow priests.
It'll all be gone before it goes live.

See the post above me, warlocks already crying.
It's not like they already do 3k dps more than us... oh, wait!

[Deleted]

Nice changes to buff haste and spirit scaling. I'm glad they noticed that spirit scaling isn't quite on par with other caster even with the 3.2.2 change.

The IDP buff is a minor one but it's all good I guess.

VE change saves GCDs, especially in pvp, and reduces setup time. But how does it work with aoe? Can I tank the whelps on Onyxia by spamming MS on them? :P

SW:P glyph is probably there to solve mana issues with having to cast dots more often. It's fine, but I'd still like to see another alternative to this, maybe a slight buff to SW glyph could make it an interesting option.

Now I'd like to know if MF refreshes the haste on SW:P so I'll know if I have to start looking for a haste proc trinket and stacking haste potions.

[Deleted]

Don't worry my fellow priests.
It'll all be gone before it goes live.

See the post above me, warlocks already crying.
It's not like they already do 3k dps more than us... oh, wait!

I think the haste scaling is here to stay. Affliction will get it also, although it's not that urgent and that's why they are testing it on shadow first. Affliction still does far better damage than shadow btw and then there's always destro that is even better.

[Direshadow]

I LOOOOOOVE the Vampiric Embrace buff

that's pretty much what we've been wanting forever now. I think it'll help a TON with pvp.


The rest is also very nice, but I doubt all of them will make it to live.

[Deleted]

Oh dear, we already have warlocks QQing that we might not be last on the DPS meter anymore...

I really wish these changes will make it to real realms, i can just smell the pre-nerfs already :'(

[Abandon]

Ridiculous; priests get haste scaling with all their dots with one talent point, whereas afflic locks have to give up a glyph slot for ONE dot.

Thanks, Blizz.

Shadow DPS is below Affliction DPS, stop your whining.

[Skollvaldr]

Mf Glyph is nice, if base range gets upped to pre-3.3 range it would be sweet.

it does. was in a blue i think.

[DreamOfTheRood]

Is that Vampiric Embrace buff ... does it become a group buff or just a self-buff?

[Abandon]

It is a self-buff, it basically means it may as well be applied to all mobs you do damage to.

[Abolishment]

So, my Devouring Plague instantly strikes my target for over 1200 now.

When that gets doubled, it'll be like pre-BC Moonfire spam. Killing people in 10 instant-cast, no cooldown spells and an absurd amount of mana.

I can't wait.

[TwistedPower]

I almost want to try out shadow.... Its to bad I pvp with my priest, I still die to fast when i'm shadow.

[talrob]

The 'official patch changes' aren't on the PTR yet btw so we can't test them out but the haste boost is nice enough, with zero practice (aka missed a few dots for 0.1-0.5 seconds) and in worse gear I do 150 dps more on the ptr than on live.