Priest changes Patch 12803

[Theed]

Priest Changes

Holy

Twirling Light - New spell. When you deal damage with Smite, Holy Fire, or Holy Word: Chastise your next Flash Heal is instant at 75% reduced mana cost, but heals for 30/60% of the amount. Lasts for 10 sec. (Rank 1, Holy, Priest)
Revelations [NNF] - New spell. While in a Chakra state, your Holy Word: Chastise ability will transform into a different ability depending on which state you are in. Holy Word: Serenity (Heal) - Instantly heals the target for 262, and increases the critical effect chance of your healing spells on the target by 25% for . 45 sec cooldown. Holy Word: Aspire (Renew) - Instantly heals the target for 638 and another 798 over . 15 sec cooldown. Holy Word: Sanctuary (Prayer of Healing) - Blesses the ground with Divine light, healing all within it for 1826 every 2 for 15 sec. Only one Sanctuary can be active at any one time. (Passive, Holy, None)
Holy Word: Chastise - New spell. Chastise the target for 544 to 653 Holy damage, and Immobilizing them for 2 sec. (Level 1, Holy, Priest)
Serendipity - When you heal with Binding Heal or Flash Heal, the cast time of your next Greater Heal or Prayer of Healing spell is reduced by 10/20% (up from 6/12%) and mana cost reduced by 5/10%. Stacks up to 2 times. Lasts 20 sec.
Holy Concentration - Increases the amount of mana regeneration while in combat by an additional 10/20%.

Shadow

Mind Flay - Range increased to 40 yd from 30 yd.
Devouring Plague - Range increased to 40 yd from 30 yd.
Mind Sear - Range increased to 35 yd from 30 yd.
Mind Spike - Range increased to 35 yd from 30 yd.
Mind Control - Range increased to 30 yd from 20 yd. Cast time reduced to 2 sec from 3 sec.
Mind Blast - Range increased to 40 yd from 30 yd.
Darkness - Spell haste increased by 1/2/3%. Changed from spell damage.

Discipline

Renewed Hope - Increases the critical effect chance of your Flash Heal, Greater Heal, Heal and Penance (Heal) spells by 5/10% (up from 3/6%) on targets afflicted by the Weakened Soul effect.

source: nihilum.eu

[Kaesebrezen]

Yay @ 8% basehaste for shadowpriests.

The holy priest chances are incredible good and look like a lot of fun. And 3 effects on just one button!

[nevermore]

If this IS real then I just creamed my pants. Please please please let it be real! So much awesomesauce...

[Deleted]

According to this thread nihilum posted it before the servers was even brought down.
They probably used Saronite Bombs to get them in advance!

[Neichus]

As always I'm skeptical about patch information before it's confirmed, but these changes seem about right:
-Holy gets a spell that is useful for leveling and morphs into a handy healing tool
-There's now enough worthwhile points in Shadow to subspec as Disc or Holy
-Holy gained actual nuking synergy. Thus far the only option it had was Archangel in the Disc tree.
-Tip of the hat to Danner's concerns with mana regeneration as Holy

Edit: I just noticed the Serendipity change. I feel downright psychic if these are true.

[Deleted]

Great changes for holy.
Lets just hope they revamp disc too, after they made it unplayable ^^

[zito]

As always I'm skeptical about patch information before it's confirmed, but these changes seem about right:
-Holy gets a spell that is useful for leveling and morphs into a handy healing tool
-There's now enough worthwhile points in Shadow to subspec as Disc or Holy
-Holy gained actual nuking synergy. Thus far the only option it had was Archangel in the Disc tree.
-Tip of the hat to Danner's concerns with mana regeneration as Holy

Edit: I just noticed the Serendipity change. I feel downright psychic if these are true.

Serendipity was increased because it went to 2 ranks instead of 3. So it should remain about the same.

[beanburrito]

YAY CHASTISE IS BACK!

I loved that ability

[Flane]

God thank Blizzard, Chastise is just the thing I need, melees have been driving me crazy!

[Repo123]

Great for Holy.

Still waiting for them to do something to compensate disc for shield nerfs.

[RyanD157]

Well it says you can only be in one sanctuary at one time. May i ask what other sanctuary you could be in (Sorry if i missed it). And for the renew chas, does it just heal the extra amount of 15 seconds, or is there a set time?

[Kelesti]

Thread locked. Awesome info. Please continue the discussions in the appropriate 4.0 stickies. That's why they're there.

---------- Post added 2010-08-21 at 11:05 AM ----------

To clarify, on this, I love having people come here and post beta build info, and getting it out there for all to see. I just feel like we can funnel the discussions about the changes into a topic dedicated to what we're looking like at 4.0.

If that means I sticky the thread until next beta build, well that's one way of doing this to keep the info out there. If it means I do the Paladin thing, well... I don't think we have the forum traffic to support that model. QQ

If anyone has any comments or suggestions on a better way to do this, please, message me.

---------- Post added 2010-08-21 at 11:06 AM ----------

And my thanks go out to Theed.