Upcoming Priest changes

[Djriff]

Priest (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

• The new Atonement mechanic is very different than the older ones. It is a mix of using damage and healing abilities to mark allies with a buff as you heal them and then heal those people as you damage enemies with Atonement spells, so you have to weave both together at all times.

• Discipline may be one of the more complex healers.

• Disc priest's endless PW:S spam had to go! It was bad for them and bad for everyone.

• Shadow Priests don't have Flash Heal or Heal anymore, but they do have Shadowmend, which is a new spell that is twice as good as Flash Heal in terms of how much it heals for, but over the next 10 seconds half of that heal fades away. If the target takes damage it comes off of the Shadowmend damage first, so if the target is constantly taking damage it is a really strong heal.

• Both Shadow and Discipline will have Shadowmend.

• Shadow will also keep PW:S.

• Holy priests used to have the biggest single heal in the game and the team wanted to move them back in that direction.

• Chakra is gone

• They redesigned the way the Holy Word: Serenity system works.

• Holy Word: Serenity is now the biggest single target heal in the game, it has a substantial cooldown but will heal roughly half of the health bar of the target. A crit would be a full heal.

• Holy also will have Prayer of Healing and Discipline will not.

I think it's interesting the vast amount of changes coming down. In particular the changes to Disc make me hopeful for the new way. Additionally leveling as a healer will be viable as your DPS will be increased when solo. Also with the removal of dual specs, being able to swap on the fly seems great.

What are you guys thoughts?

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Seems we both had a similar idea at the same time Djriff!
Going to try and keep all of these blizzcon discussions somewhat contained so will close this thread solely for that reason.
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