Spreading the Word! (Idea for a Level 100 Talent I had on the bus today!)

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I'm the kind of person who often thinks up weird things while on the bus, and today, it happened to be a level 100 priest talent! Enjoy!

Spreading The Word

Talent Name: Spreading the Word
Why: This talent revolves around the priest's "word" spells which make a large appearance within our toolkit across all specs, and religiously it is often said that one will "Spread the word" - so I found it quite a nice name for the talent.

Overview: The priest becomes adept at spreading the word of their faith, allowing their priest word spells to gain additional effects, depending on specialisation.

Holy.

Idea 1 is to add more utility to the Holy Word spells available to the priest and make them more effective. One of the limitations of chakra, is that it forces you into a niche while within it. My thought behind serenity is to add a touch of AoE healing to make holy more flexible. For sanctuary, it is to give the priest a reason to place it and a way to get off some good single target heals while in sanctuary. Chastise does pitiful damage; this allows the priest to have a good kick, and also a little more utility and a way to get a mob (or enemy player) off them slightly more easily, while also gaining a slight "help" to healing to counteract the healing loss of being in chastise.

• Holy Word: Serenity's serenity effect now increases the critical effect chance of the next single target healing spell by an additional 50%, and if critical, will heal up to 3 nearby low-health targets for 50% of the healing done.
• Holy word: Sanctuary now lasts for 1 minute, has a 30s cooldown and increases single-target healing done by the priest to targets within the sanctuary by 10%.
• Holy Word: Chastise now knocks the target back and grants 2 stacks of serendipity.

Idea 2 is to make the Holy Word spells more available for use within the chakra they are intended.

• Holy Word: Serenity now has 3 charges. Charges will not regenerate while in Chakra: Sanctuary or Chakra: Chastise.
• Holy Word: Sanctuary now has 2 charges, does 100% increased healing, and may be placed in two places simultaneously.
• Holy Word: Chastise will now always critically strike, and place a DoT effect on the target for 100% of the damage done over 6 seconds.

Discipline

Idea 1 is to again, give discipline a little more flexibility, in empowering disc's raw healing by using absorbs and mitigation effects.

• Borrowed Time gained by the priest after casting Power Word: Shield will now grant 15% spell haste and last 5 seconds or until the priest's next penance, which will have 25% increased critical effect.
• While Power Word: Barrier is active, the priest's AoE healing spells become 10% more effective.

Idea 2 is to make the priest's Power Word spells more effective and give them additional effects.

• Power Word: Shield's mana cost is increased by 25% but power word shield will now heal the target for an additional 15% of the absorb amount.
• Power Word: Barrier's cooldown is reduced by 45 seconds, and also makes those under the barrier immune to silence and interrupt effects entirely.

Shadow

Idea 1 is to give shadow back a bit of that off-healing utility it used to have. When I levelled my priest to 85 before the MoP changes, I healed the whole way, as a shadow priest. Sure, it wasn't easy, but good abuse of VE and Vampiric Touch made it possible, and I even healed Cata Heroics in crappy gear with it. I cried when PoH and Greater Heal etc got taken away from us, and as much as many shadow priests prefer a more offensive style of play, I still have glyphed binding heal bound in raids, and do not hesitate to stop and spam it during intense moments to help out healers. I don't see shadow in a DPS raid role as a hybrid nowadays - it simply isn't. However, in intense moments where Survival > DPS, if I can help, I do.

• Damage Caused by your Shadow Word: Pain spell has a 5% chance to grant a stack of empowerment, decreasing cast time and increasing the healing of your next flash heal by 20% and causing it to heal up to 4 nearby low-health party or raid members for 100% of the healing done, spread between them.
• Shadow Word: Death now siphons the life essence of the target, healing a nearby low-health party or raid member for 50% of the damage done.

Idea 2 is a more DPS-oriented one, as shadow is of course a DPS class. In this idea, the Shadow Word spells empower the rotation, and make shadow damage spells more effective in some way.

• When you deal damage with Mind Sear to a target with Shadow Word: Pain you have a 5% chance to refresh its duration and spread it to another nearby enemy target.
• Imminent Demise - if Shadow Word: Death does not kill its target, your Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch Effects are refreshed on the target and do 2% increased damage, stacking up to 5 times. (Does not function with Glyph of Shadow Word: Death).

Hope you like my idea, even though it's just conjecture!!!

[deviantcultist]

Idea 2 is a more DPS-oriented one, as shadow is of course a DPS class. In this idea, the Shadow Word spells empower the rotation, and make shadow damage spells more effective in some way.

• When you deal damage with Mind Sear to a target with Shadow Word: Pain you have a 5% chance to refresh its duration and spread it to another nearby enemy target.
• Imminent Demise - if Shadow Word: Death does not kill its target, your Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch Effects are refreshed on the target and do 2% increased damage, stacking up to 5 times. (Does not function with Glyph of Shadow Word: Death).

Hope you like my idea, even though it's just conjecture!!!

Like this part. However, 5% chance is a bit too little.

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Like this part. However, 5% chance is a bit too little.

I perhaps agree with you there. Ofc this is just a simple "draft idea" that is in no way me going "here is a completely balanced and perfect idea". I think maybe 10% would be sufficient. The issue would of course be here that it would increase with intensity over time as more targets are affected with SW:P. Simultaneously, the damage ramp from Imminent Demise could be very high with Twist of Fate/etc so would have to be careful not to make it overall overpowered.

[Soulwind]

Like this part. However, 5% chance is a bit too little.

I like it too, maybe it could have a higher chance but reduce Mind Sear's base damage by a percentage? Otherwise it would easily be overpowered. Spreading the Pain is also a very fitting name for that one.

Refreshing both DoTs near the end of the fight by only using Death would give us a few more GCDs for Mind Flay and stuff, too. I like both ideas.

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Idea 2 is a more DPS-oriented one, as shadow is of course a DPS class. In this idea, the Shadow Word spells empower the rotation, and make shadow damage spells more effective in some way.

• When you deal damage with Mind Sear to a target with Shadow Word: Pain you have a 5% chance to refresh its duration and spread it to another nearby enemy target.
• Imminent Demise - if Shadow Word: Death does not kill its target, your Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch Effects are refreshed on the target and do 2% increased damage, stacking up to 5 times. (Does not function with Glyph of Shadow Word: Death).

Yes please !

[muto]

When you deal damage with Mind Sear to a target with Shadow Word: Pain you have a 5% chance to refresh its duration and spread it to another nearby enemy target.

Nah, sounds too much like Soulburn: Seed of Corruption