Priests have lame visual spell effects

[Al Gorefiend]

Title.
If you dont want to discuss non-issues and minor nitpicks this one isnt for you.

Feel this so noticeable next to Evokers and Paladins who also use our holy magic in their abilities.

Disc priests and holy priests have few cool abilities. And since cool is a subjective term, I am referring to abilities where the spell looks cinematic, flashy and powerful looking. Disc priest offensive abilities only feature a few actual projectile attacks penance, PW:Sol, lights wrath and star/halo. Smite, PtW, mindgames, mind blast are all tiny little blobs that appear on the target.

Shadow priests are better, many can agree they look OK, but still have half their kit being visually unimpressive DoTs. They do however have shadowy apparitions and shadow crash and tendrily goodness, so they aren't terrible but still behind other casters.

Of the entire priests holy abilities kit, only penance and halo look like a powerful spell channeling holy light.

[czarek]

Not sure hows holy and disc (havent played since pandaria lol) but as shadow job is still need to be done. Shadow needs more fireworks. Mindblast is a joke same mindspikes. Shadowform could be better also. Some intesivity or glow could apper on spell procs aroud the character. There is a lot of possibilites. Like glow, light, sparks etc.

[rowaasr13]

There should be customization screen for each spell a la dragon/demon customisation. Choose base model radio button - classic/TBC/whatever, choose color of core, choose color of streams around, some checkboxes to add fluff and sparks. And this is for every spell, so it includes all previously released effects. For all abilities of all classes, not just for SPs.

Visual customization immediately apparent in every battle is the thing players DO use very much as apparent with transmogrification, so there's no excuse like "time spent vs. nobody would use it".