I know it’s odd, but I hate casters. Yes I’m WELL aware of how retarded that sounds when I play all the healing classes, but I have no interest in DPS casters. If I’m not healing, I like being melee and hitting shit in the face.

Thanks so much for the insight on the shadow stuff!

I do find Inner Will great, it’s about time added mobility, and it also is said to stack with other run speed enchants/abilities. Sucks there is so much QQ on the US Forums. As for Shadow, the changes are good, and I’m looking forward to it.

I also foresee our raid utility moving in a direction that is more unique compared to other classes, instead of bringing individual utility per tree, the class it self has over lapping buffs. In Cata, you’re not bringing, say, four priests to a raid, you’re bringing four: divine hymns, hymn of hopes and leap of faiths (threat resets?). Also, the whole picture hasn’t been given to us yet, we have yet to see how the trees will turn out, and I’m sure they’ll be awesome.

mindplague

First off Shadow Word: Death isn’t part of the Wrath rotation. In Tier 7 we got a set bonus that almost made the damage output for time spent worth it. But even then it was usually just higher DPS to keep Mind Flaying.

That said, I actually really quite like SW:D as it is. When I check my logs I’m always surprised to find that I’ll have used it once or twice in a fight. I don’t even remember pressing it! It’s an instant spell and still worth casting on the run… assuming that your health bar isn’t too low to start with (ie I wouldn’t recommend casting it while you are running out of fire or something).

Mind Spike is a bit of a disappointment. I hate the name. I just don’t like the idea of spamming anything. Shadow Priest have never ever been a class that spams an ability. Even Mind Sear requires you to switch targets or dot your target to kill everything. So yeah, let’s not encourage spam please!

The change that excites me the most is actually that Haste will apply to DoTs by increasing the number of ticks over the duration. Since Patch 3.3 (when Haste sped up DoTs and shortened them too) it’s a bit annoying to have to re-adjust your mental rhythm because your DoTs now run out faster, or slower, because you swapped out a few items.

So yeah, smoother rotation and less spam would have made me happy. That said, glad to hear they’re putting some effort into the healing classes. And I do think that Disc Priests needed a bit of a boost to bring them up to what Holy Paladins (or well played Shaman) can do as tank healers.

And as offspec, occasional healer, the idea of being rewarded for casting 3x the same heal in a row sounds limiting. I like to just go for whatever needs it, you know? A Mage is about to go down and I might shield + flash + flash and then move onto someone/something else.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=20677635725&postId=209475904936&sid=1#0

It always puts things in perspective and makes me laugh.
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Regarding the “Leap of Faith”; if there’s no aggro dropping component, it might be used as another “oh shit” button to save a tank. Pull the dying tank to you, and watch those 0,0001ms late heals get him back up, while the angry boss chases him to the new position. If such tactics were viable for some fights, the “Leaping” priest could stand in a “safe spot” so as not to pull a tank into the middle of ranged, followed by a cleaving boss. On the other hand, it’s still more useful to keep the tank alive and lose a few ranged who [i]forgot[/i] to move themselves even if no safe spot were pre-determined.

Anyways, looking forward to more info.

“I think holy is hands down the most interesting healer to play.”
<3 Read my mind. People are still asking me why I have two raiding alliance Priests on the same realm. Priests-are-awesome.

Inner Will: They said it affects only instant cast so other than DoT’s & the movement buff the haste will only be for Renew, Holy Nova, Shield, CoH?

Leap of Faith: Why not make it a agro cancel push instead of a pull. Not only would it be fun, but you wouldnt have the problem of pulling any melee out of range and it would have the same affect to move them out of shit. Also, if it doesn’t cancel agro at least you won’t be pulling the agro magnet next to you so you’ll be the next one to get killed. Also, 45 sec CD seems an awful long time and how much good can you do to only pull 1 person every 45 sec situationally. If they are in range to get pulled to you, then they are in range to be healed so its almost redundant.

Empowered Healing State: It would be cool for this to proc and turn you into some big angel or some other holy symbol for the duration.

Why remove the Spirit buffs? That is one of the core buffs for the priest. Are they going to remove a mage Intel buff as well? Under their definition it will cause imbalances because groups with a mage will get increased efficiency with extra spellpower and mana. Same thing for other classes with buffs/debuffs. That is what makes those classes unique and the desirability to bring them. You want more spellpower and mana? Bring a mage. More regen? Bring a priest. It’s like our calling card.

I always thought ‘Avenging Wrath’ from paladins looked really awesome – and it always made me jealous because of how shoddy ‘Guardian Spirit’ looks.

If ‘Chakra’ was something along the lines of AW, i.e. big golden wings or something along those lines – that’s what I’m talking about