Frankly i prefer serenity, for the movement ability, i mostly tank heal with renew and serenity’s low mana instant heal

The Wayward Priest

The Wayward Priest

Furthermore, the addition of Charka: Prayer of Mending also makes the overall AOE chakra reliable as 1. It allows us to continue the chakra state without too much mana upkeep from PoH and 2. Favours the moving style aoe healing I prefer.

As a priest I always enjoyed the fact, that 2/3 of my primary aoe healing spells I could cast on the move, and with the reduced cd on CoH this compliments this healing style.

Just a heads up – I think you meant to say “It also will provide higher tier Holy Tree talents to help us get deeper in the tree without being “forced” to pick up Lightwell, Desperate Prayer, or Spirit of Redemption.”

I am happy with the changes, so far, but I do feel that the learning curve is becoming smaller and smaller. Meaning that what could have been an interestingly complicated mechanic that kept our attention would have really required some finesse from us is becoming more “dumbed down” to the point where it could be facerolled again and we could find ourselves in the very niche that Blizzard wanted us to avoid being in.

I agree with Dawn Moore’s post this morning – I liked it when it was complicated and sort of difficult and intricate. I still like it now, but I do have those fears of it becoming too simple and priests willing lockingly themselves into that niche… and then wondering why people don’t ask them to do anything outside of it.

Love the post, by the way!

Overall, the Chakra changes please me greatly. I think you’re definitely right on the learning curve, though, but as with just about everything else, it may end up being one of those things that “weeds out” bad players who refuse to learn. The sad thing about it, though, is that it will probably also alienate a lot of people who DO want to learn how to heal better, and aren’t really given a good enough opportunity to do so.