Say bye bye to priest racialsFollow

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http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=9957009134&sid=2000

Well! This seems like a very interesting change and frankly one I am looking forward to. I'm glad they aren't getting rid of Symbol of Hope, I really like that.

Thoughts?

**** YES. Devouring Plague almost constantly? Yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes...

... Unless of course it gets nerfed in the process >.>

Since I play Night Elf, I can only barely keep my pants from being soiled from Desperate Prayer and Symbol of Hope. Still... Devouring Plague? I kinda liked the free DoT every 30 seconds. Still, another Shadow Damage dot isn't to be sneezed at. Long CD and relatively high Mana cost though.

Devouring Plague is a chocolate cupcake with win frosting. Reducing the mana cost of that alone makes this change worthwhile.

In any case the racial spells always struck me as odd. Nobody else has them and IMO it unnecessarily restricted your options. I thoroughly endorse this.

ETA: wait a second. It's been a while since I've played a human but isn't desperate prayer a mana-free self heal? Cooldown reduced to 30 seconds? So I can heal myself for free every 30 seconds without sharing a pot cooldown? Doesn't that strike anyone as a leetle OP? I wonder if they'll reduce the amount it heals. It's pretty small now isn't it?

Edited, Sep 16th 2008 8:14am by teacake

Desperate prayer is like an extra lock rock or a free healing pot (about 3k heath). It can save your but in lots of different fights. I don't know if it will be OP but free self heal every 30 seconds sign me up. :)

Then this should make you sneeze again. Gesundheit! ~_-



With cooldown and mana cost reduced on devouring plague I expect it's current potency will be nerfed a bit. Hopefully not too much though, I don't think shadow priests are over powered at all compared to the other spell casting classes.

Symbol of Hope has been altered by this change, but it is still a pretty nice ability and one I am glad I will have on my other priest(s).

This is what it is currently:

Symbol of Hope
15 Mana
Instant cast 5 min cooldown
Greatly increases the morale of party members, giving them 33 mana every 5 sec. Effect lasts 15 sec.

It's being changed to a percentage of base mana, so not sure how that will compare. I knew I shouldn't have slept through all my high school math classes.



Edited, Sep 16th 2008 10:22am by Miskreant

You forgot one thing there, and odds are you already know what I'm on about =(

Thanks very much, cococj. As the ability is now it is a nice little buff. It seems it will still stay that way, nothing at all earth shattering, but still every little bit of utility helps.

:-)

Edited, Sep 17th 2008 2:18pm by Miskreant

I will miss my shadowguard and hex of weakness. those two skills made playing a troll shadow priest in arena almost unfair. nothing like procing blackout with shadowguard

or burning down a rouge as a disc priest simple by spamming your shield and shadowguard while he wails on ya.

I have mixed feelings on this change. but for the most part i am happy.

Miss K and Teacake, huh? Another one bites the dust...

Shadowmeld, it's too hard to give up.

So, like, you're my new Auntie? ~_^

Thanks, though. :-)

I've been doing a bit of digging and it appears that Symbol of Hope is now Hymn of Hope.



http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?spell=60931

I'm less than enthused about the channeling aspect. If the way it has been for the last 18 months was fine when it was a Draenei only racial, why change it just because it is being given to the other priest races? I could see in the case of Devouring Plague as the cooldown and mana cost were reduced, so it makes sense to change it around. But for Symbol of Hope? Meh.

Oh well, it isn't a huge deal in the scheme of things I guess.

Though it doesn't give tons of mana symbol of hope has been a useful little bonus, certainly does suck that its replacement is channeled, I wonder how much use I'll make of it.

For now at level 70, Symbol of hope restores a total of 999 mana over 15 seconds, if you have say 10k mana Hymn of hope will restore 800 mana over 8 seconds. So the new spell restores less, but does so faster. Its like a group version of a mage's evocation, but as that restores 15% mana every 2 secs to the mage, our new hymn (2% every 2 secs on up to 5 people) is much much weaker. I'd rather have the old symbol of hope or something like a group version of innervate.

I can't help but feel a little bit gutted that all the reasons for choosing Draenei are now gone, but I'll get over it, as overall the changes are beneficial.