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My facetious answer: Give us plate! :P

My slightly more serious one: Make Meditation a passive low level spell, with increasing ranks by level, adjust three trees of talents to reflect this.

My absolutely serious answer: Tied to the above; Stop making us pick deep holy or Imp. DS.

My actual answer I'd like to see implemented and might one day *COUGH*: Remove charges from Inner Fire, increase buff time.

Yes okay that's four, sue me :)

Edited, Jan 26th 2009 12:25pm by cococj

I like this one. It's only fair since they practically gave pallies Circle of Healing.

Inner Fire as a straight up 30 minute buff would be a fab small change that wouldn't be game-changing or cause any imbalance.

Lol Moz the Disc Priest wants a change to a Holy talent, kind of weird.

Since the Inner Fire idea was already taken, I guess I am going to have to think of something else.

I would like to see Divine Hymn changed to an instant cast and remove the damage reduction from mobs after the incapacitation has been removed.(currently 40% reduced damage for 3 seconds after incapacitation is removed).

That's it, keep the long 6 minute cooldown, basically I think it would be an awesome spell and get a lot more use if it worked more like an emergency AoE renew than the way it is now.

Edited, Jan 26th 2009 2:17pm by SynnTastic

The Inner Fire idea is definitely the winner, having said that I'd also like to see Symbol of Hope return, that is make Hymn of Hope an instant cast rather than a channeled spell, I'd even accept a longer cooldown as a payoff for this (not too much longer mind).

If they insist on making it channeled then they need to make it a Disc spell again so that shadow priests can cast it without being knocked out of shadow form. Ideally I'd like to see it be instant and disc to cover both these bases.

lightwell:

Heals X life from ONE random person in raid (lowest health maybe ?) every Y seconds in a 30y radius (range increases with holy reach). Duration: 3 mins (or 2 mins, like totem?). CD = 1 min. Only one LW per priest. Can be destroyed (not by aoe, if 5 health, or 5k +life).

So... unlike the totem, heal one person only each tick, but for much more than the totem does. Something like 500 life every 5 seconds. That would be 6k/min.

Well.. something like this, where ppl don't need brains to use lightwell.

Plate? I'd be satisfied with leather.

Seriously, it sucks to be 3-shotted when DKs are taking 45 hits and still staggering around.

I'd also like something more exciting than Dispersion for shadows, but that's really my love of bells and whistles showing.

And wouldn't it be awesome to have a pet of some kind? Maybe a fluffy white kitten that puffs around like Tinkerbell blowing mana kisses at everyone. Or something.

Guess what Mozared... Yes that's right I'm going to disagree with you, bet you didn't see that coming! :P

If this had been pre-Wrath then I'd agree that if you were making Inner Fire a longer lasting buff without charges you might as well just increase our armour from items, but not now. How many of you actually cast it for the armour increase? Its mitigation is tiny and really doesn't make the difference between being two shotted or three shotted.

In fact I recall several discussions over the past few years on this very forum stating that alot of you didn't bother casting it at all as it was more of an annoyance to keep doing so. So yeah removing the charges/increasing the time in the past might have seemed silly, but I've never quite understood the spell...

... It has limited charges, now in the past there were two situations which occurred during it's very short lasting duration; either it ran out without many or any charges being used, or you were being hit ALOT over the 2 minute period that meant the charges were used up super-fast. It has no cooldown though, it can be cast in battle at any time, mana permitting, so had it been a worthwhile spell we'd have taken the time to cast it again after the first spell wore off cos we were being beaten on by dozens of mobs. The fact is though if it runs out mid-fight we did't recast it, why? Because there were far better things we could cast to get out of sticky situations rather than an extra couple of percent of mitigation. Therefore it can hardly be considered over-powered as it stood...

So fast forward to now, well the mitigation is nice but it's not the main reason we cast it now is it? We cast the new variation of it because of its SP benefits, we're more likely to make sure it's always up because of that. Take any of the mages Armor spells for example, yes far less armour from the spell but has other benefits, namely movement and attack speed decreases to the attacker to name but one variant, the combination makes it useful, mages don't use it for the armour value either. But, guess what, it lasts 30 minutes and doesn't have charges.

We now get direct benefit from casting it other than armour, there's no cooldown on it still and we now have a situation where keeping it up, even mid-fight might be more appealing. So why bother with the charges still? If it's in the name of balance then remove the charges increase its time but cut the armour value, even then I think it's worth less than any mages Armor spell, get to it Blizzard you know you want to.

I can see why as a rogue - or many melee classes - you might take issue with that change, after all we do have some spells to protect us already and also make you run off wildly as if I've just offered to kiss you, okay that's not what Psychic Scream's tooltip says but I can wish.

I can see what you're getting but looking at this rather, and intentionally, obtusely the situation is black and white; either it's making a worthwhile difference and is therefore worth wasting a GCD on or it isn't. If it is and I as the priest in question am keeping it up mid-fight then the only time the situation isn't me "wearing leather" is when you happen to remove the charges when I'm stunned/needing to heal/have other uses for my GCD.

I'm going to have to do some calculations before committing to this but the mitigation although small will addup, as to its precise value in a fight with a class who can heal well... I'm still not convinced that it will make that much difference, some yes but not game breaking. In fact I'd think it would be more of an issue for slower hitting classes than rogues.

My point about being 2-3-X shotted was more from the PvE perspective, although I don't PvP so much I do try to consider what my suggestions might do to balance there too.

I'll also agree with you that mages are in general a frailer class and indeed they have spells to keep their enemies away from them in the first place, more so than us priests.

I'm leaving it where I left my last post, I feel that while initially this change might be an issue for some melee classes, removal of a large chunk of armor from the spell could cover for that, it wouldn't be an issue for Holy/Shadow priests but Disc priests might be at a slight disadvantage with that change, however I think the fact it's up almost 100% of the time might balance that out.

Edited, Jan 27th 2009 9:11am by cococj

I really think they might make Divine Spirit a core spell in 3.1. If not.. they should :) And, counting DS we have 3 group buffs (make ShProt raid wide pls?).

Why?

Higher classes armor naturally has more stamina. It shouldn't take much to top off lower armor classes. What's the point of healing them for more? They still won't be able to take the hits.

Not really. I see tons of cloth wearers out there with more health than mail wearers. Plate is the only real armor type that generally has more HP than the others.

I was thinking about something like this last night but the other way around, I don't think even a major glyph should be increasing both time and removing charges though, that's far too powerful for a glyph.

I am wondering though if they say reduced the armour on the spell by say 50% and removed the charges but simply made the glyph increase its time. That would seem like a trade-off and still force someone to pick up a glyph at the cost of something else if the time still bothered them.

Big change, probably OP, but I loved how in FFXI when you were WHM main, you had the "Divine Veil" ability. (Is that right? It's been so long and I'm too lazy to look.)

Basically has a big old CD, but turns any single target spell into an AoE.