Priest 3.3/T10 discussion.Follow

With the release of the setbonuses and a lack of thread on the subject I decided to make one.
(and cause I'm bored and want to do some mathstuff)

Holy/disc
* Item - Priest T10 Healer 2P Bonus - After your Pain Suppression and Guardian Spirit talents expire on your target, they grant your target 10% increased healing received for 10 sec.
* Item - Priest T10 Healer 4P Bonus - Your Flash Heal spell has a 15% chance to reset the cooldown on your Circle of Healing and Penance Spells.


shadow
* Item - Priest T10 Shadow 2P Bonus - The critical strike chance of your Shadow Word: Pain, Devouring Plague, and Vampiric Touch spells is increased by 5%.
* Item - Priest T10 Shadow 4P Bonus - (Updated) Reduces the channel duration and period of your Mind Flay spell by 0.5 seconds.


3.3 patchnotes:
Discipline
* Power Word: Shield; This spell can now be cast on non-raid/party friendly targets.

Shadow
* Mind Flay: The range of this ability has been increased to 30 yards, up from 20.
* Shadowform now let the periodic damage of your Shadow Word: Pain, Devouring Plague, and Vampiric Touch spells benefit from haste.
* Glyph of Mind Flay now Increases the damage done by your Mind Flay spell by 10% when your target is afflicted with Shadow Word: Pain.
* Glyph of Shadow Word: Pain - The periodic damage ticks of your Shadow Word: Pain spell restore 1% of your base mana. (Old - Your haste now reduces the time between the periodic damage ticks of your Shadow Word: Pain spell. PTR Only change)
* Glyph of Shadow now increase your spell power by 30% of your spirit for 10 sec. (Up from 10%)
* Improved Devouring Plague: This spell now deals 10/20/30% of its total periodic effect instantly, up from 5/10/15%.
* Vampiric Embrace: This ability is now provides a 30-minute buff that cannot be dispelled, instead of a target debuff.


pets
Avoidance (passive): Now reduces the damage your pets take from area-of-effect damage by 90%, but no longer applies to area-of-effect damage caused by other players.

Gear:

New T10 previews: Male, Female


Caster Trinkets

* Item - Icecrown 10 Normal Caster Trinket - Each time you deal spell damage to an opponent, you gain 18 spell power for the next 10 sec, stacking up to 10 times.
* Item - Icecrown 10 Heroic Caster Trinket - Each time you deal spell damage to an opponent, you gain 20 spell power for the next 10 sec, stacking up to 10 times.
* Item - Icecrown 25 Normal Caster Trinket 1 Base - Your harmful spells have a chance to increase your spell power by 32 and an additional 32 every 2 sec for 20 sec.
* Item - Icecrown 25 Normal Caster Trinket 2 - Each time one of your spells deals periodic damage, you have a chance to gain 918 spell power for 10 sec.
* Item - Icecrown 25 Emblem Healer Trinket - Your spell casts have a chance to grant 100 mana per 5 sec for until cancelled.
* Item - Icecrown 25 Normal Healer Trinket 2 - Each time your spells heal a target you have a chance to cause another nearby friendly target to be instantly healed for 5550 to 6450.

Crafted:
Haste legs.
Hit boots.
Spirit legs, boots.


I'll keep this updated with new info whenever new stuff comes out.

UPDATED 26 OCTOBER


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Both holy bonuses look nice, although I think the 4piece isn't as great as it looks.
Still, it has the largest chance to proc when you need to heal loads which is when it's most useful.
2piece is a nice little extra that'll help tanks live through burst damage that lasts longer than 8 seconds.

Shadow 2pc is rather unoriginal, but a nice dps increase I guess (someone post how much % of your dps is from those three spells please :) ).
it ends as '% of damage from dots * 0.05 = % of dps increase' which doesn't look too impressive unless dots are 50% or more of your dps.
Four piece basically means double damage from Mind flay (at double the mana cost, but who cares?)
Once more, I don't know what % of your dps is from Mind flay so I can't say how good it really is, but it looks good.
Even if mind flay is only 10% of your dps it's a 10% dps increase.

Edited, Oct 26th 2009 12:16pm by Aethien

Edited, Oct 26th 2009 12:18pm by Aethien

Edited, Oct 26th 2009 12:51pm by Aethien

Update:
* Item - Priest T10 Shadow 4P Bonus - (Updated) Reduces the channel duration and period of your Mind Flay spell by 0.5 seconds.

Looks a lot more sensible. :P

If Blizzard implements haste affecting dots, I could see that rotations (priorities) take strange little twists. The 15/18/24 second cds turning into 12.75/15.3/20.4 second cds may cause need of more filler abilities like MF and SW:D.

I'd say it's pointless to get haste for 1 spell...

..but that's kinda what we do already >.<

Only SW:P will get benefit from haste (when glyphed) in 3.3 . I'd love more, but it hasn't been mentioned yet..

(I'd also rather have VT affected by haste, but I'll take what I can get).

Seems like Blizz is still tinkering with the healing set bonuses.

This looks much better though.
At least the 4pc.

I might as well just stop posting here, people like Trylofer and Dadanox always say everything I wanted to say anyway.

As usual, I completely agree with Try here - as long as you can see the "Flash heal reactivates Penance" coming, it'll be a lot easier to change your spell priority accordingly - once you get the buff you might want to decide to throw a Flash Heal and another Penance rather than a Renew, new PW:S, or whatever. The only pro/con (depending on where you stand) is that this will make priest healing even more complicated as you'll have another buff to watch.

It's not too bad for disc priests who are MT-healing I suppose. An extra HoT on the tank is never bad.

But yeah, I agree with you on the proc bit. I probably won't be trying to keep 4pc if a better gear piece comes along.

I think we can agree that the priest forum is just too awesome. Can we turn it down a bit?

I dunno, it may be starting to rub off. I kicked a kitten this morning. Then laughed about it.






Not really, I just wanted you to feel you're doing well, because that's what we do here.

Heck, I have plenty of mana problems in PVP. I might take that SW:P glyph just to keep a constant stream of regen going. If only there was another glyph I could bear to give up...



This is not a huge deal, but it makes me happy to see them finally recognizing that the whole Disc spec is designed around shield and we should be able to use it whenever the heck we want. I hope it includes NPC's. I hate doing escort quests and not being able to shield the slowidiot.



I've used the word "heck" twice in one post. Two "trousers" and a "GET OFF MY LAWN!" and I get the Crazy Old Lady achievement!

Damn, mage looks much?


That first one seems a bit... weird. I guess that'll be changed as was done to the other trinkets who initially had such a vague description including the words 'until cancelled'. As for the second one; whether this is any good is extremely dependant on three factors; "what is defined as a "nearby" target?", "will this be a smartheal?", and "what is the internal cooldown?". If it's restricted to say, melee range, and it's not a smart heal, this only means that everytime I heal the tank I'll have a chance to overheal a random nearby melee that's already on 100%. In the best situation it's a smartheal with a larger (say 20 yards) range and a low (1 or 2 percent) proc change - which is effectively something similar to the glyph of Circle of Healing.

Edited, Oct 21st 2009 12:51pm by Mozared