It’s such a shame such a cool ability is so bad. It needs to do more AND it needs to not kill you. Currently casting it is like a 80% chance of death. Either make priests immune to damage during AND after casting or let priest move during uppies. If we can move while casting regular penance, why can’t we move during the ultimate version?
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I would also like something to compensate for the fact you can die from being stuck in place in the air to a ground swirly. I don’t know what, but that just feels terrible when it happens.
It’s especially crappy because they removed Light’s Wrath, which was extremely useful, and replaced it with a (much flashier) ability that is almost useless because of how vulnerable you are when using it.
And then they latched the outdated apotheosis wings on it, as insult to injury.
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Yeah have to agree. only damage you should be taking during uppies is air abilities, nothing that is on the ground
Funny enough, there are some AOEs which acknowledge you being higher on the Y and Z Axis - and some that don’t. It’s absolutely headache inducing playing the game of;
‘Can I safely press uppies right now?’
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Possibly the funniest one is in mists.
The fox that freezes people? When you’re exiting uppies it’ll just blow up on its own and miss you for some reason.
The orbs when she uses play catch? Instant death.
I do think there needs to be consistency with what it dodges - but uppies itself outside of that is decently powerful. IMO a much better talent than Light’s Wrath was considering you can actually use it outside of 20 man raid, and it’s one of the highest HPS buttons in the game when it goes off. It’s only real problems are it getting you killed and being totally inconsistent on when/why you’ll die in the air, and its cooldown being pretty long - too long even with its CDR talent.
I consider getting you killed a pretty massive flaw
Which is why I said it was a problem.
If there was a more consistent tell on what will actually hurt you (so you can cancel it), or a way to guarantee you won’t just immediately die, the ability would be very good.
I think this is because that fox freezes you, which is CC, and Ultimate Penitence makes you immune to CC. Maybe I’m wrong, and it is just a bug, but that was my first thought.
I actually use Ultimate Penitence to counter anything that’s going to grip/pull me or root my character sometimes. Which really isn’t the greatest use of a 4 minute cooldown, but at least it’s there.
Pretty sure it doesn’t hit you either. It didn’t ‘break’ my uppies shield in a +10, and that thing is usually doing massive damage when it freezes.
I’ve noticed a few things that just seem to miss in this set of dungeons, but at the same time, it’s hard to risk it because there’s a lot of stuff that will 1 shot you through the shield.
I actually experienced those two back to back in like five seconds of eachother in a random +7. Hit uppies to see if it prevented the fox mechanic from bugging me - was pleasantly surprised when it did.
My heart sank when I heard the word ‘lines’ in the middle of the cast.
It is worth noting - if you KNOW something you can’t evade is coming, you can cut the channel short by hitting the esc key.
You reminded me of something.
If anyone doesn’t know, when you cast Ultimate Penitence, at the very end of the cast, for some reason, you’re able to cast an instant spell- and then you go into the Ultimate Penitence flying/casting animation. I’ve used it on Oracle Disc because you can get instant Power Word: Radiances.
So, you cast Premonition > Ultimate Penitence > then at the very butt end of the cast bar you cast your instant PW: Radiance. This gives you a longer Atonement uptime for the full UP channel.
I was surprised when I found out this works because I knew about people doing this in PvP with the Ultimate Radiance PvP talent that makes PW: Radiance instant cast.
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Welp, say goodbye to that interaction in a patch! Too strong in PVP. 
Divine Hymn would like to add themselves to that discussion as well lol
Not sure WHY priest in general has healing cooldowns that can potentially kill you. It is not like they are all that amazing.
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It really just needs to be like convoke and usable while moving. And have it’s own penance bolts reduce it’s CD.
The 4 minute cd is absurd.