Feedback: Oracle in The War Within

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@Fabul-thrall

Imagine if you could spend the cost of a regular heal spell to grant a target a delayed form of heal/bubble where if they get hit for a % of health or fall below a % of health then that spell procs and heals/shields them for the same or slightly less than what the heal spell would have done if cast. Surely that sounds more like an oracle preparing for the future.

A CD/charge system would keep the spell balanced from abuse but would absolutely fit the theme of planing for the future and most certainly would be better than the current premonition.

Similar but also different / not relevant

I had a similar idea with what your proposing here. But it was more for the Archon Path as i approached it with the StarCraft Archon unit, a being of pure energy and power. Also when you take the 2 templar halves of High Templar (Holy) and Dark Templar (Shadow) and you can see this split/merge connection and how you can use that as a point of inspiration for the Archon Path.

Holy/Shadow (Archon)

• Psionic Storm (Archon Keystone)
  [Replaces Holy Word: Sanctify] (Holy)
  [Replaces Shadow Crash] (Shadow)
  Create a Psionic Storm at the targeted location for 10 seconds. While in a storm, enemies take damage every 0.5 seconds, increasing by 20% for each consecutive instance of damage, up to 400%.
• Psionic Link
  Your single target spells damage and healing is replicated to every target within Psionic Storm.
• Psionic Surge (Archon Capstone)
  Targets within your Psionic Storm take 10% increased damage and healing from your spells every second, up to 100%
• Psionic Energy
  • Holy: Healing done from your Holy Word spells generate a stack of Psionic Energy. Reaching 20 stacks fill you with power and causing you to erupt, dealing pulse healing to your allies within 20 yards every second for 3 seconds.
  • Shadow: Damage dealt by your Shadow Word spells generate a stack of Psionic Energy. Reaching 20 stacks causes the next target to receive damage from your Mind Spells to erupt, dealing pulsing damage to every enemy within 20 yards every second for 3 seconds.
• Psionic Power
  When Psionic Energy erupts, your Psychic Link damage and healing increases by 5% for 30 seconds. Stacking up to 3.
• Psionic Force
  Psionic Energy pulse deals 100% more damage and healing with each consecutive pulse.

Holy (Archon)

• Psychic Link
  Your single target Holy Word spells heal 25% of the healing done to targets affected by your Renew within 40 yards.
• Psionic Focus
  Gaining a stack of Psionic Power increases the healing of your single target healing spells and reduces the mana cost by 10% per stack.

Archon

You can also see uncanny similarities already established since Vanilla wow when you look at the Icon Portraits in Shadows Talent Tree compared to the Archon Portrait as seen in StarCraft.

Archon Portrait from StarCraft

Shadowform Icon from WoW

Shadow Power Icon from WoW

Then recently, look at the Helm Tier set for Priests from 10.1.
That also strikes a very uncanny resemblance.