Holy Priest

[Olyness-proudmoore]

Continuing the discussion from Midnight Alpha Test Development Notes:

@Linxy

PRIEST

• Hero Talents
  • Archon
    • Holy
      • Empowered Surges has been updated to also increase the healing of Prayer of Healings affected by Surge of Light while the effect is active and Spiritwell is talented.
  • Oracle
    • Holy
      • Preventive Measures increases the healing of Prayer of Mending by 15% (was 40%).
• Holy
  • Benediction has been updated – Rank 2 and 3 now increase the healing of Cosmic Ripple by 25%/50% and increases all healing done by 5%/10%.

[Martyrofsand-laughing-skull]

Sadly to see PoM nerfed but not overly surprised with how strong it is. Hopefully they don’t go overboard with it though.

[Ahaux-thrall]

The benediction talents are so strong now it will be impossible to pass up to experiment with.

[Lathorian-malganis]

most likely because we are now getting extra 10% healing to all of our healing via apex talents so they are balancing that

[Martyrofsand-laughing-skull]

Yeah I guess I just personally prefer a really powerful PoM over a generalized healing buff, but I do get the logic. We will just have to see how it balances out. 3 more days till Beta.

[Capslockfury-thrall]

Most likely good changes considering Oracle was gearing up to be way, way stronger than Archon.

I still just don’t know if I’m on board with holy becoming a class that only casts three spells again.

Simplifying is one thing - I’m not against that - but holy is REALLY cut down right now going into Midnight.

[Lathorian-malganis]

I mean it’s been 3 spells always, at least from M+ perspective since I don’t raid anymore

FH - PoM - Holy words and that’s pretty much the whole thing.

The difference might be if you choose Ultimate Serenity which I personally not including that talent in my builds.

Archon in midnight is looking good with a PoH build so you can add one more button to it alongside Halo.

[Capslockfury-thrall]

I generally still hit PoM, Renew, Flash Heal, Both Holy Words, and Premonition pretty regularly, and sometimes PoH when I build for it.

We’re moving into PoM, Flash Heal and Ultimate serenity with everything else being passive, or random procs for flash heal.

I got very bored in late SLands when our healing was to just maintain flash concentration with SoL procs and cast heal and PoM off CD and was playing mostly disc and other classes. This seems pretty similar.

[Ãngelus-moon-guard]

Holy Priest’s needs something to replace Shadow Word pain. Smite and Holyfire for combat alone feels awful. I understand we have Holy Nova (don’t need to AoE everything), Chastise (Is great but feels like you have to spec into it). Give us something comparable to SWP or something else to press, so it isn’t mind numbing Smite spam.

[Aoelyn-moon-guard (Aoelyn)]

I generally feel like any spec should be playable in baseline (world) content, feel fun, and have QOL features. Taking away SW:P with no replacement takes away one instant cast aggro grabber/tagging tool, and inexplicably slapping a 30-60s cooldown on Holy Nova removes the other one (and absolutely guts/breaks Chastise refresh). Makes the spec feel clunky and miserable to play in any solo content. Which, fine, I guess we have the inscrutable ongoing experiment that is Shadow and/or Disc as alternatives, but it’s weird to have a spec just rendered down to “group only or suffer”.

[Martyrofsand-laughing-skull]

I mean if they don’t want Holy using shadow spells I’m sitting here wondering why they didn’t just give us Purge the Wicked, as it seems more of a Holy appropriate DoT than it ever did for disc. Let Holy fire spread it when combined with the AoE damage proc it gets from chastise and it would be fine.

[Manbeard-sargeras (Manbeard)]

Blizzard should work lightwell back in as a base talent we have nothing at all lol.