Ideas to rework renew

Talaxath-illidan · November 1, 2024, 7:08pm

I dropped this into another thread - I figured I’d add it here as well… since Renew is just a piece of a bigger issue all together.

Starting to get depressed now

It shouldn’t really be that complicated, sadly. – Priest already has tools in its kit to tie things together to make it work in a fun and interactive way.

The way you could easily fix Disc in raid, is make Circle of Healing baseline for Disc/Holy.

Circle of Healing is a 6-second CD - That heals the 5 lowest injured allies within 40-yards for a small amount.
– Heals for a small amount, and is utilized to empower/modify other abilities.

Holy and Discipline - Renew on targets healed by CoH has its duration refreshed, and its healing increased by 100% over its duration.

Discipline - Circle of Healing- Applies Atonement on players healed by it. Will prioritize targets that are not already affected by Atonement.

Holy - Applies ‘In Need of Prayer’ buff to players healed by it.
– In Need of Prayer - The next Prayer of Mending or Prayer of Healing on the target is 100% more effective.

Easy

Buffs Holy in Dungeons and plays well into the “Lightweaving” playstyle - Makes PoM, Renew, and PoH 100% more viable. – It has a similar style to Oracle in the sense by empowering abilities, but instead you choose what it modifies by your next cast.

Buffs Discipline by applying atonement on critical targets as an instant cast. While the heal is weak, it will allow more uptime, and allow you to reserve Radiance as a burst AoE heal that also applies Atonement.

So basically this would be the rotation in raid for raid wide damage:

PW: Radiance > Circle of Healing > DPS Rotation
– This will apply Atonement to 10-targets very quickly, and allow a quick turnaround back into DPSing at the cost of a single GCD for CoH.

So basically – Renew several targets that need it, slam CoH on them. Boom Renew is refreshed and empowered.

This will blend well into the Renew talents as well, and will allow further uptime on Renew, and possibly keeping it rolling for long periods of time.

In Dungeon/Delve content, proper management could easily maintain 100% uptime on Renew.

It would work well in PvP as well - If you have Renew rolling on already injured targets CoH would prioritize them, refresh the duration, and empower it. All with Circle of Healing giving an additional small bump in health.