They either do as you said, or buff the ways we can indirectly apply Renew to the raid/group without casting Renew.
Personally, I prefer the latter, so we get to play a minigame of how we can trigger Renewed Faith on as many targets as possible for the longest possible amount of time without actually having to cast Renew.
But if we somehow get both, even better. 
To put things into perspective it does 150k healing over 21s with Oracle and I have 3.5 mil hp.
Only issue i have with Cauterizing Shadows. is that it’s Not a Smart heal… So it will literally target anything and every NPC thats Healable. Otherwise it Healed for a hefty bit before this Change. now im wondering how much its going to be now,
It’ll also Procs when the target dies,
The issue is the constant refreshing of Purge the Wicked stacks because of Painful Punishment. Similar issue with Shadow Crash now that I think of it because you usually have a few seconds left on your dots.
You’re losing out on theoretical procs because of dots running off because you keep refreshing them.
Gotcha… Normally i would dot up enough to and then penance for the spread on the remaining. and then i normally rotate Penancing targets as it’ll re-apply PTW on the targets its run out on instead of me manually recasting it Unless i have to
Honestly was still hoping for some FUTHER changes to the “Cough Cough” DEAD TALENTS blizz… Contrition rework, Divine Aegis revert, Expiation change
They need to do more imho.
Expiation and Heaven’s Wrath should cost 1 point.
All the end tree talents except for Mindbender need reworks + buffs.
The change to Blaze of Light frees up 1 point though, but I have no idea what to put it in.
It’s unfortunate because it’s too late but I think Cauterizing Shadows would have been a fantastic tool for Bursting.
That is disappointing.
archon pushes you into Voidform and or Dark Archangel form
While voidweaver pushes you into Burst – mindspike style of combat.
One core issue with archon is its huge focus on Halo – Its another spell we have to cast now along side Voidform. We have so much casting to do now without the defensive tools to enable this style of fighting.
Its just very unreasonable in an pvp style of combat where more than one person is ontop of you smackign you down freely.
Make halo instant in void form for archon. Done. But we all know thats not gonna happen. 
and as well its only one issue.
the design of our trees is very poor.
It doesn’t fit the hero talent trees currently and it still has the lingering issues of how most of our talents cost soo many points as well as forces us to just get essential abilities early on in the tree itself.
It just bad designs from top to bottom.
I don’f think their gonna touch it tho…. I just have a feeling. 
yeah they wont just like they wont touch druids ether.
If priest don’t get touch, druids wont.
When the priest developer quit, druids got nothing as well. It was pretty much found out that the priest dev worked on druids too.
But the direction this class needs is a redesign. So they have no choice but to do it.
You would think it should be the opposite lol. Archon should be more focused on DA and bursting with MS:I and DP, but w/e I guess. Halo needs to be instant cast for sure, and id love to see a modification node to it to make it something like those magic rings from imperator mar’gok in highmaul, where it slows and pushes people back constantly.
no matter how much i play both hero trees in beta, I’m just left with disappointment
Thats cause priest. Blizzard has no issue with every other single healing having a solid kit of CC, Stops and interupt, coupled with top tier heals. For some reason its just a bridge too far for us.
Ive been told “balance” when I ask about it, but honestly I haven’t seen anyone actually lay out what priest has that would make an interrupt “too powerful” if added to their kit.
Thats cause no one can. Its an overt hypocrisy to allow Shamman and Evokers and Monks the mobility, Cc and raw power they have and then say it would be too much for priests. Its a lie.
If shaman can have an interrupt AND our old shining force (now rebranded something uninspired like Thunderstorm) there’s really no argument to be had.