Lets just start the complaining early because this will be turrrible and wildly unfun.
If you want SP to be broken thats fine, but at least do it in a way that requires actually doing something, not just pressing 3 buttons and running away. This is already all priests do, and it already works. DoTs critting is absolutely mindless and requires 0% change to playstyle; which means 60% of the playerbase will be playing it within 2 weeks. Even a hunter pet requires more effort than priests will after this rune lol. Once priests can have decent crit chance, it will be worse than pre-nerf scorpions. Half the classes can’t get the DoTs off themselves.
Not to mention it inadvertently buffs Undead SPs compared to other races because we get an extra DoT.
And yes I know not all data-mined runes are guaranteed, but this needs to be one of the ones that doesn’t happen. The skill:tedium ratio is way tf off on this one fellas.
all dots and hots should crit
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We have that. Its called retail and it’s widely unloved.
Gotta remember people can still dispel us. And we get no crit amps so it wont be insanely overtuned. Unless u mean pve. and even then this wont push us overboard.
heh this would be completely op in pvp and im assuming it will be this way for locks too.
ya i dont know about this one.
Like less than half of the people can dispel us, and most of them that can are… us.
We suffer the least from it. Its like a silly feedback loop bc priest will be overplayed, but also even more needed for dispels, so more played, so more needed.
SP was strong even with just SWPain, now we have SWP + VP which is essentially 3 SWPs. Now they’re also going to be able to crit? They don’t need crit amp for this to be broken. With Vamp embrace we’ll also heal for a % of all that DoT damage…
In WPvP if someone kills us but we also get them low, all we need to do is refresh our DoTs on them before we die and hope for a few crits to outpace food. I’ve seen this one before. It’s not fun. Even as the one playing it. 
There’s really no upside. This is an extremely predictable scenario in PvP.
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Cap. The damage on SW:P is so pitiful that someone running away that drops combat will outheal the damage it does with their natural healing from spirit. It is basically a mosquito bite.
I said SP was fine when it had 1 DoT, not “SWP could solo people”
3 SWP with crits is just braindead. And this would also give flay a crit chance.
Can Shadow Priest just get it’s time in the sun for once?
Pun intended.
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heh i remember being fully dotted up by a shadow priest in av as i was running to the objective in era and watching as my health wasted away very quickly and hoping i got to the healer on the other side of the hill fast enough to avoid a death from just 1 round of dots alone.
would be horrible if you diddnt have heals or dispels facing someone you know with 1 round of dots you will eventually die and nothing can be done about it.
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Even if you opt out of crit it looks like an ability that also would come is void zone. Which with some mind flay slows could have some disgusting results comboed with if they kick we can now just T off with mind spike. Also how often will we be critting lol. In most match ups u might get how many crits? Void zone will probably win out regardless depending of its strength. Crying about dot critting is hilarious.
Yeah thats fine. That requires actually, you know, doing something.
heh if they are balancing for lvl 60 and you take into account my true story of a well geared lock dying to 1 round of shadow priest dots in era, you can extrapolate why dots probably shouldnt crit in sod.
you cant even eat fast enough to counteract the dots on you with a full suite of them on you.
thats hardly fair and engaging gameplay .
This can be said about every rune that was added.
All decisions have been reducing the creativity of players so far.
Its vanilla lol. There’s not a whole lot of Doing something regardless. Dots critting is literally a non problem. But by all means, keep complaining!. The rune literally might not even exist lol.
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Also, OP are we also going to complain about Affliction Warlocks?
Because if you want to kick that hornet’s nest you’re on your own.
i dont think locks should get dots that crit either and i actually play a lock as my second main.
there is no creativity with dots that crit.
its boring gameply to dot up someone and run away (even worse with master channeler) .
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You seem to think I’m asking for your permission or something to know how this plays out.
I’m not 
What makes vanilla fun and creative is that everyone has a limited toolkit and has to work together to get stuff done well.
In SoD everyone is overpowered, can do all the roles, and it is even more clear which spec is best.
Before it used to be like these 2 specs are good but one is slightly better at this or that (and the player has to make hard decisions and not always be optimal)
Now there are clear builds to do and clear things to totally avoid, and you can swap runes basically anytime.
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I don’t play warlock so I didn’t even see that they were getting DoT crits as well.
Yikes.
PvP went from exciting to worst parts of WotLK real quick.