Ultimante Penitence needs some changes for M+

Classes Priest
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A 4 minute cooldown that does only slightly more throughput than a normal rotation is very silly. It’s better to use it for Shield + CC immune aspects than an actual throughput cooldown. For Raid it’s fine with Overloaded With Light for ramping but for M+ there isn’t an equivalent.

A choice talent node with Overloaded with Light would do the trick and would be a meaningful choice since Disc Priest’s M+ builds are severely point constrained. Something like:

  • The cooldown of Ultimate Penitence is reduced by 1 minute and its Penance bolts target both allies and enemies.
  • The cooldown and duration (throughput) of Ultimate Penitence is reduced by 50% and is now instant cast.
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Choice node that changes uppies into Light’s Wrath from Legion would be my dream :3 ( even though it wont happen heh )

I hate the cast time on Ultimate Penitence. Even hasted it just feels bad. If it was 1 sec base cast time it would help.

If it also shot orbs over a shorter duration too it would be nice. Like 4 seconds base channel time before haste affects it ( instead of the base 6 seconds channel time )

If cast and channel time are kept where they are Uppies should be buffed numbers wise at the very least imo.

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It’s really something that Blizzard needed to allow you to move while casting it and give you a 100% health shield for it to be usable, but still barely a cooldown. They very clearly intend for it to be useful once or twice an encounter in raid, which is why they removed the cooldown reduction without increasing the ability’s power, but didn’t want to deal with how useful it might be in M+.

With how strong oracle is this season, I don’t think we can expect them to take another look at it anytime soon.

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I think it should just be instant cast baseline. That’s my only real issue with it.

It has a channel time as it is, it doesn’t need a cast time to slow down getting healing out in what is one of your only two emergency healing cooldowns as Oracle disc.

Overloaded with Light would be easy to make better in M+ just by making it 1800% split evenly instead of 180% on 10 targets.

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