Priest Talents Released

[Leviathonlx]

Well they are finally out, Druids and Hunters will hopefully be this week also.


http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/underdev/burningcrusade/priest/spells.html

http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/underdev/burningcrusade/priest/talents.html

[Trepidation]

Can somebody cut/paste them for those of us behind evil fire walls of doom.

[Leviathonlx]

Can somebody cut/paste them for those of us behind evil fire walls of doom.

Sure thing.

I'll copy and paste the spells I can't do anything about the talents.

Discipline

Mass Dispel - Rank 1
Requires Level 70
693 Mana
30 yd range
Instant cast
Dispels magic in a 15 yard radius, removing 1 harmful spell from each friendly target and 1 beneficial spell from each enemy target. Effects a maximum of 5 friendly targets and 5 enemy targets.

Holy

Binding Heal - Rank 1
Requires Level 64
1034 Mana
40 yd range
1.5 sec cast
Heals a friendly target and the caster for 1053 to 1350.

Prayer of Mending - Rank 1
Requires Level 68
637 Mana
30 yd range
Instant cast
Places a spell on the target that heals them for 702 to 858 the next time they take damage. When the heal occurs, Prayer of Mending jumps to a nearby raid target. Jumps up to 5 times and lasts 1 min after each jump. This spell can only be placed on one target at a time.

Shadow

Shadow Word: Death - Rank 1
Requires Level 62
437 Mana
30 yd range
Instant cast
6 sec cooldown
A word of dark binding that inflicts 450 to 522 Shadow damage to the target. If the target is not killed by Shadow Word: Death, the caster takes damage equal to the damage inflicted upon the target.

Shadow Word: Death - Rank 2
Requires Level 70
556 Mana
30 yd range
Instant cast
6 sec cooldown
A word of dark binding that inflicts 572 to 664 Shadow damage to the target. If the target is not killed by Shadow Word: Death, the caster takes damage equal to the damage inflicted upon the target.

Shades of Darkness - Rank 1
Requires Level 66
446 Mana
30 yd range
Instant cast
5 min cooldown
Summons 3 shades to attack the enemy target for 8 sec.

[zkajan]

hunter skills? talent tree screenshots? guess I have to wait 3 hours to get home from work :(

[Leviathonlx]

Hunters and druids are still not released, hopefully later this week. I really want to see my druids new talents already, but I guess we can hope that maybe in the next alpha update that adds the priest talents that a early version of the druid and hunter talents gets added also :p

[Valas Azuviir]

And for the US players.

Talents (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/bc-priest/talents.html).

and

Spells (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/bc-priest/spells.html).

And for those stuck at work, the pics of the spells.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/IS_Wolf/WoW/Priest1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/IS_Wolf/WoW/Priest2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/IS_Wolf/WoW/Priest3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/IS_Wolf/WoW/Priest4.jpg

Side note, I can see some infighting ahead with the Warlocks on who gets to cast the finishing spell, this due to the soulshard issue and the consequences of the Shadow Word: Death spells.

Mass Dispel is probably going to be a favourite with the raiding crowd, as will probably Prayer of Mending.

[zkajan]

in a pve raid, especialy a 25 man one (limited space), chances are the priest is healing and not doing priest version of execute. locks can get their shards

in pvp... well, in successful team games a priest is most likely again, healing. and in every-man-for himself games, i don't think either the priest or the lock have any authority to tell the other one to "cut it out"

[det]

Ho ho ....

Are there any petless classes left now? Mages summon elementals, Priests summon shades?

[Leviathonlx]

Ho ho ....

Are there any petless classes left now? Mages summon elementals, Priests summon shades?

Paladins, Rogues, Warriors and technicly shamans don't have much of a pet as those totems are on a 20 min cooldown and the pet lasts 2 mins.

Eyonix also mentioned the Druid and Hunter talents are soon followed by the closed beta shortly after.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html;jsessionid=4A788409FB3A46FE39A1FF8C7F27D052?topicId=21022163&pageNo=1&sid=1#9

[Naolin]

Ho ho ....

Are there any petless classes left now? Mages summon elementals, Priests summon shades?

8 sec summon ain't that long and 5 min cooldown, I see it more as that barov trinket tbh. (hmm idea, use trinket and spell at the same time = army :p)

edit:

So now I had my coffee and had a closer look.

I like them, although the priests in my guild where whining all night long yesterday about how shamans would be better healers (right..)

[woeye]

Prayer of Mending sounds great imho. I really missed more preventive healing spells in WoW. Ever played a monk in Guild Wars? Monks have way more methods or styles in healing. Healing in WoW means filling up lost health points. I call this style of healing "retroactive healing". Guild Wars has many spells for "proactive healing" (so called protter spells). So instead of mending afterwards you try to prevent incoming damage _before_ it happens. Some spells in Guild Wars even convert damage into healing. Proactive healing is the only way to absorb spike damage. Take Warsong for example. Retroactive healing isn't a very effective way to prevent spike damage on the flag carrier. Currently the only proactive spell in WoW is PW:Shield. Playing a monk is so much more fun in Guild Wars because you have more options to choose from. I still prefer WoW over GW for other reasons though =)

[Loriel]

Yeah, I'll agree - Prayer of Mending sounds like a good fire-and-forget preemptive heal, and I can envision circumstances in which this can be quite useful and also a bit tactical.

Healing in WoW is absolutely very reactive (or retroactive), and this adds to the boredom of watching people's health bars, especially in a raid setting. Time and experience will tell you how to precict incoming damage spikes and other critical events, and you would then try to stay ahead of the curve - but you're still just reacting to events after they occur.

It's nice and reassuring that Blizzard add elements like Prayer of Mending to the Priest class and basically being a bit more creative with how the Priest is supposed to heal. I'd like to see them get even more creative, and I think they pretty much have to in order to keep people interested in the class. Getting new ranks and bigger / more efficient heals will only get you so far, and I'd like to see even more tactical choices available from lvl 70 to 80+. Perhaps something like a buff that is automatically consumed for an instant heal whenever the target is the victim of a critical hit.

And the Priest class does indeed have a spell that converts damage to healing, i.e. Vampiric Embrace. You do ofc have to spec shadow to get it, though.

[yavvy]

Of the talents, I really like Surge of Light and Shadow Mend.
"Priests only heal, don't waste time & mana on dmg" - SoL gives a free Smite.
"Shadowpriests can't heal" - Shadowpriests get their own heal.

[Loriel]

Holy does get some nice damage boosters, and Surge of Light is fantastic in that regard - instant and free (albeit non-crit) Smite. The crown jewel of the Holy tree, though, is the 41 point one - i.e. Circle of Renewal. A 1.5 sec group Renew is just amazing, and I'm concerned it's so good that everyone will take it - leaving them 1 point short of getting Divine Spirit from the Disc tree.

Priests in raiding guilds will probably consist of a mix of heavy Disc and heavy Holy, and as long as you have one poor soul with [Prayer of] Divine Spirit, you'll be ok. Donations to refund the cost of Sacred Candles will probably be welcome :)

[Trepidation]

I WILL be doing a 41 shadow/2 holy/18 disc onthe way to 70 for hte most part. I'll probably be doing 20 disc/41 holy while doing 5-man @ 70 to gear up for the raid content. The top tier holy tree makes doing 5-man stuff down right easy. However, once we are all 70 and starting the 25 man raid content, i'll probably spec more of 50/50 split between disc and holy for overall heal/dispel power.

[rgirty]

Trep, 18/2/41 was my idea as well for the grind to 70.. I like it.

[Baboon]

After looking a lot at the talents, I can't wait for TBC. But strangely enough not because of the new talents, but because of the extra talent points.

An option for lvl 70 will be PI and Spiritual Healing (31/30). I will not go for any 41 point talent for sure. The one in Disc is way too much PVP-like and the Holy one isn't attractive while the pre-req's aren't worth it either imo (as long as the Empowered Healing doesn't help Heal, and the instant Smite is just too weird to trade it for PI)

For leveling Ill start with a Shadowform/Disc and then moving to a tri-spec aiming at 2/3 in Improved Healing and 5/5 in faster heals. Disc up to meditation. The only difference with my current 21/30 will be that I don't have Spiritual Guidance and Spiritual Healing while gaining a full pre-expansion shadowbuild. I can still spam Heal2 with T1/T2 gear I guess. After a while I'll be back probably at a more serious raid build.

Another level option will be PI+Spiritual Guidance+Spirit Tap.

Besides that, a lot of the nice talent options seem made for PVP, so it's not something I'm going to spec in, I only want talents that are both useful for Raids and PVP (Spiritual Guidance style). Therefore the only new talent I really want is Improved Divine Spirit.

[Shellar]

I can still spam Heal2 with T1/T2 gear I guess.
I hate to be the bearer of ill tidings, but the threshold below which all spells receive a proportionately lower bonus from +healing gear and effects will be raised from level 20 to level 40 in the expansion. So GH1 is the new Heal2. :sad:

[rgirty]

31/30 will be my healbot spec, an upgrade from my current 21/30

[Trepidation]

I hate to be the bearer of ill tidings, but the threshold below which all spells receive a proportionately lower bonus from +healing gear and effects will be raised from level 20 to level 40 in the expansion. So GH1 is the new Heal2. :sad:

It's okay though....doesn't really matter because all of our HP is going up by at least 33% from gear alone with how STA is being re-itemized. Therefore GH1 will be a mighty fine base spell as Heal1/2 is right now. I'm just hoping blizzard doesn't increase the burst damage of bosses by the same amount. Might finally take healing from a completely reactionary field to somewhat of a proactive field.

Also, they said there is a TON more +healing on gear in BC. The priests will adapt and continue.