Now, after that blurb you really did not care about on to what we all care about Cataclysmic Priest Talents !!! Some things so far I love, others I hate.
First we will go over What I love about each tree then to what I hate.
What I love :
The entire Discipline Tree in general:
Penitence (3 ranks) - Increases the critical effect chance of your Smite and Penance spells by 5/10/15%. A little thing to increase damage.
Atonement (3 ranks) - When you deal damage with Smite, you instantly heal a nearby low-health friendly target within 40 yards equal to 15/30/45% of the damage dealt. Now when you have the urge to holy fire the boss(we all do it) you will not feel so silly for doing it.
Evangelism (2 ranks available) - When you cast Smite you gain Evangelism, increasing the damage done by your Smite, Holy Fire, Holy Nova and Penance spells by 2/4% and reducing the mana cost of those spells by 3/6% for 15 seconds. Stacks up to 5 times. This is where things start to really ramp up our damage, bringing us from just healing to being a healer/dps.
Archangel (1 rank available) - Consumes your Evangelism effects, instantly restoring 3% of your total mana and increasing your healing done by 3% for each stack. Also allows you to channel Penance while moving. Lasts 18 seconds. This is what All this has been leading up to this, this amazing talent boosts both healing and dps. And to top it off you can channel penance while moving!
And finally we get to PW:B
Power Word: Barrier (1 rank available) - Requires 2 points in Improved Power Word: Shield - 13383 Mana - 40 yd range - 0.5 sec cast - 3 min cooldown - Summons a holy barrier on the target location that absorbs 293 damage done to party or raid members within it each time they take damage. While within the barrier, spellcasting will not be interrupted by damage. The barrier lasts for 15 seconds or until it absorbs 1955 damage. Ok well this has officially taken the role of priest most bloated tool tip(currently held by shadow form, though is being cleaned up, will get to hat in a bit) So far it looks good, but It needs testing to see /pray for beta!
So far no complaints about the disc tree.
Moving over to the holy tree
Things I like...
Chakra [NYI] (5 ranks available) - When you use Prayer of Healing, Renew or Heal 3 times in a row you will enter a Chakra state empowering you for 20 seconds. You can only be in one Chakra state at a time. Prayer of Healing - Increases your area-of-effect healing by 2/4/6/8/10%, and reduces the cooldown of your Circle of Healing by .5/1/1.5/2/2.5 seconds. Renew - Increases the periodic haste effect of your Renew spell by 3/6/9/12/15% and reduces the global cooldown of your Renew spell by .1/.2/.3/.4/.5 seconds. Heal - Increases the critical effect chance of your Heal spell by 1/2/3/4/5%, and your Heal has a 20/40/60/80/100% chance to refresh the duration of your Renew on the target. Smite - Increase your total damage done by Shadow and Holy spells by 4/8/12%. Starting at Rank 2 - Increases spell power by 10% of your total spirit. Rank 3 changes the talent to Spiritual Guidance - Increases spell power by 15/20/25% of your total spirit. Really cool talent...really bloated tool tip, sorry PW:B your not fat after all. And I will get this tool tip of slim fast as soon as possible.
Things I hate:
I'm order to get to the amazing, if not fatty tool tipped talent of Chakra. You must first go though the red headed bastardized step child of all priest talents. Lightwell. Lightwell has been completely revamped...no wait I'm lying it is still the same talent of pure misunderstood suck it has always been. A complete waste of a talent point made mandatory.(well have a full post of a lightwell rant at some point.)
Onto my favorite tree, Shadow:
What I love:
Dark Thoughts (2 ranks available)Reduces the pushback suffered from damaging attacks while casting any Shadow spell by 35/70%. Nothing more annoying that at low levels getting this amazing mind flay skill and realizing it is forever a second longer when a mob gets to you. this will be a great leveling talent
Shadowform (1 rank available) - 2676 Mana - Instant cast - 1.5 sec cooldown -Assume a Shadowform, increasing your Shadow damage by 15%, reducing all damage done to you by 15%. However, you may not cast Holy spells while in this form. See it lost weight!
Improved Shadowform (2 ranks available) - Requires 1 point in Shadowform - Your Fade ability now has a 50/100% chance to remove all movement impairing effects when used while in Shadowform, and reduces casting or channeling time lost when damaged by 35/70% when casting any Shadow spell while in Shadowform. In addition, spell haste for all nearby party and raid members is increased by 5%. 5 percent auto haste and a raid buff! Boomkins eat you hearts out!
hadowy Apparition [PH] [NYI] (3 ranks available) - While moving or dealing damage with your Shadow Word: Pain, you will sometimes summon a Shadow version of yourself which will slowly move towards a target which is afflicted by your Shadow Word: Pain. Once reaching that target, it will instantly deal damage equal to 15/30/45% of your Mind Blast’s damage. Cool talent, though I did think Blizz was try to avoid "free damage".
Mind Melt [NYI] (2 ranks available) - Increases the additional damage done with your Shadow Word: Death by 5/10% on targets at or below 25% health, and and when you deal damage with Mind Spike, the cast time of your next Mind Blast is reduced by 11/33% lasting 6 seconds. Mind Melt can stack up to 3 times. Ummm cool? more stacking buffs to keep track of *glares at shadow weaving*
What I did not like:
Over all there wasn't much change to shadow if anything they added more Mandatory talents, so the same floater talents we can't take now we will more than likely still not be able to..
To wrap things up over all the plus outweigh the negative, and we must still take into account that it is still alpha so there is a lot that can happen between now and later.
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