By now a lot of you have been enjoying all the new wild tank specs like warlock, shaman and rogue. I come here now to present you my thoughts on one of the most likely and at the some time kinda wild tank specs, Discipline Priest !
No really, think about it. These are the only things we would need to make it work
- A unique way to make it tanky
- A way to make it be somewhat melee range
- A way to get and hold aggro
And I do have some ideas to solve these issues
#Tank
Being a cloth user , armor is not readily available for priests. To solve this I would give a rune that could change some spells about the class just like the Metamorphasis rune for warlock. So a nice unique transformation would be a rune along the lines of:
“Aegis of War”
You embrace the art of close combat to be able to protect those around you, while this rune is equiped you gain:
- the ability and proficiency to wield a shield.
- increase the amount of life gained through stamina
- “Smite” becomes a melee instant spell with a Cooldown that deals holy damage and gives the priest a health shield depending on damage dealt. (Fulfills the disc gimmick)
- “Fade” becomes “Radiate” and increases threat generated temporarily.
- “renew” becomes a defensive CD “Pain Suppression” that mitigates damage taken on self while a shield is up (putting more emphasis on using shields to mitigate damage as a mechanic).
- “shackle undead” could become the “shackle unfaithfull” to be the taunt button
This, together with weaving “inner fire” and “power word : shield” should give disc priests enough Tankyness and defensive CDs to stay alive if tunned properly.
Ofc that other runes could be implemented to go along this playstyle. And I got some ideas for those as well, based on spells and talents that disc priest has on retail.
“Twilight equilibrium” shadow word: pain increases the damage of your next smite. Smite strikes all targets affected by shadow word: pain (at like 50%dmg amount on non-target ofc)
“Aegis of wrath” your “Power word: shield” shield amount is increased by x% and deals damage when hit, causing high amounts of threat on opponents striking it.
“Rapture” for 8 seconds your " power word: shield" has no Cooldown and can be re-applied on the same target.
“Purge the wicked” - unleash a wave of holy damage , dealing burning damage divided amongst enemies around the target, the damage is increased if the target is shielded.
I could continue but I think you already get idea by now.
Tell me what you think and if you would change anything or add something else!
Take a good look and ponder blizzard, I think you have a nice potencial in here.
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