Recently Nerfs in both Shadow and rework in Holy. Both doing nothing to help this class at all during their dps phases with their cds.
Are the dev team sleeping or even caring to the class this season? Death knights Unholy and Balance druids are topping with 10mil.
You are so dead sent on trying to make void form work and target cast CD’s which used to be instant cast like halo and Dark Ascension work.
Is there any love for the class as a whole just asking I did take the hardest Mythic plus tour of my life and this season (In my own opinion is the first time I feel the dev team failed both holy and shadow priest)
Not here to rant but I’m very tired of the always having to move while using void torrent or having to press Dispersion during my void form/Dark ascension phase losing like 30 secounds of garanted dps meanwhile other classes takes no damage at all.
My Own take on shadow priest
Buff Up Devouring plagues damage to be higher than mind blast. It’s a start at lest towards the build and specc. Then care about buffing up Shadow crash to spread maybe 14 adds and 8 adds is the first build of the talent then the 2nd talent would be a choice for shadow if you want 14 adds dot spread or only 8 adds dot spread.
As for holy make
Make Holy Nova bigger make it heal for more it’s talent its so garbage at the current iteration for holy.
Then bring back circle of healing it was such a good talent make it instant cast as it used to be then buff up the Renew to be able to heal spread as a passive when you heal with Circle of healing.
Point is im very curious to why no one in the dev team want other specc’s rather than Dicipline to work.
So according to RIO - https://raider.io/mythic-plus-spec-rankings/season-tww-2/world/priest/holy - Holy Priests have the lowest score of all healers. Even the notoriously horribly designed Prevokers do higher keys than Hpriests.
The reason for this is a complete lack of proper AoE healing tools. We could have gotten some with the latest rework but some hipster on the dev team had to try to prove that Renew can be a useful spell …
Actively casted Renew clashes with passively applied Renews
Empowered Renew is used only for the CD reduction on Sanctify, the healing itself is an HPS loss. However, if our allies have Renew on them from Lightwell or Lasting Words and we overide it with an actively casted Renew, the result isn’t less HPS but 0 HPS, we have to use a global to do 0 healing to reduce the CD on Sanctify. This happens all the time in M+ with the Renew centric Oracle build.
In comparison to the healing done by ST spells + Trail of Light + Binding Heals + Echo of Light, Renew doesn’t stand a chance. We cannot afford to cast it during AoE dmg in order to reduce the CD on our AoE healing ability …
One way to somewhat fix it would be to turn the actively casted Renew and the passively applied Renews into separate HoTs (kinda like what Germination does for Resto Druids). That way, casting Renew would never result in 0 HPS done. But it would still be an HPS loss in comparison to our ST spells.
One AoE Healing tool idea
Since Blizz really wants us to spam ST spells, one simple way to improve our AoE healing would be to change Guardian Spirit to replicate 60% of our ST healing on its target.
It would still function as a healing boost if we healed the same target. But it would also allow us to off-heal one person during AoE dmg which would make our lives a lot easier.