Making Empyreal Blaze a group buff

[Jdouci-azjolnerub]

This idea is about giving Holy Priests unique group buffs they are severly lacking right now. All of the major impactful abilities Holy has come from the Genereal talent tree - Power Infusion, Mass Dispel, Disease Dispel - which are available to Shadow and Discipline specs aswell.

Current Empyreal Blaze descprition:

Holy Word: Chastice causes your next 2 casts of Holy Fire to be instant, cost no mana, and incur no cooldown.

Refreshing Holy Fire on a target now extends its duration by 7 sec.

Instead of extending the duration of Holy Fire. There could be:

Casting Holy Fire ignites weapons of your allies with Holy Flames adding extra Holy damage to their auto-attacks and abilities.

Each Holy Fire cast adds 2 seconds of this buff.

So it’s about finding opportune windows for building this buff. An easy way to do this is:

• Chastise, Empyreal Blaze, Empyreal Blaze, Holy Fire - 6 seconds
• Premonition of Insight → 4x Holy Fire - 8 seconds
• Combine these two for 14 seconds if you can find the window for it.
• Pick the Voice of Harmony talent for quick resets of Chastise with Holy Fire during Apotheosis - Trying to figure out how much of Apotheosis you can dedicate to damage instead of healing.

This suggestion is concerned with Mythic+ and not with Raiding so there would have to be some limits added for the raiding environment.

[Abustan-argent-dawn]

A) the spec has issues with it’s talent tree being a disaster, this would make it worse (if it became mandatory) and would be a direct nerf if it wasn’t viable (highly likely) and B) this would absolutely wreck solo DPS, since a lot of our solo DPS comes from the dot, and extending it by 7 seconds is pretty significant (it means we can, in theory, keep 100% uptime on, say, a delve boss.) It already takes minutes to down a T8 boss at 620 ilevel, we don’t need it to take longer - if anything we need it to be faster (simply QoL, anything we survive minutes against isn’t killing us if we are managing to keep holy fire up.)

Also, we need things to be streamlined - we already have way too many moving parts. Proc flash heal, flash heal stacks lightweaver, those casts refresh serenity, Mending up, stacks apotheosis, divine words buff serenity and sanctuary, PoH and CoH lower sanctuary cooldown, etc etc etc. Our kit is literally always doing lots of little insignificant and awkward interactions that just barely amount to a viable raid healer and competent-ish dungeon healer. Having to also weave in multiple GCD’s to do damage means not healing and juggling multiple extra effects.

Simplify. Don’t reinvent the wheel, just make it functional and a smooth ride.