I realy hoped that they took the opertunety to ad stuff for smite priests this phase and atleast let us trye to be a part of SoD.
Just ad a few runes and ad some to the healer tier set bonuses that we can use.
Its easy if you just wana be lazy. In tier sets just ad so it gives healing and holy damage.
If we take t1 you just ad smite to the 0,1 sec cast and holy fire to 0,2 cast and 4p dont need a change and for 6p you can ad the critt part to holynova.
It is easy to just ad things like that to all sets.
For runes we only got one that crit give us a free cast. What we need is less mana cost for holy fire, smite and holynova. We also need a crit multiplier and a rune that make us change chadow word pain to a holy dot. The last i would see is that holy fire dot can be refreched.
now we got penence, smite, holy fire, holy nova and converted shadow word pain.
My brother, I don’t want to be the bearer of bad news, Smite priest isn’t gonna be a thing the same way arms warrior dps isn’t gonna be a thing. The talent tree just doesn’t support it as a damage dealing class. You are needing 4-5 things added to make the spec even functional, it’s a pipe dream. The best chance you had for it is them making a tier set bonus buff smite somehow and have interaction with holyfire. But its such a niche spec/playstyle that I just don’t see it happening.
Beast mastery complete dead spec, Arms complete dead spec, Combat complete dead spec
Somethings just aren’t meant to be 
What smite priests lack is infact just a critt multiplier and mana handling.
This is how it is now on aneversery where i playe one.
So if we look at SoD where mana is no problem and therefor only missing a critt multiplier. We talking basics now.
Even if let’s say they introduce changes to make this spec happen. Who is actually asking for it besides you?
I am pretty sure the priests actually playing SoD right now will be more annoyed than anything that the little precious development time classes get in SoD went into a dead end spec requested by a few guys - maybe - from the whole community.
You have such a fixation with this idea for a spec that you ignore so many things that work against it happening. Hell we’ve got traditional, existing specs that perform poorly and the devs barely bother to work on them and you want them to create smite priests?
There are a few reasons why i bring it up ower and ower. This is a seasonel server and a huge expriment on classes how they can be played. The one thing missing is a smite priest and i like to playe one.
I like it that they tryed out alot for alot of classes and that they will intoduse paladins and shamans on both sides.
Maby you are right and im the dumb one who wish this and to do it takes to much time from dev side.
As they said in the start of SoD they want us to playe our class fantasy and smite is one of mine.
I always played a paladin and i have newer have so fun as now when i can go all out and they also bost our holy damage that only paladins and priests do.
In the end i nag about it becous if we get a classic+ i want it to be a part of it and if they dont test it out it will be hard to inplement.
Last thing is no one has talked about undead paladins but when they said they will ad paladins on hord side people started to talk about it.
Except that they Said absolutly nothing about that ? If anything aggrend litterally said that it’s not happening, all of this started because a guy datamined a few npc
And undead pally is a thing that was asked since almost the begening of sod because people hate holly cows x)