(Priest) Build 13033

#0 - Sept. 24, 2010, 4:49 a.m.

Datamined Priest changes for 13033. (Datamined changes may not be entirely correct)

* Inner Fire no longer has a mana cost.
* Borrowed Time is now a Tier 2 talent, down from Tier 4.
* Soul Warding is now a Tier 4 talent, up from Tier 2.
* Train of Thought (Tier 5) *New* - You have a 50/100% chance when heal with Greater Heal to reduce the cooldown of your Inner Focus by 5 sec. You have a 50/100% chance when you Smite to reduce the cooldown of your Penance by 1 sec.

Holy

* Greater Heal now costs 29% of base mana, down from 32% of base mana.
* Revelations - Holy Word: Sanctuary (Prayer of Healing) effect now lasts 18 sec, up from 15 sec.
* Blessed Resilience is now a Tier 6 talent, up from Tier 5.
* Surge of Light is now a Tier 2 talent, down from Tier 3.
* Trinity is gone.
* Tome of Light (Tier 4) *New* - Reduces the cooldown of your Holy Word spells by 15/30%.

Ghostcrawler

#32 - Sept. 24, 2010, 7:08 a.m.

There is an optional Discipline build where you take Atonement/Archangel and you can use Smite on the tanked target, and have higher HPS than if you just chain Heal the tank. This isn’t always optimal, as Atonement heals the lowest health target (which could be a Rogue standing in a fire), but that’s not always such a bad thing in Cataclysm’s environment where the MT doesn’t have to be spam healed. That said, we think it is interesting gameplay unique to the Disc priest.

In an upcoming build, when you critically hit with Smite your Atonement will critically heal (and cause Divine Aegis).

We’ve also optimized some of the talents, and pruned some of the 3-pointers down to 2-pointers and also reduced the mana cost of Power Word: Barrier throughout the tree.

We’re toning Spiritual Guidance down to bring the healing mount between Discipline and Holy closer together, Holy’s “talent tree passive” is currently stronger than intended than Discipline’s.

We want Disc to be able to do any raid job, but we are also trying not to just have every healer use the same retinue of spells. If the situation arises, they should be able to Prayer of Heal, Holy Nova, Prayer of Mending for comparable healing throughput / efficiency as Holy can to raid heal. The only difference is Holy can be in a Chakra state which increases the healing done, but then again Disc can heal for 30%+ (depending on Mastery) with Divine Aegis and can also cast free Prayer of Healing with Inner Focus.