Priest changes in 3.1.2
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As of today’s patch notes:
- Divine Hymn: Healing and healing scaling reduced by 30%. Buff on affected players changed from 15% to 10%.
- Renewed Hope: Effect can no longer be dispelled.
- Soul Warding: Mana cost reduction is now 15% down from 30%.
- Glyph of Mass Dispel: Now only decreases Mass Dispel cost by 35%.
- Glyph of Penance: Now increases critical strike chance by 5% instead of its old effect.
One by one:
Divine Hymn: Significant nerf, but Divine Hymn was so completely badass in 3.1 that it kind of needed a nerf.
Renewed Hope: Largely an arena change; doesn’t affect PVE at all.
Soul Warding: This makes Power Word: Shield slightly less mana efficient, but at least the cooldown reduction isn’t going away.
Glyph of Mass Dispel: Does anybody actually have this glyph?
Glyph of Penance: I am redacting my first reaction to this nerf because this is nominally a PG-13 blog. At full usage – using Penance every time the cooldown is up – the previous version of the glyph (reduced cooldown by 2s) effectively provided a 33% increase in Penance’s throughput. The new glyph provides a 2.5% increase in Penance’s throughput (since healing crits heal for 150% of the normal amount). The new glyph, therefore, sacrifices 30.5% throughput for an additional 1/20 chance per tick to proc Divine Aegis.
Honestly, with this change to Glyph of Penance, and now that Prayer of Healing is targetable, I might recommend Glyph of Prayer of Healing over Glyph of Penance for Discipline priests.
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I paid 400g for the Penance glyph…and replaced my PoH glyph with it.
I am keeping the damned thing for awhile just because. >:|
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Darn! I new the Penance glyph was too good to be true. Might be good for Disc priests gearing about the heroic/early T7 level but after that… 5% extra crit? LOL!
Time to get a FH glyph.
Divine Hymn nerf was pretty likely from the start as it's pretty powerful.
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You can just link to SES if you want the full-bore, non-PG13 effect. >_>;
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