Changes to Priest, revising patch 6.0

We already started to have relevant patch 6.0 data Warlords of Draenor and in this post we are going to focus especially on how this great novelty will affect the Priest in all his specialties.

The first thing that will take place is a "Pruning skills" or suppression of the same; which in a way has scandalized me a bit, because I could not live without some of the abilities that were removed from our spell book.

Next we are going to see the most significant changes in skills:

• Has been removed Anthem of Hope.
• Joint healing It will only be available for Sacred Priest.
• Has been removed Heal.
• Has been removed Internal Fire.
• Has been removed Internal Will.
• Has been removed Ecstasy.
• Evangelism It will only be available for Discipline priest.
• Renovate It will only be available for Sacred Priest.
• Has been removed To the Void.
• Has been removed Train of thought.
• Spiritual breastplate is now a level 75 talent and replaces Divine reflection by Discipline priests.
• Shadow Word: Death will be available only to Shadow Priests.
  • Holy and Discipline Priests will be able to add a self-damage utility to Holy Fire with a new Major Glyph.

Skill Modification and Upgrades

Many skills have been renamed and improved:

• Has been renamed Higher healing by Heal.
• Holy fire now it lasts 9 seconds, before it lasted 7 seconds.
• Devouring plague now costs 3 Shadow Orbs and heals the priest for 100% for the damage he deals, instead of healing for tics.
• The effects of Borrowed time joined the referent of Power Word: Shield for priest Discipline.
• Vampiric embrace now heals the entire party and raid for 10% of the damage dealt and this healing is no longer split between targets, previously 7.5% of the damage dealt was split between targets.
• Dispersion y Tohow vampiric no longer restores mana.
  • Base mana regeneration rate for Shadow Priests increased by 200%, Shadow Word: Pain y Vampiric touch had have had a 50% mana cost reduction to offset the stats.
• Pain suppression no longer reduces the threat of the target.
• The healing effect of Light well No longer canceled if the target takes a lot of damage.
• Shadow shape no longer allows healing spells to be cast, but does not restrict other holy spells from being cast.
• Divine hymn now heals all members of the group or band instead of a certain variable number depending on the number of members. His healing has been adjusted to compensate.
• Evangelism no longer affects spell damage or mana cost, damage of affected spells has been adjusted to compensate.
• Centered Will now triggers automatically from taking any damage, instead of being limited to taking damage above 5% of total health, or from a critical hit.

Contrition and Talents level 90

Contrition was the original ability to convert from damage to heal, apparently it got out of hand in this latest expansion; therefore they have decided to reduce its effectiveness in order to achieve the initial goal that the developers had of exchanging significant healing for significant damage. The changes that are made based on this error are the following:

• Contrition now heals 25% less than before.
• The mana cost of Waterfall dropped 67%
  • Discipline and Sacred: Waterfall now has a 1.5 sec cast time instead of instant; also heals for 50% less and no longer damages enemy targets.
  • Shadow: Waterfall no longer heals allies.
• The mana cost of Halo decreased by 67%:
  • Discipline and Sacred: Halo It is no longer instantaneous and has a 1.5 second cast time, as well as 50% less healing and no damage to enemies.
  • Shadow: Halo no longer heals allies.
• The mana cost of Divine star It has also been reduced by 67% and now follows the basic AoE rules.
  • Discipline and Sacred: Now heals 50% less and of course, no longer damages enemies.
  • Shades: Divine star no longer heals allies.

Changes to Talents

Various talents have been divided into different versions by specialization; as well as the effectiveness of these talents has been reviewed to better balance the choice. Also Talent row of level 15 has been swapped with those of level 60 so that players can see very early on the basic theme of the priest.

To restore balance, AoE caps have been re-applied for level 90 talents, making them more consistent with all other AoE heals and reducing their effectiveness.

• The talent ranks of level 15 and level 60 have been exchanged.
• The effects of Divine reflection they have been divided according to specialization.
  • Discipline: The effect is now based on Spiritual breastplate.
  • This effect is now called Shadow insight.
• Light in the dark  It has been separated into two skills, depending on the specialty of the priest:
  • Surge of Darkness For Shadow Priest, he now has a maximum of 3 charges (previously he only had 2) and can also activate his effect of Devouring plague, however the probability of activating has been reduced by 10% (previously 20%).
  • The opportunity to activate Surge of Light , for Holy and Discipline priests has been reduced to 10% (from 20%).
• Infusion of power now grants 25% haste (down from 20%), but no longer increases damage.
• Comfort y Dementia have been divided into the Power Word: Comfort (Discipline and Sacred) and Dementia (Shadow).
  • It has changed Dementia for Consuming Shadow Orbs to transform Mental torture en Dementia for 2 seconds for each orb consumed.
• Now Destiny twist It is only activated by healing for Discipline and Holy priests, and only activated by damage for Shadow Priest.

Miscellaneous changes

• Angelica feather now increases movement speed by 60% (was 80%). If it is thrown on players, it will always prefer the priest who launches it over others. Then he chooses the player closest to the objective, if there are no players in the selected place he will also create a feather that can be collected. Collecting multiple feathers extends the duration to a maximum of 130% base duration.
• Holy Nova It will no longer be available through a major glyph, but is now a Discipline priest specialization ability. Mana cost reduced and healing increased. It has become an effective AoE healing spell for Discipline Priest.
• El Prayer of relief from multiple priests in the raid can now be on the same target and can be on multiple targets from the same priest, but the ability has a 1.5 second cast and cooldown (was instant before)
• Shadowfiend no longer restores mana.
  • Dominating now restores 0.75% mana per hit (down from 1.75% mana)
• Void Tentacles now has 10% of the priest's health, down from 20%), and damage dealt to the rooted target also affects the tentacle itself.

These are the main changes of the priest in all its variants for patch 6.0. Obviously there are still a couple of months left for the launch so it is subject to changes and modifications, but do not worry because it will be updated.

Are you worried about any particular changes? It has left me very, very bad that the Evil One of the shadows did not restore mana, I have been checked! Do you think most changes are for the better or do you think they are for the worse?