Penance Confirmed for Disc Priest!
45sReveals a highly anticipated spell with new mechanics, sparking excitement and debate among Priest players.
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The video provides an early look at the Discipline and Shadow Priest talent trees in the World of Warcraft Cataclysm Classic beta, highlighting key abilities, talents, and mana efficiency changes.
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Penance Confirmed for Discipline
Penance is in the game, dealing 2% increased damage to targets afflicted with Holy Fire. One spec, two disciplines.
[00:13]
Discipline Talents Overview
Hit chance, Mental Agility reduces mana cost of Smite, Holy Fire, and Instant Cast. Inner Fire increases armor bonus. Mental Strength, Soul of Warding reduces Power Word Shield cooldown.
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Mana Burn and Renewed Hope
Mana Burn is quicker. Renewed Hope affects flash shield, binding, lesser heal, greater heal, and penance. Divine Aegis gives shields from crits. Pi is also present.
[00:41]
Twilight Focus and Mana Efficiency
Twilight Focus gives a chance to avoid interruption and reduces cast time for Smite, Holy Fire, Heal, and Greater Heal. Casting a healing spell grants mana equal to 5% of base cost if the previous heal was a different spell, encouraging rotation diversity.
[00:56]
Shadow Priest Similarities
Shadow Priest seems similar: Mind Flay has more range, Shadow Word: Death exists, Mind Blast has shorter cooldown.
[01:11]
Shadow Form Mana and Crit Changes
Shadow form reduces mana cost of all shadow spells by 50% and increases critical strike bonus by 100%. This prevents going out of mana (oom). Dots can crit.
The Cataclysm Classic beta shows significant mana efficiency improvements for both Priest specs, with Shadow Priests no longer going oom and Discipline gaining rotation-based mana returns.
💡 Key Takeaways
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Penance Confirmed
Confirms a key Discipline ability is returning in Cataclysm.
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Mana Efficiency via Rotation
Introduces a new mechanic that rewards using different healing spells.
00:41
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Shadow Priests No Longer OOM
Major quality-of-life change: 50% mana cost reduction in Shadow form.
01:11Full Transcript
[00:00] Smite and Penance, okay? Well, Penance is in the game. Deal 2%, increase damage to targets afflicted with Holy Fire, okay? One spec, two disciplines. So we have Penance confirmed as a Discipline Priest.
[00:13] You have hit chance as a Disc Priest. Mental Agility reduces the mana cost to your Smite, Holy Fire, and Instant Cast. Inner Fire increases the armor bonus to your Inner Fire. Mental Strength, Soul of Warding, reduces the cooldown of your Power Word Shield.
[00:25] 5-4, reduces its mana cost. Mana Burn, quicker. Renewed Hope. flash shield binding lesser heal greater heal penance okay so penance uh okay it's just like penance like we know it divine aegis your crits give them the shield and pi sick all right next
[00:41] up twilight focus gives you a chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while casting a spell reduces the cast time your smite holy fire heal and greater heal when you cast a healing spell gain mana equal to five percent of the base cost of the spell if your previous heal was a
[00:56] different spell. So mana efficiency is going to come through using different spells in your rotation. Okay. And prayer amending. There we go. So shadow priest seems somewhat similar. Mind flay has more range. You also have shadow or death. Mind blast has shorter cooldown.
[01:11] A lot of this seems pretty similar though. Oh, oh, I didn't read this. Reduces the mana cost of all shadow spells by 50% and the critical strike bonus of your shadow spells by 100% when you're in shadow form.
[01:24] So you don't just go oom. Well done, Blizzard. We're not going to be oom anymore on the Shadow Priest. Dots can crit. Yes, dots can crit.
