Holy Priest Is Looking Better For Mythic Plus! PTR Rework!

[00:02] in the war within it felt like its values were still somewhere in the land of dragon flight while everyone else's health bars went up a ton and for most of the Season it didn't feel unplayable but I wasn't going to take it into any

[00:14] High Keys kind of avoiding tens because they knew it would just be easier on discipline priest but after some Buffs I started feeling better about holy priest but the real trick is all these changes coming in season 2 I want to talk all

[00:28] about this PTR rework and I think it's actually very good for the holy priest player I do have some critique though as well but I think it's mostly good stuff waiting a minute I think this is going to be a good season for us I'll explain

[00:41] why my name is bower the Healer and let's Dive Right into this one all right changes that were posted at the end of December and there's been more changes since then so I'll have a link down below to of the original changes if you

[00:55] want to read through them I'm going to go through some of my favorites the left side of the tree has gotten a major rework we've basically removed circle of healing and its nodes now a lot of these nodes are changed to interact with

[01:07] AOE healing button sanctify Still some talents that power it up that have also been moved around which makes it a very useful AOE heal you also still get that powering up effect where holy word

[01:21] sanctify reduces the cast time and the cost of your Prayer of Healing by 20% and then of course resonant words by casting any holy word spell you increase the the healing of your next flash heel heal Prayer of Healing or powered life

[01:34] allowing you to convert that into AOE healing or into single Target healing about powering up specifically your circle of healing and your Prayer of Healing is taken only to get down to that node it's a lot less messy and I

[01:47] really enjoy that about the tree also down here on the left side is a new node your cleave healing which is my preferred node however I think Raiders will really like this dispersing light 5% of healing done with heal flash heal

[02:02] empowered life is replicated to four injured allies within 40 yards this is a really fun Talent I've used it in Dungeons and it's not quite strong enough in dungeons that I want to take it this could easily get the 100%

[02:15] stronger out of raid and I think it would be phenomenal but as it stands I think this will do a lot of simple rot healing in the middle of a raid in a way that you're not worried about the Trail of Light or maybe the last Target you

[02:28] therefore you're losing that healing this should smart heal to four of their targets and allow you to just get cleave healing done at all times love this I'm going to have to try it in raid cuz holy priest is tantalizing right now I kind

[02:43] of want to try it for a major cooldowns now you only have apotheosis and divine hymn we can say Guardian spirit's a major cool down but seeing as it's typically a one minute and it's just a cheat death and while I love it the big

[02:56] ones really are Divine hym and apotheosis Divine H now channels Faster by the way so it's done in 4.1 seconds this is a really good feeling by the way because you can actually use Divine hym to ramp before an incoming mechanic with

[03:11] very little issue where before it used to be kind of nightmare fueled to get off correctly and the two nodes down below make it very easy to use you can either make it a 2minute which is perfect for Mythic plus timers but let's

[03:23] say you're okay with it being a three minute gales of song allows a channel Divine hymn to give out two stacks of prior of mending on up to three allies within its range every 8 seconds this is incredibly cool and it looks really fun

[03:38] when you like use it watching all of the prayer of mendings just flying around I work in raid and I want to see what the real numbers look like I do think it has a place of Mythic plus as well but it's going to be dungeon specific so I think

[03:51] a good safe one is this s saric Crescendo oh I tried um reducing the cool down by 60 seconds apoio this is still the tried and true it did get a Nerf and that it's cooling down your holy words by 200% I think that's

[04:06] your holy words back a little bit quicker now so I think they wanted to make this not too broken but down below either you can have increased healing by 10% while your apotheosis is active also granting you three heal or Prayer of

[04:20] Healing has to be instant and heal for 25% more that is like a perfect pug talent and I really like how it reads but to the right of it Eternal San it your holy words extend the duration of pathosis by 1 second I'm not quite sure

[04:35] how many seconds you can get out of this effectively I'll need someone to really try it and let me know but there's a world where you extend apotheosis by a long enough margin that maybe you're healing two major mechanics I don't know

[04:47] play but the fact that we have these nodes I think is a really big Boon to Holy priest now towards the bottom side of the tree there's a couple of new talents one of them empowered renew I'm not sure about this one renew reduces

[05:01] the cool down of sanctify by an additional 6 seconds and heals for 60% more when cast but it has a 12-second cooldown listen it doesn't make renew that Godlike of a heal over time so I don't know if it's that good even with

[05:15] all of the renew talents it still feels a little weak but getting extra cool Downs off your sanctify uh that's kind of tempting for me so I really like the way this one plays but you can easily swap it out and a lot of the nodes down

[05:27] here have completely moved like desperate times for increased healing when targets are below 50% Health well that's all the way over here now Prismatic Echoes that increases your Mastery and your renew healing is right

[05:39] here on the way down to Divine image but so is light in the darkness increasing healing done by holy word serenity and holy word sanctify by 40% with both points it also increases the radius of sanctify by 30% these two combined make

[05:55] it very easy to not only get Divine image but you can choose if you want more heal over times on targets for free right Mastery without having to get more Mastery stat is not a bad thing but light in the darkness allows you to have

[06:08] even chunkier AOE heals this did save my butt a few times in one dungeon I ran that unfortunately just was completely incomplete we were not able to finish that place but I did get to notice just how useful this Talent is and having

[06:22] favorite talents I think is good also to those of you who liked getting a bunch of renew out lasting words back from dragonflight unfortunately you don't get random procs on holy words but I'm happy to see this make a return I still have

[06:36] some issues with holy priest and I want to get these out into the ether before the season starts so let's get into that and one real issue I have is that I haven't told you guys to subscribe yet so um hey you should subscribe if you

[06:49] like the channel it mean a lot to me thank you my first issue comes in the value from the Mana cost and the healing of Prayer of Healing while it has been boosted it's still a little disappoint pointing like I have 7.4 million Health

[07:03] right let's just call that 7.5 million if I hit Prayer of Healing I got 165,000 Health that feels kind of low value um actually hey Google what is 160,000 of

[07:17] actually hey Google what is 160,000 of 7.5 million is it actually 2% of my health Ain't No Way hold on what if I I don't believe this where's the don't believe this where's the calculator I need a calculator 75 0

[07:30] * .02 oh my God it's roughly .02 oh my God it's roughly 2% that's terrible okay so uh in conclusion yeah it's 2% of my health that doesn't feel very good and yeah you

[07:45] can power it up right it can now draw from your lightw Weaver Stacks which is really cool and yeah you can get it stronger but my stronger was 190,000 that is pathetic even when you multiply that by five you're barely

[08:01] healing a million healing that is disappointing even with criticals that is sad I think Prayer of Healing needs to do one of two things either Prayer of Healing needs to Cost Less Mana or what I think it should do is it should heal a

[08:15] lot more I don't mind it costing Mana I like that I can reduce its Mana cost but maybe make that value even chunkier so that it is a go-to spell that has a heavy weight to it I don't mind that but its current state it costs way too much

[08:31] Mana as you might have noticed if I just send it here look at I lose 5% of my send it here look at I lose 5% of my Mana bar that's a lot of Mana to cast a spell that's barely doing 2% of my health and barely doing 10% of the

[08:45] disappointing my second big critique with not just prayer of mending our manaar in general is that something feels off about the Mana curve the Mana region Talent is working as intended there's no problems there but there's

[08:59] just just something about the how much Mana I'm spending to keep people upright adjusted a little bit maybe costs need to come down to touch maybe the Mana regen needs to go up maybe the damage spells need to be completely free or

[09:15] maybe only cost like a th000 Mana so that they're unbelievably Mana positive I'm not sure what it is but I'm running out of Mana faster than I normally do and I feel like it's the intended play style of the class so having to drink

[09:29] between PS when no other spec really has to I think is not a good sign so something has to adjust it doesn't need to be a big adjustment though just to we clear just a little something something cuz I'm even running the talent that

[09:41] returns Mana when something dies with Shadow or pain on it and yeah that's still not saving the day for me so I think something here is just a little bit off also on the damage side of things holy pre single Target damage is

[09:54] really weak now I remember a time in PvP specifically in dragonflight or holy priest would just blow you up and I don't want the PVP players to suffer but I do think that the single Target is a little bad especially on Oracle because

[10:09] with Archangel you at least have Halo pumping out damage in AOE taking a sacrifice in single Target isn't a big deal but when you're not doing as good AOE damage or single Target damage on Oracle it doesn't feel good maybe buff

[10:23] or maybe raise all of the single Target damage and give Oracle a little bit of something something I don't know what it is both Oracle and Archangel feel good overall I don't have a lot of complaints there it's mostly the damage side of it

[10:36] that I think is a little bit weak and this isn't really criticism this is more this isn't really criticism this is more of an observation I'm not sure the difficulty of next season because the Dungeons and the affixes and the players

[10:49] I I don't have like a good sense of how hard the dungeons have been for context you get a buff during like a PTR run that tells you like what your item scale to that didn't line up with what people were saying in the dungeon or what our

[11:04] character pages said so I'm not sure what item level this is correlating to I'm not sure how hard the dungeon scaling is is the dungeon being scaled for next season and these are the

[11:16] questions I can never seem to get solid answers for so if I just go off my gut feeling of pushing up health bars in the pixels of that little party frame it feels like you're going to be able to do 10 and 12 with no problem and probably

[11:30] going to come to the group playing really well and less so that like holy priest can't do it I think it can do it right now and that's my favorite part about holy priest when holy priest is

[11:42] online and like it can actually play the game and keep up with off meta choices or even meta choices I love that it's an entry-level healer that the the skill sealing is high but the the entry level is on the ground anyone can jump in and

[11:57] learn holy priest but God getting good at Holy priest feels incredible being able to swap from damage to Healing instantly having just the right tools little bit of prep and then like action the damage comes in and you're just

[12:12] cranking heels I love it can you believe there was a time period where I hated this healer yeah me neither I I was I was so wrong and I'm so happy I was wrong so I'm hoping that season 2 holy priest gets to live a better life now

[12:26] some of you go do you think it'll be meta no don't think so I think disc and mistweaver are going to be strong Shaman's not really going anywhere and and it's going to be even better next season so there's going to be a lot of

[12:39] kick it's hard to give holy priest or discipline priest anything like I can't give them more that they bring to a dungeon and this still brings more than kick to Holy priest hold on maybe I'm on to something now but I do think for

[12:54] those of you who love the spec you're eating good in Raiders I think you're really eating good I haven't done any raid testing I kind of don't want to I into the new raid I got to be real with you all these Talent changes that affect

[13:08] healing in raid all seem like really good changes so I'm going to have to see how that feels in raid now maybe I bring the holy priest to a raid yeah maybe I bring it to like a community raid night I'll make a video on that that should be

[13:20] fun that's going to do it for this one let me know your comments and concerns through those thank you all so so much for watching and I will will see you all for watching and I will will see you all in the next one take care friends