Looks like Blizzard is going to sprinkle a little AOE love on Priests in the upcoming 3.1 patch (release date still unknown). Here is the info straight form the source
Several area of effect (AOE) heal spells have been improved:
- Prayer of Healing can be cast on any groups in your raid party.
- Holy Nova’s mana cost has been reduced.
- Circle of Healing now heals for more.
This means that we are finally going to be better equipped for raid healing! Horray! It’s about time Priests got some AOE love!
This is music to my ears! All too often in a raid do I get put into a group with only healers. It makes sense from an organizational standpoint, but not from a healing Priest’s, as PoH only heals your own group. No longer will that matter as it will heal the target’s party, allowing for directed power AoE heals!
Holy Nova has never been a favorite for this Priest, but now that the mana cost is coming down it might get bumped up a spot or two in my spell rotation!
The Circle of Healing adding more heals to it’s agenda sure sounds good to me! In nasty boss fights I hardly ever let CoH spell off cool down so this just means more awesomeness for everyone! This should be some sweet news to any Priests who are having difficulty with Loatheb’s 3 second healing window.
This is all very new and exciting to yours truly! I will be monitoring the PTR and patch notes and keep you posted on any patch 3.1 updates!
you said:
Holy Nova has never been a favorite for this Priest, but now that the mana cost is coming down it might get bumped up a spot or two in my spell rotation. Holy Nova isn’t the best raid heal because it deals Holy damage as well as heals. This can cause unintentional agro, and also reduces healing in the name of damage.
which is true above all for a priest of the vanilla wow where the nova was a talent you had to “buy”
Anyway now if they buff the holy nova heals i guess it worth to put in the aoe rotation for some special bosses… maybe in combination with the glyph (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=42401).
By: lamthara on February 24, 2009
at 3:31 am
Definately! I forgot about that glyph and I’m a scribe, how funny is that? Thanks for the comment!
By: addoluciano on February 24, 2009
at 8:38 am
Holy nova damage doesnt cause any threat.
Holy Nova Rank 9
25% of base mana
Instant cast
Causes an explosion of holy light around the caster, causing 398 to 462 Holy damage to all enemy targets within 10 yards and healing all party members within 10 yards for 713 to 827. These effects cause no threat.
http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=48078
By: Rey on February 24, 2009
at 11:42 am
Duly noted good sir! This whole time I have been sheepish about casting nova too close to mobs when in an instance/raid.
Thanks for the comment the post has been edited for accuracy.
By: addoluciano on February 24, 2009
at 12:49 pm