I hadn’t read a great deal about what was to come, preferring to be excited when it was released and so far, I’m loving it.
Talents
There’s a two point talent called Surge of Light which procs 50% of the time after one of your spells crits. Combined with the 5 points in the Holy Specialisation talent which increases your spell critical effect chance, it’s absolutely awesome. When Surge of Light procs, your next smite or flash heal is instant cast and costs you no mana.
But that’s not where it ends, combine these two talents with 3 points in Improved Holy Concentration and you’re suddenly a crit happy healer! When Holy Concentration procs, you also gain some spell haste which sometimes happens at the same time as Surge of Light proc’ing. So not only do you instant cast your next flash heal, but for 20 seconds you can also cast it faster than the standard 1.5 seconds.
And if that still wasn’t enough…
- Prayer of Mending is now capable of a critical hit.
- Inner focus now also increases the next spells critical effect chance by 25%
- With the merging of spell dmg and heals into spell power, we can now get spell power + crit gems
Yay for spell criticals!
Circle of Healing Improvement
My beloved circle of healing spell has now been made even better, by healing not just party members in range of your target, but raid members in range of your target. Thank you bliz!
The Simple Things
I also freaked out when I first went to raid buff everyone with PW Fortitude. For a split second I thought there was another priest in the raid who had buffed the other party at the exact same moment as I did on my own party… but no. No other priest and no freaky coincedence. Yup.. that’s right, the simple change of raid-wide buffing with one click made me SO HAPPY that I blurted out my findings to everyone else in the raid, who then proceeded to laugh at me and say ‘yes kiki dear’.
Oh well… I guess I just appreciate the small things in life.
Tell me about your own findings, I’d love to hear about them.
