Priest Changes Coming!

[Concillian]

Priests finally given talents other healers already have.  A little miffed that it takes 2 points for a priest and 5 for a druid to get the same effect, though.  Again, this just makes it more likely that the priest gets off the heal that saves a life in PvP.

Priests had this before, it was called 'Improved Flash Heal' and was 15 points deep. It's a 2 pointer, and since flash was what you were generally casting, served the basic purpose of working for heals in general. The change to all heals was probably deemed necessary because Greater Heal was seeing so little use, that they would have to significantly boost it for people to not simply complain and continue to ignore GH.

It was a great talent at 15 points and it's a great talent at Tier 1. I would generally consider it more valuable than Tier 1, but I think they're trying to encourage people to dip into the holy tree, especially with holy nova at 11 points. I see a 32 shadow / 8 discipline / 11 holy build as a possible PvP build with the benefits of current shadow priests + the biggest PvP benefits of holy (70% uninterruption on heals, 20% less spell damage tanke and the situationally useful holy nova.)

As a Rogue this would scare me, but I'd probably overwhelm it anyway.  Wonder if the healing stacks or overwrites itself, mainly.  More worrisome for classes that don't crit as often if it overwrites.

It will almost certainly overwrite. My guess is it will be nearly completely worthless. Warriors have Blood Craze that is almost entirely useless. It's supposed to heal x% life over 6 seconds when crit, however the real functionality is that it heals x% life in one big chunk at the 6 second mark. If you get crit again in that 6 second window the timer gets reset and you lose out on the healing from the first one... oh well! I would have to guess functionality of the priest version of this will be very similar.