Patch Changes

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Between this:

critical spell damage is determined by Intelligence

And all this focus on critical effects:

Holy Mastery

Improved Holy Smite: Rank 0/3
Increases the critical strike damage of your holy smite ability by 40%

Holy Specialization: Rank 0/5
Increases the critical effect chance of your Holy spells by 1%

Spiritual Healing: Rank 0/5
Increases your mana regeneration rate by 100% for 2 seconds after getting a
critical effect from one of yoru heal spells
* Requires HM 5
* Requires 5 points in Holy Specialization

Inspiration: Rank 0/5
Increases your target's armor value from items by 5% for 15 sec after getting a critical effect while healing them.
* Requires HM 5

Improved Healing: Rank 0/5
Increses the critical effect chance of your Lesser Heal, Heal
and Greater Heal spells by 1%
* Requires HM 15

I think a reevaluation of spirit priests vs int priests is in order. I think int might be a better option now, especially for holy spec priests.

Improved Renew: Rank 0/2
Increases the amount healed by yoru Renew spell by 10%
* Requires HM 10

And this might become more important for a int priest. Usually you target your healing spells to give back exactly what the target needs, so extra heal from critical effects generally goes to waste. However, a critical renew, if it gives more health with each pulse, could be very useful.

Let's see... an int spec priest might get holy spec, spiritual healing, inspiration, and improved renew, then wander over to discipline for things like mental agility, inner focus, and meditation.