Peter D’Orsi

Have you been wondering what the new 31-point Holy and Discipline talents will be in the next patch? Curious what improvements were made to the Shadow tree? All your questions have been answered on our interactive talent preview!

Greater Heal (and Heal starting from rank2) will receive a reduction to its casting time. Currently the spell is a 4 second cast. However, once patch 1.10 releases, the spell, from start to finish will cast in 3 seconds - (2.5 with talent improvement). This spell, along with the Druid’s Healing Touch and the Shaman’s Healing Wave will all receive an approximate 10% improvement to mana efficiency.

Holy Fire will no longer be a talent required ability. All priests, upon reaching the appropriate level will receive this spell as a core ability. In addition, this spell’s casting time has been reduced from 4 seconds to 3.5. The appropriate talent improvement would bring this spell to a 3 second cast. This spell will also be considered holy damage, meaning, effects which improve holy damage will increase the damage of this spell.

Inner Fire is another core ability we’re reworking. With the prevalence of wand-use amongst casters, we’re not very pleased with the increase of attack power this spell provides and are looking to change Inner Fire so that it is more in line with the original concept behind the ability, i.e. a defensive/soloing spell.

Power Word: Shield is still undergoing testing. Basically, we’re running the numbers of the final spell ranks and will likely make changes to its damage mitigation scaling.