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Nick D
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join:2010-02-04
Orange, CA

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Re: [ Classes] Mental Agility: The Priest Thread (4.X.X)

Every healer on the PTR can dispel 3 things right now, 2 native to the class + magic debuffs as a healing tree talent/passive.

There are 5 dispellable things: disease, poison, curses, offensive magic (debuffs on players), defensive magic (buffs on enemies)

Shamans get Curses curses Defensive Magic (Purge)
Druids get Poisons and Curses
Pallies get Poisons and Diseases
Priests get Diseases and Defensive Magic

All healers get Offensive Magic as a tree passive or a talent.

On live, priests ALSO get Offensive Magic native right now, which means shadow gets it too. The PTR is changing it to be balanced like the other healing classes: 2 native to the class + offensive magic for healing specs.

The 2 defensive dispels to 1 is probably to bring it in line with the shaman Purge nerf.

Immer
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i still hate the idea that only healers get to remove offensive magic... it was a stupid twist to the "lets making healing more fun".

Estelle
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Ahh thanks for pointing that out. I didn't think offensive dispels counted but that totally makes sense now. Appreciate the clarification.

On the other hand, what do you guys think of the proposed changes to disc?

even more expensive shields possibly and with GCD, you'll be able to shield something like 7 people at most.

In pvp, just avoid you for 15 sec might even become an option but I doubt the mana cost increases would do disc any favors. Probably knock it down another step =/

My biggest gripe with disc is that it doesn't fix the PoH spam that AOE healing has become. Literally we don't do much else at this time and the propsed changes or lack there of doesn't help. Going back from shields to PoH doesn't feel any better to me at all.

Smite healing is still too much of a gimic as well as having no control along with no comments on addressing pet/blood worm targeting.

Guess I'm stuck as holy >.

Raible
join:2008-01-23
Plainfield, IN

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said by Nick D:

Priests get Diseases and Defensive Magic

Holy Priests can also talent poison can't they?
Hrothgordo
join:2010-02-03
Beverly, MA

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No, healing is nothing close to what was promised at the end of Wrath. I think it's more of a spamfest just feeling less powerful (and gear inflation will blow that away too eventually).

In regards to the dispel changes to priests, I am pretty annoyed. If that is the way they want to do it then they need to finally make offensive dispel its own spell and our defensive dispell like every other classes and be one button (instead of a separate one for disease and magic)

As to your question, Dis, unless there has been a change a Holy priest can talent into a poison dispel (but it only works on the priest)