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Disc Priest Rapture changed for mana gains

A new change has hit the PTR for Disc Priests, although how it will really affect Disc Priest’s mana remains to be seen – people are conflicted about whether it is a gain or a loss at this time.

The change:  Rapture now energizes the Priest for 100% of the mana cost of Power
Word: Shield When the shield is fully consumed or is dispelled (used to
energize the Priest with mana equal to 150% of their spirit). This is
the modified mana cost for Power Word: Shield, after being reduced by
Rapture’s passive effect.

There is currently discussion as to how this will really affect mana for Disc Priests at HowtoPriest

 

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Holy Paladin Mastery no longer works on HoTs

It has been no secret that Paladin mastery for healers has been pretty overpowered this expansion.  Blizzard has taken steps to nerf Paladins somewhat, and the nerf to Mastery has had the tooltip slightly changed.

Mastery: Illuminated Healing no longer works on HoT spells.

This is a slight change from the previously announced change.  And it effectively changes it back to where it was pre-5.2 when only direct heals resulted in Illuminated Healing.

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New Resto Shaman Glyph of Eternal Earth adds charges to Earth Shield From Lightning Bolt

An interesting new resto Shaman glyph has hit the PTR – Glyph of Eternal Earth.  This major glyph has the change to add a charge to Earth Shield when the Shaman casts Lightning Bolt.

Since a Lightning Bolt costs 4260 mana and refreshing Earth Shield costs 11,400 mana, I could see some situations where a Shaman could use this, especially on fights where there is time to DPS.  The unfortunate thing is the true value of this would only be when used in conjunction with the Telluric Currents glyph, but that would cost the Resto Shaman 2 of the 3 major glyph slots.

Also, Lightning Bolts cannot cause the Earth Shield to have more than 9 charges – if it did, I could easily see Shaman’s LBing for the first 30 seconds of a fight – a time when raid damage is usually low on a fight, to build up a huge Earth Shield that would last an entire fight.

This glyph will be one to watch, particularly if it gets reworked to allow more charges or to work with Telluric Currents better.

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More changes to Holy Priest’s Serendipity

Blizzard has continued to rework Serendipity for Holy Priests.  It has reduced the mana reduction portion by 20% instead of just 10%.  The new tooltip for Serendipity:

When you heal with Binding Heal or Flash Heal, the cast time of your next Greater Heal or Prayer of Healing spell is reduced by 20% and mana cost reduced by 20%. Stacks up to 2 times. Lasts 20 sec.

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Glyph of Hand of Sacrifice will no longer damage the Paladin

If you have used Hand of Sacrifice, chances are pretty good you have probably accidentily killed yourself when you Sac the tank or another DPS taking a huge amount of burst damage.  Well in 5.4, you no longer have to worry about it, as there is a new major glyph for pallies to prevent that.  Hand of Sacrifice glyph will no longer cause the damage to be redirected to the pally.  However, it will now only reduce the target’s damage taken by 20% instead of the usual 30%.

This change has been often requested and it is great to see it added.

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Holy Pally Divine Plea mana return is changed for 5.4

Divine Plea has already seen a change in that it no longer reduces healing done by 50%.  Now they have also changed the mana return.  Divine Plea will now restore 12% of total mana, plus an additional mana return  based on the Pally’s spirit.

It will be interesting to see if this ends up having any impact on the amount of spirit Holy Pallies stack, especially because many reduced spirit because of the meta.  The exact amount of mana return from spirit hasn’t been announced however.

There is also a new major glyph, Glyph of Divine Plea, which will cause it to restore 15% of total mana instead of only 12%.  This changes the current glyph which caused it to have a 5 second cast time for 12% mana with no healing reduction.