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Played all 3 Priest specs yesterday, both healers are very good. Mastery from Holy is decent, reapplying a direct heal resets the 6sec hot, with the increased direct heal amount. I think I got up to 50 healing over 6 sec.

Disc doesn't see mastery but Penance is still very good.

Shadow is the weakest of the 3. The mobs all have really low health, like 100s. Mindblast is a 1 hit, dots ticks for 20 with EF hitting for 44 so it appears to hit really hard. I can pull 8-10 mobs like it's nothing. I think VSing other players you'll start to notice the fotm classes. It won't be Shadow.
 
Played all 3 Priest specs yesterday, both healers are very good. Mastery from Holy is decent, reapplying a direct heal resets the 6sec hot, with the increased direct heal amount. I think I got up to 50 healing over 6 sec.

Disc doesn't see mastery but Penance is still very good.

Shadow is the weakest of the 3. The mobs all have really low health, like 100s. Mindblast is a 1 hit, dots ticks for 20 with EF hitting for 44 so it appears to hit really hard. I can pull 8-10 mobs like it's nothing. VSing other players you'll start to notice the fotm classes. It won't be Shadow.
Shadow is not viable, holy getting bubbles means there's legit no reason to play disc > holy ever other than it being a comfort pick (defensive penance is ok but like lol,) holy is ridiculous.

Holy is the best priest spec for healing and damage.
 
Shadow is not viable, holy getting bubbles means there's legit no reason to play disc > holy ever other than it being a comfort pick (defensive penance is ok but like lol,) holy is ridiculous.
Ya maybe, casting penance while moving is still strong. Holy Word: Serenity is a hard 1 min CD.
 
Ya maybe, casting penance while moving is still strong.
The fact that holy gets serenity and bubble is just dumb, I'd take that over a penance 7 days a week. Penance is literally the 1 thing disc has over holy and it's not that great (esp offensively it kind of sucks compared to other offensive spells.)

Bubble is pretty integral to disc's success (it's pretty much THE reason it's used in sweaty games and why I play full sp vers disc) so for it to just go to holy which is likely the superior raw healing spec pretty much invalidates disc.

Mind blast is also gimped as hell in disc it seems (for whatever reason,) like 80 damage when in disc and like 200~ (crits for like 350) as holy.

Worth noting, we also didn't get Power Word: Barrier like the WoWhead page said we would.

tl;dr is disc / shadow are dead and holy could very well be best healer in the bracket. xP
 
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Oh, also worth noting, we found there's a bug similar to the honor level bug we encountered at like... the start of BFA I wanna say?

Char specific honorable kills effect hit chance in wpvp (duels.) I can't hit anyone (9 / 10 spells miss) on my priest bc she has 82k odd HKs, I get on a priest that has 0 hks, and have no trouble missing anything and the people I duel can't hit me like at all.

We were worried that it was Tony's Law but after testing ilvls in bags and banks then hk counts (or it could be honor levels again, unsure,) we can safely say that thankfully it's not Tony's Law. Just be sure to report it, if enough ppl report it maybe I'll get to duel ppl on the PTR finally. =)
 
Oh, also worth noting, we found there's a bug similar to the honor level bug we encountered at like... the start of BFA I wanna say?

Char specific honorable kills effect hit chance in wpvp (duels.) I can't hit anyone (9 / 10 spells miss) on my priest bc she has 82k odd HKs, I get on a priest that has 0 hks, and have no trouble missing anything and the people I duel can't hit me like at all.

We were worried that it was Tony's Law but after testing ilvls in bags and banks then hk counts (or it could be honor levels again, unsure,) we can safely say that thankfully it's not Tony's Law. Just be sure to report it, if enough ppl report it maybe I'll get to duel ppl on the PTR finally. =)
later today, i have a very old copy of my mage, that i can bug report on/test it. same gear as current mage copy, just less hks
 
later today, i have a very old copy of my mage, that i can bug report on/test it. same gear as current mage copy, just less hks
We already know it's the hk disparity not sure what else there is to test but ye, pls report it.
 
i compared my 48 boomstick to a 58 one, they are identical, unlike in the previous beta build where speratic showed the 48 having 1 more ilvl

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this is 99 on live, no idea if its competitive, but it looks cool for sure
 
i compared my 48 boomstick to a 58 one, they are identical, unlike in the previous beta build where speratic showed the 48 having 1 more ilvl

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this is 99 on live, no idea if its competitive, but it looks cool for sure
That looks sick. I’m assuming a 39 can farm these when SL comes out.
 

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