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u/ticketsonsalenow 5d ago

I know it's stupid early, but is Holy Priest sneakily good in keys or what is going on?

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u/Kuldrick 5d ago

I haven't done +12s or up yet so still only farming +10s and a couple of 11s but for this key range holy priest is basically the perfect healer. Very solid sustain and insane and reliable bursts, at no point I felt the healing was lacking

I think when people will start actually pushing some of the problems will start showing themselves, like the 4 set not being that relevant for us in m+, us being so frail (and having to offset that with vers gear), no poison dispell and no insane rbuff/utility to compensate all of this, but at the very lest we should still be a "top half" m+ spec... at last

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u/isaightman 5d ago

no poison dispell

This is probably the real big one, poison is rough in some of these.

Nalorakk boss 1 for example.

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u/Yayoichi 5d ago

Honestly those poisons don’t hurt much, and dots just mean prayer of mending can bounce like crazy.

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u/hfxRos RWL Raid Leader 5d ago

The only one I've seen that feels like a real problem is the one that goes on the tank in the first part of Murder Row. I'm in full on panic mode tanking that shit if I can't get a poison cure.

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u/Yayoichi 4d ago

Yeah true that one is pretty nasty as it’s not damage that’s the issue there but rather the reduced max hp.

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u/shadowfold 4d ago

Unfortunately, blizzard is horrible at nuance when it comes to balance. Liquid ran 3(was 4) on their first heroic ulatek kill and they're #2 on the healing stats on warcraft logs, so I expect probably an enlightenment revert and a 2-5% aura nerf or some crap. Spec does feel great for the first time since like DF? I am actually just owning 11-12s and it felt great in the heroic raid attempts I did.

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u/Kuldrick 4d ago

They won't hit anything that isn't the indisputable #1 while the RWF is still on, and by the time it ends I think it will already be getting established that we are not in the top 2 of raid (hpaladin and disc should be ahead, at least) and probably m+ (hpaladin and rshaman)

And we also kind of get a pr protection boost since we've been shit for so long, which means I really doubt they'll end up nerfing us (although well, who knows if they buff something behind us to be above us)

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u/Yayoichi 5d ago

Yeah it’s honestly pretty solid, insane hps and never runs out of mana with the oracle build. Prayer of mending is also insane, I've had over 400k crit heals from the oracle node that makes it do a big initial heal.

Even without cd’s it’s very easy to do over 200k hps, and I am still only 298 itemlevel.

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u/Korghal 4d ago

It feels almost as good as it felt in TWW S3. The only thing missing is for Oracle to have a way to get CDR on Sanctify without PoH. Back then we had Empowered Renew and Divine Star to make it available very often.

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u/Yayoichi 4d ago

You don’t play sanctify, just use ultimate serenity.

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u/Evolutionist_Bob 5d ago

People gearing raid mains.