Priest Racials being removed!
September 16, 2008 by Donjo
In an unexpected turn of events, a recent blue post informed us that the current priest racial abilities will not be making the boat ride to Northrend with the rest of us. Say goodbye to Hex of Weakness, Chastise, and other great abilities.
In an upcoming build all Priest racials have been retired, except the following:
- Desperate Prayer – This is now the 11-point talent in Holy, Holy Nova is now a base ability. Cooldown also reduced to 30 seconds.
- Devouring Plague – Now a base ability. Cooldown reduced to 30 seconds, mana cost greatly reduced.
- Symbol of Hope – Now a base ability. Now restores 5% base mana every 2 seconds for 8 seconds to your party. Renamed “Hymn of Hope.”
While this change does reduce the “uniqueness” of different Priests, we feel game balance as a whole will benefit.
Note: These new “racials” are not racials, they are trainable to all Priests.
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Good.
the betrayer…but yes, this is good news for all. Except for all those priests with overpowered racials >.<
I honestly feel bad for priests…Right now priests haven’t gotten almost any changes at all since the Disc tree buff. The class is so-so right now, but hopefully much like rogues they receive utmost justice in WOTLK. Brought to you buy the Jonny Ning campaign of “RNG more like RNGAY!!!” Seriously warriors…leave us alone.
Devouring Plague, so awesome. Between that and will of the forsaken, awesome for shadow priest. Too bad we have to share now.
finally…trolls are getting their just deserved.
Im sad to see this, i love my starshards and NE priest-like evasion, but w/e im glad they fixed those damn overpowered dwarfs
NO MORE STARSHARDS!!! NOOOO
ya know, even though I play a troll and gain a lot from this change it’s still somewhat disappointing. While changes like this do better help to balance the game they also build more and more towards a very valilla, bland ..and quite frankly a boring experience.
F trolls Zuggy, F trolls. :P J/K. I agree with you. While some people would say that they were unfair, I thought it was nice having a racial specific ability. Not all change is good IMO. :(
nope…not all change is good, having bad racials sucked at times…but then again it’s always been nice to know that no matter how ridiculously worthless my racials were I still dominated those undeads! =D