Holy Priest Apotheosis Battle for Azeroth Feedback for June 1st

BFA Posted 2018/06/01 at 9:07 PM by perculia

Apotheosis

Patch 7.3.5 version: Enter a pure Holy form for 30 sec, increasing the effects of Serendipity by 200% and reducing the cost of your Holy Words by 100%. 3 min cooldown

Beta Build 26734 version: Enter a pure Holy form for 30 sec, increasing the cooldown reductions to your Holy Words by 200% and reducing their cost by 100%. 3 min cooldown.

Upcoming beta version: Enter a pure Holy form for 20 sec, increasing the cooldown reductions to your Holy Words by 300% and reducing their cost by 100%. 2 min cooldown.

Battle for Azeroth buildLight of the NaaruApotheosisBattle for Azeroth Priest Class Changes

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We've seen a lot of feedback on Apotheosis (and level 100 generally) after the talent swap. 2 changes in next build:

--Duration 20s and cooldown 2min (from 30s and 3min). The shorter cooldown is likely worth a lot more than 10s of added duration, in terms of how you usually want to use it to deliver strong healing for a situation that doesn't necessarily last 30 seconds.

--The bonus is +300% rather than +200%. This matches the strength that it has on live when Light of the Naaru is taken. Apotheosis didn't need to be weakened outright, and can have the synergy with Light of the Naaru baked in, now that you can't take both.

Comment by SpleenerYeah, I felt like the reason for the swap there was to eliminate potential synergy of Light of the Naaru + Holy Word: Salvation being too good, not to nerf its existing synergy with Apotheosis, so buffing Apotheosis to be as good as it was with LotN makes sense.Comment by EveloBeautiful Change! Really glad I chose Priest for BfA.Comment by WasselinI have seen very little feedback about Apotheosis and a lot more about our lack of defensive skills. Where is this Apotheosis feedback coming from?Comment by treessassinOuch. So, Desperate Prayer's still our only "defensive", huh?Comment by clopixolI just hope we 're getting more changes, and a bigger, more elaborate blue post explaining how the devs are thinking for this spec overall, as the main concerns voiced in the original forums have almost exclusively been about mobility and defensives. Not friggin' Apotheosis...
My "other main" is a Balance Druid and I've been very concerned throughout the beta, until they recently fixed the spec with very nice changes followed by a very detailed blue post explaining the thinking behind those changes. I so much wish they do the same with Holy Priests sometime before 14/8...Comment by AlvinC"Increasing the cooldown reductions"? The words are always confused to me, why not change the words to "reduce cooldown XX%" ? Much more simple and cleaver.Comment by Grim32I agree- usually though it's one of those things Blizz fixes in a hotfix towards the end of a beta.Comment by SunFunI'm happy what they did to apotheosis, but I'm so sad that I cannot pick both light of the naaru and holy word: salvation. But the question is: Would you even pick light of the naaru over salvation or apotheosis?
Also it's so sad that there are talents that you can't use just because they are so bad. (halo), (Divine star)