> Priests: All Issues and Bugs

[Daize]

EDIT:
New for 3.0.8. Loads of bugs are still the same.

Bugs
Mind Flay and Mind Sear: the first tick of this spell starts after about 1 or 1,5 second after casting.


Shadowfiend: When a shadowfiend first spawns, it has 1710 of 3018 health for ~1second after summoning, then heals to full. If hit during this 1 second, it can die to only 1710 damage.

Divine Hymn: Doesn't take in the cd reducing effects for Psychic Scream.


Dispersion the managain stops when the priest is being cycloned.
Dispersion: it does not reduce the damage done of so called 'traveling' spells, while (so to say) vanish, BoP, bubble, IB does.

Issues

Divine Hymn: shares a cd with Psychic Scream. Why is this needed?

Dispel protection: it's silly how easily the dots, what's a major damage output for us, get dispelled with the Shadow Vulnerability debuff gone. Even though it is dispel fodder for on the priest himself, I daresay the dotprotection is WAY more important. This is certainly true when it takes casttime to cast the dot, while classes(+specs) like retribution paladins can just cleanse them off while still whacking our asses off.

Dispersion: Even though yes, it reduces 90% of the damage received, it doesn't remove any debuffs at all. Meaning the other classes can keep up stacking debuffs while we can't remove any of them at all (due to the self-silence), and because MS-effects aren't removed either, healing a shadowpriest while dispersed is still a very 'tough cookie to crack'. This talent seemed hopeful with the health returned as well (look at it like this: Pain suppression reduces damage, but you could continue casting and walking. IB stops damage, stops you from doing anything, and removes all debuffs. Dispersion reduces damage, stops you from casting. It really seems like dispersion is missing something here in this list. It'd be great if it would be looked into again, since this just doesn't cut it versus the melee rampage.)

Divine Hope: This is actually an implemented spell as how it is now?

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OLD POST
I think it's time to put together a full list of bugs and issues to present to blizzard, and hopefully they'll listen (and at least fix the bugs).

Bugs
Mind Flay and Mind Sear: the first tick of this spell starts after about 1 or 1,5 second after casting.

Fade: doesn't always remove spells like Slow, neither does it remove Daze.

Talent Improved Power Word: Shield: only affects base PWS absorbed.

Shadow Word: Death: doesn't break Polymorph (glyphed). Neither have I ever seen it breaking fear again. Possibly classified as DoT (the backlash).

Shadowfiend: When a shadowfiend first spawns, it has 1710 of 3018 health for ~1second after summoning, then heals to full. If hit during this 1 second, it can die to only 1710 damage.

Divine Hymn: Doesn't take in the cd reducing effects for Psychic Scream.

Divine Aegis does not multistack as it should.

Dispersion the managain stops when the priest is being cycloned.
Dispersion: it does not reduce the damage done of so called 'traveling' spells, while (so to say) vanish, BoP, bubble, IB does.

Reflective Shields only works on self, while it should work on anyone who has an active Power Word: Shield of yours on.

Issues

Divine Hymn: shares a cd with Psychic Scream. Why is this needed?

Dispel protection: it's silly how easily the dots, what's a major damage output for us, get dispelled with the Shadow Vulnerability debuff gone. Even though it is dispel fodder for on the priest himself, I daresay the dotprotection is WAY more important. This is certainly true when it takes casttime to cast the dot, while classes(+specs) like retribution paladins can just cleanse them off while still whacking our asses off.

Dispersion: Even though yes, it reduces 90% of the damage received, it doesn't remove any debuffs at all. Meaning the other classes can keep up stacking debuffs while we can't remove any of them at all (due to the self-silence), and because MS-effects aren't removed either, healing a shadowpriest while dispersed is still a very 'tough cookie to crack'. This talent seemed hopeful with the health returned as well (look at it like this: Pain suppression reduces damage, but you could continue casting and walking. IB stops damage, stops you from doing anything, and removes all debuffs. Dispersion reduces damage, stops you from casting. It really seems like dispersion is missing something here in this list. It'd be great if it would be looked into again, since this just doesn't cut it versus the melee rampage.)

Divine Hope: This is actually an implemented spell as how it is now?

If you have anything to add, please do. I've to go, I'll edit this post later as well.

EDIT: Keep the replies up guys.

[Sykeasaurus]

Issues:

1) Divine Hymn sharing a CD with Fear.
2) Changes to Reflective Shield.
3) SW: Death not breaking Polymorph.

What I'm happy with:

Levitate being able to be casted on other players.


LOL JK

[Voksen]

This one needs some more testing and looking into. I was noticing it while dueling a DK friend:

If abolish disease "ticks" it sometimes takes us out of shadowform. Seems to work only/mostly when it was casted as a way to drop shadowform, and one quickly jumps back into shadowform (usually within the next GCD before a disease is removed).

BTW I think its pretty gimp that we have to drop form for abolish

[Priestholy]

Divine aegis not multi-stacking like it was said to do
Imp PW:s ust affecting base value
When shielding or aegis someone the mana restore on rapture is counted with their mana

[Smirch]

Originally Posted by Voksen

BTW I think its pretty gimp that we have to drop form for abolish

You apparently haven't read the upcoming patch notes.

Originally Posted by Blizzard

World of Warcraft PTR Patch 3.0.8
Priests

• Abolish Disease and Cure Disease can now be cast while in Shadowform.

[Penguinsa]

Imp PW:Shield only effects base now? I know it used to effect sp. I have issues with rapture, aegis, divine hymn.

[Kelberotz]

1. Divine Hymn won't calculate the gladiator's gloves bonus (less cd on fear) and/or the talent. Meaning whenever you use Divine Hymn your fear cd will be 30 seconds, even with talent and gloves.

2. Getting cyclone'd when you're in dispersion prevents you from getting mana back. Your normal mana regeneration/innervate will keep mana flowing but dispersion's regeneration doesn't happen.

3. Fade fails way too fucking often.

4. Mind Flay is clearly all bugged, the damage appears after cast is over... it's horrible

[Daize]

Priests seem to play a minor role in arena's. It basically all depends on what their partner does, and I'm a bit scared by the fact that blue is only posting about minor changes and nerfs (dispel glyph), while the class at the moment, is clearly broken. Resilience or not. I don't think they should get away with the message "it will all be good in a while", like in season 7.

Are there actually any priests complaining on the US forums (quit bothering trying that on the EU forums quite a time ago)?

[Blessox]

Europe forums are only cosmetic, doubt they use input from there to change the game.

[Kelberotz]

Also dispersion doesn't work on traveling spells, I've seen people defending that's how the game works on priest forums before but I really don't care, its stupid how every class with a immunity spell can reactively stops incoming burst besides us. Dispersion a pom pyroblast and still take full damage, thats just awesome.