The Ugly Guys at level 69 - lolsmite

I'm getting a little worried about this holy nova typo. Does anyone know a beta tester? The goolge searches I've done (with poor connection speed on my iPhone) haven't turned up any discussion on confirming mmo-champion has a typo.

Wow....

This is what I just read on my the forums regarding holy nova in Cataclysm. It is from a thread comparing paladin's Healing Hands to priest's Holy Nova. I don't care about the pally, but it's interesting to see a beta test tell about the changes made to holy nova:

-The party bound restriction oh Holy Nova has been removed (wow, that's new!)
-No cast time (same as always, still instant)
-No cooldown (same as always)
-Improved Holy Nova increases its crit rating by 50% (we already knew this)
-Improved Holy Nova decreases its GCD to 0.5 seconds (we already knew this)
-Surge of Light ensures every other cast is 100% mana free (wow!!! that means the tooltip was correct... so the best of both worlds, you can choose for either your smite to be free or your holy nova... no more free flash heal, which is fine by me)

This is very good news for the team, and makes up for smites no longer healing. I don't think it makes up for divine aegis no longer possible as well as reflective shield, but trying to look on the brite side.

The bad part is I can see all holy priests just spamming holy nova in the expansion, which likely means they're going to pump the mana cost through the roof (it's already high) or reduce the damage component.

I'm trying to get my team to 80 with some good gear before patch 4.0 so I can show off some of the pre-Cata changes. Overall I'm happy with this buffage to holy nova, though worried it will get quickly nerfed as I can see it being an ability that every holy priests spams non-stop in BGs.

That is looking pretty awesome, and i think what will keep it from getting nerfed (too much at least) is its relatively short range.

Any new movies?

Wanted to thank you for sharing your own experience with your group of priests and for the movie. It inspired me to farm the cloth heirlooms and weapons to make my own team.

Would be nice to see more movies from you.

Cheers again and have fun with the team.

i can confirm the changes owl, i got into beta luckily :) so far thats how it sits, i transfered one premade 80 priest and with some 251 pve gear its a pretty fun spec, the reflective thing sucks that you cant get to it but we gotta trade some awesome for some awesome :) lol

I'm glad to hear that, ghonosyph.

I'm 99% sure Blizzard isn't going to allow hybrid builds, so hope of having reflective shield come back is futile. I'm going to try to set up a compilation video of killing moonkins and warriors using just reflective shield... it's my favorite thing about the team :) I love having them use their cooldown which usually allows them to dominate, and seeing them die just from that.

In the new video I usually start big fights with power infusion - it's a massive survivability and DPS increase. Allowing my holy nova spam to cost 20% less and my GCD to be reduced by 20% is huge. I mention that because in Cata, my mana cost is going to be cut by 50% and my holy nova GCD cut by 66% - all the time (from every other holy nova being free). Plus, if there is every anyone who is fighting along side me, they're going to get so many heals they'll worship the Ugly Guys from then on (no longer party wide restriction on holy nova - I see that getting nerfed). I can truly see a priest team turning the tide in AV battle if that's the case.

I'm looking forward to it, and might level some more priests myself, got so many teams i really want to level though :S