After getting my lock team to 60, I quickly leveled my priest group. I have an interesting build planned out (44/27/0) that relies on holy nova to proc Surge of Light for instant smites. The hope was that between priests always bubbling themselves, prayer of mending on selves (I realize many will be wasted but when the sh*t hits the fan who cares), and a hope of ultimate survivability with sub par damage woud lead to a good BG team.

While the concept isn't dead (in my mind), it did take a huge hit.

Holy nova only heals those in your party I'm sure that's obvious to those who have played a priest recently, or took the time to read the spell description, but I wrongly assumed it was raid wide. I understand why Blizzard didn't make it raid wide as then you could get a bunch of priests spamming it non stop for tons of damage and tons of healing. However, I do wish they made the spell somewhat useful in a raid or PvP environment by making it raid wide but a maximum of 5 players.

All is not lost on this project that was probably doomed to fail from the start. Now I just have to spam the BG leader in hopes of him putting my priests in the same group or making me leader. Unfortunately that's impossible in AV as you can't move around people from different servers. I think it's still possible in the other BGs since there are empty slots I can move my team in to.

WTB Blizzard petition to make holy nova raid wide but limit the number of players healed by the AoE.