Multiboxing Priests

[Mosg2]

I understand what you're saying about the percentages... But the talent Surge of Light says "Your spell criticals have a 50% chance to cause your next Smite or Flash Heal spell to be instant cast, cost no mana but be incapable of a critical hit. This effect lasts 10 seconds."

So... Does it count each Holy Nova as one single event that gets the 50% applied to it OR does it count each person it crits as one event that gets the 50% chance applied to it? You tell me--You've got the toons Obviously I hope it's number two but I'd like to see ze proof.

[Kruschpakx4]

we have to wait

this

[Owltoid]

I understand what you're saying about the percentages... But the talent Surge of Light says "Your spell criticals have a 50% chance to cause your next Smite or Flash Heal spell to be instant cast, cost no mana but be incapable of a critical hit. This effect lasts 10 seconds."

So... Does it count each Holy Nova as one single event that gets the 50% applied to it OR does it count each person it crits as one event that gets the 50% chance applied to it? You tell me--You've got the toons Obviously I hope it's number two but I'd like to see ze proof.

If any part crits, then you have a chance for Surge of Light. All I'm casting is holy nova, and it's certainly not critting on every one of my toons, but I'm still proccing Surge of Light. You can watch the video and look in the upper right to see much buffs... all I'm doing is spamming holy nova and you can see I'm getting Surge of Light.

[Mosg2]

You're missing my point. Even if it had 100% crit rate you're still only getting at most 50% chance at a Surge of Light proc... Because it says it only has a 50% chance to go off when you crit.

Unless it counts EACH time it crits per cast as a chance to get a Surge of Light proc. See what I mean?

[Tehmuffinman]

You're missing my point. Even if it had 100% crit rate you're still only getting at most 50% chance at a Surge of Light proc... Because it says it only has a 50% chance to go off when you crit.

Unless it counts EACH time it crits per cast as a chance to get a Surge of Light proc. See what I mean?

It does. It is recalculated on a per crit basis, that is where his numbers are coming from.

[ghonosyph]

Seems everyone is freakin out about the new trees, but if you actually read into their intentions you'll see that tho they may be locking you in to a certain role from the get go, that you're also receiving a ton of talent stuff as normal passive gains.

They WANT to make talents that affect your choices, cool stuff, fun stuff, yet at the same time make it more of a balanced type of tree. If I were you I would hold the OMGWTF for later, because your going to be surprised at the outcome imo. Enjoy the power now because the game is changing big lol. I see it as a fresh look, especially for new players. Learning is part of the leveling process, and the tree lock out thing isn't going to affect us at the levelcaps as much as you might want to believe.

Bliz has an intention, to make talents "take-able". let's wait and see what wonderous new stuff they come up with! ^.^ lolol

[Kruschpakx4]

even you know already the talents, the rng of many abilities will be changed and the beta rng is bugged so you can't know how strong every abilitiy will be until 4.0 live

[Monk3yv]

Being able to survive like that is awesome, the thought of 5 chain heals is what made me want to 5 box, I don't know why i never considered 5x holy novas heh. And you are able to kill things on top of that.
I'm sure I'm not the only one that went into bg's with multiple healing classes and wtfhealed the crap out of my team, this is even better!

But yes like everyone said, it's time for a "Wait and see" attitude.

[SmartJelly]

Thanks for getting the video sorted, stopped my little mind getting bogged down on the theory. Good job on putting it into practise, I hope it works out for you. Looking forward to the seeing you in action when you've perfected things

[genocyde]

I was holding my breath for this same team. I've played priest main since 1.0 and after having mild success wtih my priest + 4mage team and seeing how well arcane explosion backed with 1 holy nova worked... well my brain went churning when i saw that holy nova buff.

I was looking at the holy talent Improved Holy Nova a lot though. It reduced the GCD of holy nova by 0.5 seconds! In addition to other holy nova buffs, I would not give up hope on this yet. I'm still planning on finishing my priest team just out of curiousity. I'm still debating on driving with a DK or something other than a 5th priest but who knows until Cat goes live.

Edit: Improved Holy Nova talent is the one you were talking about anyway. I was just more excited about the GCD reduction than the 50% crit chance.... awesome.