More potential BC priest info
by Spencer Callaghan 
Sep 6th 2006 at 1:00PM
A poster on the WoW Europe forums claims to have gotten hold of the Burning Crusade priest talent trees.These talents differ form what was leaked earlier, so as always, take them with a grain of salt.
In case Blizz takes down the post on their forums, which they likely will, I will post the potential talents after the break.
Where oh where are my hunter talents?
[Thanks jpc]
Priest Talents :
Discipline
Tier 5
Quiet Contemplation
Requires 1 point in Divine Spirit
Requires 20 points in Discipline Talents
Regenerate mana equal to 5/10/15% of your Spirit every 5 seconds, even while casting.
Tier 6
Iron Will
Requires 25 points in Discipline Talents
Increases your chance to resist Charm and Polymorph effects by 5/10/15%.
Tier 7
Moral Authority
Requires 5 points in Force of Will
Requires 30 points in Discipline Talents
Your critical strikes from spells cause the target to become Humbled, reducing all stats by 2/4/6/8/10% and dazing the target for 6 seconds.
Tier 8
Constitution
Requires 35 points in Discipline Talents
Increases your maximum health by 1/2/3/4/5% and reduces the chance you are hit by spells by 1/2/3/4/5%.
Tier 9
Pacify
Requires 1 point in Power Infusion
Requires 40 points in Discipline Talents
10% of base mana 30 yd range
1.5 sec cast 2 min cooldown
Telepathically induce a state of pacifism, making the target unable to attack or use any offensive spells or abilities for 10 seconds.
Holy
Tier 6
Improved Inspiration
Requires 3 points in Inspiration
Requires 25 points in Holy Talents
The Inspiration effect also increases your target's resistances to all schools by 10/20.
Tier 7
Empowered Light
Requires 30 points in Holy Talents
Your Flash Heal and Smite spells gain an additional 2/4/6/8/10% of your bonus spell damage effects.
Lightwell
Requires 1 point in Spirit of Redemption
Requires 30 points in Holy Talents
365 mana
1.5 sec cast 5 min cooldown
Creates a holy Lightwell near the priest that lasts for 2 min. Friendly targets can click the Lightwell to restore 1600 health over 10 sec. Being attacked cancels the effect.
Tier 8
Rapture
Requires 1 point in Lightwell
Requires 35 points in Holy Talents
Gives your Flash Heal and Greater Heal spells a 1/2/3/4/5% chance to cast an identical spell on each party member at no additional cost while your Lightwell is active.
Steely Resolve
Requires 35 points in Holy Talents
Increases the critical strike chance of any spell cast on a wounded target by 10/20/30%.
Tier 9
Aura of the Chosen
Requires 5 points in Rapture
Requires 40 points in Holy Talents
Instant
Light radiates from you, healing the friendly target and all party members within 30 yards for 1% of their total health every 2 seconds.
Shadow
Tier 2
Shadow Affinity
Requires 5 points in Shadow Talents
All shadow spells cast against you restore 1/2/3% of your total mana. In addition, your shadow spells generate 8/16/25% less threat.
Tier 6
Improved Mind Control
Requires 25 points in Shadow Talents
Reduces the cast time of your Mind Control spell by 0.5/1 sec.
Tier 7
Dark Power
Requires 30 points in Shadow Talents
Your Shadow Word: Pain, Mind Flay, and Mind Rot spells gain an additional 3/6/9/12/15% of your bonus spell damage effects.
Tier 8
Possession
Requires 2 points in Improved Mind Control
Requires 35 points in Shadow Talents
Gives you a 33/66/100% chance to become invisible while you are channeling your Mind Control and Mind Vision spells.
Withering Touch
Requires 1 point in Shadow Form
Requires 35 points in Shadow Talents
All melee and ranged attacks against you while you are in Shadowform cause the attacker to suffer shadow damage equal to 4/7/10% of the damage taken.
Tier 9
Subversion
Requires 3 points in Withering Touch
Requires 40 points in Shadow Talents
660 mana 30 yd range
Instant cast 3 min cooldown
Calls forth stifling darkness which drains 630 mana and causes 545 shadow damage to all enemies within a selected area over 8 seconds. You gain mana equal to 10% of the damage caused.
Trainable Ranks listed below:
Rank 2: 875 mana, drains 835 mana and causes 722 shadow damage.
Rank 3: 1130 mana, drains 1079 mana and causes 933 shadow damage
Filed under: Priest, News items, Expansions
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
synack Sep 6th 2006 2:29PM
These smell a lot more authentic to me. They were originally posted on the curse-gaming.com forums back in March. Here is the link to the thread:
http://forums.curse-gaming.com/showthread.php?t=11655&highlight=priest+talents
jpc Sep 6th 2006 2:30PM
You're welcome spencer. I just wish that there was an official release to confirm it or that the holy talents were better. The 41point talent is very nice, but you have to invest 7 points in crap to get there. Atleast the Disc/Shadow trees look ok...
jpc Sep 6th 2006 2:32PM
synack, aren't those exactly the same?
Patrick Sep 6th 2006 4:07PM
Aura of the Chosen
Requires 5 points in Rapture
Requires 40 points in Holy Talents
Instant
Light radiates from you, healing the friendly target and all party members within 30 yards for 1% of their total health every 2 seconds.
Can you just say "Gank Me Please!"
Chubby Sep 6th 2006 4:48PM
4. Aura of the Chosen
Requires 5 points in Rapture
Requires 40 points in Holy Talents
Instant
Light radiates from you, healing the friendly target and all party members within 30 yards for 1% of their total health every 2 seconds.
Make that 1% of Hp's and Mana and it really would be worth it. Otherwise waste of Points
Chubbs
synack Sep 6th 2006 6:13PM
@jpc.
Yes that's what I meant. The ones posted here are the same I read at curse. Poor choice of wording on my part. I feel like these talents sound more legit than the "Champion" ones from the other day.
elizabeth Sep 6th 2006 6:27PM
These do sound a lot more reasonable than the previously posted priest rumors, but they're still not particularly flashy... (Which is to say that they do nothing to really make me change my mind about rolling a paladin.)
I'm still keeping my fingers crossed, though...
Faar Sep 6th 2006 10:25PM
I don't really know what you people gripe about with regards to the higher end holy talents. Are they uber-pwn l33t? No.
Are they useless? Nope, not that either!
"Lolwell" isn't bad at all for me as a priest, I put one up at the start of a boss fight, then I click it after getting aggro and have it heal myself back up again. It's not really any damn good for any of the other party members, but as my own reuseable personal bandage with no cooldown it works just fine.
The top-tier talent seems great to me. Assume you have like 3000HP, 1% of that while inside the aura is 150 a second, ALL THE TIME. How can anyone say that is bad? This is a considerable heal-boost. Best of all is if it affects me as well, which I assume it does. :P
I do wish though that Blizz would introduce some better form of escape for us priests than simply AoE fear, bubble, renew + run. For this to work assumes fear isn't on cooldown, the mobs attacking me AREN'T UNDEAD, and that bubble isn't on cooldown + that I have mana to throw all that sh!t on myself. And that I don't get more adds on the way either, or that the feared mobs won't catch up with me again and pound my shield to bits and chop me to pieces (very likely with higher level baddies).
I'd LOVE to have a summonable cherub-type pet that would hover around me and GRABS AGGRO ONLY. Ie, not fly away like a hunter pet to attack, but simply counterattack stuff that wails at me. It would have 4 spells, all of whom runs on mana.
These would be: a 'growl' type spell that threatens a single enemy, a 'screech' type spell for AoE aggro, one that lets it heal itself and a final spell that lets me drain it of mana. That would be great I think...
AcceptableRisk Sep 7th 2006 12:32AM
@Faar:
So basically, you want a Voidwalker with a built in Dark Pact. Wouldn't that be nice?
et Sep 7th 2006 8:05PM
the link from curse-gaming forum wasn't posted on March, it was 3rd of sept 06.
Chubby Sep 7th 2006 9:12AM
Faar 3k HP's would equal to 30 HP regen per tick under this aura. Pretty useless especially in higer end game when things hit you for 1-2K plus and very fast.
Your pet aggro Idea really is a cool idea. Would love to have lets say an OWL or some type of bird that doesnt attack just sits there and waits to grab aggro from you, I know this will never happen but It is a really nice idea.
Honestly we as priest are really not hurting when it comes to escapability, IF timed right you can always have either Fade or Fear up. Shield FTW. Runs Razorgore event 1Million times and trust me you become an expert on keeping 1 of those timers active at all times.
Cheers
Chubbs
jpc Sep 7th 2006 9:40AM
The champion stuff is going to be new spells that we get. It's still going to be there as far as I can tell. As far as getting away, I think we'll be getting a new spell called 'shadow blink' which should help us some with that. Now, all of this stuff is based on leaked info from a beta/alpha so who knows if it'll still be the same.
Faar, the main problem with lightwell, for me anyway, is that Spirit of Redemption (aka ghost that laughs at me for dying) is a prereq. I really think the SoD animation should be made invis to the living similar to the spirit healer...