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Shadowlands Priest Class Changes for August 11th

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Here come even more class changes, as Priests get the Night Fae Covenant ability, Fae Blessings significantly changed and even renamed to Fae Guardians! The ability now has 3 different uses, and is more useful for Shadow Priests as well.

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Greetings Priests! In the latest build we have made some significant changes to Fae Blessings. We heard feedback that it wasn’t quite hitting the mark for a covenant ability, and we agree. In reworking this ability, we want to address Power Word: Shield Power Word: Shield, add a personal benefit to the spell, and make the spell more usable for Shadow Priests, while still keeping its identity as a powerful group support spell.

The ability is now named “Fae Guardians,” to better represent the new design, and to differentiate it from Blessing of the Seasons.

  • Fae Guardians (1.5 minute cooldown) – Call forth three faerie guardians to attend your targets for 20 seconds.
    • Wrathful Faerie: Your direct attacks against the target restore 1% Mana or 6 Insanity. Follows your Shadow Word: Pain Shadow Word: Pain.
    • Guardian Faerie: Reduces damage taken by 10%. Follows your Power Word: Shield Power Word: Shield.
    • Benevolent Faerie: Increases the cooldown recovery rate of a major ability by 100%. Follows your Shadow Mend Shadow Mend / Flash Heal Flash Heal .

Rather than using up charges, you can now manage 3 persistent Faerie buffs. Each Faerie can only exist on 1 target at a time. When you cast Fae Guardians, the Guardian and Benevolent Faerie will be summoned immediately on yourself. You can then cast Power Word: Shield Power Word: Shield to move the Guardian Faerie to your desired target, Shadow Mend Shadow Mend to move the Benevolent Faerie, and Shadow Word: Pain Shadow Word: Pain to apply the Wrathful Faerie. Note that the Wrathful Faerie only restores mana or Insanity for the Priest, not their allies.

Our goal is to make the ability more flexible, require less maintenance, and provide fun gameplay for all three Priest specializations.

Please continue letting us know how this design feels, and thanks for all the feedback so far!

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This seems pretty cool and interactive. Like

This kind of interaction could be needed for some other boring abilities, like the venthyr monk mirror ability, where you summon monk spirits which at the moment is a "press and forget" ability.

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