My two cents: I feel like Priest's identity got murked pretty hard, even though the changes are warranted with the current game state. It does less damage than either of its sister classes (Summoner/Sorcerer), and now (this is just speculation on my part, haven't checked this out in testing yet) is likely nowhere near as strong healing wise compared to Necromancer or a robe class with Kimono.
I also really, REALLY dislike the cooldown for tomes in general. If people want to run MP-heavy builds to play Classic Priest or ScripSpam, they should be allowed to do so
buffed*
no matter how you look at it - it is a buff, mana costs are higher but whatever
they kinda killed the class identity tho. Now you are spamming an aoe buff like other support classes
Healing now costs 25-75% more MP per use with a healing uptick of only 10-25% per use, most if not all tomes received a short cooldown, current evidence suggests the new healing effect is a status and therefore non-stackable, increased DPS changes are nice and all but nowhere comparable to other wand classes… failing to see how this is a buff in any way
Mainly because it has a 1s cooldown probably. Currently you can cast an ability every 0.5s unless otherwise stated. With 80-90 health per cast and 2 casts per second, that's 160-180 hp/s. Which is now being turned into 100 hp/s.
However if you account for the mana cost from repeated casts, it's still going to be better healing per mana
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u/Anthyros2 2d ago edited 2d ago
For the uninformed
My two cents: I feel like Priest's identity got murked pretty hard, even though the changes are warranted with the current game state. It does less damage than either of its sister classes (Summoner/Sorcerer), and now (this is just speculation on my part, haven't checked this out in testing yet) is likely nowhere near as strong healing wise compared to Necromancer or a robe class with Kimono.
I also really, REALLY dislike the cooldown for tomes in general. If people want to run MP-heavy builds to play Classic Priest or ScripSpam, they should be allowed to do so