Now there is talk of turning attention to the discipline tree. In a post today on the forums Eyonix laid the foundation for what will become some juicy speculation on what Blizzard has wanted from the discipline priests:
Yesterday I took an extensive review of what we have in store for discipline (though it will see many changes between now and release) in Wrath of the Lich King. For quite some time I've been providing the designers with feedback from the community, as well as my own thoughts and ideas. Though it may not always be apparent every member of our team works very hard communicating all aspects of player feedback.
With that being said, the current iteration of the tree literally blew my mind. I was in the class designers office in under a minute discussing the changes like I was a nine year old child who was given a sneak peak of an entire set of unreleased Garbage Pail Kids cards. I can't say much but I will say this:
The tree will stand on its own two feet.
It will be viable in PvE.
You will notice impact from player feedback
The statement is so marvelous I wanted to give it to you in its entirety (minus the first line, that merely let us know no formal announcement is being made at this time). We're going to see a fully -functional Discipline tree in WotLK, able to stand alone as a viable PvE option for priests. Finally it appears that Blizzard knows where Discipline fits in now in the scheme of things, and it seems their goal of giving every class three viable trees is coming to fruition.
Who will next receive the love, do you think?
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11-02-2007 @ 8:03PM
Andrew said...
Not getting my hopes up.
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11-02-2007 @ 8:06PM
Kevin said...
I also am not getting my hopes up.
Also, WOW Insider already had a post on this topic 2 days ago.
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11-02-2007 @ 8:37PM
makabak said...
Agreed, when the original post from Eyonix is { 10/31/2007 01:26:15 AM UTC}, and you claim it's "today," well, I'm starting to be surprised at how much Wowinsider is passing off as "original" or "up to date" news.
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11-02-2007 @ 8:40PM
scoobydoobydoo said...
If its twice as good as what they did to the holy tree, i still won't be impressed.
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11-02-2007 @ 9:17PM
Alcevious said...
Eyonix has never built up Priest talents before. Ever.
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11-02-2007 @ 10:17PM
Zeplar said...
This is a copy of a wowinsider article a couple days ago. I'm surprised Amanda, you should check your own site more often.
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11-02-2007 @ 11:40PM
Cisie said...
I can't wait til "OMFG IMBA DISC PRIEST, NERFBAT NAO!" pops up on the forum, in fact, I wouldn't be suprised if someone creates that exact forum just to be a douche. Ah well :-/
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11-02-2007 @ 11:57PM
Reid said...
If they can do it, great. I like the idea of subdivisions of each class to fill certain needs. That gives players more variety from which to choose, rather than simply adding more classes (not that I'm opposed to that). Although, I do believe that no matter what specialty a player wishes to choose, they should have the same viability and enjoyment in solo-ing, instances, or raids. PvP not so much as that's not the main focus of the game.
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11-03-2007 @ 5:45AM
dixinormous said...
They should turn the discipline tree into a monk-esque tree. It could be a middle route between decent healing, decent damage (maybe even melee damage, unarmed combat lalcakes), and decent damage mitigation. I've always thought priests needed a middle route, like mages have the arcane tree for crit central builds. A nice little tallent would be for priests to be able to wear leather or something.
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11-03-2007 @ 5:54AM
Jared said...
"They should turn the discipline tree into a monk-esque tree. It could be a middle route between decent healing, decent damage (maybe even melee damage, unarmed combat lalcakes), and decent damage mitigation. I've always thought priests needed a middle route, like mages have the arcane tree for crit central builds. A nice little tallent would be for priests to be able to wear leather or something."
Priests already get to wear Leather, it is called Inner Fire :)
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11-05-2007 @ 4:40AM
Richie said...
Simple, think of it this way:
Holy - Healing
Shadow - DPS
Disc - TANKING
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11-05-2007 @ 4:45AM
Richie said...
It'd be easy too just gear the talants towards, Holy shield, inner fire, and give the Disc build agro holding skills. Imagining a Group of 5 Priests
51/0/0 Tanking
30/21/0 Off-Tank healer
10/41/0 Main healer
21/0/30 DPS
0/0/51 DPS
Magical :D
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