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Comment by cryptphoenix

This one seems like Holy Word:Sanctuary but kinda modified. I guess Dark Halo will be used as Shadow priests and Halo will be used as discipline. So for now these spells are like Evangelism combined with Holy Word:Sanctuary

Comment by Niveaulos

(The original post on Divine Star took me too long to do and wasn't satisfying because I simply used 15'000 spell power, so I thought I'd do it this time with some graphs.. I won't post them as a picture in here but I'll give you the links to fooplot.com.. :)

For those who don't know exactly how to read a graph: There are 2 axes:
horizontal: The x-axis which represents the amount of spell power
vertical: The y-axis which represents the amount of healing/damage done per "x" spell power given

So in the following example you would do 20'000 healing/damage with 10'000 spell power (or 10'000 healing/damage with 5'000 spell power).

http://fooplot.com/plot/olwivoysr5

The question for me was, which one of the three lvl90-Talents to use as a Disc-Priest in PvP. My Problem as Disc is mostly the lack of Mana during a battle and of course, doing damage and healing enough as well. So my factors are:

Mana
Healing
Damage
Cooldown

Note: The following graphs are colored. Unfortunately I couldn't find a way to describe them directly on fooplot (please let me know if there's a way)

Red: Divine Star - Damage
Purple: Divine Star - Healing
Blue: Halo - Damage
Light blue: Halo - Healing
Green: Cascade - Damage & Healing

Here's a little overview of the three different spells:

The average of each spell:
http://fooplot.com/plot/897yv8kdxz

Now let's put them down on the same level again. The mana first:

Adjusted to 4.5% base mana (-> Divine Star):
http://fooplot.com/plot/ongj2jdd7i

Note: You've got to zoom in a little because now they all get closer to each other.

And last but not least - The cooldown:

Adjusted to 15 seconds cooldown (->Divine Star):
http://fooplot.com/plot/kfguw11qq9

Now a few other aspects:
Divine Star: Useful in arena to detect stealth enemies, like rogues or druids. You can do it either at the beginning of the fight or when they use vanish or shadowmeld. Also, the spell is "casted twice" which means you have doubled luck chance of gaining a procc. You get a lot of heal during a "Zerg" or in a 10/25 raid whilst the group is on one spot or in a line. But in dungeons you have to take care so you don't pull unnecessary adds. The spell is casted in the direction you're looking, so you're quick enough to just spin with your mouse. And of course: it does the most DPS / HPS

Cascade: This is great for healing a dungeon, because you will heal up to 15 targets at once, almost independent where the members are standing. You won't pull any adds because the spell doesn't heal and damage at the same time. But using this on an enemy can pull the whole room because it bounces to "idle" NPCs. Of course, it can be a disadvantage in PvP, because it doesn't hit a target more than once, and wont heal or do damage at the same time.

Halo: Unfortunately they've nerfed this spell so you're no longer able to hit stealthed enemies. The advantage here is the fact that you can use it for bursting down your enemy, or save your ass in trouble (but remember: it won't heal you for the highest amount, because it reaches it's best effect at 25 yards. And you have to position yourself good, to get the best out of this spell). Using this spell in a Dungeonroom full of trash is a suicide commando!
Halo could do alot more/less when I would've calculated with the minimum and maximum of healing/damage instead of taking the average amount. If I have some free time I'm gonna add some graphics (even though I'm "scared" the graphics get flooded)

After these few graphs and personal opinions we can all see, that Divine Star became a major buff with patch 5.2, because I didn't calculate the "fact" (or 90% chance - whatever you want to call it) that Divine Star hits the target twice!

If you wonder: I (still) use Divine Star

Please correct me if I did something somewhere wrong and please tell me whether you do understand the graphs. Otherwise I'll search for some time to post some of the tables I did with Patch 5.0.5 :)

Hope my English isn't too bad, I'm Swiss. Swiss Chocolate! :D

Comment by Brewii

One ring to pull them all!

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Halo

Halo

Talent

4% of base mana	30 yd range

1.5 sec cast	40 sec cooldown

Discipline, Holy
Creates a ring of Shadow energy around you that quickly expands to a 30 yd radius, healing allies for (161% of Spell power) and dealing [(144.2% of Spell power) * 1 * 1 * 1] Shadow damage to enemies. Healing reduced beyond 6 targets.

Shadow
Creates a ring of Shadow energy around you that quickly expands to a 30 yd radius, healing allies for (161% of Spell power) and dealing [(144.2% of Spell power) * 1 * 1 * 1] Shadow damage to enemies. Healing reduced beyond 6 targets.

Generates 10 Insanity.

Spell Details

Duration

2.15 seconds

School

Shadow

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

4% of base mana

Range

30 yards (Medium)

Cast time

1.5 seconds

Cooldown

40 seconds

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Create Area Trigger (658)
Value: 6
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #2

Give Power (Insanity)
Value: 10
PVP Multiplier: 1

Flags

Cannot be used while shapeshifted
Cannot be reflected
All spell effects are harmful
Does not require shapeshift
Always AOE Line of Sight
Do Not Add to Unlearn List
Spellcast Override In Spellbook
Allow Class Ability Procs
Prevent Jumping During Precast

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