In an effort to further balance the game, Koraa levitated over to the
Priest Beta forums to
drop the bomb that Blizzard was canning all Priest racial abilities in an upcoming Beta build. This comes long after
Fear Ward, formerly a Dwarf racial ability for Priests, was made baseline and trainable at Level 20. However, Koraa makes a few important points, the most notable being that
Desperate Prayer, the Human and Dwarf Priest racial ability, will become the 11-point talent for Holy.
Holy Nova, on the other hand, will become baseline. Desperate Prayer will likely be retuned to better fit an 11-point talent (it currently has a 10 minute cooldown).
Koraa adds that the formerly Undead Priest racial
Devouring Plague will also become a baseline spell, with a reduced cooldown of 30 seconds (down from 3 minutes) and
"greatly reduced" mana cost. The Draenei racial ability
Symbol of Hope will be renamed Hymn of Hope and also become a baseline ability, now restoring 5% of total mana every 2 seconds for 8 seconds to the priest's party members. All other racial abilities, from
Starshards to
Shadowguard, will be removed from the game. Enjoy them now before
Patch 3.0 hits!
