Blizzard on Fae Guardians - Reworked Priest Night Fae Covenant Ability

Shadowlands Posted 2020/08/11 at 3:39 PM by Archimtiros

Fae GuardiansShadow Word: PainPower Word: ShieldFlash Heal

Build 35522 Datamining

Class & Spell Changes

Pre-Patch

Blue Post

Blizzard

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, 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.
Guardian Faerie: Reduces damage taken by 10%. Follows your Power Word: Shield.
Benevolent Faerie: Increases the cooldown recovery rate of a major ability by 100%. Follows your Shadow Mend / 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 to move the Guardian Faerie to your desired target, Shadow Mend to move the Benevolent Faerie, and 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!

Spell Changes

REMOVED Your next 10 healing spells send forth helpful sprites, buffing your target depending on your chosen spell.

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

Fae Guardians
Holy:
Surround yourself with helpful sprites, causing your next 10 spell casts to aid your target depending on your chosen spell.
Power Word: Shield: Invigorates your target with 2% mana or 20% resource.
Flash Heal, HealCall forth three faerie guardians to attend your targets for 20 seconds.
Wrathful Faerie: Direct attacks against the target restore 1% Mana or 6 Insanity. Follows your Shadow Word: Pain.
Guardian Faerie: Reduces damage taken by 10%. for 15 sec.
Prayer of Healing: Reduces the cooldowns of one major ability for all targets by 3 sec.
Discipline:
Surround yourself with helpful sprites, causing your next 10 spell casts to aid your target depending on your chosen spell.
Power Word: Shield: Invigorates your target with 2% mana or 20% resource.
Shadow Mend: Reduces an ally'sFollows your Power Word: Shield.
Benevolent Faerie: Increases the cooldown recovery rate of a major ability by 100%. Follows your Flash Heal
Discipline:
Call forth three faerie guardians to attend your targets for 20 seconds.
Wrathful Faerie: Direct attacks against the target restore 1% Mana or 6 Insanity. Follows your Shadow Word: Pain.
Guardian Faerie: Reduces damage taken by 10%. for 15 sec.
Power Word: Radiance: Reduces the cooldowns of one major ability for all targets by 3 sec.
Shadow, Initial:
Surround yourself with helpful sprites, causing your next 10 spell casts to aid your target depending on your chosen spell.
Power Word: Shield: Invigorates your target with 2% mana or 20% resource.
Shadow Mend: Reduces an ally'sFollows your Power Word: Shield.
Benevolent Faerie: Increases the cooldown recovery rate of a major ability by 100%. Follows your Shadow Mend
Shadow, Initial:
Call forth three faerie guardians to attend your targets for 20 seconds.
Wrathful Faerie: Direct attacks against the target restore 1% Mana or 6 Insanity. Follows your Shadow Word: Pain.
Guardian Faerie: Reduces damage taken by 10%. for 15 sec.
Void Bolt: Reduces the cooldowns of up to 5 allies' major abilities by 3 sec.Follows your Power Word: Shield.
Benevolent Faerie: Increases the cooldown recovery rate of a major ability by 100%. Follows your Shadow Mend
Name changed from Fae Blessings to Fae Guardians

Comment by TheMcDaneeSo they removed the potentially super broken system where you could give other classes their dump resource, such as Runic Power and Rage? Thank god.Comment by vultrazAt the moment it feels pretty weird for healers, because cooldown reduction will likely be placed on the tank most of the time, otherwise you need to essentialy abstain from flashes (which is gonna feel bad especially in Holy) and only keep it on one of the dps. Maybe they need to give it to another ability, like... I don't know :c

But the general concept is alright, better than the previous version to me.Comment by ZexfalThis is better, but still not great when you compare how absolutely ridiculous Kyrian's entire system is. The mana regen makes night fae usable but you're essentially turning the combat into resource management now and disc priest already has so many things to track, and if you want mana regen you essentially have to avoid healing or targeting other people for the duration, or you lose out on mana.Comment by Omnisia7Big nerf in term of the 10% damage reduction being only applied to 1 target now and less uptime.Feels weird to not be able to cast the spell without moving the faery...Comment by RodriguezzzAll of these give CDR to a friendly player are gonna be such an incredibly stupid pain in the ass. I'd be absolutely amazed if guilds won't micromanage this $%^& to silly levels for early mythic progression.Comment by PyramysI think the faerie goes to the target of your next heal/mend/shield, not darting around every time you use a heal/mend/shield.Comment by kaleestrazaAnother spell with much better druidic fantasy than the Druid spell lmaoComment by Mattysaiyan and if you want mana regen you essentially have to avoid healing or targeting other people for the duration, or you lose out on mana.Comment by DiscolancizDude it was usless it was NEVER ''super broken'' it was litterarly a meme xdComment by Zexfal and if you want mana regen you essentially have to avoid healing or targeting other people for the duration, or you lose out on mana.Comment by KeyenBig nerf in term of the 10% damage reduction being only applied to 1 target now and less uptime.Feels weird to not be able to cast the spell without moving the faery...Comment by EmeraldBlueAnother spell with much better druidic fantasy than the Druid spell lmaoComment by MazzdamundiI'm concerned this won't be as cool as the previous ability in adding value to the team but it needs to be seen in action to get any idea if its good or notComment by kaleestrazaAnother spell with much better druidic fantasy than the Druid spell lmaoComment by anfz19I think the idea is good, but it seems to have little interaction with holy priest's core spells. Yeah holy priest can use shield and pain, but they are not really used for pure healing rotation. At least I wish Renew can be used for Guardian Faerie in addition to Power word shieldComment by xeravWell the new version is not fun but its also not as broken as the old one (funneling power always gets out of control).Comment by LundhlolThe old ability was 10 times stronger. What is this new garbage? Literally worthless. I was heavily considering Night Fae for the mobility, but the new ability is so bad compared to Kyrian and Necrolord abilities, so there is no way you can justify grabbing it for mobility.Comment by DiscolancizI cant belive they actually managed to make night fae even worse then before LUL