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Comment by hotchrisbfries

Example of working macro:

#showtooltip
/startattack
/castsequence reset=3 Smite, Ascended Nova, Ascended Nova

Comment by Oblivious

It's rather odd that this replaces Smite (Smite - the main single-target filler, with no cooldown) with a spell that has a cooldown, but doesn't simply replace Holy Nova (Holy Nova) with Ascended Nova (Ascended Nova - which is basically an improved version of the same spell).

It does replace itself with Ascended Nova (although this is currently not mentioned in the tooltip), but it would make far more sense to do it the other way around, replacing Holy Nova with Ascended Nova and having Ascended Blast as a mutation of Boon of the Ascended, allowing players to still cast Smite while Ascended Blast is on cooldown, if they're only interested in single-target damage.

That would let us fit this into our UI and rotation in an intuitive, natural way, with minimal disruption, and treat it as the boon it's supposed to be:

Button X : Smite
Button Y : Nova (Ascended during Boon, Holy otherwise)
Button Z : Boon of the Ascended / Ascended Blast (mirroring the way Shadow spec handles Void Eruption / Void Bolt - Void Eruption)

But I guess Blizzard thinks that buffs that arbitrarily reverse the logic of our UI (and their own class design) somehow "improves player experience".

Anyway, the good news is that a macro with these lines:

/cast Ascended Nova
/cast Holy Nova

... does work (it will cast Ascended Nova during the Boon, and otherwise ignore that line and cast Holy Nova). The bad news is there's no way to fix the fact that you're still left with no spammable single-target offensive filler. Ascended Blast does allow you to do slightly higher single-target DPS (compared to Smite) while leaving some gaps to cast defensive spells (or to fill with Ascended Novas, of course), but the offensive benefits in single-target fights are negligible, and that's already one of Holy spec's main weaknesses.

Comment by darkbane

Anyone else has noticed the bug that whenever you cast Boon of the Ascended for 1 sec all your raid members get phased?

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Boon of the Ascended

Boon of the Ascended

Covenant Ability

1.5 sec cast	3 min cooldown

Draw upon the power of the Ascended for 10 sec, granting you access to Ascended Nova, replacing [ Shadow: Mind Flay /

Discipline, Holy
Smite] with Ascended Blast, and increasing movement speed by 50%.

Upon expiration, releases an Ascended Eruption:

Explode for up to (210% of Spell power) Arcane damage to enemies and (159% of Spell power) healing to allies within 15 yds, based on number of targets. Damage and healing increased by 3% for each stack of Boon of the Ascended.

Buff

Boon of the Ascended

Empowered to cast Ascended Nova and Ascended Blast. Damage and healing of Ascended Eruption increased by 3%.
10 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

10 seconds

School

Arcane

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

1.5 seconds

Cooldown

3 minutes

GCD

1.5 seconds

Aura proc chance

100%

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Mod Dispel Resistance %
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Overrides Actionbar Spell

	Ascended Nova

PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Increase Run Speed %
Value: 50%
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #4

Apply Aura: Overrides Actionbar Spell

	Ascended Blast

PVP Multiplier: 1
Affected Spells:

	Smite

Effect #5

Apply Aura: Dummy
Value: 3
PVP Multiplier: 1
Server-side script

Effect #6

Apply Aura: Root
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #7

Apply Aura: Overrides Actionbar Spell

	Ascended Blast

PVP Multiplier: 1
Affected Spells:

	Mind Flay

Effect #8

Apply Aura: Modifies Cooldown by Haste
PVP Multiplier: 1
Affected Spells:

	Ascended Nova		Ascended Blast

Flags

Aura Points On Client
Not In Spellbook Until Learned
Reset cooldown upon ending an encounter
Do Not Consume Aura Stack On Proc

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