Holy Damage

So everyone knows paladins do holy damage, but a lot of people don't realize how manage damaging spells exist within the Healing Priest trees.

Smite, Holy Fire, Holy Nova, and Penance, Power Word: Shield can be talent to reflect back damage absorbed as Holy Damage. A good number of talents in both Discipline and Holy trees increase damage as well as healing done. Seeing this i began fooling around with the Talent Calculator and came up with this "Holy Damage" Build This is actually makes me want to level a priest quite a bit more, seeing as I'm by far the worst healer in existence the Idea of having another fun, if suboptimal, DPS spec to play with is pretty cool. This got me thinking. First off after tier six in Holy there are no more talents that specifically benefit Damaging spells, though a couple do increase them indirectly. Secondly Discipline has a number of talents that increase damage, however the only spell in the tree that specifically does damage is Penace. For the maximum usage of points it requires 17 points in Holy the rest in Discipline and maybe a few over in shadow.

but imagine this

Glyph of Restored Faith - Major Glyph - Transforms your Shadowform into Seraph Form. You lose the ability to cast Shadow Word: Pain, Shadow Word: Death, Vampiric Touch, and Devouring Plague, but you can now use Holy Fire, Smite, Holy Nova, and Pennace. Damage Bonus applies to both Holy and Shadow Spells.

Sadly this isn't possible currently but if Shadowform was moved up or became a baseline ability it could make for an interesting second dps option for priest. However there's a large amount of healing filler in the current build which feels a lot like wasted points. Plus there could be a new spell called.

Heavens Fury - Calls down a bolt of divine lightning to strike your foes dealing X Holy-Nature damage and Y damage to all enemies nearby

Or one like this

Wrath of An'She - Fire a beam of radiance at the target dealing X Holy-Fire damage and Y damage over Z seconds.

And this would be a must for shadow and holy damage DPS

Perversion - Twists the targets faith against them dealing X Holy-Shadow damage over Y seconds, and an additional Z damage when it expires

Shadowfrost damage is cool but, there's no precedent for frost within the tree. Of course there isn't really such thing a resiting holy, so anything combined with it would always do Holy damage so to for these spells you could separate the damage types between the portions of the spell. Initial attack does holy, while the secondary attack does the other damage type.

There are only a few more BHFL articles left to write, and I'll be moving into, BCFL, Building a Class From Lore, and i'll make an attempt to build and Inquisitor with this Spec at it's core. Maybe I'll find some time to roll a priest and do some testing with it, who knows, but this just seemed pretty cool