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Comment by murakaz

Great in PvP if you happen to be with a mage, warlock or shadow priest. Throw this baby on 'em and watch opponents drop!

Comment by skitzosmeagol

This doesn't stack with Arcane Power, if you are a mage, however this is very good with wsg beserker+ PI+ trinket :) Thats ALOT of spell damage

Comment by 7901

While this ability is amusing to use on a DPS class such as a Mage, or Lock, or Shadow Priest, heck even the odd Balance druid and watch them Moonfire Spam someone for 20% more is enjoyable in PVP.

The PVE Viability of the ability is somewhat limited.
I haven't found too many boss fights where it would be appropriate to use this on a DPS class, especially with the recent nerf to the threat reduction on some classes such as the mage, it would be unwise to push their dps any high for fear of them over aggroing.

Maybe on Patchwerk, or if a guild uses the Hellfire method of killing the Panther Boss in ZG, i don't see any other real use for it other then maybe perhaps giving that last extra boost to kill a boss at low HP. Or perhaps force a little more healing out of someone.

Comment by 8049

In PvE, this ability is near useless, considering to have to sacrifice so many nice talents in the Holy tree to get it. However, in PvP it can allow casters to get some nice critical hits every 3 minutes!

Comment by 9250

A fun PvE use for this talent is giving it to a mage or warlock without telling them and watching them pull aggro. (It is not advised that you do this on any serious encounter, but it's good for a few laughs in MC)

Comment by schintus

Does the 20% add to base-spelldmg or your total spelldmg?

Comment by 37922

This, like Avenging Wrath is just screaming to mages: STEAL ME STEAL ME!!

Comment by 22744

Now that Horde have pallys this is actually useful for them while tanking or as (lol)ret
Also Ele shammies who can do godly damage as seen here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=-jqKih2_Cww

Comment by 22744

I thought it would be funny to spec like this for about a day: https://www.wowhead.com/mop-classic/talent=bxMrzhGtrzZ0xtGbbqoZh
And i gotta say that i had a lot of fun,
but the most fun i had was when i discovered that i could Power Infuse my shadow~friend~.
So next time i waited for spirit tap to proc, then i poped my icon of the silver crest, and then i used my shadowfiend and PI'ed it instead of me....
I got really amazing results b/c my fiend, whereas it regualry hits for about 150-180 (+1200 to all damage), was now hitting for a solid 215 and critting for 330!! thats 530-800 mana back per hit!!!
I tried again when all my CDs had refreshed, but this time i PI'ed myself and then cast my fiend (with Spirit tap/Icon) and got mediocer results compared to PI'ing my fiend.
But the really funny thing is that when i PI myself, my fiend hits for about the same, so i guess that what PI does is increase the potential of my fiend's mana leech ability, very odd.... and i will have to do some more testing...
I consider the spec above more of a pvp spec b/c of its survivablity and utility/recover rate, but i didnt pvp much that day.
but i know that i am not throwing that spec away for the usefulness of mana recovery that it provdes for my ever 5 mins :P
That spec was lots of fun, and i do recomend it, of course you can always tweak it to you own personal style ~.^

Comment by 31363

Does PI trigger a global cooldown?

Comment by Leprichan

PI is also is the only ability that increases Mana Burn.

Comment by 110870

Changed to 20% spell haste in patch 2.4.

Comment by Serai

power infusion is mend to buff others so you cant really compare this one to icy veins

but i wonder, why was this change needed?

Comment by Euros

Latest tooltip:
"Infuses the target with power, increasing spell casting speed by 20% and reducing the mana cost of all spells by -20%. Lasts 15 seconds." (MMO-champion)
On a side note: I seriously don't understand why the site admins update the spell desriptions before the change hits the live servers. As of 2.3.3 PI does NOT do what is in the tooltip here. Just my 2 cents.

Comment by 140427

i was upset with the change to PI until i realized how amazing it was in 2v2 arena coupled with mana burn.

Comment by 19461

How much spell haste rating is this equivalent to?

Comment by smdante

This does in fact affect the global cooldown just like heroism/bloodlust now does.

Comment by Renmi

Does it stack with Heroism/BL too?

Comment by 169453

Power Infusion is good for Mana Burns and also good for healing a target that requires a lot of HPS.

When used on others, it requires good timing because if the caster you buff becomes CC'd, interrupted, silenced, or otherwise unable to cast, the cooldown will be wasted.

Comment by Stryper7

*raises hand*

Question!!!

How does the troll haste racial work with this?

Comment by Persen

We paladin tanks would be of the few who have very little use for the new version of this spell :D

Comment by Wren

Would the 20% mana cost reduction really be worth the 16% total mana cost of casting this?

Comment by 171369

I'm probably going to get voted down but here goes:
Why is this still called POWER infusion? I mean, when it used to increase the amount of damage/healing dealt it made sense, it increased the POWER of your spells. But now, when it makes you faster and more mana efficient... what has that got to do with the word "POWER" directly? It has more to do with efficiency... I'm moderately picky when it comes to naming spells (they have to make some sense at least), but even a boring name such as "EFFICIENCY INFUSION" would be better to actually match the name and what the spell actually does... am i the only one a bit bugged about this?

Comment by Stryper7

I still beat the crap outta mobs with it, or I can give it to one of my friends, and regardless of whether it was pre 2.4 or post 2.4 I feel pretty damn powerful and efficient.

Comment by 157377

I would try to use this one to heal a DK for fun, but forgot to target myself, and the DK got this. Not the right spell for the right class, I'll hope they're gonna fix it, so you wouldn't accidently spend a CD on the wrong guy.

Comment by Rockfall

Just a thought for all those Disc priests out there (like myself) on who you should be putting this on. Do a little research (or just ask around in guild) as to which casting class benfits the most from haste.

I've found that mages and destro warlocks love this spell, as do elemental shamans. Moonkins have very fast spells already and often stack haste as it is, and since, if I remember correctly, you can't lower the Global cooldown below 1 seconds anyway, this might actually be slightly wasted on your Wrath-spamming owl friend, especially if Bloodlust/Heroism is up. Druids, feel free to correct me on that if I'm wrong.

As a general rule I throw this on the highest dps caster in the raid who isn't an owl. I also try and save it for when Bloodlust/Heroism isn't up for the above reasons. For extra special caster love, co-ordinate this with your chosen caster popping their on-use spelldamage trinket for extra fun.

I hardly ever pop this on myself as my disc heals are fast enough already!

Comment by Stormwaker

Pi is receiving a new graphic for patch 3.1, a screenshot is provided in the media menu. Also, here's a video of what it looks like- http://www.vimeo.com/3381317

Behold, the power of the Super Saiyan!

Comment by 382958

Little known fact:

Platinum disk + Power Infusion + Borrowed Time

= 5.6 sec res cast time.

I got one off in a 2s match the other day (it was me vs. a shadow priest. Kited him away, got the fear and then came back and stood out of LOS). Obviously, gg.

Comment by olania

Unbeknownst to me, a priest in 10 man VoA put this on my elemental shaman last night. Said shaman had Wrath of Air Totem down and has 480 spell haste to begin with. So her Lightning Bolts are at a 1.66 second cast. I didn't even know I had PI on me until someone typed in raid chat, "Holy lightning bolts! There was just like five of them in the air at once!"

Must have been a couple Lightning Overload procs in there too, but it was pretty funny at the time.

Comment by bhorowitz

so, beings this was changed to haste from SP, does it now stack with Arcane Power? if so does it stack with Icy veins? it would be really useful to cast on an arcane mage right when they pop thier trinks, along with arcane power and icy viens.

Comment by 445685

Just re-posting a good macro someone else wrote:

#show Power Infusion
/script local u,p="target","Power Infusion";if IsSpellInRange(p,u)==1 and GetSpellCooldown(p)==0 then SendChatMessage("You just got "..GetSpellLink(p).."!","WHISPER",nil,UnitName(u)) end
/cast Power Infusion

It whispers your target "You just got !" (with a working spell link) if they're in range and the spell is off cooldown, then it casts it on them. Handy in case you're giving it to someone who doesn't expect to get it, or doesn't know what it does.

Comment by Bloodmuffin

For the sake of simplicity, this will *increase* your casting *speed* by 20%, or *decrease* your casting *time*. Spell haste.
The wording is a little ambiguous/sketchy.

Comment by sexyresults

Give it to a shadow priest, and they will love you forever.

Comment by Gnoktish

This talent spell goes perfect if you specced inside Attonement for the extra spell cast speed. This is a reliable spell to Increase a fellow spell caster's DPS or hasten up your healing. Attonement is great talent to have if you want to heal a tank faster as you smite the boss as well. So smite is a 2.5/3 second spell cast. With Power Infusion you can decrease the time that you smite and heal your tank twice as fast.

Comment by Edds

I hate this spell. Cause I always get several people begging for it.

Comment by Robula

Does this spell affect DoTs?

Comment by 842101

As a disc priest I use this mostly in arena when you see yourself getting into a mana burn battle. Keep track of the enemy's PI cooldown, wait when he used it for some random matter and let your teammate kite your team's dps target towards you (most easy if you are training a melee target). The other priest will have to follow, you pop PI and engage the burn battle when he is somewhere in the open. He is forced to get a heal out on his teammate, and even when he is trying to get burns off you at the same time, your haste will make you get 3 burns off while he manages to do 1-2, depending how much he has to heal. This an easy way to change a game since 20k of healer mana can easily make the difference between winning and losing. Inform your teammates about what your planning and make them silence/stun the incoming burns.

Positioning and communication is often just as important as CC!

Amen.

Comment by Bogdanov89

Since this buff increases only SPELL casting speed, it should only be casted on those who cast spells a lot.

Mages/Warlocks/ShadowPriests/BalanceDruids/ElemShamans will love you for gifting them this buff.

Comment by 1009266

For cast yourself macro

#showtooltip Power Infusion
/use Power Infusion

Comment by 499380

This spell is now self-cast only.

Comment by davesignal

Don't make the same mistake I did, healers: Power Infusion with Shadowfiend or Mindbender will not increase the amount of mana received, as only Haste effects boost the SF/MB swing speed-- not "casting speed". Instead, use Power Infusion with your throughput cooldowns, such as Spirit Shell or Divine Hymn.

Comment by 945238

Power Infusion now stacks with timewarp/bloodlust.

Comment by 2OfDiamonds

With Arcane Power (Power Infusion's older brother) having a 1,5 minute cooldown, it might be nice to see that here aswell.

Is there such a difference in power level? Personally I have not had this spell since it was made caster only.

Comment by Thottbot

Hmmm,

I can already imagine this spell in its maximum effect - the priest shielding the mage and buffing the mage after he/she has been buffed also with arcane power and the trinkets, along with any temporary bonus buff effects. The outcome would be insanely critical damage within that short period of time :D

Comment by Thottbot

I like this but i dont think it last long anuf, like the 1 in BG buffs 30% up and last 1 min. where this 1 only last for 15 sec. the mage cambo is cool cuz they can cast lots of spells in 15 sec but if i want to use it for my self it only around 3-5 heals or dmg spells :/ kinda disapointing how short it is.

Comment by Thottbot

yeah i know it's pretty sweet
but i just don't understand what this has to do with 'staying power'

Comment by Thottbot

World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.10.2

Arcane Power: This aura will no longer stack with Power Infusion. If you use it, Arcane Power's aura will replace Power Infusion's aura.

ha ha

Comment by Thottbot

Thanks to blizzard it cant stack with arcane power anymore.... thanks for nerfing mages more

Comment by Thottbot

OmG you noob mages can one-shot warriors .... if they aint noob like j00....

Mages are NOT being nerfed by priests abilities in ANY way, you moron.

Mages still can do *!@# loads of damage in one second - go www.warcraftmovies.com and see - one-shotting a warrior with instant-cast frostbolt is just lame.

^^ About the spell: it RoX

Comment by Thottbot

at least I don't think so, the stacking must've been unintended

mages can use Arcane Power, then once it runs out, they can get the Power Infusion buff after if they have any extra mana to burn

besides, it's better to have 20-35% extra damage spread throughout mages' spellcasting (= aggro over time) than on a straight duration of +55% damage spellcasting (= repeated Earth Shock threats in less than every 3 seconds)

PVP, mages probably won't last long enough to be able to use up both AP and PI, but then again, with either buff they can already kill at least one player in one shot or a matter of seconds

Comment by Thottbot

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5662098928894696234&q;=Chain

Comment by Thottbot

You think we can do much dmg when EVERYONE goes on mages first, and dying fastest of all classes...... -_-

Comment by Thottbot

This has to be the worst series of posts on thottbot. The spelling and grammar are cracking me up. And I love the rant about priest's nurfs. Please post again, I'm sure blizzard is reading.

Btw a shadow priest who has trouble with hunters 1 vs 1 is either spec'd wrong, or just doesn't know how to pvp at all. They're so easy. A holy priest shouldn't have any trouble either. I'm spec'd shadow but was able to fear off dot and run from a hunter while heading to bwl in my healing gear... once they're out of mana, auto-shot ftl.

Comment by Thottbot

I was thinking of installing a macro so as to tell the unsuspecting Lock or Mage that they had received the buff, but being a complete nub in this area i can only make a guess that it would look like this...

/cast Power Infusion
/w %t You have been infused with power! 20% damage increase for the next 15 secs...

Is this correct? If not could someone please jot a working macro down, thanks.

EDIT: Just tried this and it doesn't work, but this does :

/script CastSpellByName("Power Infusion")
/script if ( UnitName("target") ~= nil ) then SendChatMessage("You have been Infused etc..", "WHISPER", nil, UnitName("target")); end;

Comment by Thottbot

Ok...i'm not too sure, but is it posible to have a priest cast this on you 3 seconds beofore a duel starts and you'll still be able to have the power infusion buff? Please Answer ASAP if you know the answer! : P

Trying to make an imbah crit over here...

Comment by Thottbot

If anybody was ever curious about this:

You cannot cast this on a rogue or warrior. It says 'invalid target.' Good thing too, so it's not wasted.

Comment by Thottbot

!@#$nebnfqu#^&&&&&&&&&&&&&4 nerfed in the 2.4 or whatever future patch to spell haste -.- wtf /spit /spit /spit

Comment by Thottbot

20% spell damage and healing was way better ><
no high lolsmite crits anymore :/

Comment by Thottbot

Yeah the change to this spell nerfed it. Was going to get it on my purely healing priest but its not worth it at all anymore.

Comment by Thottbot

I had to laugh when I saw this nerf. it's so stupid.
power infusion didn't even need a nerf.
mana burn needs the same CD they nerfed onto hunters.
that's the one they should have done $%^& to.
idk, maybe this is better for pve.
but if you're going to heal pve, you'd be holy.

Comment by Allakhazam

Indeed =D

Comment by Allakhazam

Cooldown?

Comment by Allakhazam

Imba

Comment by splash1701e

Just so I'm clear. The Priest can cast this on themselves?

Comment by Oggiep

If i have ignite then PI is placed on me does that count to the ignite damage or is it solely from the fireball

Comment by Steps

This spell should be self cast on the priest ONLY. This I because Power Infusion does NOT trigger global cooldown. You can cast this spell on yourselves, activate 1-2 trinkets AND cast Pain Suppression in the main tank. All in one single keypress! And then you can spam heals on the tank at 20% reduced casting time. Do not waste Power Infusion on a dps caster!

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Power Infusion

Power Infusion

Talent

Instant	2 min cooldown

Infuses the Priest with power, increasing spell haste by 20%, all damage by 5%, and reducing the mana cost of all spells by 20%. Lasts 20 sec.

Buff

Power Infusion	Magic

Spell haste increased by 20%, all damage increased by 5%, and mana cost of spells reduced by 20%.
20 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

20 seconds

School

Holy

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

Magic

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

2 minutes

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Mod Spell Haste % (All)
Value: 20%
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Mod Mana Cost % (All)
Value: -20%
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Mod Damage Done % (Arcane, Fire, Frost, Holy, Nature, Physical, Shadow)
Value: 5%
PVP Multiplier: 1

Flags

Cannot be used while shapeshifted
Do Not Sheath
Generates no threat
Reset cooldown upon ending an encounter

Power Infusion

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