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Comment by Omnicrom

One of the new Level 90 Priest Talents as of Beta Build 15508

The tooltip says it does "Divine Damage", since the schools are listed as Holy and Arcane it may be that Divine Damage is a mix of the two like Shadowfrost or Frostfire damage.

As for the spell itself it's certainly interesting. All of the level 90 Priest Talents are now AoE Heal/Damage and Divine Star seems to be the middle of the road in getting good functionality. Halo is focused on the user and Cascade seems to work best when spread out but Divine Star seems to be about getting a good straight line of fire so it will probably be ideal in organized groups.

Comment by KeleturShask

Looks like Shadow gets its own version of the spell, and it's Divine Star.

Comment by Farmbuyer

The "Divine" school of magic is Holy + Arcane. If the target is immune or resistant to one of those, the other one will be applied; whichever does more damage.

Similarly for shadowpriests, "Spellshadow" is Shadow + Arcane, and works around the prohibition of casting holy magic while in shadowform.

Blizzard started doing these combos way way back, including for NPCs (e.g., lots of monsters in the original Naxx40 would do Plague damage (Nature + Shadow), specifically for players who were trying to gimp the fights by wearing lots of resistance gear). The entire list of combinations of schools of magic is here, for those of you who haven't spent the last few years staring at combat logs. :-)

Comment by 175315

"Returns to you" means that it then travels to you, or that it returns to the destination where it was cast?

Comment by Niveaulos

UPDATED! (The original post took me too long to do and wasn't satisfying because I simply used 15'000 spell power, so I thought I'd do it this time with some graphs.. I won't post them as a picture in here but I'll give you the links to fooplot.com.. :)

For those who don't know exactly how to read a graph: There are 2 axes:
horizontal: The x-axis which represents the amount of spell power
vertical: The y-axis which represents the amount of healing/damage done per "x" spell power given

So in the following example you would do 20'000 healing/damage with 10'000 spell power (or 10'000 healing/damage with 5'000 spell power).

http://fooplot.com/plot/olwivoysr5

The question for me was, which one of the three lvl90-Talents to use as a Disc-Priest in PvP. My Problem as Disc is mostly the lack of Mana during a battle and of course, doing damage and healing enough as well. So my factors are:

Mana
Healing
Damage
Cooldown

Note: The following graphs are colored. Unfortunately I couldn't find a way to describe them directly on fooplot (please let me know if there's a way)

Red: Divine Star - Damage
Purple: Divine Star - Healing
Blue: Halo - Damage
Light blue: Halo - Healing
Green: Cascade - Damage & Healing

Here's a little overview of the three different spells:

The average of each spell:
http://fooplot.com/plot/897yv8kdxz

Now let's put them down on the same level again. The mana first:

Adjusted to 4.5% base mana (-> Divine Star):
http://fooplot.com/plot/ongj2jdd7i

Note: You've got to zoom in a little because now they all get closer to each other.

And last but not least - The cooldown:

Adjusted to 15 seconds cooldown (->Divine Star):
http://fooplot.com/plot/kfguw11qq9

Now a few other aspects:
Divine Star: Useful in arena to detect stealth enemies, like rogues or druids. You can do it either at the beginning of the fight or when they use vanish or shadowmeld. Also, the spell is "casted twice" which means you have doubled luck chance of gaining a procc. You get a lot of heal during a "Zerg" or in a 10/25 raid whilst the group is on one spot or in a line. But in dungeons you have to take care so you don't pull unnecessary adds. The spell is casted in the direction you're looking, so you're quick enough to just spin with your mouse. And of course: it does the most DPS / HPS

Cascade: This is great for healing a dungeon, because you will heal up to 15 targets at once, almost independent where the members are standing. You won't pull any adds because the spell doesn't heal and damage at the same time. But using this on an enemy can pull the whole room because it bounces to "idle" NPCs. Of course, it can be a disadvantage in PvP, because it doesn't hit a target more than once, and wont heal or do damage at the same time.

Halo: Unfortunately they've nerfed this spell so you're no longer able to hit stealthed enemies. The advantage here is the fact that you can use it for bursting down your enemy, or save your ass in trouble (but remember: it won't heal you for the highest amount, because it reaches it's best effect at 25 yards. And you have to position yourself good, to get the best out of this spell). Using this spell in a Dungeonroom full of trash is a suicide commando!
Halo could do alot more/less when I would've calculated with the minimum and maximum of healing/damage instead of taking the average amount. If I have some free time I'm gonna add some graphics (even though I'm "scared" the graphics get flooded)

After these few graphs and personal opinions we can all see, that Divine Star became a major buff with patch 5.2, because I didn't calculate the "fact" (or 90% chance - whatever you want to call it) that Divine Star hits the target twice!

If you wonder: I (still) use Divine Star

Please correct me if I did something somewhere wrong and please tell me whether you do understand the graphs. Otherwise I'll search for some time to post some of the tables I did with Patch 5.0.5 :)

Hope my English isn't too bad, I'm Swiss. Swiss Chocolate! :D

Comment by 1091386

If it helps any, It's easier to see your allies if you turn on "show friendly name plates" ("Shift V" if you hadn't switch it on your keybindings) and position yourself in a path to get the most healing out of this talent.

Comment by 319936

Divine Star now deals 40% more damage and 133% more healing, and its radius has been reduced by 33%.

(Note: All the following calculations are based on 15500 sp)
so, if we use damage/cd to calculate the damage per time (dps/hps):

Divine Star 16,814/15=1,120.9; 1,120.9*1.4=1,569.3(Damage) 1,120.9*2.33=2,611.7(Heal)
Cascade 25,220.5/25=1,008.8
Halo 50,375/40=1,259.4(Damage) 84,099/40=2,102.5(Heal)

if we use mana/cd to calculate the mana per time (mps):

Divine Star 4.5/15=0.3
Cascade 9.0/25=0.36
Halo 13.5/40=0.3375

if we use damage/mana to calculate the mana efficiency (dpm/hpm):

Divine Star 16,814/4.5=3,736.4; 3,736.4*1.4=5,231.0(Damage) 3,736.4*2.33=8,705.8(Heal)
Cascade 25,220.5/9.0=2,802.3
Halo 50,375/13.5=3,731.5(Damage) 84,099/13.5=6,229.6(Heal)

also we should notice, especially for dpsers, more cast cost more GCD, if consider this, Halo is easy winner on dps.
the thing really matter is, for Divine Star, it's the hardest to get the best effect. and Cascade is the easiest one to get the best effect.
so, if counting to IDEAL situation, Divine Star is actually the winner, Cascade is the looser.

@Niveaulos (thx for discussing), ~~lyom~~ ~~(shame you for dirty words)~~:
all the numbers are correct, but the way is wrong. damage/cd is the result for damage per time (dps/hps). mana/cd is the result for mana per time (mps), but if what we want is mana efficiency (dpm/hpm), is just damage/mana. the result of Niveaulos is actually dps/mana, we can clearly see what is wrong. the "mana" is the mana of a single cast, but the fact is, shorter cd spell cast more times than longer cd spell. so, we should replace the "mana" with "mana/cd". so, the math turn to be (damage/cd)/(mana/cd), ok, that's just damage/mana. so, the advantage of the short cd spells (Divine Star) the result shown is not true.

Comment by BlizzardCS

UPDATE 28/10/2014: We didn't get any further report, so it seems like the issue is indeed totally fixed. Thanks all for your patience and understanding while we were working on it.

UPDATE 14/10/2014: This issue should be fixed by now. Please, if you are still experiencing this issue let us know so we can look into it. :)

~~If you don’t see the animation of this spell while in Shadow spec, do not panic! This is a known issue and we are already investigating it. Sorry for the inconvenience, we’ll keep you updated.~~

Comment by CircleofHealing

Just swapped to this spell on my talent tree.

Amazing spell in PvP zergs in AV and Isle of Conquest. Screen just lights up with green numbers.

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Divine Star

Divine Star	Level 90

Talent

4.5% of base mana

Instant	15 sec cooldown

Fires a Divine Star in front of you, traveling 24 yds, causing 4717 Divine damage to all enemies and 1 healing to all allies within 4 yds of its path.

After reaching its destination it will return to you, also dealing damage and healing to all targets in its path.

Buff

Spell Details

Duration

15 seconds

School

Holy, Arcane

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

4.5% of base mana

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

15 seconds

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Periodically trigger spell
Interval: 250 milliseconds
PVP Multiplier: 1

	Divine Star

Effect #2

Trigger Spell

	Divine Star

Flags

No Aura Icon
Starts ticking at aura application
Allow While Banished Aura State

Divine Star

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