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Comment by 142317

Will it focus on only those 3 during its duration, or does it switch targets to who ever is lowest after each tick?

Comment by 54015

In 3.1 this seems like an awesome "oh sh.." button, healing your lowest 3 people for around 4.5k, every 2 secs for 8 secs (4 heals per person).

Comment by 251280

Crits for 18k it switches targets heals 12 different people healed over 150,000 during razorscale with little to no overheals . . . Strongest healing spell ever

We have our shadow priests hitting this button as well . . . Its overpowered.

Comment by Cainite

Does this need LOS or could I hide somewhere and heal party as long as they're in 40yd range?

Comment by cillah

If disc specced, crits will proc Divine Aegis. Works also when used behind a pillar in arena; nice "oh crap" button, unless you have a rogue at your butt.

Comment by Maizou

Say it hits persion A, B, and C. After the heal, A has more health than D.

The next tic, the spell will heal B, C, and D, as D has less health than A.

One of the smartest healing spells in game, and clearly one of the best.

EDIT: To clarify, this used to be available to all priests, and only hit 3 targets. It was the first "Smart Heal" of the game, so this is what this comment is for. It still applies to the spell though, just instead o A, B, and C, it also heals D and E, but if F has less health than one of those, it will take priority. :P

Comment by anduhrew

According to the patch notes:

World of Warcraft Client Patch 3.1.0:
"Divine Hymn redesigned: You recite a Holy hymn, summoning the power of the Divine to assist you in your time of need. Heals 3 nearby lowest-health friendly party or raid targets for 4960-5208 every 2 seconds for 8 seconds, and increases healing done to them by 15% for 8 seconds. Maximum of 12 heals. The Priest must channel to maintain the spell. Cooldown increased to 6 minutes, up from 5."

Yet as we can see, it has a cooldown of 10 minutes in-game, interesting little error they seem to have got going here.

Comment by Amdoravel

yes it DOES scale with sp...
yes it DOES crit...
yes it DOES kick major butt...

Comment by 325233

Looks like a 3 year old drew the icon for the skill :/

Comment by 167064

PTR Patch 3.1.2 Notes:
Divine Hymn: Healing and healing scaling reduced by 30%. Buff on affected players changed from 15% to 10%.

Comment by 166987

Disc priests, use this in conjunction with Borrowed Time, Power Infusion, and Inner Focus to pull off a free, hasted emergency heal. With the right timing, you will save your group or raid with this combo.

#showtooltip Divine Hymn
/cast Inner Focus
/cast Power Infusion
/cast Divine Hymn

Comment by 370095

try Divine hymn at heigan the unclean in naxx

due to the 300% cast time debuff the ticks are every 8 secs (u should have some haste so a little less than 8 secs) this makes the regen alot slower, but you can get the 10% healing buff buff to last for about 30 seconds instead of the usual 14 secs ( refresh every 2 secs for 3 ticks = 6 secs + 8 seconds of last tick)

proves very handy aswell, just discovered it myself in the fight

the same could work with the 20% mana increase of Hymn of hope

Comment by 166987

Has anyone had trouble casting Divine Hymn during the Twin Valkyr encounter? I've tried twice now, once for each week that they've been available, and the spell gets cut off immediately each time.

Comment by lagvanas

this is a "oh sh*t" spell?

Comment by 318094

The latest PTR notes reveal that Divine Hymn is getting a 2-minute reduction in cooldown. That's right, folks. You'll soon be able to cast it every 8 minutes as opposed to 10. I am happy. Let there be no doubt. As with everything, however, nothing is ever set in stone until it is finalized. But I think this is a nice change.

Comment by 319099

I just miss how this spell used to put enemies in range to sleep. I would use it as a CC instead of a heal.. But those days are over : /

Comment by 493920

I sometimes see other priests in pugs using this to top everyone up after a wipe. Makes me cry.

Comment by battlet3chvx

There was a bug in the past where each heal was getting only its target crit chance, but they seemed to have fixed it because I'm getting 50-60% crit chance with it using Inner Focus now.

It scales really well, and crit heals 9k-11k routinely. It hit this hard before they nerfed it, but imagine if it wasn't nerfed.

15k crit heals.

Comment by Meggie

Despite all its perks and shine I did not use this spell once between dinging level 80 and killing the unnerfed Lich King. Through all hard modes and server firsts the usability of this spell proved near zero.The unique perk of this spell is being able to sit back and get a drink during some boss's special ability. What is not the attitude of an endgame raid priest.

This feels like Felmyst and Mass Dispel. Unless Blizzard designs an encounter what requires this spell I will not use it.
Maybe it will be of use in the next expansion. Like what happened to Mass Dispel.

Comment by 462722

Bar non the best healer cooldown in the game.

Comment by Etchelamal

So I was a brand new priest healing my first ever Wrath Heroic. GS of 3100-ish.

We were clearly wiping. Wanting to see what this spell would do (given i thought it only healed for 3k, idk why) I unleashed this spell and proceeded to watch in a stupor induced awe, as every. single. person. went from the brink of death to near full health.

Holy crap, this spell is amazing.

Comment by Lizzurd

This is by far one of the most amazing healing spells in this game. We need more "smart heals" like this.

Comment by Nalanari

This is an extremely mana efficient cooldown. Using it is going to be a matter of personal opinion but in 4.1 it is great because it can no longer be interrupted. You can choose to either use this when very low mana and healing is much needed or during a period of heavy damage where you may get interrupted. A good example of this would be: Healing on the pillar on Nefarion.

Comment by Kactus04

The tooltip says a maximum of 12 heals. Does this mean that with more haste you do NOT get extra ticks?

Comment by Profits

IMO, really weak for an 8-minute CD. Sure it's nice, but it could really use some buffing seeing as Tranq heals so much more on a 3 minute CD, and of course, Holy priest's lack of a raid healing/mitigation CD. (Lightwell doesn't count...gl getting people to click it for that ~13k heal)

Also, didn't blizz say they wanted to move away from super-long-CD spells? This is like, the 2nd longest CD (only beat by unglyphed LoH) and it's terrible compared to things like tranq, barrier or spirit link totem.

Yay, buffed in 4.3 to make it not useless.

Comment by Captinawsome

As of patch 4.3
Divine Hymn now heals up to 5 targets, up from 3. Maximum of 20 heals, up from 12.

Comment by 617248

Currently in 4.2 this is a very very weak spell. In disc spec with full T12 (assuming no overhealing is done by either spell,) the healing done per second by DH is ~20k HPS lower than simply spamming Prayer of Healing with 25% haste and 7.8k spellpower.

Currently it's simply not a viable raid healing tool, particularly for disc priests, however in 4.3 it should become a fairly strong cooldown again, hopefully bringing it back in line with Druids Tranquility. The new talent Heavenly Voice (ptr) may also prove to address some of the performance issues seen with Holy priests in Firelands.

Comment by Maleficious

Pre-4.3 I could cast this spell in 5-man Heroics and people in the party would die during the channel.

Post-4.3 I cast this twice during a raid encounter and it automatically becomes my second highest healing spell, also, no one dies.

Comment by 485050

Here's the formula for scaling with SP and talents

HEAL_PER_TICK = (4009 + %SP * .429) * (1 + %SH + %SANC + %HV) * (1 + %TD)
%SP = Spell Power
%SH = Spiritual Healing
%SANC = Chakra: Sanctuary
%HV = Heavenly Voice
%TD = Twin Disciplines

With all the above talents, the formula is:

HEAL_PER_TICK = (4009 + %SP * .429) * (1 + .15 + .15 + 1) * (1 + .06)

Comment by 762431

in 4.3, it is god mode button for holy priests. click it at the worst situation in raid and be hero.

Comment by 604689

This is being removed from Discipline healers and only Holy can use it in patch 5.0 Mists of Pandaria. I hate Blizzard and their BS changes.

Comment by 949955

"Maximum of 20 heals."

I might be misunderstanding this but I used my Divine Hymn once in a fight and it healed 40 times.

Comment by sucktanatos

good one

Comment by Cassonberry

No longer gains extra ticks from haste, and is now Holy only.

Comment by davesignal

Divine Hymn, a.k.a. "nobody's dying for the next eight seconds."

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Divine Hymn

Divine Hymn	Level 90

6.3% of base mana	40 yd range

Channeled (8 sec cast)	3 min cooldown

Holy (Hotfix Passive)
Heals 50 (12 in 25 player instances) nearby lowest health friendly party or raid targets within 40 yards for 7987 every 2 sec for 8 sec, and increases healing done to them by 55% for 8 sec. The Priest must channel to maintain the spell.

Heals 5 (12 in 25 player instances) nearby lowest health friendly party or raid targets within 40 yards for 7987 every 2 sec for 8 sec, and increases healing done to them by 10% for 8 sec. The Priest must channel to maintain the spell.

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Divine Hymn

Holy (Hotfix Passive)
Reciting Divine Hymn, healing nearby friendly party or raid targets most in need for 7987 every 2 sec for 8 sec.

Reciting Divine Hymn, healing nearby friendly party or raid targets most in need for 7987 every 2 sec for 8 sec.
8 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

8 seconds

School

Holy

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

6.3% of base mana

Range

40 yards (Long)

Cast time

Channeled

Cooldown

3 minutes

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Periodically trigger spell
Interval: 2 seconds
PVP Multiplier: 1

	Divine Hymn

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Dummy
Value: 5
PVP Multiplier: 1
Server-side script

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Mod Total Health Regen %
Interval: 2 seconds
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #4

Dummy
Value: 12
PVP Multiplier: 1
Server-side script

Flags

Cannot be used while shapeshifted
Channeled
Channeled
Name in Channel Bar
Ignore Line of Sight
Does not require shapeshift
Active Threat
Do Not Display Range
Cannot be Spellstolen
Spell Haste Affects Periodic
Haste Affects Duration
Reset cooldown upon ending an encounter

Divine Hymn

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