Purgatory is currently much better then what you would expect from the tooltip: when it procs, you get a 3 second buff that doesn't let you die until it runs out. Though it will probably get fixed.

That's not quite how it works.

When Purgatory activates, you get a 3 second de-buff called Shroud of Purgatory. This de-buff protects you from dieing. So long as this de-buff is active, any overkill damage will be added to the de-buff as a healing absorbtion effect. If you don't heal off the Shroud de-buff, and the entire 3 seconds go by, you're instantly killed.


Now the reason I say that it doesn't work like that, is because you will never see 3 seconds of immortality. The moument you heal the de-buff off, the immortality effect ends, and you're killable again.

As you can see, the moument I pop Rune Tap, the de-buff is healed off and Shroud fades. Since I healed off the de-buff, I'm no longer immortal, and Sahn Tidehunter's next melee attack kills me. This means that I was only immortal for 0.921 seconds, and died 1.841 seconds after Shroud proc'd.


This is why Purgatory won't be effective vs not being healed and taking small amounts of overkill damage. If Shroud's absorb is small, it will only last an instant thanks to our self heals and hots. Since it only lasted an instant, and our hp is still low, the next hit we take will be fatal.

In encounters with multiple sources of damage (adds, aoe aura, ect.), you're going to instantly heal off Shroud pretty easily. So don't expect Purgatory to be 3 seconds of immortality.

At the same time, taking large amounts of overkill damage still requires you to heal it off. If you get smacked with 400k overkill, it needs to be healed. The damage isn't absorbed and forgotten, it's still there. Also if you take more damage while Shroud is active, it increases the healing needed.

However much damage you take has to be completely healed off in under 3 seconds. At the same time it needs to stabalize your healthpool, so that the next attack won't kill you.

Shround of purgotory absorb heals but what happend with abosrbs like disci priest shields? Are they count as heals too? If yes then Death Strike will be better for use than Rune Tap, with 5 stacks SoB single DS will heal more + absorb. Didn't play long on beta but RT don't have gcd and can be push later.

Purgotory will be good for some pvp fights. I don't play a lot pvp but in some situations I die and my opponent have less than 5% hp. One more hit and he will die.

Speaking from a disc priest pov, heal absorbing effects (like the debuff on spine) generally wont be reduced by absorb effects, but they grant a buffer for the blow(s) after/during those absorb effects. That's why disc has some pros and cons in regards to healing heal absorb effects.
I don't think Blizzard would change anything regarding that behaviour since it always behaved the same. So probably only the real healing effect of ds will help alleviate the purgatory debuff.

Crimson Scourge's damage increase to Blood Boil, was likely accidental (copy pasta spell IDs~). As is, Vengeance allows Blood Boil to surpass Heart Strike damage. Expect it to drop too 20%, or less.

Unholy will also see more damage adjustments.

Another interesting thing about Crimson Scourge, it completely refreshes your diseases when you Blood Boil on already diseased mobs. Not sure if this is working as intended since it wasn't mentioned in the tooltips.

Scarlet Fever - Spell - World of Warcraft

Astrylian was right, actually (click the link, the tooltip it shows here is still the Cata one). It's baked into Scarlet Fever and will refresh diseases on anything that gets hit by BB provided they already had diseases on them. Roiling Blood could be made to function like this on multiple targets if you shifted around a little every now and then because the primary target (the BB/Pestilence Beacon so to speak) would not get it's diseases refreshed.

I hope you won't yell at me, but: Is there going to be a clean guide for frost/unholy as there has been in the past. Or in other words has someone decided to do one?

A lot of people have been doing number crunches and all that jazz for MoP for frost/unholy and there seems to be a pretty set rotation/priority list for the three: 2h frost, dw frost, and 2h unholy. A great forum I found was here.

DW vs 2h Frost rotation (MoP PvE) GC confirmd - Forums - World of Warcraft

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't we supposed to pick Unholy Blight over Plague Leech for any spec, given any AOE scenario, since we are losing at least one death/blood rune for Pestilence (even assuming it transfers 100% of diseases)?