Some things that caught my eye:

- Spirit of Redemption now a Passive Holy spell, implying that all holy priests will have access to it.

- Both specs will get a Passive 5% Intellect buff, in Mysticism, which is 10% less than the current Passive buff that discipline now receives.

- New Passives: Dark Thoughts and Holy Focus, reduces pushback by 70% while casting spells.

- Chakra and Revelations are Passive holy abilities, too.

- Grace appears to be getting buffed, with each stack increasing all healing received by 10%, as opposed to the current 4/8% that it gives now.

- Lack of group healing from discipline. It seems like they're trying to make discipline a more single target focused spec, which some people have argued all along, while holy is being refined into the group or raid healing spec.

The only downside to this is how each spec would handle healing in a 5 man setting. A holy priest could fall back on their tank healing Chakra to get the job done and still group heal effectively, while a discipline priest could struggle in that regard, as they have nothing to fall back on, in terms of group healing. They could take Vampiric Dominance and basically heal like Purifiers do in "Rift," where they focus healing on the tank and the group receives heals that way.

I also think if they're going to "make" us take Spirit of Redemption and Chakra + Revelations, they could at least do something to improve those abilities, so it doesn't seem so forced. If they were to bring back the Spirit buff from SoR, that might make it more attractive again, since they're leaving in Holy Concentration and implying that we are going to be as reliant on Spirit for regen as ever. Not only will we be reliant on Spirit as priests, but as healers in general, based on how the developers have stated they want to make changes to Intellect and Spirit, in terms of stat priorities and what those stats will do for all healers.

Lastly, they need to just remove the damn "on use" portion of Lightwell already. In my opinion, that is the single biggest obstacle to making Lightwell as viable as everyone wants it to be. If we could just make it provide passive healing, like the Lightwell from the Argent Colliseum (I think that was the place) or like the T12 4 piece bonus provided, we would be golden. But, as long as people have a choice to click the Lightwell or not, they are most often going to choose not to click it, and therefore the ability becomes almost useless.

What they said was that they want/are considering going to a static mana pool per level(~100k at 85 per Ghostcrawler), meaning your max mana is based on your level and will not increase like it does now from outside factors, i.e. talents, buffs, gear. Also, that they want the additional mana required for the fight to come from regen based mechanics like spirit/mana tide and the such. Intellect, if they do use this system, would be solely to provide Spell Power and any remaining talents/spells/skills that worked off of higher mana due to higher Intellect would be changed to work within the boundaries of this new mechanic.

Example: just random numbers here for demonstration purpose
lvl83 max mana 92K
lvl 84 max mana 96k
lvl 85 max mana 100k
lvl 86 max mana 104k
ETC to Level cap.

This enables all gear levels to have the same amount of Initial mana to work with and allows for gearing through a combination closer to a 50/50 split of Int(SP=bigger heals) and Spr(Regen=more throughput) vs now where all healers basically gear for int and minimal spirit because Int is propped up so much by talents/mechanics/spells. I see this almost as a move toward the Burning Crusade style of healing where gearing for Spell Power and MP5 were both choices(depending on the class).

Yeah, I like the idea of Nova being Disc's main AE heal as it ties in with Atonement's whole 'do some damage while you heal' theme, but as it stands it'll mean that AE healing as disc will be "slam face against Nova forever."

There are plenty of ways to fix that, though, so I'm not too worried.