Hymn of Hope is Removed and New Power Infusion Graphic
February 24, 2009 by Matticus
Filed under All Stories, News and Opinion, Patch Notes
I checked.
I checked all possible trees (including Shadow but I didn’t screenshot that). Hymn of Hope is gone.
Yes, I know there was a new glyph added:
Glyph of Hymn of Hope *new* — Your Hymn of hope provides 3 times the normal amount of mana per time, but its duration is 50% shorter.
But Hymn of Hope isn’t there and I have nothing new to learn from the trainer.
Below is the new Power Infusion graphic on my Shaman. It sort of looks like the Shaman’s Elemental Mastery but with a bit more flare to it.
I’d say it blends with the Shaman set quite well!
I'm Matticus and I play a Dwarf Priest. My home is in Conquest, a raiding Guild that I have founded. Every week, I log 12 hours raiding on Ner'Zhul.
Wynthea is the Troll Priest with the best Mohawk on Firetree. Currently, I raid 4 nights a week in a hardcore guild. I started playing WoW in May 2005, and raiding end-game in May 2007. My guild is currently working through 25-man WotLK content. I've tried playing other classes, but Priests are my passion. I am extremely fond of Dwarves.... especially with Ketchup. 
My name is Sydera and I like to heal things--think Florence Nightingale with foliage. I play a night elf druid on Ner'Zhul, and I raid 12 hours a week. As a guild officer for Conquest, I coordinate healing and recruit new raiders. I started playing WoW in Fall 2005, and it was love at first click. Before I discovered the joys of Broccoli-stalk healing, I raided as a holy paladin, and I now have alts in all healing classes. I have to say, though, bark beats poofy dresses and heavy plate in my book.
Nice work! I’ve been curious about the new graphic!
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cant believe it.
i wonder if i will have manaproblems as a disc priest
Indeed it has
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html
http://www.vimeo.com/3381317
Here’s a video of the graphic, Matt. Enjoy
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I have used HoH a few times in raids. In wwstats, only my own mana regen shows up. And it is such a small number that it’s a waste of 8 seconds, especially with my guild working on doing the easier heroic raids (Naxx and EoE) with fewer healers so we have higher dps and clear faster.
I haven’t parsed a combatlog with other meters to see if wwstats is missing the HoH or if there really is no mana given to the rest of the raid.
Good riddance to Hymn of Hope. Symbol of Hope was the reason why the best priest to have, hands down, was a Draenei priest. They took this amazing spell and watered it down to where it was simply a waste of time.
I noticed last night that Hymn of Hope is gone for me as well, I was kind of confused about that, is it part of the patch? a bug? I don’t know, but that 2% mana regen for the party was oh so critical! /sarcasm
Sadly – Blizz decided we needed to pay another 14 gold and change for each hymn.
On Tues night I had to go and re-learn both hymns at the trainer…
The good news is that they’re actually kind of useful now [ Yeah - I said it.
] in tough spots or when there’s a pause in healing (now that we have to bring 3 healers to 10-man and 6 or 7 to 25-man again, you can actually pause for 8 seconds now and again).
Hymn of HOpe is level 80 now. Priests get nothing new at level 85 I guess
Just wanted to let you know this Hymn of Hope thing has been driving me nutz. My Human Holy priest used it for a long time, then it got removed a few months ago. I went to the trainer, and he sold me Hym of Hope and the other Hym (lvl 80) too. So I started a horde priest and asked someone about the Hymns, tried to visist trainer for Hym of Hope, and nada. Went to Allakhazam and it isn’t even mentioned as a racial or anything. But guess what? My 80 priest not only still has it but it works too as of today 6/19/09. Not sure what is going on, maybe its programming error. Perhaps when they removed it the 2nd time it defaulted to human/priest again, not sure.
By the way, I was also Disc/Shadow dual specced when I got it back but I think originally it was for holy spec only but that is a guess at best.