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PriestIt's rather odd that this replaces Smite (Smite - the main single-target filler, with no cooldown) with a spell that has a cooldown, but doesn't simply replace Holy Nova ([spell=132157]) with Ascended Nova ([spell=325020] - which is basically an improved version of the same spell).
It does replace itself with Ascended Nova (although this is currently not mentioned in the tooltip), but it would make far more sense to do it the other way around, replacing Holy Nova with Ascended Nova and having Ascended Blast as a mutation of Boon of the Ascended, allowing players to still cast Smite while Ascended Blast is on cooldown, if they're only interested in single-target damage.
That would let us fit this into our UI and rotation in an intuitive, natural way, with minimal disruption, and treat it as the boon it's supposed to be:
Button X [single target filler]: Smite
Button Y [AoE]: Nova (Ascended during Boon, Holy otherwise)
Button Z [new]: Boon of the Ascended / Ascended Blast (mirroring the way Shadow spec handles Void Eruption / Void Bolt - [spell=228260])But I guess Blizzard thinks that buffs that arbitrarily reverse the logic of our UI (and their own class design) somehow "improves player experience".
Anyway, the good news is that a macro with these lines:
/cast Ascended Nova
/cast Holy Nova... does work (it will cast Ascended Nova during the Boon, and otherwise ignore that line and cast Holy Nova). The bad news is there's no way to fix the fact that you're still left with no spammable single-target offensive filler. Ascended Blast does allow you to do slightly higher single-target DPS (compared to Smite) while leaving some gaps to cast defensive spells (or to fill with Ascended Novas, of course), but the offensive benefits in single-target fights are negligible, and that's already one of Holy spec's main weaknesses.
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Example of working macro:
#showtooltip
/startattack
/castsequence reset=3 Smite, Ascended Nova, Ascended Nova
Anyone else has noticed the bug that whenever you cast Boon of the Ascended for 1 sec all your raid members get phased?
Tooltip
Draw upon the power of the Ascended for 10 sec, granting you access to $@spellname325020, replacing $@spellname15407 with $@spellname325283, and increasing movement speed by 50%.
Upon expiration, releases an $@spellname325326:
Explode for up to Arcane damage to enemies and healing to allies within yds, based on number of targets. Damage and healing increased by 3% for each stack of Boon of the Ascended.
Spell facts
Datamined from the current retail build. Numbers that scale with level or stats are shown at their base value.
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