Build 15699 Shadow Changes

[Twintop]

Priest (Forums)
Talents
Divine Insight now the Shadow Word: Pain proc causes your next Mind Blast within 12 sec to be instant cast and cost no mana.
From Darkness, Comes Light now the Vampiric Touch proc causes your next Mind Spike to not consume your damage-over-time effects, become instant cast, and cost no mana.

Minor Glyphs
Glyph of Shadowy Friends (New) Your shadow form extends to your non-combat pets.

RE - Talents:
I'm all for things costing less mana, though our mana problems are largely nonexistent anymore.

RE - Glyph of Shadowy Friends:

[empe]

I've been calling other shadow priests in game "shadow friends" for years. This glyph is a win.

My Sinister Squashing thing will be a ball of shadowform.

[Marathal]

I like the idea behind it for being able to cast something on the move. No mana cost is a bonus, and the Mind Spike not dropping DoTs is welcome news

[Light]

Playing a fire mage and also a Frost DK as alts, I'm not welcoming the "proc based" dps cycle for these talents , but casting on the move is defiantly a nice change as supposed to the Imp DP spam. I suppose I might take these talents for any boss without a "burn phase".

[Marathal]

For a shadow priest that has experienced getting chased around by a blood DK any instant cast are welcome.

[vampiroth]

I like the idea behind it for being able to cast something on the move. No mana cost is a bonus, and the Mind Spike not dropping DoTs is welcome news

The only new part is mana cost. It's always not cleared your dots.

[Marathal]

Mists of Pandaria Beta - Build 15677

From Darkness, Comes Light Surge of Darkness has been reworked - Periodic damage from your Vampiric Touch has a 15% chance to cause your next Mind Spike to not consume your damage-over-time effects.

That is what I had read. I guess it is still a 15% chance for the VT proc? and is now an instant cast.


Edit.
I'm going back to Cata. The changes to wording and spells weekly just confuse me and I obviously misread the tool tip.

[Althor]

At present both Mind Blast and Mind Spike procs still actually consume mana no matter what the tooltip says.

[Dahk]

Did anyone notice Glyph of Shadow Ravens. If anyone can get a screen shot of that, it would be awesome. I about fell out of my chair when I saw that!

[Rubine]

Did anyone notice Glyph of Shadow Ravens. If anyone can get a screen shot of that, it would be awesome. I about fell out of my chair when I saw that!

The new build with the shadow ravens (15739) is not yet deployed (still on 15726). As soon as I see the new build up though, I will try to get a screenshot (provided someone doesn't beat me to it!).