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Comment by 82397

A really nifty thing I noticed is that this spell will actually return mana on the General Vezax fight, but only for the duration of the channel. this may give your healers and caster DPS an additional 1-2 spells if you are working to down the encounter. :)

Comment by 370095

try hymn of hope at heigan the unclean in naxx

due to the 300% cast time debuff the ticks are every 8 secs (u should have some haste so a little less than 8 secs) this makes the regen alot slower, but you can get the 20% mana buff to last for about 30 seconds instead of the usual 14 secs ( refresh every 2 secs for 3 ticks = 6 secs + 8 seconds of last tick)

proves very handy aswell, just discovered it myself in the fight

the same could work with the 10% healing increase of Divine hymn

Comment by battlet3chvx

Use Hymn of Hope and Shadowfiend together when you are low mana (below 5k) and you'll easily get 80% of your mana back.

Comment by 97145

One of our priests got hit by a goo ball during our Hardmode Festergut kill and while his casting was slow, he channeled this and effectively bumped the 2 Holy Paladin's mana pools up to 50k for a very long period of time. I'm not going to say "Get hit by a goo ball and channel this", but if you do get hit by one keep this skill in mind.

Comment by 189268

For Blood Elves: using Arcane Torrent following this will provide additional mana back due to the 20% bonus.

Comment by xenoblad

Since the spell only choses three targets to gain mana back, is it possible for the spell to not return mana back to the priest if the player has a high enough amount of mana left? Or is the priest considered one of the 3 targets regardless of mana left.

Comment by Gnoktish

Apparently, singing cures Dehydration.

Comment by BrigKline

This spell functions as a mana version of Rallying Cry. Using this spell will grant you 15% of your mana pool for 8 seconds, refreshed on each tick of the Hymn. So in a nutshell, the ticks are prioritized on low mana targets, so one player may get 1 tick, a second get none and another get 4. Assuming a player receives all four ticks, the spell effect would look like this (100K mana pool used as example):

-Cast Hymn of hope
-tick #1: Gain 2000 mana
-Hymn of Hope Effect procs on gain, granting 15% (15000 in this case) mana for immediate use
-tick #2-4: Gain 2300 mana
Total gain: 8900

On each tick of mana restoration, the 15% mana buff is refreshed. This 15% gain is only lost when the effect expires (or you use up all available mana, of course). However, any gains from spells like Arcane Torrent, Shadowfiend, or Dispersion that directly benefit from the larger mana pool are retained. This means that timing your regen abilities alongside Hymn of Hope is quite effective in increasing your overall mana.

Hopefully this won't be randomly deleted as 'old', despite me always editing to keep this post current >_>

(Edited for MoP, finally!)

Comment by kgurnhill

Ive noticed that if i use this while almost completely out of mana, it will restore a large chunk (up to around 18% initially) rather than just the 2% it states.

After changing specs, i used this and instantly jumped up to 18% mana, continuing to channel i then gained 4%, 4% and 2% on each subsequent tick thereafter.
Meaning, that from 0% i ended up with 28% mana.

Really nice bonus :D

Comment by Zaalbeth

Haste will improve Hymn of Hope, adding ticks. It is NOT limited to a maximum of 12 mana restores. Whether this is bugged or just badly described is hard to say, but the same is true for Divine Hymn.

Additional ticks are added at 12.5%, 37.5%, 62.5% and 87.5% spell haste. Since most HoT effects can't tick faster than once per second, it's assumed that 87.5% is the spell's haste cap, providing just over 200% of the usual benefit (due to extra ticks after the 15% buff is gained) at double the speed. This extra benefit will be spread out nicely due to fresh targets being selected each tick. 87.5% haste grants 24 ticks, potentially also granting the 15% mana increase buff to 24 targets.

Hymn of Hope's 15% total mana increase buff works with all % mana restoration abilities. Anything that restores X% of your mana (Shadowfiend, Rapture) will restore 115% of the usual amount if used while you have the Hymn of Hope buff active. The buff lasts for 8 seconds, is granted to targets along with the mana restoration, and is refreshed with each application. Hitting Shadowfiend just before Hymn of Hope can therefore grant you 4.5% bonus mana.

Priests have 100% pushback protection while channelling Hymn of Hope, but interrupts, stuns, etc, will still break the channel. The swirling typhoon above your head also serves nicely to highlight you to enemies :)

Comment by 759807

i don't understand what the icon is supposed to be or how it's relevant to this spell @.@

Comment by 78194

This doesn't look like this is changing in MoP... Since max mana pools are going to drop rapidly, I wonder if this will even be something we will have on our bars any more?

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Hymn of Hope

Hymn of Hope
40 yd range

Channeled (8 sec cast)	6 min cooldown

Restores 2% mana to 3 nearby low mana friendly party or raid targets every 2 sec for 8 sec, and increases their total maximum mana by 15% for 8 sec. Maximum of 12 mana restores. The Priest must channel to maintain the spell.

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Hymn of Hope

Reciting Hymn of Hope, restoring 2% mana to nearby friendly party or raid targets most in need every 2 sec for 8 sec.
8 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

8 seconds

School

Holy

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

None

Range

40 yards (Long)

Cast time

Channeled

Cooldown

6 minutes

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Periodically trigger spell
Value: 1 every 2 seconds (SP mod: 0.127)
PVP Multiplier: 1

	Hymn of Hope

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Dummy
Value: 4
PVP Multiplier: 1
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Flags

Cannot be used while shapeshifted
Channeled
Channeled
Generates no threat
Name in Channel Bar
Does not require shapeshift
Cannot be Spellstolen
Spell Haste Affects Periodic
Reset cooldown upon ending an encounter

Hymn of Hope

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