Monday, August 3, 2009

Priest class left hanging with patch 3.2 changes?

If you look carefully at the patch 3.2 release notes you'll find a list of small changes, to spells. It seems that healers are getting a bit of the nerfbat, although shadow seems to be getting a bit of a boost. I would love to see shadow priests up there holding their own in DPS. Definitely much needed changes. Here they are:

Prayer of Healing: The percentage of spell power this spell gains in healing (per target) has been reduced from 80.7% to 52.6%.
Psychic Horror: This spell no longer has an invisible missile, so there is no travel time before the spell takes effect.

Talents
Discipline
Penance: Cooldown increased to 12 seconds, up from 10 seconds.

Holy
Inspiration: The buff from this ability now reduces the physical damage taken by the target by 3/7/10% instead of increasing the target's armor.

Shadow
Dispersion: Cooldown reduced to 2 minutes, down from 3 minutes.
Improved Mind Blast: Redesigned. Now, in addition to reducing the cooldown of your Mind Blast spell by .5/1/1.5/2/2.5 seconds, while in Shadowform your Mind Blast also has a 20/40/60/80/100% chance to reduce all healing done to the target by 20% for 10 seconds.
Vampiric Touch: The amount of damage done when this spell is dispelled has been doubled.


Let's hope that Blizzard finally release a Q&A for the class, however. Rogue and Priest are still left off the list! Has this got to do with priority, I mean Rogues and priests are the least common players in my guild!? I'd love to see more players in these classes though. Mmmmm ... stam buff.

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