What the flying flip are they doing to shadow? - Deleting Mind Sear from the game- Nerfing insanity generation to the floor- Breaking good talents into a couple to gain the same benefit- Removing any ability to extend dots on multiple targets- etcWhat did they give us in return?- 10% increase in Psychic LinkWhat can we expect from this change in terms of Spriest gameplay?Remember, in order to do any cleave damage, you will need Vamp Touch on all cleave targets and Psychic Link talented. You can either spend 1.5sec casting each Vamp Touch or you can drop a Shadow Crash on the clumped targets. Now you do your single target spells at your primary mob and let Psychic Link damage the others at 40% of your primary... until Vamp Touch drops off. Just Shadow Crash again? Nope! Vamp Touch lasts for 21 sec and Shadow Crash has a 30 sec cooldown. That means that after 21 seconds, all cleave damage stops. You will only be doing damage to your primary target. NO DAMAGE on the other mobs, no dots are up anymore, no cleave, no spells that could cleave in case you wanted to without the dots (not counting divine star/halo which wouldn't make up 9 seconds of time anyway). There is a 9 second window (not counting Shadow Crash travel time) where Shadow will do no damage to the other mobs.This is a Shadow Priest redesign to make us single-target casters. But with less Insanity generation, so less Devouring Plagues, so ... I guess crappier single target casters than now? No more AoE focused gameplay, Shadow is going to be a single target class that has a cleave damage cooldown if they spend talents in it.Mr. Priest Dev, we better be looking at your work half-done because Shadow is looking like crap if you keep it like this.
Oh my, Boomkin gonna be wonky in PVP again! Woo!
Finally, some Mage changes! It only took 3 months, and close to 6 by the time they'll be on live.So far it's not nearly enough either, but at least it's a start.
Devastation need an immediate tuning in it's threat! WE DIE PEOPLE WE DIE!
What's the deal with the interrupts being 3s instead of 4s now?