Blizzard considering removal of downgraded spells, later mage boosters

[Dominian]

http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread....eNo=3&sid=1#48

It goes both ways and the buffs to casting pushbak sure is nice...

Always felt it was unfair when druids filled me with trash debuffs at no cost in the arena (faeri fire,swarm,moonfire) and then rooted me... Why couldnt i get a rank 1 cleanse to cleanse rank 1 spells?

Removing the downranking is fine as it wasnt fair against certain classes..

[Drizzit]

very bad idea, my healer will likely be OOM early in the fight, if it happens probably need to get a secondary healer in the party.

lol lfg would be like this "LF4M for normal instance need 2 healers 1 tank and 1 melee dps".

I think that melee dps will really out shine now.

[moji]

it's a horrible attempt at fixing the greased wheel. Anyone else have a round robin /stopcasting /cast rank 1 earth shock button? I do.

[Drizzit]

Anyone else have a round robin /stopcasting /cast rank 1 earth shock button? I do.

shit i forgot about that. Those high lvl shocks cost a nice bit of mana. Well hopefully to solve this they make the % smaller.

[Mono]

I know a common practice amongst warlocks is to DOT up an enemy, and then use rank 1 of Drain Soul. Soul Shard farming is gonna be a bit slower now

[kwal]

Cool, so this basically means that the less mana you have, the better off you are.
1 % is 1%. So regardless if you have 1k mana or 10k mana, you can only cast a 1% spell 100 times.
But if you have way lower mana, MP5 will boost you so much faster.

[HTeam]

The % is based on base mana, before int adjustments.

So if your base is 5000 and full mana is 10,000, then a 10% spell can cast 20 times instead of 10.

[kwal]

Oh ok, did not read that. I guess disregard my last post

[Drizzit]

if they do this then i hope they have some really good mp5 gear out there

[-silencer-]

Removing ranks is ridiculous. Are they doing it to simplify the game for more newcomers?

If they're making this change to prevent people from adding massive +heal/spell damage to low-cost skills, but they're going about it the wrong way. They should just seriously nerf the effect & +heal/spell damage coefficient if you're not casting at max rank.

For example, we have 5 ranks of a skill that has a +spell damage coefficient of .50. Have rank 5 do the standard .50, rank 4 at .40, rank 3 at .30, rank 2 at .20, and rank 1 at .10.

Or make it relative to the mana cost..
If rank 5 is 1000 mana and rank 4 is 600 mana, make rank 4's coefficient and buff/debuff effect equal to 60% of rank 5's. What the hell are they thinking?

For downranking skills that interrupt/debuff (like earth shock or polymorph), just increase the enemy's resist rates for downranked skills, depending on enemy level.