Upcoming class changes posted

[Gadzooks]

Link: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...10002204&sid=1


We are planning a lot of exciting content for patch 3.1.0, and we are doing a three-part preview series on upcoming class changes. This is the first in the series: Priests, Rogues, and Shaman. Please keep in mind, that this list is not at all comprehensive, and subject to change.
PRIEST
[*]Divine Spirit – this spell is now a core ability available to all priests.
[*]Discipline has access to a new talent, Power Word: Barrier. (Think of it as Power Word: Shield for your whole group).
[*]Several area of effect (AOE) heal spells have been improved: Prayer of Healing can be cast on any groups in your raid party. Holy Nova’s mana cost has been reduced. Circle of Healing now heals for more.
[*]Shadow priest PvP survivability has been improved: Shadow Form now reduces magic as well as physical damage. Dispersion now removes snares.
[*]Penance – this spell can now be targeted on the priest.
[*]Serendipity – this talent now reduces the cast time of Greater Heal and Prayer of Healing when Binding Heal or Flash Heal are cast.
[*]We are also working to give Holy additional PvP utility.

ROGUE
[*]Hunger for Blood – instead of a self-buff, this ability can only be used when there is a bleed effect on the target. However, it has no stacks and grants a 15% damage bonus.
[*]Adrenaline Rush – the cooldown on this ability has been lowered.
[*]Lightning Reflexes – reduced to 3 ranks. In addition to 2/4/6% dodge, this talent now also grants 4/7/10% passive melee haste.
[*]Killing Spree – while this ability is active, the rogue does 20% additional damage.
[*]Savage Combat – now causes 2/4% physical damage done.
[*]Mace Specialization – this talent now grants haste in addition to armor penetration.

SHAMAN
[*]Chain Lightning – now jumps to 4 targets but does less damage. We wanted to make the distinction between Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning more clear.
[*]Storm, Earth and Fire – this talent now increases all damage done by Flame Shock, not just periodic damage.
[*]Spirit Weapons – now reduces all threat, not just melee threat.
[*]Unleashed Rage – reduced to 2 ranks, now also increases your critical strike chance with melee attacks by 1/2%.
[*]Totem streamlining: The Mana Spring and Healing Stream Totems have been combined. The Disease Cleansing and Poison Cleansing Totems have been combined.
[*]We are also working on giving Enhancement and Elemental more PvP utility.

COMING SOON
Warlock
Druid
Hunter
Death Knight
Mage
Paladin
Warrior

[suicidesspyder]

PRIEST[*]Divine Spirit – this spell is now a core ability available to all priests.
SHAMAN[*]Totem streamlining: The Mana Spring and Healing Stream Totems have been combined. The Disease Cleansing and Poison Cleansing Totems have been combined.

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Ok these two are awesome oh yes. Makes any pve team 5 boxer with a priest pretty bad ass. A bubble for whole team thats great. And after 4 years they finally decided to combine healing/mana totems and disease/poison totems. WEWT i love having a priest healer and shamans now yey yey yey lol.

[Hachoo]

OMFG...

Totem streaming - are you serious? LOL. Tank + 4 shaman will be f'ing unstoppable now unless they remove the stacking at the same time (dear lord please no).

If this goes through I will pretty much drop 3x mana/healing totems and 1 poison/disease totem in every single combat.

[Yo-Yo Freak]

PRIEST[*]Discipline has access to a new talent, Power Word: Barrier. (Think of it as Power Word: Shield for your whole group).
SHAMAN[*]Totem streamlining: The Mana Spring and Healing Stream Totems have been combined. The Disease Cleansing and Poison Cleansing Totems have been combined. [/font][/color]

all i have to say for shamys is ITS ABOUT FLIPPIN TIME!! and the priests things is going to awesome for PvE! wounder how long we have to w8 for this patch...

~YYF

[suicidesspyder]

Hey hachoo think tank and 3 shamans with mana/healing and one with poison/disease in certain situations that call for it. Then tank and 4 shamans with healing/mana for others. Hmm guess its time to make two totem macors now one with all having mana/healing and one having 3 with mana/healing and one with posion/disease.

[Hachoo]

I already have that... I just use ctrl+4 for mana, ctrl+alt+4 for poison on a single shaman, so if I hit ctrl+alt+4 it drops 1 poison 3 mana, if i hit ctrl+4 it drops 4 mana - ill just keep using that

but for pvp, 1+3 all the way

[suicidesspyder]

Omfg i cant wait they need to hurry up. I wonder how bad ass 5 times shamans in instances will do now. The stacking effect plus more damage we are becoming viable again.

[Zal]

Now they just need to make totems able to follow us around.

[emesis]

PRIEST[*]Discipline has access to a new talent, Power Word: Barrier. (Think of it as Power Word: Shield for your whole group).
SHAMAN[*]Totem streamlining: The Mana Spring and Healing Stream Totems have been combined. The Disease Cleansing and Poison Cleansing Totems have been combined. [/font][/color]

all i have to say for shamys is ITS ABOUT FLIPPIN TIME!! and the priests things is going to awesome for PvE! wounder how long we have to w8 for this patch...

~YYF[/quote]

There is nothing in here to suggest that the amount healed/mana restored will be equal to the two totems combined. I would not take this for granted - at all. If true, sure that's awesome. Could be a big a nerf, too, though if they half the value of each restored.

[Clanked]

How will this affect the Glyph of Chain Lightning?