Matt’s Hodir Impressions

First, check out this awesome video by Siha. Some great teaser footage regarding the Hodir encounter. You can see me around the 22 second mark. I’m running away to the bottom right corner of the screen. Great choice of music, to boot! To all the players who said Blizzard didn’t know how to create challenging …

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3.1 PTR and Shamans, Lodur’s Initial Thoughts.

So the PTR is upon us and Shamans have a few changes to contend with. For those of you who haven’t been following the changes I’ll post the notes here before I give my comments on them so far. I’ll only give a list of the ones that affect restoration shamans but the complete list …

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Thoughts on Rapture and Mana Regen

I wanted to put some thoughts together on the post 3.1 Rapture ability and our overall mana regen. A lot of players have contacted me and wondered why I thought it was a buff and asked what it meant for their mana regeneration. Why am I so optimistic about something that’s going to tank our …

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Priest Changes – Build 9626

Pulled from the fine folks at MMO Champion. Discipline Grace doesn’t reduce damage dealt to the target anymore but now increases the healing received from the Priest by 3% (Up from 2%) Renewed Hope now also give you a 100% chance to reduce all damage taken by 3% for 20 sec to all friendly party …

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Hymn of Hope is Removed and New Power Infusion Graphic

I checked. I checked all possible trees (including Shadow but I didn’t screenshot that). Hymn of Hope is gone. Yes, I know there was a new glyph added: Glyph of Hymn of Hope *new*  — Your Hymn of hope provides 3 times the normal amount of mana per time, but its duration is 50% shorter. …

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