Lifebloom nerf for 3.1: WTF?

I thought I was having a nice Friday afternoon, and so I said to myself, “Self, why don’t we read a little Elitist Jerks forums before we leave work?” Good idea, right? Not so much. Here’s a little jewel, quoted from the European forums of all places, for your reading pleasure: • Lifebloom: Mana cost …

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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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