Leveling Reduction Pre-WotLK & Major Priest Rumor

Schwick — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:51:54 GMT

Well Blizzard did say that they would buff Disc a little. Here's a blue-post about it: http://blue.cardplace.com/newcache/forums.worldofwarcraft.com/97833393.htm

Seems a nice buff indeed.

Leveling Reduction Pre-WotLK & Major Priest Rumor

NeosliveR — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:51:53 GMT

Can't someone look all the class because there should be plenty of change like that.

Leveling Reduction Pre-WotLK & Major Priest Rumor

Schwick — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:51:52 GMT

Would be nice for Curse to check the talent trees out at the con. Do note though, these are Pre-PTR changes. They can still changed/removed/buffed/nerfed/etc..

Leveling Reduction Pre-WotLK & Major Priest Rumor

Kody — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:51:51 GMT

I'll try to get Nimloth to check them out tomorrow. :)

Leveling Reduction Pre-WotLK & Major Priest Rumor

Schwick — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:51:50 GMT

You go girl!.. er.. man.. dude... erm.. you do that :-)

Leveling Reduction Pre-WotLK & Major Priest Rumor

Salsa — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:51:49 GMT

What would be the point of shield wall if priests can do the same with shorter cooldown for the warrior?

Leveling Reduction Pre-WotLK & Major Priest Rumor

Flawless101 — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:51:48 GMT

Shield Wall isn't a spec'd talent.

Leveling Reduction Pre-WotLK & Major Priest Rumor

Salsa — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:51:47 GMT

Doesn't matter that shield wall isn't a specced talent.

There would be no point for shield wall at all with the rumored change, especially as the cooldown is pretty hefty and shares cooldown with other solid skills.

And I really dubt the rumours of it both being castable on others as well as getting shorter cooldown. Spammable in raids? Would require a whole series of rebalancing raid-encounters with the side effect that the damage output from bosses would be impossible to withstand if you did not have a disc priest in the raid spamming it. Somehow I doubt this is desired.

Not to mention the effect it would have on PvP where warriors can't use shieldwall because of the hefty cooldown, but Pain Suppression is usable.

Leveling Reduction Pre-WotLK & Major Priest Rumor

Kody — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:51:46 GMT

Yeah the more I think about this the less I believe it. I was talking with Slifli(who plays a priest on EU and US realms) about it on the way to the office yesterday, and we pretty much agreed that at 1 minute cooldown it would be fairly absurd, especially if it could be cast on other players.

There would have to be some extreme caveat to it so that it wouldn't work that well in PvE.