Two new flasks were added on the PTR.

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Flask of Pure Death - A shadow, fire, and frost spell damage flask

Flask of Blinding Light - An arcane, holy, and nature damage flask


I have yet to have success copying my character over. I'm just curious as to whether anyone knows the new mats or not, and if anyone knows if the latter flask will add to +healing as well.

Yes, it would be fair to assume that it will. But one can never be too sure; it could easily be another of Blizzard's sour oversights.

Its almost guaranteed it won't add +healing, just like +nature damage on any items doesn't add healing for druids/shamans.

That's good news, do you know if they are world drops, rep based, mats, etc? Anybody?

Obviously these were introduced to use only Outlands herbs, so that's cool. But I'm confused why they'd cut down the damage on a flask like Supreme Power, and then put out flasks like these, which have a higher amount of damage. Though to be honest, I guess it's balanced by just having the damage in a couple damage type subsets.

For Affliction locks it looks like Pure Death will be great, so I'm jazzed. Gotta start saving up those fel lotuses and mana thistles now. Too bad it uses so much nightmare vine - those tree elites in Skettis don't drop that when you skin them, so it looks like actually hunting in Shadowmoon Valley is back in my herb run.

But really, they could have avoided all this by just changing the Supreme Power recipe, so why not do that? Change black lotus to 2 Fel Lotuses and you're done.

They just replaced the Shadow/Arcane Fortification flasks with these two.

The few +holy damage effects currently in game don't add healing of any kind, don't think this will be an exception. "Healing" is an entirely different school of magic even if the spell effect is treated as holy or nature depending on the class casting the spell. Otherwise items that add to +healing only wouldn't be universal for all classes.

I'm sure it's the same people who forgot that the majority of warlocks use both fire and shadow, immolate being around 15%-17% of your dps in most of the standard builds, which devalues the 54 damage from soulfrost a fair bit (it's equivalent to about 48 +dmg, if I'm remembering right) not to mention the entire shadoweaving set and shadow power pots (adept's isn't good for an affliction lock due to the crit.)

However, the +70 flasks are still available, and the mats should go down in price. I have about 50 stockpiled (got a bunch of lotus for cheap) and I don't feel like I'll be missing much using them rather than the +80's. I'm definitely going to offer them in trade to any of our mages who want, however, because I know how they feel.

Is it just me... or is one flask going to be in much higher demand?

Pure Death -> Mages, Warlocks, Shadow Priests (around 7 people in my raids)
Pure Light -> Ele Shammies, Moonkins (around 1-2 people)

Gotta stock up on Nightmare Vine!

You don't have any Arcane mages?

Going by the usual pattern, first patch, Binding light will only affect offensive spells.

Then in the next patch, Blizz will fix it to also do healing spells, just like every other spell damage enchant/buff in the history of the game. (Especially seeing how it contains nature and holy which is the two healing categories in the game)


EDIT: And of course at only +80 healing, most would argue, Flask of Restoration is still >2x better for most healers in the game.