Wyvern Sting becomes instacast.
Arcane Shot ranks 6 and up dispel a magic effect on the target.

So um, blind needs no reagent... Cool.

Given that it apparently is still on a 5 minute cooldown... So what?

This change buys me a bag slot.

And it devalues my blinding powder to zero.

But hey, the not-being-cleansed thing is pretty hard to argue with. The fact that it's still good at most exactly once in an arena match, unlike nearly every other form of CC, makes it only mildly interesting.

Then you're not among the best PvPers if your rating isn't above 2000+...

Also it does seem like the personal rating would reset for each team you're on, or possibly be based on the team your facing's rating (such as if I have a personal rating of 1900 but am facing a 1500 rated team on a freshly formed 2v2 I joined, they'd be worth 0 points to my personal rating if I won, but cost me 30 points if I lost).

Very true.

As mentioned above, I'm nervous about the evocation change, as it will actually lower my mana regen. Although if you get a tick at the very start, and then one every 2 seconds, for a total of 5 ticks, that's not as bad. Haven't really examined the "new" evocate regen mechanic.

Tristantio, you seem to be missing the point. Rating is relative to your realmpoolsize. Take this realmpool:
The Armory

And say with a straight face that the fourth best team in that pool does NOT deserve S3 shoulders.

Or this one
The Armory

Or this one

The Armory


2k rating is a joke on World's largest realmpool (Blutdurst), 2k is nearly impossible on these.

Did you link the wrong page? I see 40 teams over 2000 there.

Yes sorry link is fixed now.

I think you may be misreading it.

I think it means:

T(0) Tank threat = X
T(0+eps) Tank Gains Pain Suppression
T(0+eps) Tank threat = 0.95*X

Losing 5% of your *total* threat is more meaningful.

edit: And it makes a lot of sense to me in terms of giving priests a meaningful healing role differentiated from other healing classes.

Paladins: efficient healing, high throughput healing.
Druids: HoTs, reactive heals (NS/SM).
Shamans: localized area damage healing (CH), hm... probably something else?
Priests: group heals, proactive heals (PoM, PWS, and now PS)

Yea you are right, it should be done by a percentage of players, not by a set 2000+ rating, looking at my battlegroup for instance The Armory there are 123 teams that would get shoulders just from the 5v5 ladder, compared to the 4 teams on your EU realm.

Keline's link, screenshotted:

Mages get Ritual of Refreshment so we don't have to spend the beginning of raids conjuring. It doesn't say anything about it being differentiated between food/water though, so there might be Ritual of Hunger Management and Ritual of Thirst Management.

WoW Forums -> What is in store for 2.3? Cherry pie Here!

And 10 minutes later, I'm STILL chapped about the Evocation change. Make it refill the whole mana bar or leave it how it is right now please.

These rogue, mage, shaman, and hunter changes are making me nervous, especially since they don't come with any additional survivability buffs for us poor shadow priests.

I am not looking forward to being better controlled than I already am, and dying faster than I already do.

I wonder if it dispels the buff before damage gets dealt...an extra 790 damage to an arcane shot potentially would be awesome from killing off a Power Word: Fortitude right off the bat.

Well, technically ... -1030 hp (max, no % lost), then hit them for <whatever Arcane Shot hits for these days>.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but ... considering Shadowstep doesn't restealth you, the only move you'll be able to modify with it in a sustained PVE situation is backstab.

You spend 60e every 6s to backstab. Every Shadowstep cooldown you can spend 360e to backstab six times, and then 10e more to modify your next backstab by 20%. If you repeat this cycle five times you would get a 'free' backstab.

6 backstabs (repeated five times) +1 final backstab (for parity) cost 1860e.
Total backstabs = 31.

6 backstabs + shadowstep (repeated five times) + 1 final backstab (to make use of the last Shadowstep) cost 1910e.
Total backstabs = 32 (the five shadowsteps add as much damage as an additional backstab)

Subtract the costs and backstabs and you see that shadowstep just earned you one more backstab for a cost of 50e. Just pressing backstab would have cost you a grand total of 10 more energy. So this talent saves you 10e every 186 seconds.

I think we can toss this talent back into 'useless in PVE in the extreme' now.

New, better repair bots:

WoW Forums -> The Few, the Proud, the Engineers

Best thing I have heard in quite a while.

How could you improve the repair bot beyond making it repair for less gold, which is something I don't expect?

We know almost nothing behind how your personal rating will be calculated. I would hope Blizzard realizes that 2000 on one battlegroup is not 2000 on another and create a formula for personal ratings that is appropriate.

It could sell factioned ammo, reagents, and so on, for one thing.

Make it so you don't have to farm Gnomeragan for the mats?

Sells reagents?

Dances a jig and sings you a tune?

Druid Combat resurrection cooldown to be lowered to 20 minutes.