Adventures of a Dwarf Priest

I noticed a small patch yesterday morning when I started up WoW (forgetting it was Tuesday) and didn’t think much of it.  It didn’t show any new patch notes, I assumed it was fixing some insignificant thing.

Just before bed I happen to browse the healing forums on my blackberry and noticed it wasn’t insignificant, it was a stab at the Priests…Boo!  It consisted of 3 nerfs to the Priest class.

• The effectiveness of the Priest spell Divine Hymn has been reduced.

This seems unnecessary to me for because of the cooldown on Divine Hymn.  Yes it was powerful but it also had a 10 minute cooldown and significant mana costs.  A lot of priests would avoid the mana costs with Inner Focus, but still you had to make a choice to hold on to Inner Focus for this spell.  In the grand scheme of things it doesn’t effect me a whole ton because I haven’t been using it much yet, but I did think it was fine.  Oh well

• The Priest ability Soul Warding now only reduces the mana cost of Power Word: Shield by 15% instead of 30%. The tooltip for this spell will be updated at a later date.

This nerf is exactly what my title is referring too.  When we first got the ability to remove the cooldown a lot of people said it was the new circle of healing.  That Priests were indiscriminately spamming shields on everyone.  Partly this is because of the incredibly lame way the new Rapture works, the other because they could. Ghostcrawler said:

“Power Word: Shield is a really useful tool for Disc priests in particular. We want them using it. However, its utility is balanced by a high cost. If we get to the point where they are spamming it constantly to the exclusion of other spells and without it ever being a decision, that suggests mana regen is still too high.”

So basically people disregarded what he said, and continued to spam because they could, so they decided to nerf the reduced costs.  I imagine if it continues to be a problem they might remove the other 15% I don’t think the nerf will change people’s minds much about spamming it though, we’ll see I guess.

• Glyph of Mass dispel will now reduce the cost of the spell by only 35%.

This is a funny nerf everyone has been laughing at because this Glyph was never used.  Everyone has just been saying they might as well remove it from the game.

I never got a chance to play yesterday.  I was doing too many RL life things.  I probably wouldn’t have even noticed the change.  I did sneak on just before heading to bed to do the fishing daily.  I had to parachute into WG for the terror fish.  Managed to do it and not get bothered even though WG was horde controlled.

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