Three patches in 4 days! I’m OK with this! Here’s what’s changed in the world of Shadow this time: Devouring Plague has its damage increased by 10%. To put this in perspective, this is equivalent to having its damage reduced by 7.5% if the nerfs in Build 15972 never occurred. Mind Flay had its damage […]
There was only one change of note to Shadow in the patch Blizzard is releasing right now: Mind Blast was buffed 25% from where it was in the last build. Another way of interpreting this is that Mind Blast was buffed 6.3% from where it was before the nerf in this last build occurred. This […]
Usual disclaimer: the following information is as of the Mist of Pandaria Beta build 15972, released on August 14, 2012, and may not be accurate once future patches are released. For a primer on this post, please see the original post from early last week. To see the previous set of changes, please see the […]
With a firm release date of August 28, 2012 now set for 5.0.4 (I.E. two weeks from today), it is safe to say that we are in the closing stretch of class changes and balancing. Another build was released today with typical results: nerfs, though they weren’t just limited to Shadow Priests. Here’s a recap […]
I’ve spent a good chunk of this past weekend playing around with the best in slot list supplied with SimulationCraft for Shadow Priests, mostly trying to improve upon it based on what has been determined to be our current stat weights as of the last beta build. For anyone curious what this ‘Best in Slot […]
Usual disclaimer: the following information is as of the Mist of Pandaria Beta build 15952, released on August 07, 2012, and may not be accurate once future patches are released. For a primer on this post, please see the original post from early last week. To see the previous set of changes, please see the […]
[size=20][b]For the 5.1 Best In Slot List please click here[/b][/size] Below is the latest listing of the best raid gear available for patch 5.0.5. Items in the following lists are ranked according to the normalized values of their stats. Stats are represented via PP (Pseudo Points) — how valuable a given stat is — normalized […]
[size=20][b]For the 5.1 Changelog please click here[/b][/size] 2012/11/06 Updated Mindshard Drape (H) intellect value. (inad316 @ HowToPriest) 2012/11/04 HowToPriest user Ebmor sent me a very detailed and comprehensive list of mistakes ranging from drop locations to item levels (and stats) needing updating. Light of the Cosmos (all versions) updated. (aica @ HowToPriest) 2012/10/30 Corrected Intellect […]
Usual disclaimer: the following information is as of the Mist of Pandaria Beta build 15929, released on August 02, 2012, and may not be accurate once future patches are released. For a primer on this post, please see this post from earlier this week. Here are some updated graphs from the latest patch: As you […]
Usual disclaimer: the following information is as of the Mist of Pandaria Beta build 15913, released on July 27, 2012, and may not be accurate once future patches are released. The data/charts in this post are no longer valid. A new post with updated graphs has been posted here (click). Now that Mists of Pandaria […]