{"id":76,"date":"2012-04-25T09:36:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T17:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warcraft.twintop-tahoe.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2012-04-25T18:09:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T02:09:54","slug":"quick-thoughts-mop-patch-15640-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/warcraft.twintop-tahoe.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Quick Thoughts \u2013 MoP Patch 15640 Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>UPDATE: Fixed an error about Mindbender and Shadowfiends inline.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Quite a large update was released today for the Mists of Pandaria Beta, including a lot of interesting changes for Shadow Priests. Here are some highlights (and initial impressions):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Void Shift\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/108968-void-shift#15589-15640\" target=\"_blank\">Void Shift<\/a><\/strong> isn&#8217;t a talent, so all Priests will now have it. I expect this to act as a new pseudo-tank cooldown when they take a large hit and have some sort of &#8220;must heal $VALUE of health in one spell casts to remove effect&#8221; capacity.<\/li>\n<li>All three options for T6\/L90 (<strong><a title=\"Cascade\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/121135-cascade#15589-15640\" target=\"_blank\">Cascade<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a title=\"Divine Star\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/110744-divine-star#15589-15640\" target=\"_blank\">Divine Star<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a title=\"Halo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/120517-halo#15589-15640\" target=\"_blank\">Halo<\/a><\/strong>) have all had their damage nerfed heavily.<\/li>\n<li>There is going to be some competition on the T3\/Level45 talent position. <strong><a title=\"Mindbender\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/123040-mindbender#15589-15640\" target=\"_blank\">Mindbender<\/a><\/strong> is <del>effectively a second<\/del> <strong><em>replaces<\/em> <a title=\"Shadowfiend\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/34433-shadowfiend\" target=\"_blank\">Shadowfiend<\/a><\/strong>, except it returns 2x the mana per hit <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> does 2x the damage per hit. Having to choose between it, our old friend <strong><a title=\"Archangel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/109147-archangel\" target=\"_blank\">Archangel<\/a><\/strong>, and strong newcomer <strong><a title=\"From Darkness, Comes Light\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/109186-from-darkness-comes-light#15589-15640\" target=\"_blank\">From Darkness, Comes Light<\/a><\/strong> is going to be a tough decision that will probably come down to specific fights and fight mechanics to determine which is superior.<\/li>\n<li>The change to <strong><a title=\"Twist of Fate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/109142-twist-of-fate#15589-15640\" target=\"_blank\">Twist of Fate<\/a><\/strong> makes it a front runner for the T5\/Level75 talent in multi-doting situations, especially those where adds die quickly or have focused death orders (Maloriak, Madness, Beth&#8217;tilac).<\/li>\n<li>The nerf to <strong><a title=\"Vampiric Touch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/34914-vampiric-touch#15589-15640\" target=\"_blank\">Vampiric Touch<\/a><\/strong> isn&#8217;t unexpected, especially since it is the new primary source of our mana regen (and will be OP in multidot situations). Trade offs have to be made, and this is one I will gladly take (as opposed to being OOM).<\/li>\n<li>Our T14 set bonuses are straight DPS gains. The <strong><a title=\"2P T14 Bonus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/123114-item-priest-t14-shadow-2p-bonus#15589-15640\" target=\"_blank\">2P T14 Bonus<\/a><\/strong> increases the damage done by <strong><a title=\"Mind Flay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/15407-mind-flay\" target=\"_blank\">Mind Flay<\/a><\/strong> by 10%, while the <strong><a title=\"4P T14 Bonus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/123115-item-priest-t14-shadow-4p-bonus#15589-15640\" target=\"_blank\">4p T14 Bonus<\/a><\/strong> increases the duration of <strong><a title=\"Shadow Word Pain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/589-shadow-word-pain\" target=\"_blank\">Shadow Word Pain<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a title=\"Vampiric Touch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/34914-vampiric-touch\" target=\"_blank\">Vampiric Touch<\/a><\/strong> by 3 seconds (AKA 1 tick). The 2P bonus will likely make our choice in the T3\/Level45 talent tier easier since <strong><a title=\"From Darkness, Comes Light\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/109186-from-darkness-comes-light\" target=\"_blank\">From Darkness, Comes Light<\/a><\/strong> has the potential to be a large mana drain if it procs often, but more importantly any time you are casting <strong><a title=\"Mind Spike\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/73510-mind-spike\" target=\"_blank\">Mind Spike<\/a><\/strong> is a time when you could have been casting <strong><a title=\"Mind Flay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/15407-mind-flay\" target=\"_blank\">Mind Flay<\/a><\/strong> with an extra 10% crit chance. The 4P T14 bonus also plays in to this nicely since those extra 3 seconds means (roughly) 1 extra cast \/ 3 extra ticks of <strong><a title=\"Mind Flay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/15407-mind-flay\" target=\"_blank\">Mind Flay<\/a><\/strong> before you have to refresh DoTs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Fixed an error about Mindbender and Shadowfiends inline. Quite a large update was released today for the Mists of Pandaria Beta, including a lot of interesting changes for Shadow Priests. Here are some highlights (and initial impressions): Void Shift isn&#8217;t a talent, so all Priests will now have it. I expect this to act [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mists-of-pandaria-beta","category-quick-thoughts","category-theorycrafting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/warcraft.twintop-tahoe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/warcraft.twintop-tahoe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/warcraft.twintop-tahoe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warcraft.twintop-tahoe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warcraft.twintop-tahoe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/warcraft.twintop-tahoe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"http:\/\/warcraft.twintop-tahoe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/warcraft.twintop-tahoe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warcraft.twintop-tahoe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warcraft.twintop-tahoe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}