{"id":99,"date":"2012-05-01T09:08:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T17:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warcraft.twintop-tahoe.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2012-05-01T09:08:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T17:08:14","slug":"quick-thoughts-mop-beta-patch-15657","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/warcraft.twintop-tahoe.com\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Quick Thoughts \u2013 MoP Beta Patch 15657"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shadow Priests rejoice! This latest beta build has definitely included changes for Shadow Priests that are for the better in almost every way. Expect a math-heavy post about these changes later this week as they have a lot more significance than might appear on the surface. My initial thought is that Haste will still be king for us (more DoT ticks = more double damage), but Mastery will increase the rate at which we get double damage procs&#8230; Here&#8217;s a quick breakdown for the time being, though:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shadow&#8217;s Mastery has changed to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/77486-mastery-shadowy-recall#15650-15657\" title=\"Mastery: Shadowy Recall\" target=\"_blank\">Mastery: Shadowy Recall<\/a><\/strong>. Whenever a DoT does damage, there is a % chance that it will deal damage twice. The spells that this will affect should include <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/589-shadow-word-pain\" title=\"Shadow Word: Pain\" target=\"_blank\">Shadow Word: Pain<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/34914-vampiric-touch\" title=\"Vampiric Touch\" target=\"_blank\">Vampiric Touch<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"www.wowdb.com\/spells\/2944-devouring-plague\" title=\"Devouring Plague\" target=\"_blank\">Devouring Plague<\/a><\/strong> (more on that next), <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/15407-mind-flay\" title=\"Mind Flay\" target=\"_blank\">Mind Flay<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/48045-mind-sear\" title=\"Mind Sear\" target=\"_blank\">Mind Sear<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/589-shadow-word-pain#15650-15657\" title=\"Shadow Word: Pain\" target=\"_blank\">Shadow Word: Pain<\/a><\/strong> no longer generates Shadow Orbs. Rather, it has a 12% chance per tick to spawn a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/78203-shadowy-apparitions#15650-15657\" title=\"Shadowy Apparition\" target=\"_blank\">Shadowy Apparition<\/a><\/strong> which will travel to the target and deal damage. It also appears that Shadowy Apparitions can now fly baseline, don&#8217;t despawn unless the target is dead, and have had their max summoned cap increased to 15 from 9.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/8092-mind-blast#15650-15657\" title=\"Mind Blast\" target=\"_blank\">Mind Blast<\/a><\/strong> is now the sole way to generate Shadow Orbs for Shadow Priests. It has had its CD increased by 2 seconds, up to 8 seconds, but in exchange a new passive ability <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/124431-mind-surge-nnf#15650-15657\" title=\"Mind Surge (NNF)\" target=\"_blank\">Mind Surge (NNF)<\/a><\/strong> has been added, allowing Vampiric Touch a 20% chance to reset the cooldown on Mind Blast on tick.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/2944-devouring-plague#15650-15657\" title=\"Devouring Plague\" target=\"_blank\">Devouring Plague<\/a><\/strong> is back in a reimagined form! It now lasts for 2\/4\/6 seconds (number of Shadow Orbs used x2 seconds) and ticks every second, healing the caster 15% of the damage done. Because of the restriction to how Shadow Orbs are generated, the upper limit on how long it will take to use a 3 Shadow Orb Devouring Plague is once every ~28.5 seconds (lower with more haste reducing the GCD, of course). If you get really luck on your Vampiric Touch procs, tough, this could be as low as ~5 seconds, though that is unlikely.<\/li>\n<li>In the same vein, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/34914-vampiric-touch#15650-15657\" title=\"Vampiric Touch\" target=\"_blank\">Vampiric Touch<\/a><\/strong> no longer restores health (as that is Devouring Plague&#8217;s role), so expect <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/items\/85708-glyph-of-vampiric-touch\" title=\"Glyph of Vampiric Touch\" target=\"_blank\">Glyph of Vampiric Touch<\/a><\/strong> to be changed with the next patch.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowdb.com\/spells\/109186-from-darkness-comes-light#15650-15657\" title=\"From Light, Comes Darkness\" target=\"_blank\">From Light, Comes Darkness<\/a><\/strong> has been nerfed significantly (~50%) as it no longer has a chance to proc off of Shadow Word: Pain. This should make the rotation\/priority system for using it easier, especially in multi-DoT situations, as it will not proc as often.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shadow Priests rejoice! This latest beta build has definitely included changes for Shadow Priests that are for the better in almost every way. Expect a math-heavy post about these changes later this week as they have a lot more significance than might appear on the surface. My initial thought is that Haste will still be [&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-99","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\/99","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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/warcraft.twintop-tahoe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"http:\/\/warcraft.twintop-tahoe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/warcraft.twintop-tahoe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warcraft.twintop-tahoe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warcraft.twintop-tahoe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}