I assume he's meaning the nerf to mana burn - it's going to be affected by resilience. I don't think it's clear if this is going to significantly affect their arena desirability, as they bring a number of useful things to a team.
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I assume he's meaning the nerf to mana burn - it's going to be affected by resilience. I don't think it's clear if this is going to significantly affect their arena desirability, as they bring a number of useful things to a team.
Priests do three things in Arena. Dispell, Mana Burn and Tank.
The mana burn nerf won't affect lower ratings too much, but when it starts to get to the better geared teams, it will (1800+ rating). Yawn.
TBH if thats what it is, I am not suprised or annoyed about it. Most things are being taken into consideration with Resilliance. Warlocks had this bum deal a few months ago.
As above, Warlocks have not been nerfed. I don't disagree that Mana Burn needed reigning in a bit, but this is is not the way to do it. It doesn't take a genius to work out that nerfing the main reason an entire class is in the arena needs some compensation the other way. They didn't even reduce the mana cost of MB, so I'll now be burning ~500-600 mana for 350 mana spent (in my rating, and it's only going to get worse). Worthless, especially given the fact that MB can be LOS'ed or interrupted by any one of a million interrupts. Having to cast a 2 second (1.5s) spell ten times to oom someone isn't bad enough in arena? Given the fact that you can barely stand still and not get raped/have your spell LOS'd, let alone resists etc?
All the supposed nerfs put in place to control warlocks have done is damage priests (specifically Shadow priests mostly) - Dots and resilience, nerfing fear. Blizzard really are clueless when it comes to the priest class.
Of all the classes I've played (I've levelled all classes all the way apart from a Hunter), only one class ever had it so bad as priests, and that was rogues before they were fixed. Now rogues are utterly awesome. They needed fixing badly, if anything they're overpowered now but thats irrelevant. Priests, Shadow in particular, have been screwed over.
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I was talking about a past change when dots and resilience were taken into account.
I dont know of the upcoming changes to Warlocks in 2.4 The drain mana 30% buff increase seems a bit steep, surely it won't be that much when the patch goes live. If it does, then GG
So it looks like Priests are getting a PvE buff but a heavy nerf to Mana Burn which I assume is used most in Arena, or one of three main spells used.
MB & Dispel is all you're really there for. Unless if Blizzard plan to introduce some sponsorship deal with Lucozade in the near future. You know.."Hey You! Arena Priests - Try Lucozade: Helps you run 30% faster.."