Warcraft Experience

In a great article 1up.com chats about the upcoming priest changes in patch 1.10.

If you’re one of the five million World of Warcraft players around the world, you’ve most definitely seen your fair share of the plea for help above. When players send out a request for a healer to join their party, what they really mean is they want a Priest. Blizzard, in the spirit of forcing people to play their class correctly (Sorry, Shadow Priests), posted the details to their upcoming Priest review today and everything is coming up healing.

If there is one thing to be said about the upcoming Priest changes (Due to take effect with the 1.10 Patch), it’s that if you’re not playing a Holy Priest now, it may be time to dump a few gold and reallocate your talent points, because the Shadow talent tree barely got touched. Besides, nobody likes having a wanna-be Mage, I mean, Shadow Priest hanging around any ways.

With the review come new talents and the Holy and Discipline trees are bursting with these goodies. The most remarkable new talent, “Spiritual Guidance”, is a passive talent that becomes available at the 21 Point mark of the Holy tree. “Spiritual Guidance” will permanently improve the Priests spell damage and healing by up to 25% of their total Spirit attribute. That’s a lot of holy healing.

Blizzard’s Eyonix remarked that “Spiritual Guidance” provides a, “Pretty nice boost”. Understatement of the year, my friends. Anyone else got that itch to reroll?

As with every class review, there are a ton of changes so we highly suggest that all Priest players take the time to read through Eyonix’s lengthy post on the official forums. The next class that will be undergoing a full review is another Mana burner, the Mage. Hold onto your butts and pray we get this kind of special treatment too!

While surfing the net today for updates to one of my favorite mods (possessions which still is not updated. Bummer) I found a cool hunter website that I thought I’d pass along.

It’s called Sparkle’s Hunter Collection 3.8 and lists all of their favorite hunter mods as well as some helpful tips on how to use it.

They also include a Hunter macro (listed below) which seems rather useful.

This macro targets your nearest enemy, sets pet out after it and casts concussive shot (you can alternatively have it do hunter’s mark or ?)

/script TargetNearestEnemy() (Or could use TargetLastEnemy() etc.)

/script PetAttack()

/cast Concussive Shot

or alternatively last line would read:

/cast Hunter’s Mark(Rank 3)

Simple but kinda helpful.

Here’s the link to see all the mods they say are helpful. If you scroll to the bottom of the page you can download the package.

If you’ve been playing for very long, you’ve noticed that each patch Blizzard focuses on a single class to tweak and (hopefully!) improve. While we all know that 1.10 will feature the priest review, the as of yet un-reviewed classes (mage, rogue, and shaman) have been wondering who’s next. On Saturday, Eyonix let slip that mages will be the next class up for review. Mages, let’s hope for good things in your future!

This better be good guys!

Eyonix from Blizzard shares a little info regarding what’s going on with the Priest Talent changes for patch 1.10. Have a listen…

We focused primarily on the Holy and Discipline trees, however, we did visit the Shadow tree as well (no, that doesn’t mean nerf – so don’t troll my post). I had already commented that the focus of Holy would be in providing throughput improvement, that Discipline would focus on staying-power and that Shadow would focus primarily on damage. I believe this statement caused a slight bit of confusion, and I wish to make two points of clarification.

First, this has always been the case. This isn’t a new direction for these trees.

Second, don’t overanalyze “focus”. All talent trees (for all classes) have a focus. The focus of a tree isn’t necessarily all it has to offer. For instance, just because I stated the focus of Holy was in throughput improvement, doesn’t mean you wont find staying-power or damage. One of our goals in streamlining the priest talents was to ensure that the class was viable in both PvE and PvP, despite a given build. Granted, certain builds are always going to be optimal for certain avenues of the game, as such is what occurs when you specialize your character.

But I ramble…

The changes look good, and I’m fairly excited to see your reaction when they are unveiled, although I don’t expect the best feedback to come until the PTRs are live. In any case, /cheers – to priests.

Thanks

They recently were made aware that the original “2 day grinding guide” which has been posted for quite a while was actually part of a much larger grinding guide. And the poster was not the actual author. They’ve fixed the situtation and bring you Proxy’s Mage Grinding Guide. This is the full guide, and done quite well, thanks Proxy!

Looks like there were a few changes that came with last week’s patch that didn’t make the release notes…

Apparently WarCry Network knows something we don’t. They have compiled a list of the unpublished changes, of which there are more than a few. So, head on over & see which pieces of gear are absulutely useless to you now…

Interestingly enough I haven’t played Funktea since the patch and was noticing that fully buffed I was down about 2k mana, which is what saves my butt when I’m in trouble (nothing like that mana shield). After reading the list they specifically state the Arcanist gear was changed.

Is this another way for Bliz to justify their tier 2 crappiness by nurfing my tier 1 gear?

According to another website I frequent here are some other undocumented changes included in 1.9.3..

# Nefarian’s reset should now consistently be 15 minutes regardless of what phase your raid may have wiped out on.
# The High Priests, High Priestesses, and Jin’do the Hexxer will now drop their epic items more often. Some of the rarest items from Zul’Gurub such as the Warblade of the Hakkari and Zulian Swift Tiger can now also be found a bit more frequently.
# Zul’Gurub coin and bijou drops were increased
# The stats on the Tier 1 Mage and Warlock sets (Arcanist and Felheart) have been changed.
# You now have to be out of combat to open a chest.

It looks like Eyonix is giving us a “Sneak Peek” at what the Priest revamp will look like:

As has been stated many times in recent posts, a number of improvements are being made to several priest talents and core abilities for the next content patch. Several of these changes are still in the testing process, and in some cases, under discussion – especially those relating to talents. What this means to the players is, the following details pertaining to upcoming change is not comprehensive, and intended primarily to serve as a sneak preview, and in a perfect world, satisfy some of your curiosity.

Too bad this world isn’t perfect…

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Here are some Hunter guides from the Warcraft Strategy forum boards.

* Hunter Epic 3.0 – New Strategies and Videos
* Beating a Lock as a Hunter