Patch 4.0.6 - PTR Build 13561

'Mind Blast base damage has been reduced by 21%. Now deals 1277 to 1349 Shadow damage, down from 1617 to 1709 Shadow damage.' Gtfo man.....

Originally Posted by Xelestial

I know right?! Shadow in general is like a freakin' teeter-totter. Shadow Orbs get buffed to 21.6%. Shadow Orbs get nerfed by 21.6%. Mind Blast gets buffed to 11% (or something like that). Mind Blast gets buffed to 21%. Mind Blast gets nerfed by 21%.

Stop giving us false hope and then taking it away.

I think they're just trying to balance out mind blast so it scales well enough to last the long haul without making it unconventionally powerful *cough*90k+MBcrits*cough*

Originally Posted by link064

I think they're just trying to balance out mind blast so it scales well enough to last the long haul without making it unconventionally powerful *cough*90k+MBcrits*cough*

Hey, I wouldn't mind 90k crits if I didn't die from pulling threat immediately after them :P

Being a Shadow Priest is the most unrewarding caster for large crits. I'm so tired of being an expansion behind. Now I hear "Omg, I critted for 35K!" Then Mind Blast crits for like 16K...Which was cool...In like WoTLK. In WoTLK, it was the same thing. We were doing "BC crits".

Now I know Shadow Priests aren't like the other casters...But at least give me one spell that I can get excited about critting. That's all I want! Nerf the other stuff if you have to- as long as it's balanced.

Sometimes, I need to feel special about my crits too.

Originally Posted by Xelestial

Sometimes, I need to feel special about my crits too.

I know the feeling. My priest wants to be happy when she crits.

No devour is even more nerfed!

I feel bad I sold my ring of Zoe a few weeks ago now...

Im loving the new style as well.

Mildly disappointed with the change to the Word of Empress Zoe. But the price changes to some of those other ones kind of makes up for it.

Yet another doubling of gold from their first incarnations? Yes please.

With awesome changes like this coming for Archaeology, it's starting to not be the worst profession and waste of time in the game.

"Update - Obviously, the Alchemy stones are now unique equipped. I assumed people would just check the tooltip but I'd rather make sure it's veeery clear. "

I may be mistaken but the tooltip doesn't say Unique-Equipped :O

Originally Posted by Boubouille

For the first time in history, I decided to stop being stupid! Datamined info is now placed in MMO Champion quotes to help differentiate datamining from official information, and it only took me 4 years to do that!

awesome move, sir!

Originally Posted by Tsjb

"Update - Obviously, the Alchemy stones are now unique equipped. I assumed people would just check the tooltip but I'd rather make sure it's veeery clear. "

I may be mistaken but the tooltip doesn't say Unique-Equipped :O

You're not, he's just insulting us because he can.

Great idea with the MMO Champion quotes, belated or not. =-)

New color scheme makes way more sence. Good thinking

More shadow priest nerfs, I don't understand the reasoning. Just leave us the way we were and buff mind sear by 10% at least (since you thought 30% was too much and just removed it all together). There is no problem with our current single target .

New quotes are cool - not sure why you stuck to green instead of purple, though. Then you'd be epic while Blizzard stays rare!

All the new alchemy stones give a socket bonus equal to the main stat, +10 int for the int. stone, +10 agi for the agi stone, etc. but the stamina stone give crit. I hope they change this. I'd like to use this stone for my tank but the +10 crit is kind of lame it would be better as +10 stamina.

# Alchemy: Free Action Potion now lasts 30 - (Player level - 77) * 3 if the player is above level 77. That's 30 - 8 * 3 = 6 seconds at level 85.

i know its just me picking at it but you should write it like this 30-(8*3)=6 as its not wrong to go 30-8*3=66 depending how you where taught to do math just saying i know its commonly recognised as the answer is 6 but writing it properly is good can also write like this 30-3(8)=6

Originally Posted by quickstream

# Alchemy: Free Action Potion now lasts 30 - (Player level - 77) * 3 if the player is above level 77. That's 30 - 8 * 3 = 6 seconds at level 85.

i know its just me picking at it but you should write it like this 30-(8*3)=6 as its not wrong to go 30-8*3=66 depending how you where taught to do math just saying i know its commonly recognised as the answer is 6 but writing it properly is good can also write like this 30-3(8)=6

I loled, the operator priority order was always * > - in all math classes i've been in

Wow, I remember when I was excitedly looking forward to having a significantly amped-up Mind Blast. But they just keep lowering it, and lowering it...

The nerf to Mind Sear, however, remains spitefully un-reverted. Brilliant!

Originally Posted by Bloodly

* Devour Magic now has a 25 sec cooldown, up from 8 sec.

What the fcuk is blizzard smoking?

Wondering the same thing myself.

Originally Posted by Tsjb

"Update - Obviously, the Alchemy stones are now unique equipped. I assumed people would just check the tooltip but I'd rather make sure it's veeery clear. "

I may be mistaken but the tooltip doesn't say Unique-Equipped :O

The front page's tooltips aren't showing it, but the stones are now "Unique: Alchemist Stone (1)" (which is actually a step above Unique-Equipped, honestly).

This is to prevent people from using two different Alchemist Stones, like the Stamina one and the Agility one for a tank or something.

---------- Post added 2011-01-25 at 06:52 PM ----------

Originally Posted by Generalfrisk

You're not, he's just insulting us because he can.

It just says "Unique" for me, but if you click on it, you can see the change - it's now: "Unique: Alchemist Stone (1)" instead of "Unique" like it is on Live.

Good idea with the color change. You might want to add a little text at the top of each box saying that it is datamined, in case someone didn't catch the little announcement you made today.