MoP changes

[Lucapa]

Dark Intent has been changed and is now a raid wide 6% spell power buff lasting 1 hour. Instant. 30 yard range.

That makes me a happy shadow priest.

[soulyouth]

I'd rather the old one, this prob does not stack with the other source of sp buffs.

[underdogba]

Dark Intent has been changed and is now a raid wide 6% spell power buff lasting 1 hour. Instant. 30 yard range.

If intellect will no longer increase the size of mana pools, then why don't they just express this buff as intellect again?

[sasslefrassed]

This is actually rather upsetting. I hope we see some sort of buff as compensation. :/

[Lucapa]

Everything will be rebalanced for MoP anyways, it's just one extremely annoying buff gone.

[Organoth]

I'm actually short of torn with the healing changes. Shadow is left with just Flash Heal and Holy Nova. I'm torn because with the huge health pools our self heals were weak to begin with but they were nice to have. Hopefully they will address the lack of DP and MB. Prior to this they had said MB would be changed to have no CD and would work off shadow orbs, which will have no cap. You build up the shadow orbs and then "dump" them with MB several times in a row. It sounded like a promising change.

[Kelesti]

If intellect will no longer increase the size of mana pools, then why don't they just express this buff as intellect again?

Because Intellect still gives crit. Because 6% scales, whereas +X intellect can't. And we already get +5% intellect scaling from Kings.