Focused Will and Natural Perfection changes

[Boubouille]

Update 2 : "Other blue posts" have been updated, also don't forget that the Focused Will and Natural Perception changes have been updated since the first post a few hours ago.

Update : It seems that the "No ETA" wasn't really needed, it's already in the PTR Build applied today on test realms. Natural Perfection and Focused Will have been changed again, blue posts below updated. It also means that the talents modified in the latest build of the PTR are already outdated. ^^

(Updated) Focused Will (Priest) changes
Healer's day ! Follow-up of yesterday's post about priests, and a talent upgrades for druids.

Feedback was read, gathered and the designers are fully aware of all that you've provided. As a result, we're making an adjustment to the talent so instead of seeing this morning's version of focused will in the next PTR push, you'll see:

"After taking a critical hit you gain the Focused Will effect, reducing all damage taken by 1/3/5% and increasing healing effects on you by 4/7/10% for 6 seconds. Stacks up to 3 times."

(Updated) Natural Perfection (Druid) Changes

We've read through a great deal of feedback and are making another adjustment to the natural perfection talent which you'll see in the next PTR data push.

"Now also grants the Natural Perfection effect after being critically hit, reducing all damage taken by 1/3/5% for 6 seconds. Stacks up to 3 times."

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[Deleted]

Oh great it means you have to be critically hit 5 times in 6 seconds? So you will recieve full effect for about a second .
Not to mention, if you are criticaly hit 5 times in a row, you are dead no matter what....
Yet again Blizz showed us love

[Azhrarn]

every new crit will refresh the timer, im sure about that

[Deleted]

This is a freaking joke... I get hit by a 5k shadowbolt, and then the next shadowbolt doesn't do 1.9k but 1.85k dmg... Wow.. I'll survive MUCH longer!

Clearly, Blizzard employees need to play healers more themselves...

[schworck]

yet another classic ^^

6% more healing and 3% less dmg,

[Tyrsenus]

The PvP zone is Lake Wintergrasp. Anyone know what the BG is?

[Corpulentmantis]

Wow... This is sad. I hope Blizz realizes that their attempts to buff the disc tree have failed horribly.

[Mightyone]

This is a freaking joke... I get hit by a 5k shadowbolt, and then the next shadowbolt doesn't do 1.9k but 1.85k dmg... Wow.. I'll survive MUCH longer!

Clearly, Blizzard employees need to play healers more themselves...

Olso you can get crited by a dagger rogue.

So you can stand 6 crits in a row, or a feral druid.

[Wildhorn]

Oh great it means you have to be critically hit 5 times in 6 seconds? So you will recieve full effect for about a second .
Not to mention, if you are criticaly hit 5 times in a row, you are dead no matter what....
Yet again Blizz showed us love

Silly. Each time you get critted it refresh the duration

[Wildhorn]

This is a freaking joke... I get hit by a 5k shadowbolt, and then the next shadowbolt doesn't do 1.9k but 1.85k dmg... Wow.. I'll survive MUCH longer!

Clearly, Blizzard employees need to play healers more themselves...

5k shadowbolt in PvP?

And in your example, it would be 2.5k not 1.9k

Learn2cooerance

[Wildhorn]

The PvP zone is Lake Wintergrasp. Anyone know what the BG is?

I doubt Blizzard themselves know

[Clausm]

Blizzard, dont lowl resto druids such way)
That means only, make a list of changes big or what?

[Tirlas]

psst Eyonix != Tharfor

I like that this increases a deep resto druid's survivability to tank just a smidgen.

[Freitag]

6 sek is just to short.
hokay u could get it stack up to 5 in 5on5 arena as focustarget but thats it.. only moment when this talent is usefull..
can't believe they nerfed a skill wich priests where whining about before it even was on liveserver.. i mean wtf
but anyway the skill would be quite usefull with 10 sek+ duration OR much better just 3 stacks with 5% less dmg 10% more heal each..
in solo fights this skill will suck hard. let's say a warrior crits u twice with his frist 3 attacks then hits u again after 3,5 sek noncrit zomg -6% dmg ..buff ends, next hit+ms hits u for 100% dmg
have to hate it, hope they change it

[Yannik]

it wont chance
-talent made for green geared people
-only good in 2vs2,3vs3
-if 4 people target you in 5vs5 and ur other healer isnt focusing or is cced ur dead anyway
-i think its fine 6sec is oke else it would be too overpowered compared to other classes
it gets refreshed anyway through any form of crit strike (including the onces neglected by resil atleast from what i have heard)

[cluelessnoob]

Hmm, Discipline priest in the arenas. Focused Will reduces incoming damage and increases healing after a crit - does it suck though?

Well heck, right after the crit, Martyrdom was applied to the priest. Now he's got 100% pushback resistance and 20% interrupt resistance. So he's likely going to get a heal off on himself ... and now it's got a healing bonus, and he's less likely to die before the spell gets off. That doesn't suck.

Also, assuming proper spec, the priest has just enough Holy talents to have 3/3 Blessed Recovery, so over the 6 seconds after the crit, he's going to get 25% of that damage back. And technically speaking, the talent reads that it's a heal, meaning Focused Will should in theory buff the heal from Blessed Recovery. That doesn't suck.

Also in theory, the disc priest in the arena has 10% incoming spell damage reduction from Spell Warding. Focused Will adds to that. Again, doesn't suck.

If the priest is taking damage from infrequent sources, such as Fireball, Shadowbolt, or a phat 2-hand weapon, Focused Will is unlikely to stack; but the priest also has more time to get a heal off between damage sources.

Whereas a dual-wielder's attacks, or a BM pet's attacks, are going to stack up the buff from 3 to 5 stacks, meanwhile proc'ing Martyrdom to allow the priest to get a heal off on himself.

This talent doesn't sound as incredible as Nature's Guardian, for instance, but it's quite possibly even better. And we should all know by now how damn hard it is to focus and down a well-geared resto shaman as the first target. Focused Will in conjunction with other talents (including the maligned but arena-useful Martyrdom) will force many of our teams to focus a mage/rogue first and chain CC the priest - instead of always focusing a priest first, as soon as he pops up in Proximo.

[Synneth]

Druid NP change changed again.

We've read through a great deal of feedback and are making another adjustment to the natural perfection talent which you'll see in the next PTR data push.

"Now also grants the Natural Perfection effect after being critically hit, reducing all damage taken by 1/3/5% for 6 seconds. Stacks up to 3 times."

[attackfrog]

Druid NP change changed again.

We've read through a great deal of feedback and are making another adjustment to the natural perfection talent which you'll see in the next PTR data push.

"Now also grants the Natural Perfection effect after being critically hit, reducing all damage taken by 1/3/5% for 6 seconds. Stacks up to 3 times."

This makes me very happy. <3 Blizzard.

[Navras]

Blue post:

Update: Paid character name changes are now available on all realms.

Source: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...12090701&sid=1

[joyu]

Hmm, Discipline priest in the arenas. Focused Will reduces incoming damage and increases healing after a crit - does it suck though?

Well heck, right after the crit, Martyrdom was applied to the priest. Now he's got 100% pushback resistance and 20% interrupt resistance. So he's likely going to get a heal off on himself ... and now it's got a healing bonus, and he's less likely to die before the spell gets off. That doesn't suck.

Also, assuming proper spec, the priest has just enough Holy talents to have 3/3 Blessed Recovery, so over the 6 seconds after the crit, he's going to get 25% of that damage back. And technically speaking, the talent reads that it's a heal, meaning Focused Will should in theory buff the heal from Blessed Recovery. That doesn't suck.

Also in theory, the disc priest in the arena has 10% incoming spell damage reduction from Spell Warding. Focused Will adds to that. Again, doesn't suck.

If the priest is taking damage from infrequent sources, such as Fireball, Shadowbolt, or a phat 2-hand weapon, Focused Will is unlikely to stack; but the priest also has more time to get a heal off between damage sources.

Whereas a dual-wielder's attacks, or a BM pet's attacks, are going to stack up the buff from 3 to 5 stacks, meanwhile proc'ing Martyrdom to allow the priest to get a heal off on himself.

This talent doesn't sound as incredible as Nature's Guardian, for instance, but it's quite possibly even better. And we should all know by now how damn hard it is to focus and down a well-geared resto shaman as the first target. Focused Will in conjunction with other talents (including the maligned but arena-useful Martyrdom) will force many of our teams to focus a mage/rogue first and chain CC the priest - instead of always focusing a priest first, as soon as he pops up in Proximo.

in the perfect world where mortal strike, curse of tonges and counterspell doenst exist.
on all the arenas against a warrior or rogue u have the -50% healing effects so 12,5% of blessed recovery+4,16%of extra healing of 3 stacks of focused will wont be a lifesaver.

20% interrupt resistance is 80% that a kick, counterspell... would cut your heal.