Originally Posted by
sijmister
I don't know, the blue post doesn't provide any numbers, says that due to the increased dps output, they were seeing the same returns, so that would have to be a 60% increase in DPS, which, taking an average endgame priest, would take us from 1500-1600 T6 and T6.5 raid buffed to 2400-2560, which would be huge. hopefully, the talents will go live before WotLK comes out and we can see the results of tests from dedicated endgame priest from guilds like SKGaming and Nihilum, and some of the theorycrafters over at shadowpriest.com. Speaking of shadowpriest.com, there was a thread where they were discussing some talent/ mechanic ideas that would help us scale better with crit and haste, such as mind flay crits, or having mindflay increase the crit dmg/ crit chance of MB and SW: D, and things like that. hopefully they will be able to get their ideas organized and posted constructively on the beta site, and we will see some results. Or we could just wait and hope for a polish pass. Either way, i hope that the loss of 60% mana regen on VT will equal at least 60% DPS increase. Plus, if they work out stacking so that buffs from different classes stack, but not buffs from the same class, that would be great, because that would mean there will always be at least 1 spriest in every raid, and that would help other classes that aren't getting spots right now, too. I think Blizz is trying to take a step in the right direction by providing options in raid composition. I am taking a stance with the more moderate players right now who think that we will still have our place in raids and get more DPS.