Now that Spirit Tap is gone...

[Shrain]

Do you think leveling a priest will be harder, if you go shadow? Maybe I am not within the majority here when I say I really enjoyed spirit tap, so its a bit of a downer to see it go. What do you guys think? This a good/bad change? Should they make it a mastery, or would that be a bit much?

[mini98]

Do you think leveling a priest will be harder, if you go shadow? Maybe I am not within the majority here when I say I really enjoyed spirit tap, so its a bit of a downer to see it go. What do you guys think? This a good/bad change? Should they make it a mastery, or would that be a bit much?

You realise since each tree has 1 mastery bonus having spirit tap as the mastery would mean u lose shadow orbs and make shadow priests dp less dps than every other dps class.

[Deleted]

We stil got disperse dont we ?

[BigGann]

It's gone from talents, maybe it will become baseline. Although with the change to mind flay being 5 seconds, and hopefully more ticks, we might not have as many mana issues early on.

[Lord Lichfury]

I hope it becomes a trainable passive skill or something, not least because mana will be much more of an issue in cata and Spirit tap was one of the few effective ways Shadow priests could get it back.

[Dharmabhum]

They've fixed up the mana regen a good bit already on live, and I've been hearing good things still about it leveling up on beta. It may be a bit of a downer, but I don't think it will make the leveling game any more difficult.

[Shrain]

You realise since each tree has 1 mastery bonus having spirit tap as the mastery would mean u lose shadow orbs and make shadow priests dp less dps than every other dps class.

Sorry, poor choice of wording on my part. I meant one of the passive mastery bonuses. I am not exactly sure WHAT we have for shadow priest when it comes to the passive bonuses.

[Deleted]

They've fixed up the mana regen a good bit already on live, and I've been hearing good things still about it leveling up on beta. It may be a bit of a downer, but I don't think it will make the leveling game any more difficult.

This!

People shouldn't base ability-loss-QQ on the current state if the game. Mana-Regen is being revamped and it will benefit the leveling process for every class.

[Vongimi]

You realise since each tree has 1 mastery bonus having spirit tap as the mastery would mean u lose shadow orbs and make shadow priests dp less dps than every other dps class.

Do you mean now or in cata? Cause now they are fine, trying and post "Shadow does the least dps" on the shaman forums and they will tear you apart.

[Jerion]

Do you mean now or in cata? Cause now they are fine, trying and post "Shadow does the least dps" on the shaman forums and they will tear you apart.

Cause shadow orbs are on live right?

[Thrayne]

Well it seems you will level disc as they ahve an early evanglism/archangel mana regen gimmick for leveling. As of right now I don't see shadow leveling being very eventful with mana regen

[Shardie]

From the reports I've heard from Beta, Mana Generation at lower levels has been buffed significantly, so much so, you no longer having to find yourself wanding your way down a foe.

[Kelesti]

Shardie has it right. The second a caster below level 20 drops combat, they almost have full mana before they can even sit down to drink (hence mages not even getting conjure water until later).

Spirit Tap was "required" talents to make Priests actually worthwhile to level. Now that it's made unnecessary, spending three points there isn't beneficial to their new design. I can safely say "Good riddance".