#0 - March 6, 2007, 7:59 p.m.
Priests
- The base healing percent from "Vampiric Embrace" has been reduced to 15% from 20%. In addition, this ability can no longer get critical heals.
- "Silent Resolve" no longer reduces threat generated by Shadow spells.
- Prayer of Mending now has a 10 second cooldown.
- Mass Dispel will now target immunity effects first.
- Circle of Healing mana cost reduced by 25%.
- The effectiveness of "Fade:Rank 7" has been increased by approximately 25%.
- The damage absorption of "Power Word: Shield" added by the caster's bonus healing has been increased to 20%.
Posts with answers we have provided so far:
About the cooldown change on "Prayer of Mending":
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=79669587&postId=798213832&sid=1#10
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=79223653&postId=798213813&sid=1#2
Changes to "Silent Resolve":
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=79180529&postId=785307951&sid=1#21
Previous PTR Notes thread and discussion:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=79165032&sid=1
Additional Information:
*Vampiric Embrace was changed because it was felt that it was providing too much healing. The change to the healing crit was done because this effect was an unintentional bug. It was an unwanted secondary effect that was never intended to be a part of the functionality of the spell.
Someone asked if there would still be healing crits. Another player clarified things a bit in the original feedback thread-
Q u o t e:
The bug was that you were getting a "Double Crit" effect off of VE. It was nice. But, as many Shadow Priests know most of the time VE Heals are over heals anyways. I for one understand that change. It is the 5% drop that still a bit annoying, but at least it is explained.
You can still get Crit heals off of VE, but it is from the Crit of the damage spell. Not the crit of VE.
That information is correct. There shouldn't be a double benefit and was a bug.
*Circle of Healing may also have an additional change to targeting. This is in consideration for sometime in a future patch.
We will continue to monitor feedback on these changes and look for information on player experiences with these changes and going forward.
Please feel free to use this thread to post any further questions you may have or feedback from testing that you have done.