The Enigma Order

Not only insane just because they happen (well deserved from what I can say), but also "wise" buffs - make haste yummie (again) and spirit less bad for Shadow Priests. Can't wait to see this happen.

Last edited by Lamme (2009-10-14 11:18:42)

Sounds like fun, think I'll try my priest a bit again, been a while (stuck at lvl77)

Up and down again, SW:P won't benefit from haste, since stacking at the moment of application (switching to haste weapon, pots, trinkets, everything together) gave monster numbers.

Bad as it sounds, if Blizzard has to tune down some changes not to make SPs overpowered, than it seems that good times are comming in general.

Last edited by Lamme (2009-11-16 12:55:50)

Mox wrote:

For those not familiar with the mechanic for SW:P:

Normally when you cast a debuff on an enemy the only way to renew the debuff is to recast it. When that is done, the entire debuff is reset and it starts over. So if you recast the debuff right before the last tick the last tick is lost etc. Current Crit, haste and spell power is used to calcullate the strength of the debuff.

However. SW:P can be refreshed with Mind Flay. The debuff is mostly untuched and will keep ticking at the same pace as always. The timer on the debuff is "reset" by adding time. The debuff itself remains the same. This is why it keeps all the crit and haste that the caster had at the time of the cast. There is one exception and that is Spell Power. The debuff ticks will be recalculated based on new Spell Power, but the crit and haste factors remainds the same. I'm not sure why they don't recalculate everything, but it might be that Blizzard likes that mechanic. A priest can now use a crit potions early and SW:P will have the benefit from that the entire fight if the priest manage to keep it up with Mind Flay.

Anyway. It's easy to understand that the effect of haste on top of the crit would be too powerfull. Well, at least that is what Blizzard means and there are some logic to it.

It sounds like it worked like the glyph of disease works for death knights. When you refresh diseases with the glyph as a death knight, their tick damage is the same as before they were refreshed, which means that if you apply them with all buffs up and keep them rolling you'll gain quite a bit of DPS out of it in the end compared to reapplying them normally at the end of each rotation. The disease glyph is being nerfed in 3.3 as well to take the current AP value of the DK into account and lower or increase disease damage accordingly, which is quite a bit of a nerf to that glyph. I'd assume that the SW:P problem is that forced blizz to revert this change is the same as the DK one.