While the Beta and聽 PTR Realms where down for a new build, several blue posters went on a slight posting spree and posted a lot of upcoming changes for Paladins, Warlocks, Priests, and Shamans. Read on for more information.
Paladins:
Posted By Ghostcrawler ( Source )
Righteous Defense -- cooldown lowered to 8 sec. It had been 10 sec recently and is 15 sec on live.
Infusion of Light -- now affects Flash of Light or Holy Light. Flash of Light is reduced to 0 cast time with 2 ranks, meaning that if you're running around and get a Holy Shock crit, you can also Flash without stopping.
Judgements of the Pure -- haste benefit now up to 15% with 5 ranks (was 10%).
Enlightened Judgements -- range benefit is now 30 yards with 2 ranks (was 20). This means you can judge or heal from the same range without having to run around so much.
Bacon of Light -- no change here, but I can never miss an opportunity to call it Bacon.
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Warlocks:
Posted By Ghostcrawler (Source )
Shadowflame -- We ultimately decided to keep the cone and the dot component, but just the damage. We compared Shadowflame's damage to Cone of Cold, but the latter benefits from a pretty sweet talent and is arguably a little weak-feeling without the talent. Shadowflame has no equivalent talent, so we buffed its damage by about 75%.
Haunt -- In order to give you a wider window in which to renew the spell, we lowered the cooldown to 8 sec. Refreshing Haunt will also trigger the heal from the existing Haunt, so clipping your previous one won't be as big a problem.
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Priests:
Posted By Ghostcrawler (Source )
We increased the damage coefficient of Devouring Plague to be similar to other damage over time spells. We also lowered the base damage on ranks 7, 8, and 9 to partially compensate for better scaling.
Overall this will unquestionably be a buff to the spell's damage, but I wanted to state this clearly lest you just see the base damage in a future build and think we nerfed it.
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Shamans:
Posted By Ghostcrawler (Source )
Update on Lava Burst.
We ended up buffing the damage by about 10%. You should now have a lot motivation to use it and Flame Shock once you hit level 75. Lightning Bolt isn't going anywhere so you still have your old standby, particularly for 3.0.2 and until you gain a few levels.