Spooncraft

Warriors were eating people alive with their big crits, so were mages hell they still do, and thusly resilience was brought in to reduces the chance of being crit and the damage any crits DID manage to do to you.

Warlocks were spanking in PVP with dots, so resilience now affects damage over time effects. Now the big balancing knife has cut it’s way to priests (and to a certain extent warlocks again) in that resilience now reduces the amount of mana that is drained from you.

What makes priests really shine in most arena situations is that discipline priests are hard to bring down as is due to pain supression, obviously resilience gear, and a plethora of other tricks and escape buttons. But through it all they can spec their talent points to make mana burn practically instant cast, how else do you completely destroy the enemy healer or caster? So i guess enough people QQ’d about it and so now Blizzard has seen fit to make this change in the new PTR build.

One again everything is subject to change but for the most part I hope this stays in the files come live release.