Class News for Dec. 18th

Druid healing, Paladin judgments, Priest glyphs, totems and trinkets have been touched on by Blizzard recently. The PTR forums are online now and with more news coming in constantly from there, I imagine these class news posts will (hopefully) get a little more exciting.

Fair warning though with the new PVP excitement getting more people racing to 80 and players that prefer PVP living in the arena, you’re going to see A LOT of QQ posts come up. Hopefully they’ll nerf DKs and Resto Druids TO THE GROUND BABY.

Druid
Nourish
I think you should take a harder look at Nourish. We received so much feedback on Nourish that I was sort of going along with the conventional wisdom that Nourish didn’t fill a large enough role. Since then a few druids have set me straight. It can be a really amazing spell.

Glyphed Regrowth is also a really good spell, but it is still a hot — it doesn’t get the health out to the target as fast as Nourish.

If you’re a big (glyphed) Healing Touch fan, then I can see how you might use it instead of Nourish, especially if you run heroics a lot (and so are filling all of the healing roles yourself). But if I was taking any button off of my bar for raiding, it would be HT and not Nourish.

When Nourish came up in beta, some druids asked “Why would I use Nourish when I have Regrowth?” The answer is that Regrowth is an amazing spell (finally), but it’s not a flash heal. (Source)

Paladin
Judgements Bug (HEY IT’S BACK LOL WAY TO FUCKING GO BLIZZARD)
Keep looking. We will too. (Source)

Judgement of Light
One of the changes in 3.0.8 that we may or may not have announced is that we changed Judgment of Light to do no threat in order to fix some of this seemingly random behavior. We aren’t trying to nerf Prot paladin threat overall with this change.

The topic came up again recently when Protadin OTs were accidentally pulling off the MT with huge threat spikes while tanking adds etc. (Source)

Priest
Glyph of Dispel nerf
The glyph was just overpowered. It was meant to be a neat little bonus when you dispelled someone, not a new way to spam heals or to make someone really, really pay for putting a debuff on one of your guys. (Source)

Shaman
Egg of Mortal Essence not procing from Healing Stream Totem
It won’t proc off of items and Healing Stream is a totem. Bad things would happen if it proc’d off of items.

It should work fine with all your other heals. (Source)

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