Cataclysm class changes

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Permalink Reply by Kosak Grabovsky on April 8, 2010 at 11:39am

Warrior just released. Heroic leap looks interesting.

Permalink Reply by Corey Garrison on May 4, 2010 at 10:50pm

ZOMG bout fucking time we get some heroic leap. hunters will now fear my warrior as they did in the burning crusade! ALSO i would like to see undead pallys. but they aint gonna do it :(

Permalink Reply by Jonny Marko on May 5, 2010 at 9:41am

I just don't get the point of Heroic Leap when it shares the same cooldown as charge, but effectively just does the same thing.

I think I like the priest and rogue changes the best, out of the classes I play now anyways. Didn't really read up on mages, shamans, or DKs.

Permalink Reply by Alex Zygmunt on November 1, 2010 at 7:49pm

I'm loving some of the changes thusfar, but hating the AoE nerf in all raid roles. The rage normalization helps on my bear tank, but the 6 second cooldown on swipe is killing me. Paladins are still fun, but somehow more squishy as a tank (maybe I haven't invested enough time in checking out reforging). Priest healing is meh. But the normalization in other dps classes is very nice.

Still, I will not complain when Recount puts my shadow priest still at the top of the guild's meters (and has been for the last year). Shadow orbs? pwn!

Permalink Reply by Jonny Marko on November 18, 2010 at 9:38am

I definitely love what they did for Shadow Priests. No hit rating required was probably the best... My priest was Holy/Disc pre-4.0 and I was elated to find out I could throw away my half-assed "shadow set" and just use my healing gear and be well over hit cap. I even re-forged as much spirit to crit as I could and I'm still well over.

I started a new mage as well, the difference is night and day while levelling. Mana used to be such a pain even being able to conjure drinks, now I've gotten to level 40 in the past couple weeks, and maybe only had to sit down to drink half a dozen times?

Permalink Reply by Alex Zygmunt on November 18, 2010 at 4:08pm

After trying numerous combinations and talking over numbers with one my guild-mates, haste will still be the way to go, at least in respect to crit. Four casts of Mind Flay between Mind Blast cooldowns is outstanding. I'm loving the spirit/hit conversion through talents, alas healing priests are still going to have preference on drops that have spirit in future raid content (guild loot rules).

I am curious of your thoughts on Mastery and Dark Evangelism (after acquiring the points to get it). I've given a little time to mastery and thusfar have seen no real benefit. I imagine that gear that has mastery rating will change this, but I can't see a massive benefit over haste in the limited testing I have done.

I will also agree that Shadow Priests, while still powerful, are mana-batteries. But most caster classes have their own replenishment mechanics, which is really nice :D

Permalink Reply by Jonny Marko on November 19, 2010 at 9:56am

That's good to know about haste, sounds like fun... mainly I have been only concerned with shadow PVP, which I'm assuming crit is good for again with the new resil changes? For PVE I think I still prefer Holy... but in general I'm done with PVE just waiting for Cata to come out. I'm not too sure about shadow mastery yet, I wasn't too excited about it at first but I haven't really tested it out too much.