Technical details on spell downranking

[oldmandennis]

I was under the impression that crit rating was going to get weaker with your level, too, in that you would need more of it to achieve +1% crit at level n+1 than you do at level n.

Correct.

And yes, this change seems squarely aimed at those of us who deliberately used more efficient heals to conserve mana

The way things are currently, people with 500-1000 in healing can downrank far enough that no reasonable amount of damage can scare them. They can chain cast for days without going OOM. Mana management should be part of healing. And it is going to scale insanely in the expansion if they don't do anything about it.