Technical details on spell downranking

[Zarathustra]

This is pretty possible. It depends on if they release the patch before Christmas, or 2 weeks before the expansion goes live. The more I think about it, the more I think it will be close to when the Xpac is released. Trying to balance all the new talents against current content will be really tough I think. Especially since alot of the talents were designed with the new spells in mind.

The problem is they stand to severely change the difficulty curve of the game if they plan on those larger health pools, since no one pre-expansion is going to have the benefit of that. Long fights like the Emps are going to see an increase in difficulty with the new system, and people attempting them will not have twice the stamina they currently do.