02-22-2008, 04:04 PM
Quote:The change to mana burns being affected by resilience is a hefty nerf to Priests in arenas, sadly. Priests' heals are the most expensive of all the healing classes, and Mana Burn is the equalizer when fighting other healers. A resilience-capped player will reduce the effects of Mana Burn from ~1,000 mana lost per hit to ~750 mana lost per hit. When you consider that Rank 7 Mana Burn costs a Priest 355 mana, spending that much mana and spending 2 seconds to burn off 750 mana from an enemy may just not be worth it anymore, except against Hunters.
Still drives me nuts that Paladins can keep healing with like 100 mana. :)
-Bolty
I won't argue that this is aimed at Paladins and Shamans in Arenas and I can say that I'm pretty happy about it. As a paladin healer in pvp my only instant heal is holy shock forcing me often to stand still to heal my teammates. I don't have the luxury of HoTs to help even it out while I try to LoS an enemy priest/warlock in order to protect my mana pool. This also feels like a grass is greener situation.;)