09-24-2008, 08:54 PM
Quote:Well, he was right, I'm not too pleased about the changes to my class, but eh. However, I am confused by this: "your damage done by your Mind Flay and Mind Blast is increased by 2/4/6/8/10% if your target is afflicted by Mind Flay". Buh? Is this a cross-toon buff? Obviously it buffs my own mind flay (since the target is afflicted by mind flay while I'm casting it), but how do I get the bonus to mind blast? Only if someone else is casting flay? So, now if there's 2 shadowpriests in the group, we need to coordinate blasting and flaying so we alternate? How stupid is that?
I haven't read any of these changes, but my initial response to this item would be that it's just a typo and the second case of Mind Flay is probably supposed to be SW:P or one of the other shadow debuffs such as Misery, etc.
This seems to be a change with the intent to scale shadow damage better into the end game whereas it doesn't scale well at all right now.