FIrst official 3.1 preview

[Concillian]

Replying to myself to comment:
Affliction warlocks rejoice -- now you're the only class who wants spirit I think...

Time to start studying how to heal as discipline.

It's a little early to start with "the sky is falling" isn't it? We don't know what else they'll do to spirit to make it still attractive to priests and druids.

If they buff meditation to the point where spirit = MP5 @ 100% casting, then it's pretty close to the same use as it is now for holy priests, without having to dance the FSR.

You do have to admit that dancing the FSR is a pretty dumb mechanic. I thought about it once this way:
- I'm playing a computer game to occupy my free time
- In that game I'm attempting to maximize the amount of time where I am "actively" doing nothing.

It's a little counter-productive when you think of it that way... that inside a game I'm playing a metagame to maximize idle time. I welcome the changes that lead to the FSR dance removal.

This will likely come with Innervate changes to balance it out. I expect that will include some kind of move to % of max mana like every other class staple regen mechanic. I do think that it won't offer an overall terribly significant change. It will level the amount of regen possible between classes, which is good, that was slightly out of whack to begin with. However, without significant changes to the raid buffs, mana will still be an overall lesser concern. In a 25 man, you have replenishment offering 250ish MP5, BoW around 100, current MP5 around 200-300 and each healing tree has mechanics to allow another ~150-500 MP5 on top of that. Then there's class regen abilities which usually account for another 100-150 MP5 or so. Overall the raw MP5 on gear is such a small part of total MP5 anyway with all that. You have to really hit personal MP5 hard before it becomes really significant. Replenishment is the elephant in the living room. I expect that to get nerfed to a non-scaling effect.