The Five Second Rule

[playingtokrush]

I thought these were good changes.  The problem that people are experiencing, however, is the fact that because these changes were introduced so late in the beta -- like less than a month before retail -- the numbers haven't been properly tweaked to make them work.  In particular, spirit should really be doubled in its effectiveness for everyone and maybe even more for priests (or maybe give priests bonuses to healing ability for more spirit?).  In addition, drinks need to be improved dramatically to compensate for the large mana pools of level capped players.  I now have to drink twice to regen a full mana tank, and that's a long time to hold up an instance party.

These are much more agreeable changes. I'd like to see spirit improved for every class. Doubling might be a little excessive, but I think a 50% increase over the current rate would be a great start. Rather than simply give priests more of an extra mana regeneration bonus from spirit, I think it'd make more sense to give them some form of improved healing from spirit (perhaps by having spirit increase the critical effect chance of healing spells rather than intellect).

And, like you said, drinks really do need an improvement. Food probably does as well, with high stamina builds giving characters more health than can be resoted by the best food in a single eating.

And before all that, Blizzard needs to remove or significantly increase the purported soft cap on spirit (assuming it exists). What better way to gimp an already mediocre stat than to soft cap it at a relatively easily obtainable level?