Clear Casting

[Raelynn]

Before the patch, Pepperi was consistently winning against +3 and +4 critters in Duskwood without a lot of extra downtime.  After the patch, I have troubles with +2.  So no, we didn't always have to stick more closely to killing green things than other classes.  Maybe higher up, but pre-20, go ahead and fight oranges that aren't elite.  Always fighting greens is boring as hell.  Edit:  And anyway, that suggestion was for powerleveling, not just regular play.

But it does look like you guys are right about missiles only checking on the first volley rather than all the way through.  That's why I wasn't definite about my suggestion. ;)
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On the topic of resists, I think something was changed involving resists but without Blizzard realizing it.

The patch notes mention that shadow resistance was changed to allow better mitigation of damage from Unholy Aura. After the patch, Warlocks went crazy about a supposed change in Enslave Demon. They said that it was dropping unusually fast and was being resisted many many times. In addition, their curses were being resisted just as much. I theorized that the change to shadow resistance accidently triggered a global change to resists, resulting in mobs having an unusually high resist to shadow based spells. While the post was visible, I had two shadow-specced priests say that they too had an increase in resists.

The problem was that it seemed a little off balance in the claims. It was about half and half for who had problems. My warlock hasn't had a significant increase in resists, but I also haven't been fighting many mobs with high resistance. I tend to believe something changed when a person who claims they regularly held an Infernal for 45 minutes now has trouble holding it for 8.

Anyways, concerning your post, there may have been a more global change than I had realized if what you had said is true. They might have changed resistance in general, which now would be affecting everyone. The change would be most noticed in the cases where resists would start happening more frequently. Even more so, the partial resists which just lowered the damage make me think that the change was made global so that the mob's resistance was mitigating damage much like how players are supposed to mitigate the damage of the Unholy Aura.

I don't have significant data to back this up, but a lot of people have said that something's changed, and seeing that mages are now seeing something different only further's my belief that Blizzard unknowingly changed a major mechanic of the game.