Possible Spirit Change

[TheLuminaire]

Until I played my Priest to 60, I ignored the caster itemization issue. Once I started getting my ass kicked by epic'd out physical damage classes yet I was still able to hang with epic'd spell damage classes I really noticed it. The damage increase a Warrior gets froma Spinal Reaper upgrading off an Arcanite Reaper is absolutely ridiculous compared to say, a Mage upgrading to Azuresong Mageblade off a Rod of the Ogre Magi. The best balance between the classes occurs somewhere in the low 50s. Physical classes can start getting nice weapons while casters still have new ranks of spells. Once you hit 60, it's all over for us squishies.
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This could possibly be massaged somewhat by the new spellbooks found in Ahn'Qiraj. I don't know the specifics on what spells get new levels, or even the damange/healing/costs/ect on those spells, but I'm hopeful that it will help.

I notice the same thing playing with my Priest. Geared evenly as I am, in mostly blues, I can fight well against most classes. Melee classes with epics will dominate me no matter what, but I've toppled tier 2 mages and warlocks without much more effort than casters at my own gear-level.

*Edit* to make a note towards the actual topic: Changing spirit to make crits less likely would not help me survive more against well-geared melee types. The majority of my deaths are not to one, or two shot crits, it's just to the overwhelmig amount of damage that they can deal. I agree totally with Mongo on this one, I should have the same chance of survival in my epics as they do in theirs. More spirit would not help.