Possible Spirit Change

[Rinnhart]

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.

Except they gave rogues and warriors new skill ranks as well- we're back to the itemization issues.

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.

I'm begining to see alot of the difficulties caster classes experience with melees as being part itemization, part (mostly) poor class design. Caster classes have the deck stacked against them in all regards except that their primary damage is not effected by AC, and large amounts of resist all simply don't exist.

*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.
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It might. We don't really know without trying some of this out under real game conditions. I don't think any kind of mitigation increase should be turned down, at this point.