patch 2.0.10 notes on the PTR

[MongoJerry]

Shadow Priests just lost a bit of utility (in the VE nerf) and a lot of threat reduction (Silent Resolve) in addition to the general priest nerf to prayer of mending (which was probably warranted). The threat reduction is the killer, here, because shadow priests have always been tough on aggro.

Nah, the nerfs to shadow priests are minor. There're already talents in the shadow tree to reduce aggro on shadow spells by 8% per rank up to three. The real nerf here is Prayer of Mending. I can understand why it needed some nerfing, but a 20 second cooldown seems excessive. 10 seconds would knock off severe abuse while still keeping the spell a good level 68 spell to get. With this nerf, healing priests have gone from being powerful surviveable tools in PvP to being punching bags for every warrior or rogue with halfway decent gear. Dang it. I was looking forward to playing a healing priest in PvP. Now I'll have to do some kind of hybrid thing again.