Quote:I don't think this is that dramatic. It changes how casters will have to gear to maintain their favoured regen-to-throughput ratio, but that's not a really big deal in my books. Indeed, I'm rather glad, because it actually introduces gearing choices, rather than just being able to gear for throughput, and then manipulate spell ranks to achieve the desired mana consumption.
I just wish that the costs were pegged to the max rank instead of a percentage. Pegging to an amount higher than the max rank is overkill--it penalizes those who choose to toss a buff on lowbies that they meet out in the world (b/c of automagic buff downranking).
Edit: Looks like they are aiming for the costs to be identical (even though they're not, yet):
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.h...geNo=3&sid=1#44