05-09-2006, 01:31 AM
The stackable Healing Wave buff is nice - if it works on Lesser Healing Wave as well (which it sounds like it does).
Otherwise the changes to restoration/raiding don't seem like enough. The totems got an increase in duration from 1.5 minutes to 2 minutes (thats the duration of the newest ranks of the Grace of Air and Strength of Earth, which were left unchanged). Yet there is nothing that addresses raid buffing at all.
Mana tide is still a 31 point talent, even though like Innervate, a lot of Shamans were forced to spec into it, and it limited their specs. We all know Innervate was made into a natural skill... I didn't expect that to happen of course, but at least moving it to a 10 talent point, like Blessing of Kings, seemed like a sensible thing.
Otherwise the changes to restoration/raiding don't seem like enough. The totems got an increase in duration from 1.5 minutes to 2 minutes (thats the duration of the newest ranks of the Grace of Air and Strength of Earth, which were left unchanged). Yet there is nothing that addresses raid buffing at all.
Mana tide is still a 31 point talent, even though like Innervate, a lot of Shamans were forced to spec into it, and it limited their specs. We all know Innervate was made into a natural skill... I didn't expect that to happen of course, but at least moving it to a 10 talent point, like Blessing of Kings, seemed like a sensible thing.