A Not So Soothing Nerf

[Kevin]

The latest general maintenance on the server added a new previously unannounced nerf to Mind Soothe and Soothe Animal:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.a...mp=1#post804644

This is the latest in a series of attempts to make skills that are mildly useful in certain key moments completely useless.  I'm usually one to take a "wait and see" attitude on new changes, but after discovering the changes myself before seeing this post by Ordinn (I was about to report it as a bug), I really don't see Mind Soothe being used much anymore when there's a decent chance of the priest pulling all the aggro of a mob or group of mobs on him or herself.
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Wow, I don't get the uproar. Now the priest spell is inline with the druid spell, remember Soothe animal is a druid skill so they got "nerfed" as well.

The way it was applied was a bit annoying, but I'm believing someone had an error in a batch script or didn't pay attention to the CVS or something else silly and human and put the wrong dang file up causing the change to happen before the patch. Maybe I'm just interpretting the "This was in no way deliberate" to mean that applying the change at all during the cycle was the mistake. Though you could get it as not giving forwarning was the mistake.

I don't really see how the change breaks the spell that badly. I never understood why the priest could sooth everything and the druid could only do animals. Well I understand why the druid could only soothe animals that fits, but I didn't get why the priest could soothe everything.

Fixing the bug of no aggro on a resisted spell is a good thing, at least I haven't seen another spell that can be resisted and not draw aggro. So I figured that was a bug. Though again it should have waited till the patch.

Maybe I'm just chuckling at the uproar over what is just a utility spell anyway. Maybe I'm just being too nice today as well. Oh well.

Edit: Why did I type mage and not priest