WOTLK Beta Live

[Damz]

Well most of you probably know but I can't see it posted here. The Beta is now live and the NDA has been lifted so loads of information is starting to stream out.

Details at all the usual places.

[oxy]

NERF'D PALLYS :(

[Quietus]

What are you on about Oxy? They've buffed paladins massively. Admittedly it means you now need fewer in a raid, but that's a good thing for balanced raids.

[oxy]

Greater Blessing of Salvation removed.
Hammer of Justice now costs 3% of base mana.
Blessing of Salvation renamed Hand of Salvation, now reduces total threat on the target by 2% per second for 10 seconds while also reducing all damage and healing done by 10%. Only one Hand spell can be on the target per paladin at any one time. Now costs 6% of base mana.
Seal of the Crusader has been removed
Sanctity Aura (Retribution) removed


BADDD!!! gonna piss prot palas and DPS off with no long salv .. 10seconds in raid is **** all with the amount of damage Mage/locks/rogues/boomkins are kicking out plus crits

[Cyphus]

Its only a problem if they don't increase tank aggro generation to maintain the dps/tank threat difference.

Its a little like deciding to enchant your tank's gear with +threat, rather than enchanting your entire raid's gear with -threat...

[bright_]

Tank threat generation i can see scaling badly with the increases in raid damage to be quite frank, most tanks apart from druids struggle even with a bit of leeway sometimes =\ Not sure how thats going to end up.

[Pengwhine]

Well, this way if they balance it properly then 5 mans won't be a case of take a paladin and the tank can sleep and wont lose aggro or don't take a paladin and all of the dps die horribly.

[PHaDe]

Mage Vanish!

Invisibility now makes the caster invisible after 3 seconds, reduced from 5 seconds

Talents in prismatic cloak reduces invis to a 1sec count down.

\o/