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BREAK
NEW PATCH, NEW PRIEST
By Helen Ashcroft
o Blizzard it’s time we had words about this Silkwings. Due to the recent changes every time I DoT
new patch. I was very excited to get it. I love up a moth I have a high chance of hitting the random
Sshiny things and I never play on the PTR so yellow locusts in the area with my Mind Flay. These
everything is a surprise. It all reads really nicely, more locusts are thankfully very low in health but not all
time walking dungeons, new micro holidays, new yellow mobs are and if I get too close to the edge of the
legendaries and a few nice changes to class halls. It lake I also end up with guards who are definitely not
was all going so well until we got to this part under low in health. I just want to kill the moths! I really don’t
priest changes: “Mind Flay now deals damage to nearby need to also fight 3 random yellow mobs and 2 guards
targets and generates additional Insanity, if the target who stood too close to the edge. I have never previously
has Shadow Word: Pain. Mind Sear has been removed.” aggroed guards whilst doing this quest, but since the
patch I have to be really careful or I end up half dead
You broke my Priest. You actually broke my Priest. Those doing a quest I should be able to easily complete.
two little sentences have had massive consequences
for my gameplay and I am really struggling with them. For this reason alone I really don’t want to AoE all the
time, I want to control when I do. Now, thanks to the
In theory it sounds fine; surely Mind Flay, part of our changes, in order to turn off my AoE, I have to either
rotation anyway, being an AoE spell just gives us more drop a DoT or try and complete a rotation that doesn’t
DPS? Well it does, kind of. It means that whenever we involve Mind Flay. Except the later is almost impossible
DoT up our targets we AoE off them. There’s just the as mind flay is my go to filler spell as a Shadow Priest.
slight issue that this is massively inconvenient and So I am left with the choice of severely nuking my
on several occasions has been deadly. For instance DPS or having to be prepared to fight every yellow
whilst I’m doing my dailies I head over to the Twilight mob in the area and anything that wanders past. It’s
Vineyards and I start to kill those really annoying Tattered not a choice I ever thought I would have to make.
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