PTR 2.1 Questions and Top Concerns

The following post has been shamelessly stolen from the US forum (see original post by Nethaera here: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=94204782&sid=1). We have already gathered feedback from the EU forums and forwarded your top concerns regarding the 2.1 patch, but feel free to continue the discussion in this thread.


Shadow Weaving Reduction
The reason for the change to Shadow Weaving is two-fold. First, we felt that Shadow Priest dps damage output was still higher than what we wanted it to be. Second, it was changed to reduce the synergy between Shadow Priests and Warlocks in raids and the amount of damage and mana generated.

Priest Racials
Priest racials are going to be looked at sometime in the future. We do not have immediate plans to make changes at this point in time.

Shadow Word Death Change
Players were using this ability frequently in raids and the return on health and mana (particularly with shadow priest abilties) was a bit higher than intended. We believe it's been adjusted to a better level with the patch.

Moving Divine Spirit to Holy
It only takes one priest in a raid to have it for players to get the benefit. We feel that having these sorts of decisions available to players is optimal for how we want it to be.

Shadowfiend AI Concerns
The Shadowfiend is a guardian and not a full-fledged pet so will be limited in the amount of control that a priest can have with them. The way the AI works currently is that it prefers to go after non-CCd monsters first given the option to do so. It is important to gauge when and where it is best to use the Shadowfiend before doing so and takes a bit of strategy. Please feel free to report any bugs that may exist outside of normal Shadowfiend behavior.

Circle of Healing and Lightwell Concerns
We have made some changes in the recent patch to Circle of Healing and are still waiting to see the results of changes. We are taking things in baby steps and making changes a little at a time so that we can build on changes as we feel they need to be made. Lightwell is also still within this vein of thinking as well.

Priest Healing Concerns
We're fairly happy with where healing is at current. We've made some recent changes to things like Binding Heal and Circle of Healing and will continue to assess the impact of these changes as we go.

Please note - The Symbol of Hope note in the patch notes was removed due to the fact that this change was implemented in the prior patch (2.0.12) and was only duplicated in error for these patch notes. There was no additional change.

Q u o t e:
From what I read in the blue post.

They've read the forums, they decided we were wrong and this post is to inform us that nothing has happened?

Wrong, try reading the post again :)