Hunting Party incongruent with Replenishment

#0 - Feb. 2, 2009, 3:29 a.m.
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Hey there Devs. I heard you guys were going across specs and taking a look at the buffs they bring to a raid in order to make the relative ease of said buffs more consistent.

With that said, can you guys take a look at Hunting Party in regards to Replenishment?

First is specifically the fact that it only triggers on crits whereas the other two Replenishment sources (the Judgements of the Wise and Vampiric Touch talents) are guaranteed to trigger.

I understand why it's on a crit since the other two sources are tied to abilities with several seconds of cooldown. However Hunting Party costs 5 talent points and has no secondary effects unlike Judgements of the Wise (base mana regeneration) for 3 points and Vampiric Touch (a new ability) for 1 point. Seems awfully inconsistent wouldn't you agree? To me this seems exactly like the scenarios Ghostcrawler has outlined that you guys are looking at in his previous comments.

Thanks for reading.
#21 - Feb. 2, 2009, 5 a.m.
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We are looking at all of the talents that provide group buffs, particularly those that require many talent points and represent a trade-off of utility for dps.