Warriors and rage loss on stance dancing:

#0 - March 2, 2009, 3:30 p.m.
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I personally like the new change to warrior stances not reseting rage. I am NOT trying to get it revoked.


However, what about the other classes that "Shapeshift?" The whole logic that blues have given on reducing the mana cost on shapeshifting is that they want the class to "think" before they shift and weigh the good and the bad.

Warriors were finally looked at and obviously, it was concluded that the cost of stance dancing was far too high.
They went from paying the price of all their rage to a trivial amount comparatively. THIS was a necessary buff! Not saying it isn't.


Shadowpriests, who are by far the most taxed by shapeshifting, have to pay a price of shapeshifting despite automatically losing -15 percent damage reduction and damage output. Add on top of that, a mana cost that is just absurd. They are also very weak in PvP.


So now that warriors have been given a large reduction on cost of stance dancing, can we get priests in line? 300 mana like druids?
#11 - March 2, 2009, 4:33 p.m.
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Most likely, rage loss with regard to stance dancing will not change in 3.1.

We don't think the system we were exploring has enough benefits over the current implementation to warrant the change.