#0 - Oct. 14, 2009, 6:51 a.m.
Rebirth: The cooldown on this spell has been lowered from 20 minutes down to 10 minutes. Cannot be used in Arenas.
Create Soulstone: The cooldown on this spell and duration of its buff have been lowered from 30 minutes down to 15 minutes. Cannot be used in Arenas.
Reincarnation: The cooldown on this spell has been lowered from 60 minutes down to 50 minutes (Improved Reincarnation will continue to lower the cooldown by 10/20 minutes).
Seriously? SERIOUSLY???
And GC says this...
Q u o t e:
We were concerned that a really short cooldown on an ability that rezzes you and only rezzes you would lead to bizarre behavior. Shamans could just commit suicide every fight knowing that they could come back. Standing in the fire too long? No problem. Too far away from where you want to be? Just die. Out of mana? Just die. Yes you might lose dps or healing time, but we still think it would happen and we think it would look weird.
Soulstone by comparison can easily be used on the "wrong" person (if they don't die) and Rebirth can't be used at all if the druid dies. In some ways, Reincarnation is the only cooldown that you are guaranteed to see every fight as soon as it becomes that dependable.
Do you realize that about 1/3 of the time I use reincarnation, I die instantly due to AoE? I mean the health and mana we return with is dismal. Why would I want to stand in the fire or die because I'm out of mana. I come back with no buffs, and only a sliver of health and mana.
And no one, let me repeat, NO ONE specs into improved reincarnation. There is absolutely no room in the resto tree. If you want it to be 30 min CD, then make it 30 min baseline.
Really, this doesn't mean much, but it is one of the biggest slaps in the face I have ever seen. You really think reincarnation is powerful enough to warrant a 50 min CD, but rebirth weak enough to warrant a 10 min CD??? Rebirth is so vastly superior to reincarnation, it's not even funny.
