So what's the mystery buff?

We're working to get more information for everyone but unfortunately it looks like we may not get the answers people are asking for until tomorrow at some point in time. We'll keep everyone up to date as much as possible.

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Will this be rushed like everything else? Sometimes imo it's better to take your time on things, well if you want it right the first time anyways.

We could attempt to rush out information however, we'd prefer not to. We'd rather get out something that is as close to exact as possible though we all know things can change with testing and feedback so it won't ever be exact unless it's the actual released patch note in the live realms.

Drysc said Monday because he thought we might be able to get some details to you today. Unfortunately we won't be getting more until tomorrow and that is still relatively tentative. It depends on whether or not there needs to be more internal discussion done before we come back with answers. I hope that makes some sense to people.

I wanted to follow-up quickly to let people know that yes, I do know what the buff is and so does the team , however we don't have the go ahead to share that information as of yet. If we get a go ahead to post tomorrow we will but in the meantime we're not able to post it.

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We understand, however we want to know more than what our buff is. We want reasons for our nerfs.

It's tied together at the moment so hopefully when we get information on one we will get more information on the other to go with it. If for some reason we don't get more information tomorrow to share, I'll let you know so that everyone isn't hitting refresh every five seconds.

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How about letting us know why Prayer of Mending is getting a 50 second cooldown? I bought Burning Crusade to get some cool new abilities, and you've just removed one of the two good ones I actually got. What next, a minute cooldown on SW:D if I do kill someone with it?

It definitely should not be a 50 second cooldown. The issue will be reported.

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Just out of curiosity, even though you aren't allowed to "spill the beans yet", how would you rate the significance on this buff?

Would it more effect the PVE or PVP section or just both?

It could affect both however, I don't want this to be blown out of proportion and have poeple think that this is a major change. It is however (I believe) at least a positive change. I'm unsure as of yet if it is an indication of the start of something or if it is the sum of the changes for it as of yet. I couldn't say more at this point in time. Some people felt that at the least if we can't say something we should say so and say why. That is what I did. This is not an attempt to dangle a carrot. It's just a bit more information that I can say right now.

As for being able to talk about it and being able to share information on why the nerfs were put in the PTR being tied together, I mean that only in that getting both possible approval and getting information on the nerfs will most likely both occur sometime tomorrow IF they are to happen.

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So Dysics said 'it's a pretty nice buff' and you say it's nothing major?

I can imagine the CM's next meeting.

"Well we screwed that one up."

"Yup, from now on only ONE CM per class crisis at a time. We can't even communicate with one another effectively enough to get our lies straight before we post."

It IS a pretty nice buff. That is my belief and that of Drysc so neither of us have said anything contrary to the other. That said however, I don't want people to expect the Titans to reappear and grant priests some immensely powerful abilities or anything. I'd rather not build it up and make people feel like it is huge and I don't want to downplay it's positive aspect too much either. It's nice though.