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Those dark days of tanks relying on their DPS classes to provide necessary threat are hopefully over. Vengeance won’t key up all at once wow gold , but it shouldn’t take very long in a boss encounter for it to reach its maximum potency. wow gold, Instead of waiting for sunders, we’ll all be waiting for Vengeance.
Restoration shaman are going to bring a whole bunch of new hotness as raid healers. Healing Rains looks to couple very nicely with Tranquility cheap wow gold , providing raids with incredibly AE utility. I wonder if this means that we can expect more environmental damage in Cataclysm raids, considering that priests are finally going to get their hands on Power Word: Barrier. cheap wow gold, This means that just about every healer will probably have some kind of ability that screams, “Oh my god, the raid just took a boat-load of damage on each character.”
Speaking of healers proactively taking care of the raid buy wow gold , the big new power everyone is talking about has been Leap of Faith. If you have raid members who still can’t get out of fire, the priest can babysit them and Life Grip them out of trouble. buy wow gold, We don’t have a lot of information about the fine points of Life Grip, but it could stand to position priests as the best “training class.”
Have someone you’re trying to teach how to raid? A priest can shepherd them to stand in the exact right spot — whether that person likes it or not! We all know standing in the right place is important. buy cheap wow gold, When talking about shaman and standing in the right place buy cheap wow gold , those totem jockeys get a little bit of relief in their raid motion. With Spiritwalker’s Grace, the shaman will get 10 seconds of motion without interrupting any of their casting.
The implication of this new ability isn’t simply that the turret DPS can cast on the run in the arena cheapest wow gold , but it’s yet another motion-based ability cropping up in the new round of changes. cheapest wow gold, It makes me wonder if we might see positioning being even more important in Cataclysm raiding. Will we have another Heigan dance to master? Will not standing in fire be a more prevalent mechanic?
There’s so much to talk about that it’ll be weeks before we really get to parse all the data. As of the time of writing this article runescape gold , we’re still missing nearly half the class announcements. runescape gold, We’ll obviously be continuing next week, but I’m especially excited to get a look at the other half of the tank and healer classes.