Burning Crusade Spells & Talents Updated
by Elizabeth Harper 
Oct 4th 2006 at 2:15PM
No, no -- still no hunter abilities. The main body of these changes seems to be extensive revisions to the priest abilities, making them a lot more interesting (and actually tempting me to spec higher than 31 points in any tree -- crazy!). However, there are also some tweaks for paladins, warlocks, and warriors. Check them out on the forums, or read on for the details.
Priest
- Shades of Darkness ability replaced with Shadowfiend.
- Focused Mind replaces Improved Shadow Weaving and has been reduced to three ranks reducing mana cost of affected spells by 5/10/15%.
- Shadow Power has been moved to Focused Mind's previous position.
- Misery has been moved to the Shadow tree, replacing Shadow Power.
- New talent Enlightenment replaces Misery in the Discipline tree.
- Improved Shadow Weaving has been removed.
- New talent Vampiric Touch replaces Shadow Mend.
- Misery now affects Vampiric Touch instead of Holy Fire.
- Focused Power now affects Feared targets instead of Dazed targets.
- Improved Renew tooltip updated.
- Inspiration tooltip updated.
- Holy Reach tooltip updated.
- Spirit of Redemption now provides a Spirit increase and the duration has been increased.
- Surge of Light has swapped positions with Blessed Resilience and has been reduced to two ranks providing 25/50%.
- Lightwell has been reduced to a 6 minute cooldown and the effect duration has been decreased to 6 seconds.
- New talent Holy Concentration in the Holy tree.
- New talent Circle of Healing replaces Circle of Renewal.
- Divine Purpose ranks changed to 3/6/9/12/15%.
- New talent Backlash in the Destruction tree.
- Shadowfury now has a 30 yd. range and has had its cooldown has been reduced to 1 minute.
- Unstable Affliction now has a 1.5 second cast time.
- Spell Reflection now has a 10 second cooldown.
Filed under: Paladin, Priest, Warlock, Warrior, Expansions
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mordiceius Oct 4th 2006 2:31PM
Too bad the priest holy tree still sucks.
elizabeth Oct 4th 2006 2:54PM
I'm not sure it sucks any worse than it did before, though I'm not certain of the use of Circle of Healing -- since its targetable, does that make it an AoE heal usable on parties other than your own? But even in that case, it's a weak heal...
Malcave Oct 4th 2006 3:07PM
What i find the most interesting is that one little line in the bottom right corner..."Right Click to Unlearn"
So we can now play with the tree, adding & removing points, before finalising the build we want?
That'd be Sweet!
Chaos Oct 4th 2006 3:17PM
To Malcave, the "Right Click to Unlearn"... the screenshot is of the talent tree calculator on blizzard's burning crusade talent site, it's not in-game.
Also, I think the 41pt shadow- Vampiric Touch is much better than the original Shadowmend.
Malcave Oct 4th 2006 4:14PM
Thanks for the clarification, i dont have access to the Main WoW site at work so i didnt recognise it.
On a lighter note, that'd be a good idea though, i've nown many a person click the wrong button while respeccing & have to pay to start over again.