Burning Crusade skill updates
by Elizabeth Harper 
Nov 9th 2006 at 1:00PM
Well, I'd say "update," really, since the priest racial abilities, now officially confirmed, were already known from beta reports. What is new, however, is some major changes to the Warlock's spellstone. Not sure what a spellstone is? Well, that's understandable -- at present, they're conjered off-hand items that provide a spell crit bonus and can be consumed to absorb magical damage and remove all magical effects from the user. This later was always problematic, as it would remove negative effects, but also wipe high-mana cost buffs like Demon Armor (which costs 1580 mana to cast at level 60). The fact that they were off-hand meant that you couldn't use them with any of the wide array of nice caster staffs -- but they'll now be equipped in the wand slot rather than the off-hand slot. Beyond that, its effect has also been changed -- now it removes all harmful magical effects. And instead of being consumed on use, it has a 3 minute cooldown. I'd say these are pretty solid changes, which will mean my warlock will be seeing a lot more spellstone usage in the future![Note: Linking the European site because the US site seems to be offline this afternoon.]
Filed under: Priest, Warlock, Expansions
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ChrisM Nov 9th 2006 1:42PM
Last I recall these were tradeable too. If that's the case these will be very beneficial for all caster classes until they find that epic wand to replace it. Only thing I'm not sure of is if these can be sold on the AH or sent via mail. Can anyone confirm that?
Tiamazzo Nov 11th 2006 8:23AM
It's a conjured item. Try to do any of that stuff with the current conjued items. =)
DÖT Nov 9th 2006 2:14PM
awoohoo to Warlock changes - those sound great!
@ChrisM - as far as I know conjured items cannot be sold or sent through the mail.
Sylythn Nov 9th 2006 2:55PM
Sweet! A useable spellstone! I wonder if they'll have the same type of swapping cooldowns with the wand. Currently when you swap out offhands with "use on click" features, there's a cooldown after the swap (to prevent swap/use/swap/use actions) - I'm not sure I like having that if I'm swapping it with a wand...but I could live with it.
Kaziel Nov 9th 2006 9:02PM
Backing up DÖT. As a 60 mage, I am quite well versed in the use of conjured items, and no, they cannot be sold via the AH, or sent through mail. Only can be traded manually (but can be traded for money).
Also, most conjured items have a time limit they last after logging out. This time limit applies to the player who is holding the item, not the player who conjured it.