Spiritual Guidance: The greatest Shadowfiend nerf (or maybe buff) of all time

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

9-01-2010 @ 9:55PM

Desmentia said...

"I think this change has a lot to do with bringing Crit up to par with Haste for Shadow Priests. Blizz may want to avoid the current situation where every piece of gear with "Hit & Haste" is vastly superior to pieces with "Hit & Crit""

---

Except that this scales (roughly) equally well to Haste as it does to Crit. Add 1% haste, get 1% more ticks of Mind Flay to have a chance at critting. Add 1% crit, 1% more of mind flay ticks will crit. This changes nothing about our relative preference for haste over crit.

If they wanted to emphasize crit only, they would need to do something like "When the initial hit from your Improved Devouring Plague crits..." Which, unless it was so overpowered that we spam it for the proc, would still only have a chance to proc when DP ends, which is unaffected by haste in the new model.

Add your comments

Your comments:

Remember me

E-Mail me when someone replies to this comment

Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments.

When you enter your name and email address, you'll be sent a link to confirm your comment, and a password. To leave another comment, just use that password.

To create a live link, simply type the URL (including http://) or email address and we will make it a live link for you. You can put up to 3 URLs in your comments. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use <p> or <br /> tags.