Comments on: Mists of Pandaria Beta: Musings on Spirit Shell

By: Irial

Irial — Tue, 08 May 2012 22:18:46 +0000

What do you think about the changes to Spirit Shell Dev?

By: Evlyxx

Evlyxx — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:26:32 +0000

I must get Evlyxx into the beta. This week I’m off work /yay so it may be the right time now to go and play with this new fangled spell

By: Cymre

Cymre — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 01:59:13 +0000

At the moment my cast of SS is ~2.8sec which does take a long time to cast, I agree. I’ve also switched to a spirit trinket to see how things go.

Soloing, I seem to have a much smaller toolkit so fighting even one mob seems very monotonous. I still miss Holy Nova but instant Holy Fire is a wonderful addition.

Looking forward to future improvements with this before it goes live.

By: Nyos

Nyos — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:08:13 +0000

Good job Derevka, keep ''feeding'' us beta!

By: How Spirit Shell Works | World of Matticus

How Spirit Shell Works | World of Matticus — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 03:26:27 +0000

[...] has added his own thoughts on Spirit Shell and created a forum thread in the beta forums expressing feedback. I don’t expect this to be the [...]

By: Derevka

Derevka — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:33:00 +0000

Here’s my official beta forum thread on this topic: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/4362520049

By: Kal

Kal — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:28:34 +0000

Has anyone tested Atonement in PvP? It’s the first test on my Priest list, but I have to wait for the mid-Wrath invites to go out.

By: Adinne

Adinne — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:13:19 +0000

Scaling issues aside, which I hope they fix soon, how did you feel in practice about having a filler that doesn’t actually “heal”?

I have a feeling it will be really hard for them to balance it, once they short out the scaling. I feel what will end up being, is that there are fights where the shield portion will get used more, and fights where the heal portion, which is 80% of the shield, will be used more. I don’t see how they will manage to make it be ok as a heal and not overpowered as a shield, or ok as sheld and underpowered as a heal. Depending on how much of our time is spent casting SS, I fear this might provide some balancing issues. Granted, currently Heal is such a small part of our healing, if it was doing only 80% of what it does I’m not sure I would even notice.

I am really sad that Atonement healing is not sustainable as a filler, but glad to see it heal for a lot more now. I really loved the concept of Smites being the filler for Disc, I will be a very sad panda if they take that away.