Blessing of Wisdom, Mana Spring Won't Stack in 3.1Mar 11th, 2009 at 10:37 AM by Togikagi

Blizzard poster Eyonix has announced that Blessing of Wisdom and Mana Spring Totem will no longer stack in patch 3.1, but they will be equivalent to each other. Basically, the dev team thought paladins and shamans brought too many unique buffs to a group.

"Additionally, we have been trying to tone down mana regeneration in large groups, and were concerned raids would feel the need to stack paladins or especially shaman to have enough Mana Spring totems."

Eyonix also said that they're trying to get more benefits out of parties and into raids, and gives examples of how paladin and shaman buffs can ultimately work together. You can read the full post after the jump.

We are making a change to these spells so that their benefits are exclusive in patch 3.1.0. The buffs will be equivalent, but will no longer stack. Mana Spring will affect the entire raid instead of just the shaman’s party. We felt that both paladins and shamans brought too many unique buffs to a group. Additionally, we have been trying to tone down mana regeneration in large groups, and were concerned raids would feel the need to stack paladins or especially shaman to have enough Mana Spring totems. We have also been trying to get more benefits out of the party and into the raid, and Mana Spring previously was still a party only buff. With this change, if there is only one paladin, he or she can bring Blessing of Kings while the shaman offers Mana Spring. If there are two paladins and the second offers Blessing of Wisdom, then the shaman can offer healing or cleansing with their water totem instead.
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hmm
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# Mar 12 2009 at 7:38 AM Rating: Decent
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If mana spring was the only buff shammies could bring to the table, then id understand em crying, AP buffs dont stack anymore, STR/AGI buffs dont stack anymore, they still have their flametongue totem (or whatever the spell power totem is called), and will still be used in raids, who cares
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huh
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# Mar 12 2009 at 4:47 AM Rating: Decent
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With this change, if there is only one paladin, he or she can bring Blessing of Kings while the shaman offers Mana Spring. If there are two paladins and the second offers Blessing of Wisdom, then the shaman can offer healing or cleansing with their water totem instead.


But in 3.1, healing and mana totem is the same totem, amirite? Also you don't always need cleansing. There's plenty of encounters where there's no poison or disease.

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Nerf shamans?
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# Mar 11 2009 at 8:36 PM Rating: Good
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Or you can bring a shaman instead of a paladin. Not quite sure why you see this as a nerf to shamans. It works both ways. The skills are going to be adapted to return the same amount of mana. So you can either leave a shaman behind...or a paladin. Because now mana spring is blessing of wisdom and blessing of wisdom is mana spring. And last I recall shamans bring more buffs to the table than mana spring...


I'd also like to point out a single shaman can drop four of their buffs on all raid members. Paladins can only place one buff per class.

So in all honesty the buffing potential of a single shaman is far greater than that of a single paladin. When paladins can cast multiple blessings on a single target THEN the shamans can start QQing.

Edited, Mar 12th 2009 12:42am by ekaterinodar
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NERF PALADINS
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# Mar 11 2009 at 8:10 PM Rating: Decent
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FFS NERF PALADINS
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Nice Dis to the shaman
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# Mar 11 2009 at 5:47 PM Rating: Default
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The Paly's can offer whatever they choose the shamans can give the left overs....WTG blizzard...
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Unstackable
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# Mar 11 2009 at 1:39 PM Rating: Default
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This is so unfair for shamans because why should a group get a shaman and a paly when u can get a similar buff from bringing two palys...
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