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New Monk Talents for Level 100 in Warlords of Draenor

We have the new talents that were on preview today for the new expansion Warlords of Draenor.  Here are the Monk talents (I am including the Windwalker and Brewmaster talents for reference as well):

First Talent Choice – Vital Convictions

Mistweaver
Detonate Chi
1,000 Mana – 100 yd range
Instant
Causes your Healing Spheres to instantly trigger, healing the nearest ally within 6 yds.

Brewmaster
Soul Dance
Passive
You are not able to shrug off even spells, such that 30% of your normal stagger amount works against magic damage.

Windwalker
Hurricane Strike
15 yd range
Instant – 45 second cooldown
Unleash a rapid series of kicks, dashing between nearby targets, dealing 14000 damage over 3 sec.  While kicking, you are immune to all damage and effects.

Second Talent Choice – Chi Explosion
1 Chi – 40 yd range
Instant
Consumes up to 4 Chi to cause the target to explode with Chi energy, causing additional effects based on Chi consumed.

Mistweaver
1+ Chi: Heals an ally for 2500.
2+ Chi: This healing also heals all allies within 8 yards of the target.
3+ Chi: Also summons 8 Healing Spheres in an 8 ys radius ring around the target.
4 Chi: Healed allies are also healed for an additional 800 over 6 seconds.

Brewmaster
1+ Chi: Deals 2500 Nature damage to an enemy
2+ Chi: You also gain shuffle for 6 sec.
3+ Chi: Also purifies all of your staggered damage.
4 Chi: The damage also hits all enemies within 8 yds of the target

Windwalker
1+ Chi: Deals 2500 Nature damage to an enemy.
2+ Chi: Damaged enemies also take an additional 1500 Nature Damage over 6 sec.
3+ Chi: Also generates a charge of Tigereye Brew
4 Chi: The damage also hits all enemies within 8 yds of the target.

Third Talent Choice: Serene Mists

Mistweaver
Soothing Tendrils
Passive
Your Soothing Mist now also chains up to 2 additional allies within 15 yds of the last ally, and has a 50% higher chance to generate Chi.

Brewmaster & Windwalker
Chi Serenity
Instant – 1.5 min cooldown
You enter a state of mental and physical serenity for 10 sec.  While in this state, all Chi consumptions are instantly refilled.

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New Druid Level 100 Talents for Warlords of Draenor

We have the new talents that were on preview today for the new expansion Warlords of Draenor.  Here are the Druid talents (I am including the Guardian, Feral and Boomkin talents for reference as well):

First Talent Choice: Touch of Elune

Restoration
Moment of Clarity
Passive
Omen of Clarity now lasts 5 seconds instead of 1 cast.

Balance
Sunfall
Passive
Entering Solar Eclipse will transform your Starfall Spell into Sunfall and reset its cooldown.

Feral
Lunar Inspiration
Passive
Moonfire is now usable while in Cat Form, generates 1 combo point, and costs 30 energy.

Guardian
Guardian of Elune
Instant  – 1.5 second cooldown
Requires Bear Form
Instantly converts up to 60 Rage into up to 5000 absorption for 15 seconds.  Replaces Frenzied Regeneration.

Second Talent Choice: Will of Malfurion

Restoration
Germination
Passive
Genesis now also extends Rejuvenation by 1 second after hastening it.

Balance
Zenith
Channeled
Targets all enemies within 60 yards and accelerates the caster’s Moonfire and Sunfire effects, causing them to deal damage at 400% of the normal rate for 4 seconds.

Feral
Bloody Thrash
Passive
Thrash now also spreads Rake to other damaged enemies.

Guardian
Malfurion’s Tenacity
Passive
Increases your Armor by 200% of your Agility.

Third Talent Choice: Might of Malorne

Restoration
Rampant Growth
Passive
Swiftmend now consumes Regrowth or Rejuvenation, but has no cooldown

Balance
Equinox
Passive
Lunar and Solar Eclipse now last until the other is triggered, instead of ending at 0 Balance power.

Feral
Savagery
Passive
Savage Roar is now passive

Guardian
Bristling Fur
Passive
After using Enrage, the next attack against you will deal 50% less damage.

At a glance, it would seem Might of Malorne is best for resto druids, if you can indeed stack swiftmends on top of each other for high damage phases.

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New Paladin Level 100 talents for Warlords of Draenor

We have the new talents that were on preview today for the new expansion Warlords of Draenor.  Here are the Paladin talents (I am including the Prot & Ret talents for reference as well:

First Talent Choice: The Light Within

Holy
Bastions of Light
Passive
Beacon of Light can now be placed on up to two targets

Protection & Retribution
Empowered Seals
Passive
Your Seals also cause your Judgment to empower you with an additional beneficial effect:
Judgment of Justice – increases your movement speed by 10% for 20 seconds
Judgment of Insight – heals you for 3% of your maximum health every 2.00 seconds for 20 seconds
Judgment of Righteousness – increases your attack speed by 10% for 20 seconds
Judgement of Truth – increases your attack power by 10% for 20 seconds.

Second Talent Choice: Seal of Faith

623 Mana
Instant
Fills you with Holy Light, causing you to gain Faith equal to all damage dealt.  Faith acts as spell power toward the next healing spell you cast.

Holy
While Seal of Faith is active, all damage dealt is increased by 30%

Protection & Retribution
While Seal of Faith is active, all damage dealt is reduced by 30%

Third Talent Choice: Divine Conviction

Holy
Saved by the Light
Passive
When you or your Beacon of Light target drop below 30% health, you instantly grant the injured target a protective shield, absorbing up to 30% of their maximum health for 10 seconds.  You cannot shield the same person this way twice within 60 seconds.

Protection
Holy Shield
Passive
Increases your block chance by 10% and when you block, you deal 2000 Holy damage to your attacker.

Retribution
Final Verdict
3 Holy Power – melee range
Instant
Requires Melee Weapon
Empowers your weapon with holy energy, and performs a devastating strike, dealing 250% weapon damage as Holy.  Replaces Templar’s Verdict.

It would appear that Divine Conviction would likely be the go to talent for Holy Pallies (except for perhaps fights with certain tank mechanics), but since it appears that this can be triggered multiple times per minute, as long as it isn’t the same target, Paladins will probably be doing a lot of Beacon swapping with this talent if running with more than one Holy Pally.

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Why is the Resto Shaman 2pc healing bonus healing not being attributed to the healer?

If you are your Resto Shaman with your 2pc t16, you might not have noticed that your healing 2pc bonus isn’t simply wrapped into the healing done by your Earth Shield.  Instead, the healing bonus is being attributed to the tank, as the tank’s self healing.  Yes, while all the other healing classes have healing tier bonuses that increase their healing output, Resto Shaman’s 2pc has no increase to their actual HPS.

Here is the bonus:

(2) Set:  When Earth Shield heals a target, the target will gain 300% of the amount healed as an absorb.

So it would be natural to assume that the healing proc would be included in World of Logs as healing from the Resto Shaman.  But instead, the healing from the bonus, called Nature’s Barrier will show up as healing by the target of the Earth Shield.

naturesbarrier

Here is a screenshot from a heroic 25M kill, which shows Earth Shield 2pc tier bonus healed for 2.6M but it is counting as healing done by the Monk tank (although any target who has Earth Shield will show as Nature’s Barrier being a self-heal by that target, and not by the Resto Shaman who used it).  For this particular fight, that Earth Shield tier bonus, if it had shown up as healing BY the Shaman, would have healed for more than Earthliving and almost as much as the Spirit of Chi-Ji cloak, so it is pretty significant amount of healing Restos are missing out on.

With the Resto Shaman 4pc being the most horrible Resto Shaman tier bonus ever – seriously, why does Blizzard insist on tying a tier bonus to Spiritwalker’s Grace, a spell we use when we have to heal on the run, yet is also when we are seldom able to use our most effective heals, it is usually chain heal spam time – it makes the bonus from the 2pc that much more important, yet it does not have an HPS increase for the Shaman.  It is still a very useful tier bonus, mind you, and all Resto Shamans should be using their T16 2pc when they can get it, but it sucks we do not get an increase in healing from it.

The tier has been out for about a month now, and Blizzard doesn’t seem to be making a move to fix this at all.  Please show a bit of Resto Shaman love and attribute the healing done by the Resto Shaman’s Earth Shield to the Shaman who is using it.

I have also tweeted various Blizzard CMs and some top Resto Shamans (sorry for those I missed, I didn’t know many of you on Twitter).

Follow @HealerCDs and retweet, let’s see if we can get this changed, I am spearheading the effort 🙂

I would love to hear from more Resto Shamans and their thoughts on this either below or on our forums.  There is a forum thread on the HealerCD forums about the Resto Shaman tier bonuses.

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Holy Radiance bug fixed for Holy Paladins

A bug that was causing Holy Radiance to not proc Holy Avenger has ben fixed.  It was believed the bug happened after they fixed the bug where Holy Radiance was only healing 5 people.

[quote]Holy Radiance should correctly benefit from Holy Avenger once more.[/quote]

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Healing Touch Bug has been fixed for Resto Druids

Blizzard has implemented a bug fix that was causing Healing Touch to consume the bonuses from Soul of the Forest and Sage Mender.

[quote]Casting Healing Touch should no longer incorrectly consume both bonuses from Soul of the Forest and Sage Mender (Tier-16 Restoration 2-piece set bonus) at the same time.[/quote]