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forums.worldofwarcraft.com - 10/15/2008
Upcoming Shadow changes
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We need to fix two problems with Shadow priests. One is that their damage is too low, especially at epic level. The second is that stacking Vampiric Embrace from too many priests probably represents a balance problem. These changes will go live before Nov 13. Vampiric Embrace -- we need to ...

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A Dwarf Priest:  The Other Shoe Just Dropped

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The Other Shoe Just Dropped
A Dwarf Priest — I was wondering how long shadow priests would be able to do an unreasonablely high amount of healing through Vampiric Embrace. The way it would scale into WotLK would mean that three shadowpriests could keep a tank up pretty much by themselves.  Why bring healers to raids when you could stack DPSers? Well, Blizzard just “fixed” it. ...

VE nerf, DPS buff for shadow priests in beta
WoW.com — Filed under: Priest, Wrath of the Lich King In the wake of sweeping alterations to shadow priests going live tonight, the inimitable Ghostcrawler has posted about a few more changes that will be making their way into the Wrath of the Lich King beta. Vampiric Embrace is getting nerfed to bits. Fully talented, it currently heals group (not raid) members for 25%. It's being changed to 5% to the group and 25% to the caster, again fully talented. A bit confused about this given GC's statement that "we don't want it to be terrible for priests in small groups" - 5% is pretty ...

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