
Red Hawk mentioned in a recent tweet that the PTS has been updated with some Cleric Shaman damage buffs and a 20% reduction in mana costs.
Check out the changes below:
Note: Damage numbers are from equal gear/level between Live and PTS, with no buffs on. In Tier 2 gear. Numbers will differ depending on your stats.
Changes to the Cleric Shaman on the PTS are also listed below:
- Strike of the Maelstrom. Damage increased very slightly, by about 100-150.
- Glacial Shield. Absorbs 85% of incoming damage, up to x damage (up from 25%). Damage done remains the same.
- Lightning Hammer. Damage done has increased by about 120-150 on the initial hit and by about 400 on the 15sec DoT.
- Crushing Blow. Damage increased by about 240-260.
- Massive Blow. Damage increased by about 520-935.
- Avalanche Strike. Damage increased by about 149-166.
- Icy Blow. Damage increased by about 254-281.
- Jolt. Damage increased by about 141-157.
- Frozen Wrath. Damage increased by about 1,015.
- Glacial Strike. Damage increased by about 608-672.
- Mana Cost Reduction. All Mana costs reduced by 20%.
- All abilities that currently cost 255 Mana has had their cost reduced to 204 Mana.
- All abilities that currently cost 426 Mana has had their cost reduced to 341 Mana.
- All abilities that currently cost 511 Mana has had their cost reduced to 409 Mana.
No ETA was given on when the changes would be coming in.
Get some parses done and send feedback either via the in-game feedback report, the Cleric Discussion or Public Test Shard sub-forums.
very nice, been waiting for this!