Spells and abilities

The spell section is also one that restoration shaman (and in truth, all shaman) have been looking over quite a bit. After all, this is where we get a glimpse of the new abilities that we'll get on our way to level 90. The problem has been that for the most part, this WoW Gold section has been largely unchanged. Well, there are some tweaks now for us to look at finally.

One of the first things I noticed is that Purification has a new tooltip. In addition to increasing your healing done by 25% now, it also increases the healing done by your water totems by 50%. In a way it sort of replaces Soothing Rains, but does it one better by giving a larger bonus. The tooltip for Ghost Wolf now shows properly that it is instant-cast for all shaman without WoW Gold modification. Purify Spirit replaces Cleanse Spirit, and the wording on the tooltip says that it removes all Curse and Magic effects from a friendly target. It also now has an increased cast cost of 16% base mana, up from 14%. Whether it will actually remove all curse and magic effects on one cast will remain to be seen, but the possibility is quite a nice thought.

Another apparent major change is Healing Stream Totem. Right now, our wonderful little healing companion heals everyone in our party for as long as it's active. According to the new tooltip, however, HST will only last for 1 minute, down from the 5 minutes it currently is. If that's not enough of a change, it will only heal the most injured party or raid member. That's one, single WoW Gold target. It basically means that HST will be changed from a source of constant passive healing to a healing-cooldown-style totem. While it doesn't have a cooldown, the effectiveness of the new totem will have to be seen. It's a pretty big potential change and one I'm not sure how I feel about it quite yet. I'd like to see how the numbers look after the changes in the Mists beta when it's available.