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| Chakra has been removed |
Chakra has been removedŁ¬This makes your Chakra buff a bit like a stance, except you'll still have to activate the state you want using your trigger spells. You also will still not be able to switch between two stances in a short period of time -- the cooldown of Chakra remains a 30 seconds, unless you pick up State of Mind.This is a positive change for holy priest healing output, since you will no longer need to spend an extra key press or spell you may not need to keep up your healing buff. Once you're in the stance you want to be in, you can play naturally and heal with the spells you want to use.Unfortunately, I think this change removes a bit too much of the complexity that the priest toolbox offers. Personally, the old 1-minute duration seemed fine to me -- no worse than a kitty druid maintaining her Mangle -- but since it's been changed, I guess the developers felt maintaining Chakra was either too penalizing on output or too difficult for players to handle. This really surprises me, though, because this new Chakra model fringes dangerously close the "fire and forget" model of spell that Blizzard developers said they wanted to avoid. |
