For the past few weeks I have been dual Disc spec. I know I'm crazy but I really love Disc and had embraced the Atonement spec to the full because it was simply faster to cast medium sized heals that way as well as changing it up a bit. Sure I still spent a fair proportion of time doing traditional healing but atonement buffed that.

Now being a raider there were fights when I simply didnt get a chance to lay the smack down and was needed to raid heal when our shaman and druid really insisted on a bit of the MT luvvin'. Then I was simply wasting half of my talents and was simply bubbling most and penancing the real needy while keeping Prayer of Mending bouncing around. Therefore I simply specced for the bubble botting that was so prevalent in ICC.

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Just a real quick link to the official patch notes as hosted by MMO-Champion.

Their post specifies only US realms but no mention is made of us EU folks having to wait an extra week.

Key points:

• Your class has changed, read your notes;
• Some glyphs have changed, check yours;
• A few UI changes have happened, update your addons;
• Heroics have been tweaked (that is many nerfs and a few buffs);
• Flasks need less mats;
• Justice Points can be traded for ore/leather/herbs;
• "Many bugs, handled them" I love that line;

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Just go my first really detailed look at the list of changes for the next patch and what a lot of changes there are. One thing is for sure, we're going to have to relearn how to manage our mana all over again just as we did when 4.0.3 and Cataclysm came.

The list of changes doesn't just affect us priests though, all of our friends are getting the same treatment too. Did Blizz get it wrong? Did those beta testers actually do any testing? Well I think the answers there are no and yes but still the changes coming in are really needed but were probably not going to get pickedup on a small scale test as Blizz perform in-house (small is relative here their testing team is nothing compared to 12 million players) and the beta testers were testing so many things that were ever changing that somethings were miss diagnosed or just not discovered.
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Power Auras was created to provide visual warnings when you gain very shorts buffs or debuffs, it allows you to draw in the centre of the screen around your character and is very customizable with many built in visual effects. Since its launch it has evolved and can now track

• Buffs/Debuffs (whatever their name)
• Debuff Types (like Magic, Curse, Poison, Disease, Silence, Stun, Crowd Control etc)
• Combo points
• Harmful area spells
• Weapon enchants
• Health
• Mana
• Rage, Runic Power or Energy thresholds
• Action cool-downs
• Aggro, PvP status
• Stance, Shape-shift form or Aura

TL; DR - its a personalised buff/debuff centre that can also help you track cooldowns to keep you alive amd maximise your DPS/TPS/HPS.

You can download it from:
Power Auras @ Curse.com
Power Auras @ WoWInterface.com

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