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Clearcasting proc no longer gets overwritten with Courageous Primal Diamond

The issue Druids were having with their Clearcasting proc from the Courageous Primal Diamond being overwritten by their Omen of Clarity proc also named Clearcasting has been corrected.

Courageous Primal Diamond should no longer have its Clearcasting effect get overwritten incorrectly, and the Clearcasting effect should no longer activate if the character is not in combat.

The unfortunate part about this hotfix is that it also prevents healers from testing out weak auras, rotations etc while not in combat.  If you are looking for a non-annoying place to test in combat, try the Pools of Purity area on top, the small mobs there don’t hit hard with very little pushback, but they won’t insta-die like critters when they attack you.

For more on the Courageous Primal Diamond, see  Healer legendary meta gem Courageous Primal Diamond proc rates

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Primordius hotfix targets dispels that do not remove positive buffs

Primordius dispels are a tricky task – you want to be careful you aren’t dispelling away positive effects when they are stronger than the negative effects or offset each other, because when you dispel, you dispel all positive and negative effects.  (Read our Primordius Healer Raid Guide here)

However, raids had discovered a few tricks to make dispelling much easier, by utilizing dispels that only dispelled the negative while leaving the positive.  But Blizzard caught on and issued a hotfix that will prevent warlocks (with Sear Magic and Singe Magic via Fel Imp) and Priests (Mass Dispel) from being able to do this.

During the Primordius encounter, spells which dispel a single harmful effect (Sear Magic, Single Magic, or Mass Dispel) will no longer work if any of the positive effects are active on the target (Improved Synapses, Keen Eyesight, Thick Bones, Clear Mind, or Fully Mutated).

Dispelling on this fight is pretty easy, with raiders simply calling out for single target dispels when negative buffs outweighed the positive ones.  It saves healers from having to try and guess who needs dispelling… however it won’t prevent those people from being annoying by dispelling helpful effects of fellow raiders they want to piss off.

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Darkmoon Card: Blue Dragon hotfix no longer activates above level 69

Darkmoon Card: Blue Dragon has been a healer’s secret weapon for 3 expansions since it was originally released in World of Warcraft Classic (yes, that long ago, back in patch 1.11.1).   And it has been the latest old school item to get hit with the Blizzard nerf bat.

Darkmoon Card: Blue Dragon now has a reduced chance to activate its effect for characters that are level 61-69 and its effect no longer activates for characters above level 69.

During Wrath it was a Best in Slot trinket for some fights. Right before Cataclysm released (when Blizzard made the first significant mana changes for healers) healers began dusting off their old Blue Dragon cards as a mana regen trinket until they got something better – in fact, they were going for tens of thousands of gold on servers for those who didn’t already have one. Even when Pandaria released, healers were using it to level 85-90 if they didn’t have healing trinkets from Dragon Soul or Firelands to carry them while dungeoning. And it was considered a very viable option for those with level 80 healers doing Herald of the Titans runs.

But The Darkmoon Card: Blue Dragon card has now seen it’s last useful days for those who have kept it (and other older trinkets) in their bank or bvoid storage. Blizzard has officially nerfed it in the last hotfix.

It isn’t clear what spell healers were using to exploit the level 60 trinket (although one wowhead commenter said it still had a 20-25% uptime in raid), but it was likely because it made a heroic ToT fight significantly easier than it should be, as it has been a known advantage for two expansions now. The change will also affect anyone doing Herald of the Titans runs with this trinket, which is unfortunate, as it was a great healing trinket for Herald toons with unlucky RNG or who were unable to obtain a Darkmoon Greatness card.

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Inscribed Bag of Hydra-Spawn buffed in hotfix

Another one of the Throne of Thunder healing trinkets has been buffed in the April 2, 2013 hotfixes.

Inscribed Bag of Hydra-Spawn now has an increased chance to activate its shielding effect.

Of course, like the Lightning-Imbued Chalice buff, Blizzard isn’t revealing exactly what the increased chance of the shield activation is, meaning healers will once again need to theorycraft and troll through World of Logs to determine the new increased chance is.

The last two weeks we have seen two healing trinkets buffed, so it is likely we could see more trinket buffing in the coming weeks.

At this rate, I recommend that healers should take a shot at getting any of the resto trinkets this tier, and see how it all shakes out, particularly if they are heroic or Thunderforged trinkets.

Expect new data to come out about this trinket over the next few days as being hit regular and heroic raids with this trinket.

For more on this trinket, see the HealersCDs Guide to Inscribed Bag of Hydra-Spawn

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Lightning-Imbued Chalice healing trinket buffed

Healers keeping track of trinkets with spreadsheet calculations will need to update once more, because the Lightning-Imbued Chalice has been buffed again.

Lightning-Imbued Chalice now has a greatly increased chance to generate Infinite Power.

It is unclear how much the “greatly increased chance” is, but reports from healers with this trinket found this was underwhelming and underperforming, despite it being the only healing trinket that increases the proc heal with the amount of spellpower the healer has.

“Restoration of the Infinite” is the proc this trinket produces, and the proc can crit, so if you know anyone with the trinket, it is worth checking logs from the last day or two to see what kind of output it is producing.

Note: Inscribed Bag of Hydra-Spawn has now been buffed as well.

For more on this trinket, see the HealersCDs Guide to Lightning-Imbued Chalice

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Mistweaver Monk T15 2pc bonus “nerfed” with bug fix

You can hear all the mistweaver monks with their shiny new 2pc bonus crying into their mana tea with this bug hotfix.

Fixed a situation where Tier-15 Mistweaver Monk 2-piece set bonus could cause Renewing Mist to heal more than intended.

This is the second hotfix to the 2pc bonus – the original from March 19th was “Tier-15 Mistweaver 2-piece set bonus should now increase the healing of Renewing Mist by the correct amount.”

The issue with the two piece bonus and Thunder Focus Tea (TFT) bonus refresh.

The T15 pcs bonus for MW is “Your Renewing Mist heals for 15% more each time it travels to a new target.” and added with TFT’s “You receive a jolt of energy, doubling the healing done by your next Surging Mist or causing your next Uplift to refresh the duration of your Renewing Mists on all targets. Lasts for 30 sec.” was causing a lot of extra healing that was speculated wasn’t quite working as intended, since the 2pc bonus seemed very overpowered.  The TFT refresh was causing all renewing mist heals to refresh as 132% of the healing, instead of jumping by the correct amount as indicated by the bonus of increasing each jump by 15%.

In simpler terms, here is how nukethetuna in the Elitist Jerks thread explains it in their Mistweaver thread:

Correct. Of note is that using Thunder Focus Tea with Uplift counts as a “jump” when it reapplies Renewing Mists to all targets. This was unchanged in the hotfix, so our 2pc and 4pc do share some synergy.

So with the 2pc the possible healing on ReM is:
Initial cast: 100%
Second target: 115%
Third target: 132.25%
Third target + TFT -> Uplift: 152.08%

TFT -> Uplifting will bump each target up a “tier”, per say.

So appears that it might finally be fixed correctly, but we should expect some more feedback to come out about it over the next few days.

There is also more discussion at MMO-Champion.