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Well so much for the honor wipe. As you can already see from the comments on that post, players have all kinds of opinions about this — some believe that Blizzard should have gone through with the wipe, giving everyone a clean slate as the expansion started. Some players disagree, saying that honor is honor — if you earned it, you should keep it. Some players are unhappy that the prices for level 80 items are going to be raised as part of the non-wipe, leaving new players in the dust. And even other players are just angry because they listened to Blizzard, and already spent the honor they thought they were losing anyway.

So the question this morning isn’t how you feel about the Honor non-wipe, since odds are you’ve already expressed that. But it is: where do we go from here? Are you going to step up Honor farming in the hopes of picking up new, expensive items right away at level 80? Or are you just done with the system completely, and planning to worry about what’s available at level 80 when you get there?

You should keep in mind that for all of the gnashing of teeth, we still don’t know for sure how rewards will worth in Wrath — Tigole has even said that tuning is still happening, and so any tweaks Blizzard may make might actually turn out to make the whole thing easier on everyone. But now that you know the Honor isn’t going anywhere, what’s your plan before the expansion?

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Last night’s Wrath beta patch wasn’t a very large one, but it did bring a few changes for just about everyone. Priests had some of the more boring changes, but let’s take a look regardless.

• Holy Nova‘s mana cost is now 25% of base mana, originally 33% of base mana.

Decent enough change. Holy Nova’s mana cost has always been a bit absurd considering how small the numbers it puts out are.

• Improved Inner Fire has been moved from Tier 3 to Tier 2.
• Improved Power Word: Fortitude has been moved from Tier 2 to Tier 3.

This is another good change, meant to make Imp Inner Fire more accesible to Shadow Priests. Originally, Improved Inner Fire was pitched to swap with Improved Power Word: Shield, but that would cause talent allocation issues for PvP Shadow Priests while fixing it for PvE Shadow Priests. Losing Improved Fortitude in PvE is pretty lame, but probably the better swap in the end.

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