What's That Build!? - It's Build 18179 - WoW: WoD Alpha Changes - Mana Changes Galore

We got a new build this week in the Alpha client and there was a ton of new changes. The biggest news were the mana changes for all of the healing classe.

Healing Class Changes

Restoration Druid

You may remember, in the first datamined information from the WoD Alpha there was a buff to pretty much every healing spell in the game that reduced it's base mana costs by about 2% on each spell. I thought that was kind of low for how much they said they wanted to change healing and it seems I was write. There was another string of buffs to healing spells that reduced mana costs again for pretty much all classes. Big spells for classes like Rejuvenation and Healing touch got big buffs while others got smaller buffs again. Below is the full list for Druids.

• Healing Touch cost reduced by 7% base mana.
• Rejuvenation cost reduced by 6.5% base mana.
• Cenarion Ward cost reduced by 5.7% base mana.
• Lifebloom cost reduced by 2% base mana.
• Regrowth cost reduced by 15% base mana.
• Swiftmend cost reduced by 5% base mana.
• Tranquility cost reduced by 2% base mana.
• Wild Growth cost reduced by 1.5% base mana.
• Wild Mushroom cost reduced by 3% base mana.
• Wild Muchroom: Bloom cost reduced by 4% base mana.

Glyph of Travel was changed. Before, it would give you increased 60% mount speed but you couldn't cast it in combat. Although there weren't a lot of instances that were outside that you could even use Travel Form during a raid encounter, there were enough that this glyph would never be used by raiders outside of dailies or questing. However, it's been changed so that if you cast Travel Form while in combat you don't get the glyph affect. So this minor glyph is definitely getting much more appealing.

Holy Paladin

• Flash of Light cost reduced by 15% base mana.
• Word of Glory got a buff, increasing its healing to 104% of spellpower, up from 73%. This change also applied for Eternal Flame.
• Execution Sentence, Holy Prism and Light's Hammer have all gotten nerfed by quite a bit (50-75%) in terms of healing output.
• Divine Plea now regains 7% maximum mana, a 2.5% increase.'
• Holy Light (the original Divine Light) cost reduced by 7% base mana.
• Holy Radiance cost reduced by 5% base mana.
• Holy Shock cost reduced by 5.5% base mana.

Holy and Disc Priests

• Flash Heal cost reduced by 2.8% base mana.
• Heal cost reduced by 1.5% base mana.
• Power Word: Shield cost reduced by 2% base mana.
• Prayer of Mending cost reduced by 0.4% base mana.
• Saving Grace (Level 100 Talent Choice) cost reduced by 5.5% base mana.
• Prayer of Healing cost reduced by 0.5% base mana.
• Binding Heal cost reduced by 1.1% base mana.

      Discipline

• Holy Nova cost reduced by 0.1% base mana.
• Penance now regains mana if used to damage enemies and it no longer procs Atonement. Each tick replenishes 1.1% mana, down from 1.5%.

      Holy

• Chakra: Sanctuary has changed so that each heal casts now reduced the Circle of Healing spell by 0.5 seconds instead of a passive 2 seconds off of Circle of Healing.
• Chakra: Serenity now causes single target heals to refresh renew on that target.
• Circle of Healing cost reduced by 0.3% base mana.
• Divine Hymn cost reduced 0.6% base mana.
• Lightwell cost reduced 0.5% base mana.
• Renew cost reduced 1% base mana.

Restoration Shaman

• Chain Heal cost reduced by 2% base mana.
• Healing Rain cost reduced by 27% base mana.
• Healing Stream Totem cost reduced by 1% base mana.
• Healing Surge cost reduced by 14% base mana.
• Unleash Elements cost reduced by 5% base mana.
• Earth Shield cost reduced by 8.5% base mana.
• Healing Tide Totem cost reduced by 0.5% base mana.
• Healing Wave cost reduced by 7% base mana.
• Resurgence now gives back 812 mana after casting critical spells up from 347 mana.
• Riptide cost reduced by 5.5% base mana.
• Tidal Waves now increase the critical strike chance of Healing Surge by 70%.
• Shamans also received the same Travel Form glyph for Ghost Wolf form along with the new change.

Mistweaver Monks

• Expel Harm cost reduced by 2.2% base mana.
• Spinning Crane Kick cost reduced by 0.7% base mana.
• Surging Mist got a nerf about about 130% of spell power.
• Enveloping Mist got a buff of about 220% of Spell power.
• Life Cacoon cost reduced by 1.6% base mana.
• Renewing Mist cost reduced by 0.7% base mana.
• Revival cost increased by 0.7% of base mana.
• Soothing Mist got a buff of about 300% (double it's current healing) of spell power.