This thread is extraordinary. I think the servers may be up now (or will be soon), but for the majority of this thread they weren't. It's astonishing the psychological impact patch notes have on ppls' minds. You're all arguing so focusedly but none of you have even got to try out the changes yet. It's like being given a menu for a restaurant you're about to enter, and you're all having a big argument about which meal is going to be "better". ;x

If you were previously a WHM and now want to play SCH as a result of these changes, that's your choice of course, but I'm just so surprised it took such small changes to compel you to do that. Say goodbye to your better stoneskin, fluid aura, sleep(!), spellspeed buff and aoe stun (which only lost a tiny bit of potency). (None of us also know what the animation changes are going to be like either)

What's kind of telling is that, apart from the Lustrate change (which I don't think it really needed -- and remember that a 25% Lustrate on a 3500 hp DPS is about 875 hp cured, depending on your gear, so it's just an instant cast Physick usually, or less, even. With the original 20% it was even less, and made it most efficient to use on a tank), SCH is pretty much the same as it was. Oh but no Thunder now, too. Anyway so if you were really going to lvl SCH because it's 'fun', why hadn't you already prior to all this?

I personally think ppl will log in, play around a bit on their WHMs and realise it's not so bad and that nothing really has changed fundamentally, and will continue to keep playing WHM (but hide the fact that they made a fuss about it )