I'm not sure if this has been discussed since the change to pushback mechanics in WotLK so here goes. I'm a Holy Pally and I heal in both Pvp and raid situations where I want a guarantee that I get no or almost no spell pushback, especially in those dicey situations.
I'm specced right now in full Spiritual Focus and Imp. Concentration Aura, but I suspect that this puts the spell pushback below zero and is a waste of talent points. Where can we trim the fat and what would the implications be? I'm thinking about this from two angles: PvP (I want a 100% spell push back reduction, other talents be damned keeping my mage alive is foremost) and Raid healing where being close to 100% reduction is nice but what are the trade offs? Maybe when Duel-Specs hit I'll really be able to make a PvP and Pve talent distinction and put more points toward PvE talents in lieu of a few percentage points of spell pushback reduction.
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With Spiritual Focus and base Concentration Aura, you already get no pushback from attacks. 70% from talents, 35% from the base aura, there's 105%. Obviously attacks against you aren't going to increase your cast speed, so you can just count it as 100%. Improving the aura doesn't change that.
Most classes have their own -70% pushback to at least their main type of spells. Frost mages don't, they have a talent for an ability that's 100% pushback resist for 20 seconds every 3 minutes. Fire mages do, but they aren't usually in arena. Arcane mages have a rank 1 talent for 100% resistance while casting Arcane Missles and Arcane Blast. I don't think your mage partner would notice an unbuffed Concentration aura.
Most importantly, spell pushback can only happen twice per spell now, not repeatedly from every single attack until your 2.5 sec Holy Light turns into a 10 second cast.
The talent to improve Concentration Aura is almost entirely a PvP talent, and it's much more useful for -30% silence and interrupt duration than the 50% pushback resist.
Most classes have their own -70% pushback to at least their main type of spells. Frost mages don't, they have a talent for an ability that's 100% pushback resist for 20 seconds every 3 minutes. Fire mages do, but they aren't usually in arena. Arcane mages have a rank 1 talent for 100% resistance while casting Arcane Missles and Arcane Blast. I don't think your mage partner would notice an unbuffed Concentration aura.
Most importantly, spell pushback can only happen twice per spell now, not repeatedly from every single attack until your 2.5 sec Holy Light turns into a 10 second cast.
The talent to improve Concentration Aura is almost entirely a PvP talent, and it's much more useful for -30% silence and interrupt duration than the 50% pushback resist.
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