I like that idea. The only problem is going to be on PvP servers.

I don't know how often world PvP is an issue, but diminishing returns in battlegrounds/arenas could be interesting.

Yea, but if they do too much of that it becomes way too confusing for the player. Things like CC duration are flexible, but if you do what the first poster suggests (for instance) and put LT on DR in arenas/bg's then your class would play differently in a fundamental way depending on where you happen to be standing in the game world. I don't think that would work.

People should play differently depending on the PvP or PvE situation, anyways. Why not have specific rule sets.

If we can handle playing alts of different classes, we should be able to handle playing a class that is different PvP vs PvE.

Except, very few people can.

There are plenty of freak exceptions, including myself. I've got five mains, each of which I can play at least two if not all three specs expertly. But, as I noted, I'm a freak.

Most of the game's players take far longer than a day to master a new role or class. Some of them still haven't mastered their current one. Asking these players to learn their class twice is too steep a learning curve.

People can handle playing their chars differently in different situations. I play my resto druid *completely* differently in a raid versus an arena or battleground - even though healing is still my primary role in both.

But I use different heals, I shift into forms, I expect heals to be purged.

Most players play differently in pve and pvp, they have to - because it's a different environment. Just like they play differently when soloing versus raiding.

If this is a change in order to nerf the SL/SL spec, why not jus move either of those talents farther down the tree and leave lifetap alone?

Unless it's feedback from Shamans! Lulz!............;_;

That would be a pretty nice idea actually. Having resilence reduce the amount of mana returned from LT (but not affect health).

While we're at it, lets make resilience affect the gas mileage of my car.

Seriously, why do people want resilience to be a catchall stat? It's a horribly implemented bolt-on as it is.

That sounds too easy. What's the catch?

What, your resilience reduces mana gained from life tap? That sounds like a terrible idea. The more resilience a warlock has, the less effective his/her lifetap is? Name one other class that has an ability that gets worse the more resilience they have. If anything, they should make it so that the more resilience you have, the less life you lose from life tap. It starts out large, then with more resil, you lose less life. Easy.

Why they didn't just do that in the first place is beyond me. There are a number of already-proven means of dealing with skill/talents that are overpowered:

- add/increase cooldown
- add/increase casting time
- reduce the +damage/+healing coefficient
- increase mana/health/rage/energy cost

It's when the devs try to do something completely bizarre that they run into horrible problems.

"Oh yeah...how will this be affected by current itemization?"