Spell power is for damage casters nothing but a cosmetic change. For healers it is an increase in spell damage but not such a big one since they already got 1/3rd of their healing as spelldamage.

Merging crit/hit/haste however is really a much bigger change but it won't really impact the performance of any class/spec except Enhancement shamans.

Typo,
The merge of Spell crit with crit and Spell hit with hit and SPell haste with haste rather, still 3 separate rating stats.

a 2/3 increase in bonus damage isn't a major change?

I'm putting 300% extra spell damage under a major change.

That comment was made specifically for stamina. I understand he said that they do not plan on reworking an entire statistic again, but I'd lean to the side of statistic meaning strictly intellect/strength/stamina etc... and not necessarily the spell damage rework.

@ Nogun:

Spellpower isn't meant to make healers more potent DPSers, it's meant to allow easier respecs and fewer gear sets.

I doubt it, I think what he was really going for here was you wont see a lvl 71 who had full T6 running around in Northrend greens because they are better than his T6 gear. Sure there will still be some pieces that survive till 80 simply because they're still the best in slot available to you.

Point being that you'll get new stuff, just it'll be more sensible.

I imagine that when I take my underused rogue into Northrend, I'll be replacing about 99% of his gear before level 72. Poor kid is still wearing some level 66 greens.

But I doubt most of my warrior's tanking gear will be replaced before 75 ... unless instance mechanics up in the north require frost resist or other bits than straight up migitation/EH.

Haha, I clicked every link in the post before I found the source button, too. I started to look for the icon that massively uses.

You'd think the original source would be linked at "Bornakk says", since the source is WHERE bornakk says it!

But WOW Insider is the king of gratuitous self-links.