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Thorns can't be reapplied?
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Post by
Teer
What's the reason you get error message "a more powerful spell already exists" when you try reapply a fading Thorns? I got no talents to improve it, and don't use the glyph (on the rest spec).
Damn annoying.
Post by
pelf
Are other Druids in your raid applying it for you? I know some of our Druids Thorns the tanks obsessively.
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Teer
Not been to a raid yet, this is happening in groups where I'm the only Druid.
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Post by
pelf
It also scales with spell power, so you might have had a different item on? different proc active? something else affecting your spell power?
Post by
Teer
Ah, must be buffs that is screwing it up then.
Post by
Celdhyrean
If a shaman had the totems down on first application and not on the second for example, it won't work. Basically, you need to have the same or higher spellpower than on initial cast to be able to reapply it.
Quite annoying when there's under 1 min left on the initial buff.
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Post by
hashmel
Hah I remember a particular Naxx run when I was going as offspec boomkin, I tossed thorns on the MT when both trinkets procced then with 3 minutes left he starts demanding I reapply it but no matter how much I (and quickly the rest of the raid) told him to right click the buff so I could he just continued to b*tch and demand I reapply thorns.
good times...good times
Post by
Celdhyrean
I've never had a single instance of not being to reapply thorns that could not be traced to a spellpower increase. Remember that int, bok, most foods, spi, totems, moonkin form, trinket procs and a lot of other stuff can temporarily increase your spellpower, if you see it happening it's most probably because you didn't take those in account rather than from a bug.
As for thorns, i never noticed any problem with it, though i couldn't say in what situations i was in terms of spellpower. Anyway it's rather easy to test : find a mob, get in moonkin form, root him, get out of form, try to reapply.
Just right click the buff and it'll remove it. You can then reapply it without seeing the message. I believe you can make a macro as well to remove your current buff, and then cast Thorns so you don't encounter the message; though it would be better to keep the buffed Thorns for as long as possible rather than apply an unbuffed one.It's not really a problem for yourself (if you understand why the message pops up) but is more annoying for when rebuffing tanks.
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hashmel
Thorns is based on spell damage so
http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=33873
does absolutely nothing for it.
My strategy as feral tank/boomkin is to attack something until i proc everything i have for max sp in boomkin, pop thorns, then switch to feral gear and spec.
I've even went so far as to get the 3 set bonus of
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=16828
for 1.5 hour thorns.
shows the buff as 2 hours while it is indeed only 1.5 hours because >1 hour buffs are shown by the hour not minute
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