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Victarious
The part about rune regen is admittedly not super clear.
A better wording might be:
While in Blood Presence, increases rune regeneration rate by 20% and reduces your chance to be critically hit by 6%. In addition, while in Frost Presence or Unholy Presence, you retain 4% damage reduction from Blood Presence.
Putting the prepositional phrase in front indicates that the conditions will apply to the remainder of the sentence. That's true for Blizzard's wording as well, but it's not as clear to a casual observer.
/grammar nazi
EDIT: Actually, I don't think Blizz's tooltip is correct, as the clause referring to Blood presence appears in between the portion detailing the crit chance reduction. Technically, I think it should appear at the very end of the phrase. But I can't say that with any certainty as it's beyond my pay grade.
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Victarious
wall of text inc
"by 6%" is in the wrong place.
The original:
Increases your rune regeneration by 20% and reduces the chance that you will be critically hit by melee attacks while in Blood Presence by 6%. In addition, while in Frost Presence or Unholy Presence, you retain 4% damage reduction from Blood Presence.
So we can read this in one of two ways.
Increases your rune regeneration by 20%
and
reduces the chance that you will be critically hit by melee attacks while in Blood Presence by 6%
or:
Increases your rune regeneration by 20% and reduces the chance that you will be critically hit by melee attacks while in Blood Presence
by 6%
Point being, if "in Blood presence" applies to the whole clause, by rule "by 6%" must also apply to the whole clause. What you're left with then is the idea that being in Blood presence increases your rune regen rate by 20% by 6%, which, of course, is nonsense. The other interpretation is that the two conjunctive clauses are independent, and thus being in Blood Presence is not required for increased rune regeneration.
Simply placing "by 6%" in front of "while in Blood Presence" yields a cleaner statement:
Increases your rune regeneration by 20% and reduces the chance that you will be critically hit by melee attacks by 6% while in Blood Presence. In addition, while in Frost Presence or Unholy Presence, you retain 4% damage reduction from Blood Presence.
As there is no comma separating the two conjunctive clauses, it is understood that the prepositional phrase "while in Blood Presence" applies to both. However, as the comma rules are not something everyone is exceedingly well versed in, I resubmit for your approval my previous proposal:
While in Blood Presence, increases your rune regeneration by 20% and reduces your chance to be critically hit by melee attacks by 6%. In addition, while in Frost Presence or Unholy Presence, you retain 4% damage reduction from Blood Presence.
The positioning of the conditional statement at the beginning of the sentence dictates to the reader that everything after the comma will be under those conditions. When X is happening, Y and Z happen.
In any event, the intent of the talent is fairly clear, and of course it is easily testable. I have no issue with the tooltip as it stands. My point is that it could be 1. more correct and 2. clearer.
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DraconisAerius
By all that is Unholy! Give that man an English Degree!
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Chinky
Linguistics, actually.
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