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World of Warcraft |OT8| CITIZENS OF DALARAN
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It doesn't make mobs drop mana (you need the Leyline quests to increase that). It makes mobs very occasionally drop a mana pack, which usually contains some potions and either a big chunk of mana or some enchanting crafting materials.
Lanrutcon
Member
So, patch note discussion!
1. It's so brutally obvious that Blizzard were still finalising content during beta and didn't do shit for balancing then. That, or they're absolutely 100% worse at math than their community.
2. The changes are mostly flailing in the wind to see what sticks. For example, they're delusional if they think the flat buffs to Affliction will make it competitive with Fire, for example.
3. Speaking of which, notice the lack of Fire Mage notes. The bias continues. I bet there's a poster in the HR office of Blizzard that reads "If at least one Mage spec isn't fucking stupidly good every xpac, someone gets fired".
4. I called it in beta: here we have a fuckton of major changes...and no artifact power refund. This is the most main unfriendly expansion yet.
5. Absolutely no indication that they're looking at mobility problems. Blizzard have just put their heads in the sand on the matter, and kept creating raid/dungeon content with high mobility requirements.
1. It's so brutally obvious that Blizzard were still finalising content during beta and didn't do shit for balancing then. That, or they're absolutely 100% worse at math than their community.
2. The changes are mostly flailing in the wind to see what sticks. For example, they're delusional if they think the flat buffs to Affliction will make it competitive with Fire, for example.
3. Speaking of which, notice the lack of Fire Mage notes. The bias continues. I bet there's a poster in the HR office of Blizzard that reads "If at least one Mage spec isn't fucking stupidly good every xpac, someone gets fired".
4. I called it in beta: here we have a fuckton of major changes...and no artifact power refund. This is the most main unfriendly expansion yet.
5. Absolutely no indication that they're looking at mobility problems. Blizzard have just put their heads in the sand on the matter, and kept creating raid/dungeon content with high mobility requirements.
Quick glance at the classes I play or could potentially play (like my Lock who is 110 now)
BM Hunter - 5% dmg buff to bestial wrath? Better than a kick in the crotch I guess
Monk - no real changes appart from that spinning kick nerf, I barely use it anyway and my main spec is healer
Destro/Demo lock - whoa nelly
BM Hunter - 5% dmg buff to bestial wrath? Better than a kick in the crotch I guess
Monk - no real changes appart from that spinning kick nerf, I barely use it anyway and my main spec is healer
Destro/Demo lock - whoa nelly
The SCK nerf is MW only because it cost no chi. Super powerful in EMN.
SCK is WW's secret aoe. it just requires effort. Oh wisps are up? time to pad. Me and a friend were top 2 on our heroic cenarius. Both ww.
Nah. The same thing happened in WoD. It's a bandaid to a greater problem that elemental faces. Granted the clunk is gone, but honestly the spec just needs a rework. 5 percent increase on lava burst is so laughable.
Yeah I know, when I said the last 6-8 I meant mana-tinged packs.
when will these changes take place anyway? it says hotfixes but they dont seem live? I checked Besial Wrath and its still 20% dmg not 25%
thats a big fucking buff tho
And I thought SV hunters were already competitive? Wasnt someone saying that or showing charts with them high or something?
thats a big fucking buff tho
And I thought SV hunters were already competitive? Wasnt someone saying that or showing charts with them high or something?With the weekly maintenance.
NumberThree
Member
I think them buffing skills by 50+% is a pretty good indication of how much effort was put in balancing pre-release.Sölf;217938218 said:
Human Trashcan
Banned
If I'm looking at the upside: Pretty nice Retribution buffs, considering Ret wasn't as bad as some of the specs getting similar buffs. I might actually play some Ret now (Prot is my main spec)
Demon Hunters getting completely shafted on some stuff though, holy shit. Glaive Throw just got fucking annihilated. Guess what my artifact progression path prioritized above all else? feels bad man
Demon Hunters getting completely shafted on some stuff though, holy shit. Glaive Throw just got fucking annihilated. Guess what my artifact progression path prioritized above all else? feels bad man
Yeah, I kn ow what you mean. It also basically increased the damage of each and every single ability except Frost Fever. That just doesn't look good at all.
Anyone who wants to play melee anit gonna play a hunter for survival. The people who play hunters as mains dont want to melee.
Hm, okay? They wrote in their balance thingy that these would go live with the weekly maintenance next week. Maybe only a few things?
Some of the changes might be live, but lot of things definitely aren't.
as someone who plays hunter, I can confirm this :3
also looking at the Lock buffs, happy for destro, but Demo needs fundamental mechanical changes not just dmg buffs. The spec FEELS off, its not just the dmg.
In my opinion of course
Ya youre not wrong. Mop demo was something I liked. This buffing of pets shit anit for me.
Lanrutcon
Member
Nothing in those logs fixes Affliction's lack of burst and reliance on ramp up. Affliction will be better in raids, but still crappy in dungeons.
Edit: I realise that didn't really answer your question.
Affliction will do better in raids, but still be terrible in dungeons. At high mythic+ levels, Affliction will even out due to fight length increasing. Affliction is our top performer in raid fights with heavy movement. Spec soul effigy.
Destro is our cleave spec, so any time you can reliably cleave you'll beat the other 2 specs without a doubt. Destro is our least movement friendly spec. Destro performs well in dungeons due to havoc abuse. Spec havoc.
The two specs will both perform exactly as they have, maintaining their strengths and weaknesses, but with higher numbers.
Demo has the shittiest rotation in the game currently and fuck knows how it performs now because anyone who actually plays demo hates themselves.
It's a cone attack in front of you that summons a Sindragosa look alike Frost Wyrm. And she breathes frost. It looks really cool.
phoenix296
Member
Yay buffs. Now I can level my warlock without feeling bad about it.
piratethingy
Self professed bad raider
yeah i knew it, holy priest is like one of 3 finished specs
They might call it 7.2 but I'd expect a chunky bit of content alongside it. I don't think people would let it slide if they just try and dress up Nighthold as newly developed content since it's obvious it is close to finished.
Karazhan is already titled 7.1 so it will be 7.2 at least.
Unless theyre going to release a bunch of additional content with it theres no reason to have a patch 7.2 for stuff that is already finished and in the game files.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Sölf;217938218 said:
Very happy to see this because i dont find UH playstyle fun. The proc reliance for Frost sucks but at least i enjoy playing it.
daily engineering cooldown. scales with your skill level as well. From what I recall you can get up to 20 a day just from your cooldown once you are 700.
KLoWn
Member
Yeah I'm doing that. I was hoping that I would be able to buy 'em now that WoD content is old. I need a 100 of 'em
It's in the patch notes for 7.1, only with a nine-week rollout. I think it's going to be similar to how EN opened three weeks after Legion release, only more protracted.
Blingtron usually drops them from the box