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Azel

16/06/2009, 12:05

Recent In-Game Fixes - 06/15/09 The <a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=64858.0" target="_blank">Freya Zerg Kill</a> posted yesterday is already hotfixed, well that was fast. <div class="blizzquotewrap"><div class="blizzquoteinner"><div class="blizzquoteheader">Quote from: Bornakk (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/23/17631614070-recent-ingame-fixes--6409.html" target="_blank" style="color: white;">Source</a>)</div><div class="blizzquote">6/15/09 <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>The additional healing Freya receives, through the Attuned to Nature buff, has been increased.</li><li>Focus Anger, on Yogg-Saron’s Crusher tentacles, will no longer result from pet attacks.</li><li>Pyrite will now disappear after 3 minutes instead of 1 minute.</li></ul> </div></div></div> Upcoming Mount Changes - Updated 06/15 <div class="blizzquotewrap"><div class="blizzquoteinner"><div class="blizzquoteheader">Quote from: Zarhym (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/1/17730154175-upcoming-mount-changes.html" target="_blank" style="color: white;">Source</a>)</div><div class="blizzquote">Update 6/15: We've altered the original text to reflect that the decreased casting time for summoning mounts applies only to ground mounts. Flying mounts still require a 3 second cast time. </div></div></div> Strand of the Ancients Coin Toss in Patch 3.2 <div class="blizzquotewrap"><div class="blizzquoteinner"><div class="blizzquoteheader">Quote from: Zarhym (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/1/17779490786-strand-of-the-alliance.html" target="_blank" style="color: white;">Source</a>)</div><div class="blizzquote">I have some news that will hopefully alleviate some of your concerns. The current plan is to implement the "coin toss" for Strand of the Ancients in the next major content patch. We know it's been a long time coming, but the solution to the issues preventing us from originally randomizing who starts on offense/defense is in the works right now. </div></div></div> Ulduar Hall of Fame Update I finally took the time to update the <a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=864" target="_blank">Hall of Fame</a> with the latest kills. Please note that it isn't complete yet, the hard mode of Yogg-Saron remains undefeated 2 months after the release of the dungeon. <div align="center"><a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=864" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/june/halloffame.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div> Blue posts <div class="blizzquotewrap"><div class="blizzquoteinner"><div class="blizzquoteheader">Quote from Blizzard staff</div><div class="blizzquote">Rogue Mage Priest We'd prefer to see other comps as dominant as RMPs in 3s. The problem is if we nerf RMP without making other changes, then double melee teams would likely just take their place. The public perception is that at least RMP requires more coordination and finesse than double melee (though we also think there is validity to the claim that just because you have the option of crowd control doesn't mean that bursting someone down makes you somehow more legit.) (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/28/17779799571-rmp-is-unstopable.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) PvP Issues I'll be very brief, but here are the problems we see in PvP right now. 1) Too much emphasis on Arenas and not enough on BGs. 2) Too much emphasis on 2s and not enough on 3s and 5s. 3) Not enough class / spec representation in Arena. Warlock, hunter and shaman numbers in particular are too low, but they're not the only ones. 4) Too fast-paced. Let me explain this last one in more detail. Some people in the community think that burst dps is too high. We disagree, and the reason we do is that healing is also very powerful in Arenas, to the point at which not having a Mortal Strike debuff may be a huge liability. If you can't burst someone down when wounded, they just aren't going to die unless the healer is mana-drained or chain crowd-controlled, neither of which are overly fun in the extreme case. You can have too much damage, too much healing or too much crowd control. But when you consider specific matches, particularly of the highest rated teams, those guys are using their full toolbox. The problem is that the windows in which to use those tools can be very small. When you are injured, you might have a global cooldown in which to respond. If you make it, you might very well be fully healed in the next cooldown and "reset" the match. If you fail, you're dead and the match may be over. We'd like to add an extra GCD or two to many of these situations. Now there still are extreme cases of burst in some specs that need to be chilled out. However, if we just lower burst damage across the board we're concerned people just wouldn't ever die and only specs with multiple forms of crowd-control would be considered viable. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/28/17779590334-what-is-a-problem-in-pvp-right-now.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) [...] I probably should have added an additional bullet, which is that in the previous season, starter resilience gear was either too hard to get or sacrificed too many stats. We want resilience to be attractive because of the survivability it brings (and I think that part is working), but we started players too low. You need like 500 before you start to notice its effect and 800 to 1000 before you actually live long enough to respond to attacks (though as I suggested above, perhaps not long enough). (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/28/17779590334-what-is-a-problem-in-pvp-right-now.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) Burst damage in PvP Let’s assume for the sake of argument that burst is too high. Imagine we made changes such that getting an 8K crit was almost impossible and 3K or 4K hits were more common. Now consider what would happen. You hit someone. The healer heals them. You keep hitting. The healer heals them. Two strategies then rise to the top as the only way to win a match: keep the healer crowd-controlled forever or drain her mana. Yet not every class has the same amount of crowd control and very few have mana drains. We don’t want every class to have those abilities because then every class feels alike. Furthermore, playing a healer that never gets to, you know, actually play because you’re always sheeped / cyclone or OOM isn’t much fun either. In the current game, imagine a mage getting beat on to the point where he is near Execute range. He decides to Blink. If he gets the Blink off, he might have just won the match because he can get healed to full before the melee close again. If he fails to get the Blink off, he’ll probably die in the very next GCD. He might have a window of 2 seconds max to win or lose the game. If you have those situations every now and then you end up with a nail-biter match. That’s cool. However, if every single encounter with the other team is like that, it’s just exhausting. Many fights will end in just a few GCDs. Others will go on and on, at least until the healer runs OOM, which is unlikely to happen with abilities like Innervate and Divine Plea. It’s just too extreme in both damage done and healing done. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/28/17779590334-what-is-a-problem-in-pvp-right-now.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) Arenas and grinding for rewards I think some players like Arenas because they are quick, easy to organize (relative to a BG), often have fast queues, and / or they just enjoy the “purity” (for want of a better word) of just trying to kill the other team without having to worry about flags, reinforcements, bad players not contributing to the war effort, etc. However, a lot of players who may not really like Arenas get drawn into them in order to procure the best PvP gear. This second issue is something we’d like to fix, but we need to develop a way to reward good gear through BGs that isn’t based on endless grinding. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/28/17779590334-what-is-a-problem-in-pvp-right-now.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/ishamans.gif" alt="" border="0" /> Shaman / <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/ipaladins.gif" alt="" border="0" /> Paladin Patch 3.2 Changes We have some changes in 3.2 that will address some of the concerns healing shamans and paladins have. I think the quote some of you are referring to is when I said none of the classes in the game need a complete overhaul. That kind of verbiage tends to come from players who are looking for a completely different class than the one they are actually playing. The kind of changes we're talking about do not involve blowing up the talent trees, core spells or class mechanics and starting over. We almost never do that. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/27/17779489192-bring-the-healer--not-the-holy-paladin.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/idruids.gif" alt="" border="0" /> Druid (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=700" target="_blank">3.1 Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?druid" target="_blank">3.1 Talent + Glyph Calc.</a>) Feral Cat DPS Kitty dps is probably a little too high. It's tricky though because it is a very demanding spec to play well and if nerf it for the best players, the less-skilled ones might really see their dps plummet. I'll say again that we purposely designed Ulduar to have a great diversity among the bosses. Depending on which bosses you look at, the list of whose dps is too low or too high changes. If Ulduar had 3 additional or 5 fewer bosses, the answer would probably be different. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/28/17779490502-discussion-kitty-dps-to-high.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/ihunters.gif" alt="" border="0" /> Hunter (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=620" target="_blank">3.1 Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?hunter" target="_blank">3.1 Talent + Glyph Calc.</a>) Ammo is too expensive We agree with the comments that ammo costs have gotten too high. It was acceptab...</div></div></div>

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