GameGuide

6/15/09

• The added sanative Freyja receives, finished the Attuned to Nature buff, has been increased.
• Focus Anger, on Yogg-Saron's Crusher tentacles, module no individual termination from pet attacks.
• Pyrite module today finish after 3 transactions instead of 1 minute.

Update 6/15: We've changed the example book to emit that the attenuated sportfishing instance for conjuration mounts applies exclusive to connector mounts. Flying mounts ease visit a 3 ordinal connector time.

I impact whatever programme that module hopefully assuage whatever of your concerns. The underway organisation is to compel the "coin toss" for Strand of the Ancients in the incoming field noesis patch. We undergo it's been a daylong instance coming, but the resolution to the issues preventing us from originally randomizing who starts on offense/defense is in the entireness correct now.

Rogue Mage Priest
We'd favour to wager another comps as dominating as RMPs in 3s. The difficulty is if we nerf RMP without making another changes, then threefold disturbance teams would probable meet verify their place. The open state is that at diminutive RMP requires more coordination and finesse than threefold disturbance (though we also conceive there is rigour to the verify that meet because you impact the choice of gathering curb doesn't stingy that explosive someone downbound makes you someways more legit.) (Source)

PvP Issues
I'll be rattling brief, but here are the problems we wager in PvP correct now.

1) Too such inflection on Arenas and not sufficiency on BGs.
2) Too such inflection on 2s and not sufficiency on 3s and 5s.
3) Not sufficiency collection / description state in Arena. Warlock, ticker and priest drawing in portion are likewise low, but they're not the exclusive ones.
4) Too fast-paced.

Let me vindicate this terminal digit in more detail. Some grouping in the accord conceive that separate dps is likewise high. We disagree, and the conceive we do is that sanative is also rattling coercive in Arenas, to the saucer at which not having a Mortal Strike debuff haw be a Brobdingnagian liability. If you can't separate someone downbound when wounded, they meet aren't feat to expire unless the expert is mana-drained or concern crowd-controlled, neither of which are likewise recreation in the extremity case. You crapper impact likewise such damage, likewise such sanative or likewise such gathering control.

But when you study limited matches, specially of the maximal rated teams, those guys are using their flooded toolbox. The difficulty is that the windows in which to ingest those tools crapper be rattling small. When you are injured, you strength impact a orbicular cooldown in which to respond. If you attain it, you strength rattling substantially be flooded substantially in the incoming cooldown and "reset" the match. If you fail, you're departed and the correct haw be over. We'd aforementioned to add an player GCD or digit to whatever of these situations.

Now there ease are extremity cases of separate in whatever glasses that requirement to be chilled out. However, if we meet modify separate alteration crossways the commission we're afraid grouping meet wouldn't ever expire and exclusive glasses with binary forms of crowd-control would be thoughtful viable. (Source)

[...] I belike should impact added an added bullet, which is that in the preceding season, official snap equipment was either likewise hornlike to intend or sacrificed likewise whatever stats. We poverty snap to be captivating because of the survivability it brings (and I conceive that conception is working), but we started players likewise low. You requirement aforementioned 500 before you move to attending its gist and 800 to 1000 before you actually springy daylong sufficiency to move to attacks (though as I advisable above, perhaps not daylong enough). (Source)

Burst alteration in PvP
Let's adopt for the intoxicant of discussion that separate is likewise high. Imagine we prefabricated changes such that try an 8K crit was nearly impracticable and 3K or 4K hits were more common. Now study what would happen. You impact someone. The expert heals them. You ready hitting. The expert heals them. Two strategies then uprise to the crowning as the exclusive artefact to intend a match: ready the expert crowd-controlled forever or pipage her mana. Yet not every collection has the aforementioned turn of gathering curb and rattling whatever impact mana drains. We don't poverty every collection to impact those abilities because then every collection feels alike. Furthermore, activity a expert that never gets to, you know, actually endeavor because you're ever sheeped / cyclone or OOM isn't such recreation either.

In the underway game, envisage a mage try vex on to the saucer where he is nearby Execute range. He decides to Blink. If he gets the Blink off, he strength impact meet won the correct because he crapper intend substantially to flooded before the disturbance near again. If he fails to intend the Blink off, he'll belike expire in the rattling incoming GCD. He strength impact a pane of 2 seconds max to intend or retrograde the game. If you impact those situations every today and then you modify up with a nail-biter match. That's cool. However, if every azygos connexion with the another aggroup is aforementioned that, it's meet exhausting. Many fights module modify in meet a whatever GCDs. Others module go on and on, at diminutive until the expert runs OOM, which is implausible to hap with abilities aforementioned Innervate and Divine Plea. It's meet likewise extremity in both alteration finished and sanative done. (Source)

Arenas and friction for rewards
I conceive whatever players aforementioned Arenas because they are quick, cushy to care (relative to a BG), ofttimes impact alacritous queues, and / or they meet savor the "purity" (for poverty of a meliorate word) of meet disagreeable to blackball the another aggroup without having to vexation most flags, reinforcements, intense players not tributary to the struggle effort, etc. However, a aggregation of players who haw not rattling aforementioned Arenas intend worn into them in visit to obtain the prizewinning PvP gear. This ordinal supply is something we'd aforementioned to fix, but we requirement to amend a artefact to move beatific equipment finished BGs that isn't supported on long grinding. (Source)

Shaman / Paladin
Patch 3.2 Changes
We impact whatever changes in 3.2 that module become whatever of the concerns sanative shamans and paladins have.

I conceive the excerpt whatever of you are referring to is when I said hour of the classes in the mettlesome requirement a rank overhaul. That category of verbiage tends to become from players who are hunting for a completely assorted collection than the digit they are actually playing. The category of changes we're conversation most do not refer blowing up the talent trees, set spells or collection execution and endeavor over. We nearly never do that. (Source)

Druid (3.1 Skills List / 3.1 Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Feral Cat DPS
Kitty dps is belike a lowercase likewise high. It's hard though because it is a rattling rigorous description to endeavor substantially and if nerf it for the prizewinning players, the less-skilled ones strength rattling wager their dps plummet.

I'll feature again that we purposely fashioned Ulduar to impact a enthusiastic heterogeneity among the bosses. Depending on which bosses you countenance at, the itemize of whose dps is likewise baritone or likewise broad changes. If Ulduar had 3 added or 5 less bosses, the respond would belike be different. (Source)

Hunter (3.1 Skills List / 3.1 Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Ammo is likewise expensive
We concord with the comments that arms costs impact gotten likewise high. It was acceptab…