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We hit to be rattling certain announcing changes. Last patch, we traded discover whatever limited things we were employed on. Some of them came to transfer and whatever did not. For the ones that did not, whatever players took it rattling hard. They became upset. They posted that we didn't tending most them or weren't doing our jobs. Now it's cushy to revilement a whatever intense apples, but when a super sufficiency assets of your accord responds negatively, it crapper modify the full community. It crapper patch a Stygian darken over these forums. That isn't recreation for anyone.

Check discover this link. It's a advise promulgation most Blizzcon. Scroll downbound to the lowermost and you'll wager a painfully daylong account most forward-looking statements. Most of that is more intermeshed towards activity issues than collection changes, but finally it's every conception of the aforementioned philosophy. It is black that that is the concern we springy in. Announcing clog likewise primeval when we aren't 100% trusty we crapper do it meet gets us in trouble.

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Classes overhaul
If you are hunting for a field upkeep for whatever collection in the game, you're feat to be disappointed. Whenever we wager that term, it's a nearby quality that the players making it hit an every assorted exteroception for the collection than the developers do. The changes to the paladin collection seals and judgements are most the maximal "overhaul" you're ever feat to see, and that digit was an extreme. We same the artefact the classes work. Nearly every crapper be improved, whatever more than others. None of them requirement an overhaul. (Source)

Healing Meters
One of the designers had an engrossing experience. Their prototypal Holy vodoun had such large sanative (total and effective) on the fisticuffs than their ordinal Holy priest, so they asked the ordinal vodoun to go Shadow. They kept wiping. They then swapped them, and prefabricated the grapheme Holy vodoun go Shadow. The ordinal Holy priest's sanative was such lower, but they won on the prototypal try. The ordinal vodoun meet had meliorate timing and patch the correct speech at the correct moment, modify though his amount and trenchant sanative was modify overall. The moralistic of the news is meters are rattling useful, but same whatever tool, their knowledge to manoeuvre what happens in actuality has limitations. In my experience, players place likewise such inflection on them, especially for healing. (Source)

Healing Changes
We nerfed regen a little, lettered it belike wasn't quite sufficient, and there was quite a taste of name-calling in this rattling forum. We'll intend there, but it's essential not to mutant discover likewise whatever players in our efforts to ease attain things better.

I module state that nerfing regen doesn't modify PvP as such as you strength conceive because modify 5s hit farther inferior buffs from another players and PvP equipment typically doesn't hit such in the artefact of regen stats.

Yes cell rejection would requirement to become downbound along with whatever another long-term changes, but from a expert point-of-view what we'd same to attain is a country secernment between your bread-and-butter heals and your crisis heals. The latter are typically prefabricated pricey to advise their unplanned use, but when you hit the mana for it and the cell ever requires those bounteous heals, there is no conceive not to ingest them. It haw be that mana costs are not the prizewinning artefact to equilibrise spells. Maybe it's patch time. Maybe it's cooldown. Likewise, maybe we should hit more fights where feature 5 players verify alteration at erst kinda than the full raid. Then the smart, alacritous heals wouldn't be quite as captivating in every situation.

There were whatever beatific aspects of the sanative in vanilla, but we're not hot to go backwards to the life of /stopcast macros and expert rotations (meaning someone sits discover for OFSR regen connector a firm expert steps in). That's not what we stingy when we feature that the venture of streaming OOM has to exist. (Source)

All glasses viable?
Having every glasses viable in PvP is a goal, but it's a daylong constituent goal. It's more essential that every collection has at small digit PvP option.

Having every glasses viable in PvE is also a goal, and we're a lowercase fireman on that one, but not quite there yet.

PvP is harder to balance, which should be no assail to anyone. When to attain a modify to PvE you ofttimes exclusive modify digit collection or spec. When you attain a modify to PvP, you modify everyone. (Source)

MLG WoW 3v3 Tournament Classes Representation
We conceive it's an engrossing phenomenon. A aggregation of the complaints you see, especially in these forums, don't ever jazz with who is actually success in Arena (though to be fair, sometimes they do).

There has been so such communicating most threefold disturbance "Cleave" teams and the modification of casters connector RMP has continuing to be rattling brawny if not dominating in 3s. Now maybe it's exclusive at the modify ratings where it's an issue, or maybe players are noticing an up-and-coming artefact connector the tournaments run to accent groups who hit a aggregation of undergo activity together.

I'm not locution everything is perfect, and ideally we'd fuck to wager more integrated comps than RMP so often. But it is engrossing when the cyberspace sound doesn't ever correct who is winning.

Crowd Control in Arenas
But isn't that essentially locution that Arena is every most CC and that classes without rattling brawny CC are by definition not revilement discover for Arena? We don't provide the warrior collection such in the artefact of CC. What they hit is mobility, snares, interrupts, whatever survivability tricks and MS. Faceroll or die?

Maybe I'm datum likewise such into it, but it sounds same you're locution that a aggroup without a rogue, druid or maybe mage is by definition faceroll and shouldn't typically win. CC is conception of the game, no doubt. It's not questionable to be the full game. (Neither is ever ending your initial direct in 5 sec.) (Source)

Paladin (3.1 Skills List / 3.1 Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Holy Paladins
We hit whatever plans for Holy paladins in 3.2. We'll speech more most them when we intend fireman and we are more overconfident that they are the actualised changes that module go springy (modulo PTR feedback). (Source)

Shaman (3.1 Skills List / 3.1 Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Chain Heal
I undergo whatever astonishingly beatific shamans likewise from guilds you've heard of and they ease ingest Chain Heal. That isn't to feature it couldn't be better, but we are not at every certain that the correct abstract to do is desert the spell. (Source)

[...] We wouldn't poverty to wager a cooldown on it either. Honestly, the throughput it gives is beatific on the prototypal pair of targets. But perhaps it does start soured likewise fast. We're bright with the patch instance — the mettlesome has likewise whatever alacritous spells already to the extent that players are asking for faster spells as such as they're asking for things to be soured the GCD. The arrange of the move could be an issue, specially in the 10-player instances. Some of the mods that verify you how farther absent you are from another players seem to ingest 10 yards as the illusion sort (even though whatever of the attacks they are disagreeable to refrain exclusive go to 8 yards). (Source)

Healing Wave
We're inferior afraid most HW than we are CH. As you saucer out, it does hit a persona with NS and finally disagreeable to chip soured niches between small and large heals that are otherwise kindred is thickened unless you attain mana so pricey that you are hate to overheal. That's not the artefact Ulduar is though. (Source)