World of Warcraft: Current Year
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Gorehack
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Prot war buffs were sexy. Hit mid raid, my dps went up 7k on mythic brackenspore.
Kreugen
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Unintended consequence of the haste buff, since haste is the dumpster stat for nearly everyone else.
So, the usual well researched hotfixes.
Ya, for sure, I noticed on all my alts that haste is pretty garbage. Haste will always be good for mages unless they change something drastic.
Daidraco
Golden Baronet of the Realm
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Haha! I was waiting for someone to say it!!!
- Rift has a tanking spec for its rogue. Star Wars:TOR has a ranged tanking spec for its bounty hunter class. The shit can be done and I'm not sure why they won't do it. Mage could be frost and cater to absorbs and frost armor be the tanking aura for the class. Since shadow priest has lost its healing and mana regen flavor, just about - go ahead and make a priest pure dps and bring a warlock spec into the old shadow priest realm of doing damage to heal effectively etc. A monkey could come up with how to adapt each class to a new role.
But that's the same kind of conversation we've been having for years about WOW. Why won't they do things that an overwhelming amount of players want from them. Ie. Why not let horde and alliance group with each other??
Inque
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Whose a good Paladin to examine for a spec/gear on Butcher? Our Tank is interested but is curious about getting better w/ Seraphim.
Gorehack
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Vorph
Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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Warcraft Logs - Combat Analysis for Warcraft
19 of the top 20 tank dps on M-Butcher are Paladins. Pick a few of them (avoid the Russians because having to go by icons and tooltips is annoying as shit) and look at their logs. Seraphim doesn't really seem that complicated; even the highest ranked dudes are only at like 40-45% uptime. They pool their HP when it's about to come off cooldown, but if they hit 5HP too early they do not delay the next SotR even if it means that they will end up delaying the Seraphim. Plus you need to delay it for Holy Avenger, Bloodlust, etc.
Note: Glyph of the Alabaster Shield just got nerfed and since Shield of the Righteous is by far the largest source of Prot dps, I suspect that they will take a pretty big hit on Butcher charts.
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Blood Boil nerf is hard gay. Guess I'll be using 5-6 bonus rolls this week on H-Butcher to try and get a pair of axes, because DW Frost is king shit now.
Miele
Lord Nagafen Raider
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I don't think I've ever been fucked by RNG like in this xpack. 70% of my tokens net me gold, like I need it, drops are so random I end up getting the same shit over and over, stats are the worst possible (almost) for my BrM monk, given I seem to get only haste stuff, which is cool because I like to spam those ChiEx, but I'd kill for more mastery or crit or versatility. In my superbly casual one raid/week (+lfr for stones) I still didn't get a weapon, many tokens went to shit trying to get one. At least my slaves, I mean followers, got me a 645 one from missions.
I'm having fun, but I'm willing to go back to healing once again by now, bad luck tank is bad for the morale.
Those hotfixes posted above made me think if Beastmastery is going to become very good again instead of passable and alt DK is sad, blood boil spam was so glorious.
I'm having fun, but I'm willing to go back to healing once again by now, bad luck tank is bad for the morale.
Those hotfixes posted above made me think if Beastmastery is going to become very good again instead of passable and alt DK is sad, blood boil spam was so glorious.
Ukerric
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Yea. The solution, it seems, is not to have group encounters that are only DPS, but to have classes that can do every role with the proper skill profile+posture, and then let groups decide who is going to tank, heal, dps, without requiring a specific class/classes for a given role.
Rifts tried to do that, but I'm not sure if they really solved that. The problem was that their souls didn't scream "tank!" "heal!" enough to create the feeling that you were one. Can't speak much about that, I played a month and was gone anyway.
Miele
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The trinity is, for now, the most fun model I played. GW2 is a good game, but it has no depth in group fights and less than zero in large raid-like fights.
Expanding on the model of WoW challenge modes, 1-group content could become very interesting and a lot more fun for those people that cannot commit to scheduled raiding: it's a lot easier to coordinate 5 people rather than 10-30. Focusing on countering burst damage, positioning, environmental damage, dps checks, interrupts, etc. is a lot more interesting than chain pulling and apply max ae dps for fast runs.
The rewards must be better than they are currently, it's unthinkable to waste several evenings learning challenge modes when one can just afk through LFR and get more gear for practically no effort.
Expanding on the model of WoW challenge modes, 1-group content could become very interesting and a lot more fun for those people that cannot commit to scheduled raiding: it's a lot easier to coordinate 5 people rather than 10-30. Focusing on countering burst damage, positioning, environmental damage, dps checks, interrupts, etc. is a lot more interesting than chain pulling and apply max ae dps for fast runs.
The rewards must be better than they are currently, it's unthinkable to waste several evenings learning challenge modes when one can just afk through LFR and get more gear for practically no effort.
Nola
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Xequecal
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That set bonus was like a 15% DPS increase, would probably have never been replaced even in 6.1, and requires absolutely stupid actions to take advantage of in PvE, namely macroing roll into jump so you can trigger the bonus without actually moving much.
kaid
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I really like the change denerf the abilities that got ganked and then put the lessening into gladiator stance so normal defensive mode DPS is back to where it should be and then some and still winds up being a decent buff for gladiator stance anyway undoing some of the hits they took a few weeks ago. Overall it looks like that should be a very noticeable improvement.
kaid
Blackwing Lair Raider
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I am liking the haste change on my boomkin because early on in an expansion our slow as molasses spells like starfire get a pretty good DPS boost from haste.
kaid
Blackwing Lair Raider
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The last two weeks I have run LFR and normal mode on two different characters using 3 bonus rolls each. The only item I got was the boots from kargath on LFR mode for one character who already had that item drop three times. Everything else was bonus gold /MEH.
