So, patch probably hits Tuesday.Follow

You folks excited? The troll instances are some of my favorites, partially from the flavor and partially because they're outdoors. Back in the day this meant that not only could I finally use Druid CC (Roots) but they felt so much less claustrophobic than other instances like Blackrock * or Auchindoun. ZG looks like some interesting changes and ZA's gonna be nice to do bear runs with my core guildies (small guild, getting more than 7-8 competent people on a raid night's still a mite difficult). Now we just need a glyph to turn the Druid bear form into the Amani Warbear. Ride-able, of course.

As for the mechanics changes, making valor points awarded for 7 randoms/week instead of 1/day's gonna be nice, make me feel a bit better for helping guildies do gear runs after the first one in a day. Guild challenges will help that too. Call to Arms probably won't see much use from me (I like my friends) but it should do more good than harm. Though I'm gonna get sick of dps giving me a hard time when they don't notice the other folks with the same guild name I'm tankin' for.

And of course ferals are getting nothin' but love this patch. Not a lot of it, but slightly better bear AoE, Savage Defense boost and Enrage becomes useful, while kitties double their swipe damage. I still laugh at the knuckleheads whining about the loss of threat modifiers without noting that the abilities get boosted damage to compensate.

The entire list of changes is rather long so I'll link it here instead of quoting the whole thing.

It takes 75% less time to cast but only takes a 40% damage hit. I'd say that's more than fair considering the other spells you can cast in the 6 extra seconds.

ROGUE STEALTH CHANGES.

<3 how i love them

Meh, whatever.

Druid changes are nice, but I'm waiting for the "Bear AOE is OP" that'll send us into another 4-month loop of fail.

Except that "Power Word: Shield duration has been reduced to 15 seconds, down from 30.". That sort of takes the excitement out of it. They are pushing shield toward the reactive camp, for anyone other than the tank. I'll adjust.

Yeah, pretty much.

Not really any substantive changes to Destruction Warlock. Resto Druid got a few good tweaks, which should iron out some annoying things about them. My Frost Mage gets Frostbolt damage increased by 10% along with a whole array of other buffs; since it was sorely needing that and all.

Looks like I get a net buff.

I logged back in this weekend after 2 months Rift break. Everything seemed fun again. Looks like I am just in time for this major patch too which is cool.

I dig the troll instances and am looking forward to a t2 dungeon experience that rewards epics again. The troll plate armor will look awesome on my Tauren pally. I dug those sets back in ZA. :)

Also I think the 7 per week heroic thing is brilliant. That was one of the things that always burned me out in WoW was trying to get in a heroic every day during the first teir emblem/badge/points ramp up. But on a Sat or whatever I can knock out a few np.

I jumped into a pug and tanked H SFK on sunday to get practice in for when the game starts bribing me to tank for pugs heh.

Note that the game already has coding to deter putting members of the same class in a group (not sure if it's same class as DPS or overall, but the need for tanks/healers usually overwrites it). This will just expand "same class" to "same armor type."

All my fraking 4000 pyrites are going to be wasted, because I`m in England right now and cant connect to wow. Couldnt they wait for another week, at least? Damnit.