5.0.4 Shaman/Druid/PaladinFollow

The RNG is one of the problems. Our survivability hinges on random number generation. Might as well throw a couple of dice and hope we don't get snake eyes. Another problem is that our active mitigation is proactive. Some developer at Blizzard imagined we'd have the situational awareness to hit that 60% resource ability just before the boss does a massive hit. I'm sure some hero out there does, but the rest of us will have to keep it up so we don't lose at staying alive.

I'm pretty sure Vengeance does influence your heals, though. My Frenzied Regeneration heals for 23k while I'm fighting a training dummy, but Recount logged an 80k hit when I was fighting that dragon dude in one of the Hour of Twilight heroics, which would explain why I was getting different hits on my Paladin and Druid (tested my Druid on a dummy and Paladin in a heroic). It also seems to scale with your health. I equipped a stamina trinket and gained ~2k on my Frenzied Regeneration tooltip.

The way they're handling modifiers now is a complete mess. Would make sense if there was a passive somewhere that explained it, but can't find any passives that explain why I only gain 400 mana when I equip all intellect gear on my Guardian. I take it intellect no longer increases your mana pool when you're Feral/Guardian, but I can't find anything in-game that mentions it.

Wish my Maul reduced damage taken by 30% (before Mastery score), even if it's only for 3 seconds.

But yeah, you're right, Warriors and Paladins also have proactive mitigation. Regardless of the class, I don't think proactive mitigation is the right way to do this "active mitigation" thing. I wouldn't mind it if they made us choose between Savage Defense and Frenzied Regeneration (proactive vs reactive), but right now, due to the massive damage bosses push out, proactive wins out.

Reserving over half my resource pool for a buff on a 6-second cooldown that needs to be pressed whenever I'm about to take massive damage (in 5-mans, you spam it and hope you don't get spiked) is pretty boring gameplay. And even with the buff up, it's still up to RNG whether or not we get hit. If we do get hit then the damage isn't mitigated in any way, except from our armor, resulting in some fairly massive spikes since even with the buff up, you're only dodging about half the hits. If you dodge two in a row then balance dictates that you will eventually get hit twice in a row as well.

Maybe if one of the Druid talents would give us a chance to sometimes refund the Rage spent on Frenzied Regeneration and Savage Defense, or allowed us to use either of those abilities again with no Rage cost. Like the Paladin talent Divine Purpose does. I just want something more than pressing a button every ~6 seconds and hoping RNG will go easy on me.

Edit: And before someone tells me RNG is balanced: click this (image).

Edited, Sep 7th 2012 3:10am by Mazra

A 1 in a million chance pops up, about 1 time in a million (given a large enough sample size). Considering that 5 million+ people play WoW every week, things like this probably occur dozens of times a week.

I think active mitigation will work better if the bosses in MoP have some way of indicating when they are about to use a powerful melee hit. Of course, pallys will probably still use SotR rotationally for threat and the WoG buff. Warriors get a guaranteed block with the chance for it to crit. Bears get to dodge ~2/3rds of attacks that would have otherwise hit (assuming around 30% dodge before hitting SD).

Edited, Sep 7th 2012 5:50pm by AstarintheDruid

Unless you are going for Heroics, PVE tanks and DPS don't matters. You still gonna down bosses even if you are not optimum in rotation or specs. Gone are the days of spreadsheets and calculations in WOW, just show up and don't AFK.

PVP is another animal, Even if you show up, sometimes it's not enough. Blizzard created the FOM and is forces you to change your main to be competitive. Do you remember the last Hunter Gladiator? I didn't think so.

Nerf this, buff that, add this and ***** that, bottom line is...how much money we made and hope they didn't **** off the players. Still a fun game, but keep in mind this is a company who needs to milk contents and keeps your subscription up. They don't give a **** if you have to relearned your classes or switch main, they want your money.

I moved my toons on a French server "Zul'jin" and guild , i am having a lots of fun with the new friends. My main should be my rogue for MOP and looking foward to the new arena and BG's.

I don't know if I'd go _that_ far, and besides, there are no Level 90 non-heroic dungeons in MoP -- ALL Level 90 dungeons are Heroics (unless they changed their mind from what they told us before). So unless you enjoy <Lv90 content, then yeah you kinda need to be at least spec'd properly for your job; you're not going to see Arms/Ret/Frost/Ferals tanking dungeons. Pre-90, they said that they wanted things to be a bit more relaxed, and with Scenarios, yeah, they don't want a tank and healer forced upon a group of three. Makes sense.



Given that they removed the #1 flaw with hunters (minimum range crap), who knows? It could be possible. I was playing my hunter just yesterday and I saw just how ridiculously powerful "Thrill of the Hunt" is when it was going off every 5 seconds and I was able to kill 3 mobs by spamming Arcane Shot over and over again without using up a single focus. Now, granted, that'll probably get nerfed (surely they meant for that to have, say, a 10-20 second ICD or something?), but still. The removal of Minimum Range means that getting in a hunter's face doesn't give you an instant win anymore.

There will always be a "FOM". It is nearly impossible to make all specs and classes exactly the same strength. There will always be a "most powerful" even if it is by a margin of 5-10%. There's nothing one can do about it, except for class homogenization, but everyone complains left and right about that.



Re-learning your classes and/or switching mains is healthy for the game -- playing the same class with the same abilities gets boring after awhile. I like early expansions; it is something new. Two days ago I was doing Tol Barad dailies and farming Leather. Something I couldn't possibly bring myself to do in Patch 4.3 because the expansion (Cataclysm) had been so old and I had done this crap many many times.

But now that my classes play a bit different, I've new toys to work with, and I'm re-learning things, it wasn't so bad! Yeah, I'd already done the quests before, but relearning my class, having new abilities to use, made it feel just a little more fresh. Kinda like putting stale bread in the microwave for a few seconds -- still somewhat stale, but yet, it moistens it up so that it isn't as dry.


Edited, Sep 8th 2012 9:39am by Lyrailis