Big changes for druidsFollow

Besides, Blizz thinks it's okay for melee to need a healer or S Priest to dispel magic snares to get to a frost mage, but frost mages don't need a healer to help survive a melee class actually being able to, ya know, get some time on-target to do damage.

It would be nice if they added a Feral ability that shifting would break roots, but only once every 30/60 sec, etc.

The roots/snares change is massive and I am surprised there isn't more agro - but then so many players don't even look at PTR patch notes or go to forums like here at Zam. At the end of the day though, I can't get too worked up about it as it has little effect on me as a PvEer. On the odd occaision I do PvP, it is as resto so for me personally, it is a non-issue.

Well, I responded to this patch and some of the other issues in the only way a consumer can. Subscription ended on Friday, and I don't intend to renew anytime soon.

You just don't do that. You don't change core mechanics of a class as easy as this. This time it was the druids, and it could hit anybody else anytime.

What they need to understand is that I don't need to be playing this game at all. Don't need to be paying every month while they're playing russian roulette with the nerf bat.

I've been a long supporter of this joke, but I'm starting to think I'd be able to let the game go without coming back. And it's not just because of the recent changes to the Druid class. The game, in its entirety, has loosened its hold on me.

This expansion is pretty underwhelming (and expensive) if you aren't going to level up from scratch. Since my character list is maxed out and only one character is sub-60, I'm not really getting much for the money. Of course, the changes to the Druids don't help much either. It's not that I really care about being able to shift out of roots, it's more that it shows a complete lack of understanding from the development team's side.

And when people complain on the forums, they're banned with the excuse that their post wasn't contributing to the friendliness of the forum. That they should present their criticism in a constructive and supportive way. Except, people have done that for months now and **** all has happened. The customer service has been on a decline ever since Activision bought Blizzard.

As it stands right now, I'm just waiting for the New Gaming Experience* patch, because I'm certain it's on its way.

* There once was a game called Star Wars Galaxies that Star Wars geeks across the globe loved and adored. Then Sony Online Entertainment, in their infinite wisdom, decided to completely revamp the game to make it appealing to a larger crowd. The end result was that the majority of their player-base packed their bags and left. The game no longer held any of the unique things that had attracted the existing customers in the first place.

Ah yes - count me among the victims of the NGE. I came to WoW because they tried to make SWG more like WoW and failed dismally. It would be like patching WoW to make it simpler by revamping the classes and introducing 3 new powerful classes - the tank, the DPS & the healer! And rolling all of the crafting into one crafting class (but you can only craft on that character then - no PvE or PvP).

Such a shame, it was a really good game and the crafting system was amazing.

RIP Ipocc Miapoc - Mon Calamari Droid Engineer, Sunrunner



Edited, Feb 8th 2011 10:02pm by RareBeast

Are you losing threat in a non-AoE situation? I found that I could easily double the threat of anyone in my raids, and since I was pulling around 10K dps the 20% reduction wasn't a surprise at all.

I've promised not to QQ over Druid changes anymore, so I'm going to present this as a question:

How do you guys like the way Bat Form moves?

Ngh... must... bottle... rage...

It's not the model, I kinda like that.

Bugged, though. No perch/sit and collecting animations, the size of a wind rider and moves like one (up and down, up and down) and the model is not centered, meaning it's above the actual hitbox. Casting Rejuvenation or Thorns on one will cause the animation to occur underneath it, and coupled with the weird up and down movement while flying, it makes it kinda hard to steer.

Just seems very half-assed considering they had to withhold it from the release of Cataclysm.

Edited, Feb 9th 2011 7:52pm by Mazra

Yeah, they certainly seem to be playing catch-up with things lately. Like they're a bit overwhelmed by the number of bugs/glitches/imbalances/etc and struggling to get as much fixed and on live as possible.

Then again if I was to choose my dream job, it wouldn't be debugging a program that is changing as drastically and constantly as WoW does. Especially considering some of the under-lying code has to be near 10 years old now. I'd imagine parts of it are probably full of loose ends, convoluted connections, and quick fixes that aren't as well documented as one would like. Some of the inevitable stuff as different programmers come and go.

I'm usually impressed that they manage to balance the 31 specs across everyone's skill levels as closely as they do, and still have time to do other stuff.

Still lackluster animations are lackluster.

Frankly, I was absolutely amazed back in beta when they set Dec 7 as the release date, because the state of the game was in no shape to ship then. Of course, the beta client was a few versions behind the dev client, but still. I was convinced that the game shouldn't ship until the new year, rather than get a xmas release.

I think I was right, having gone read entries dating back to launch on MMO-champion and seeing the current state of balance.

By the way.

Some theorycrafters with connections giving their opinion on why Thick Hide was buffed.

Explains a lot of stuff.

Yeah, a lot. I was consistently doing 15k to 18k, now I am doing 20k on the same bosses (atleast I did yesterday). Magmaw, Omnitron and Maloriak 25.

I tend to believe that if I get to use Mushroons when I move instead of Moonfire/Sunfire, I will do even more DPS, I only need to work the placement. I got a few out when I was moving between blue and green phases and they hit the boss like a trunk.

Okay, reforged my gear as well as re-gemmed. I took a look at Willow using Rawr, and discovered that two of the JP pieces I didn't have yet were BiS before raiding. I did my random heroic for the day, and got up enough JP to purchase the helm, now I just need to get the off hand, which should only take two or three more heroics. I also replaced the pvp gloves I had equipped with the ones I was wearing previously, as Rawr was telling me that they were better, given that they have haste instead of crit, despite the increase of about 40 Int or so. So that should increase my dps by about 150 or so. Not a huge increase, but it should make a bit of a difference. I also redid my talents, taking the Moonfire talent in the resto tree again, and getting rid of the one that decreases mana cost of spells in the balance tree.

Also during the heroic I was in, I spammed mushrooms on trash as much as I could, and my dps sky rocketed... I've never done 11k dps on trash before. I've been lucky if I get 7k. Can't wait for Magmaw this week... I'm going to go nuts with mushrooms on those blasted worms.