The week starts slowly with a couple of Blue Posts and your weekly dose of MMO Report and Comics. The beta is still supposed to be soon, just like the past 2 months.

Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

Increasing the crit rating on plate to compensate the crit given by agi
Warriors don't need to have the same amount of crit as rogues to do the same (or sometimes higher) damage. The only risk is that rogues who scale both AP and crit from Agi will end up doing higher damage with extreme gear levels, but usually we have the opposite problem. In any case, at extreme gear levels crit often becomes less and less valuable.

We balance warriors around wearing plate. When they can then wear leather and do higher damage (and who can blame them for making choices that maximize their dps?), that presents a problem and the solution is often to nerf warrior damage, which then hurts the guys actually wearing plate. We need to finally fix this design flaw, which we're doing in two ways: itemizing leather the way we itemize plate (i.e. just Agi rather than Agi and AP) and giving warriors more of a benefit for wearing plate. (Source)

Nerfing Mortal Strike debuffs
Yeah I don't think we could nerf MS on live without also nerfing healing, which obviously makes it more than just a quick fix. (Source)

Paladin (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator)
Holy Paladins can't equip Daggers
Well, it's more complicated than that of course. You aren't competing with priests and druids for your shields and nothing is stopping you from equipping a spell sword if you don't need the Spirit. A caster axe isn't off the table, but it would be pretty uncommon. (Source)

Shaman (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator)
Dual Wield Talent
We're not quite ready to talk about it yet, but imagine that the DW talent is accesible to Enhance early enough to be useful but not to Elemental and Resto. We're also looking at making enchants unique, which would let us drop the WF internal cooldown low enough that fast weapons might be more attractive. (Source)

The MMO Report
It's monday, and we have an E3 2010 Special MMO Report.



Comics
Dark Legacy Comics #244 and Teh Gladiators #144 are out!

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  1. majinbuu1023's Avatar
    DLC is such a great comic
  1. Gromp's Avatar
    I really hope they make weapon enchants unique so we can use fast OHs. More possible upgrades = more possible lewt!
  1. Nomm's Avatar
    Lego Universe Hell Yeah.

    Oh its for kids?


    looked awesome.
  1. mmoc32fbbf5879's Avatar
    Omg, the girl is Deathwing!
  1. lobbe's Avatar
    starwars old republic and lego universe and catacylsm. why god dammit why make me go get a job!


    also casey is a god.
  1. El_Commi's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Naoto View Post
    As a warrior I find it impossible to kill healers even furious geared, I can't even begin to imagine trying that without MS it will be like a retlol trying to kill a tree, seriously. You couldn't possibly make healers any more overpowered than they are, there are way too many healers in bg's these days sometimes 1/3 of a bg is healers if not more, and they are making healing even EASIER? healing in WOTLK is absolute cake, I pvp ALOT on my resto druid and it takes a dozen to kill me, so without MS I'll probably never die, EVER.

    You do EOS and see 5 horde healers, everyone is completely spam healed and now Blizzard want to make it even harder to kill healers and even easier to heal on them, bring on EOS with 15 vs 15 healers, fucking fun. What use is a warrior now? spam cc'd and can't do shit, die quicker than a naked mage might aswell remove the warrior class, a warrior in Cata without arp and MS? lol.......
    And this my friends- is why Bliz should never listen to what the community says. It's full of undergeared/inexperienced morons like this.

    Ps- I play disc in Arms/disc 2's, and Arms/frostmage/disc in 3's.
  1. thatguy181's Avatar
    The source for the last two blue post (Shaman duel wield and holy paladins can't equip daggers are pointing to the wrong source.
  1. Zoma's Avatar
    Finally, when I get BiS gear on my paladin, I don't have to listen to rogues being mad that a 'plate' wearer took their leather BiS.
  1. Demoncrash's Avatar
    I just hope they end up launching Cata this year.
  1. flan1337's Avatar
    Even if the Lego mmo is for kids I am still playing! Any one want to make a guild for non kids((Meaning under 5-7))
  1. mmoc73e1e9fe53's Avatar
    ok, i might be really stupid and apparantly missing something

    but whats the joke behind kids on some weird device at the recent dark legacys i dont get it but i really do want to get it XD

    edit: lol panda whos the slowpoke now
  1. mmoc490c7f2c58's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by zorgone View Post
    DLC never fail!
    PLEASE CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN THE LAST 2 DLC TO ME?

    i really dont get it, i get that hes trying to make a circuit or something in last weeks one, but dont really get it at all.

    and then they use it again in this one so please can someone explain? Also im speaking to a guildie on vent who dosent understand either so its not just me being retarded i hope.
  1. memoriesuntold's Avatar
    WTT Soon™ for Now™ pst with prices, willing to take partial cash and trades as well
  1. Eucep's Avatar
    I'm not sure which one would draw me away more, kotor or lego. *whimpers*
  1. Hoosiermama's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Naoto View Post
    As a warrior I find it impossible to kill healers even furious geared, I can't even begin to imagine trying that without MS it will be like a retlol trying to kill a tree, seriously. You couldn't possibly make healers any more overpowered than they are, there are way too many healers in bg's these days sometimes 1/3 of a bg is healers if not more, and they are making healing even EASIER? healing in WOTLK is absolute cake, I pvp ALOT on my resto druid and it takes a dozen to kill me, so without MS I'll probably never die, EVER.

    You do EOS and see 5 horde healers, everyone is completely spam healed and now Blizzard want to make it even harder to kill healers and even easier to heal on them, bring on EOS with 15 vs 15 healers, fucking fun. What use is a warrior now? spam cc'd and can't do shit, die quicker than a naked mage might aswell remove the warrior class, a warrior in Cata without arp and MS? lol.......
    I don't think I've ever heard someone complain about too many healers in BGs. O.o

    Healers in battlegrounds are good. I wish they'd put roles into battlegrounds like the dungeon finder so that you'd always have a healer. Maybe 20-30% of the raid can be healers.
  1. AdamsGaming's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Pandamonium* View Post
    PLEASE CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN THE LAST 2 DLC TO ME?

    i really dont get it, i get that hes trying to make a circuit or something in last weeks one, but dont really get it at all.

    and then they use it again in this one so please can someone explain? Also im speaking to a guildie on vent who dosent understand either so its not just me being retarded i hope.
    The girl made the Cataclysm happen so he would play with her.
  1. Pachycrocuta's Avatar
    When I first saw "Lego Universe MMO" on there, I /facepalmed. Then after hearing about it, my face went and I can't wait to play it. I don't care if it is a G rated game. It looks friggin awesome. And you can't go wrong with legos.
  1. Voltarus's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by ultimar235 View Post
    It's a shame that lego MMO is so kiddy based.

    I mean wouldnt it be cool if you could play like a Battlefield style lego game where u can build ur own vehicles and weapons? And if you could shoot peoples limbs off only for them to be able to reattach their own limbs or use someone elses. Would be cool playing as a medic picking up lego parts and putting them back on soldiers. If it was done in a serious non kiddy no campness way, i think it would be a damn good game.
    This... Would be awesome. You're a god. /bow
  1. breath's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Naoto View Post
    As a warrior I find it impossible to kill healers even furious geared, I can't even begin to imagine trying that without MS it will be like a retlol trying to kill a tree, seriously. You couldn't possibly make healers any more overpowered than they are, there are way too many healers in bg's these days sometimes 1/3 of a bg is healers if not more, and they are making healing even EASIER? healing in WOTLK is absolute cake, I pvp ALOT on my resto druid and it takes a dozen to kill me, so without MS I'll probably never die, EVER.

    You do EOS and see 5 horde healers, everyone is completely spam healed and now Blizzard want to make it even harder to kill healers and even easier to heal on them, bring on EOS with 15 vs 15 healers, fucking fun. What use is a warrior now? spam cc'd and can't do shit, die quicker than a naked mage might aswell remove the warrior class, a warrior in Cata without arp and MS? lol.......
    The problem isn't the fact that healers are able to keep themselves alive while fighting a dps, the problem is that they can keep themselves alive indefinitely. This occur due the infinite mana pool they have at the moment. The regen is too good, and the tool to regen are too powerful, so healers don't go oom. They said they know about this issue, and healing will be a bit harder and more challenging, cause you will be able to go finally oom, and you need to choose the right spell. That said, healers will go oom, it's right that they are able to keep themselves alive under the attack of one dps, it becomes a problem if they are able to keep themselves alive for too much, going oom will solve this.
    Remember a few things, whining for something in beta/not even out/not even testable, it's useless. Game isn't balanced on 1v1, as they say, so if you can't kill a healer by yourself it's not an issue, and if you can't in arena it means you need a different setup or more skill.
  1. Balbaroy's Avatar
    This DLC is pretty fail

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