Item Level Squish, Kor'kron Dark Shaman, 5.4 RPPM Mechanics Change, Blue Posts, Art

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Item Level Squish Feedback
Demonstrating why we warn you about taking translated interviews as fact, Ghostcrawler mentioned today that he did not confirm an upcoming item squish, along with answering a few common concerns. You can take part in the ongoing discussion here.
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
mmo-champion says item squish soon confirmed. Please do not regress my character. I worked hard to get him to where he is.
I didn't confirm it. Still we think there are a lot of good reasons to get numbers down to more parsable levels. (Source)
100m, 100k, and 100 are all equally 'parsable'. It's all about formatting.
We describe automobile speed in miles / kilometers per hour and not inches / cms, because big numbers are awkard. (Source)
Exactly. We use KILOmeters per hour. What's the problem with using KILOdamage per second?
That's the mega damage solution, and we're just worried it will look a little silly. You crit for 200 MEGADAMAGE! (Source)

I now have to find 24 other people to do BT/DS/BWL/ICC and follow mechanics just for pets and mog gear? no ty!
I have said several times that item squish would not affect the ability to solo old content. That's not the intent. (Source)

But can you nerf every player without in anyway effecting soloing low level content? Keep everything the same but the numbers?
"If player enters old instance, then buff all their stats." (Source)

Patch 5.4 - Kor'kron Dark Shaman Preview
The Kor'kron Dark Shaman is the 7th encounter in the Siege of Orgrimmar Raid.


Name Points Category
Heroic: Kor'kron Dark Shaman Defeat the Kor'kron Dark Shaman in Siege of Orgrimmar on Heroic difficulty.
10Pandaria Raid
Rescue Raiders Rescue a set of caged prisoners, a group of unwilling combat participants, and Ji Firepaw before defeating the Kor'kron Dark Shaman in Siege of Org...
10Pandaria Raid

Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
  • Spirit Link - Damage dealt is shared between Earthbreaker Haromm and Wavebinder Kardris.
  • Bloodlust - When the Dark Shaman reach 25% health remaining, they will go into a blood frenzy, increasing all damage dealt by 25% and haste by 25%.
  • Darkfang and Bloodclaw - The riding wolves of the Dark Shaman, Darkfang and Bloodclaw will viciously defend their masters.
    • Swipe - Inflicts 300,000 Physical damage to targets in a 8-yard cone in front of the caster.
    • Rend - Viciously rends a player, causing them to bleed for 16,000 Physical damage every 1 sec. for 15 sec. This effect stacks.
  • Totems - The Dark Shaman will drop Totems during the fight that grant them new abilities.
    • Poisonmist Totem - Poisonmist Totem grants Earthbreaker Haromm the Toxic Mist ability, and grants Wavebinder Kardris the Toxic Storm ability. The Dark Shaman drop Poisonmist Totems upon reaching 85% health.
    • Foulstream Totem - Foulstream Totem grants Earthbreaker Haromm the Foul Stream ability, and grants Wavebinder Kardris the Foul Geyser ability. The Dark Shaman drop Foulstream Totems upon reaching 65% health.
    • Ashflare Totem - Ashflare Totem grants Earthbreaker Haromm the Ashen Wall ability, and grants Wavebinder Kardris the Falling Ash ability. The Dark Shaman drop Ashflare Totems upon reaching 45% health.
    • Rusted Iron Totem - Rusted Iron Totem grants Earthbreaker Haromm the Iron Tomb ability, and grants Wavebinder Kardris the Iron Prison ability. The Dark Shaman drop Rusted Iron Totems upon reaching 95% health.
  • Earthbreaker Haromm
    • Froststorm Strike - Strikes a player with frost-lined weapons, inflicting 325,000 Frost damage and causing the player to take 25% additional damage from Froststorm Strike for 30 sec. This effect stacks.
    • Toxic Mist - Injects several players with a toxic mist, inflicting 50,000 Nature damage every 3 sec. for 30 sec and causing growing Toxicity. Due to the internal nature of the corruption, Toxic Mist pierces all immunities. This ability is granted by Poisonmist Totem.
      • Toxicity - Increases Nature damage taken by 10% per stack.
    • Foul Stream - A stream of foul liquid inflicts 220,000 Nature damage to all enemies on a line. This ability is granted by Foulstream Totem.
    • Ashen Wall - Summons a line of stationary Ash Elementals that will attack any nearby enemies. This ability is granted by Ashflare Totem.
    • Iron Tomb - Inflicts 500,000 Physical damage to players within 3 yards and creates an Iron Tomb. This ability is granted by Rusted Iron Totem.
  • Wavebinder Kardris
    • Froststorm Bolt - Fires a bolt of bitter frost, inflicting 450,000 Frost damage.
    • Toxic Storm - Summons a powerful toxic storm that inflicts 300,000 Nature damage to players within 9 yards every 2 sec. and periodically creates Toxic Tornadoes. The storm will move around and lasts for 60 sec. This ability is granted by Poisonmist Totem.
      • Toxic Tornado - Toxic winds inflict 300,000 Nature damage to players within 5 yards every 1 sec. and knock them up.
    • Foul Geyser - Conjure foul water that inflicts 450,000 Nature damage to players within 4 yards every 0.5 sec. for 8 sec. Each splash creates a Foul Slime. This ability is granted by Foulstream Totem.
      • Foul Slime - Foul Slimes are coated in Foulness.
        • Foulness - Inflicts 150,000 Nature damage to players within 3 yards every 1 sec.
    • Falling Ash - Summons a core of smouldering ash that will fall over 30 sec. Inflicts 999,999 Fire damage to players within 17 yards and 160,000 Fire damage to all players on impact. This ability is granted by Ashflare Totem.
    • Iron Prison - Encases the player in a prison of iron that slowly asphyxiates them, inflicting 100% of maximum health as Physical damage after 60 sec. This ability is granted by Rusted Iron Totem.



Raid Testing Schedule - July 31-Aug 1
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
On Wednesday and Thursday, July 31 and August 1, we will continue testing raid encounters in the Siege of Orgrimmar raid. We're moving on to 10-player Heroic testing at this time and finishing up 10-player Normal, and will then move on to Heroic and then 25-player mode as the PTR cycle progresses.

Each encounter should be available at approximately the listed times below for all Public Test Realms.

Wednesday, July 31
Galakras - 10 Player Normal - 10:30 PDT (13:30 EDT, 19:30 CEST)
Garrosh Hellscream - 10 Player Normal - 16:00 PDT (19:00 EDT, 01:00 CEST)

Thursday, August 1
Kor'kron Dark Shaman - 10 Player Heroic - 13:30 PDT (16:30 EDT, 22:30 CEST)
General Nazgrim - 10 Player Heroic - 16:00 PDT (19:00 EDT, 01:00 CEST)

Patch 5.4 - Change to RPPM Mechanics
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
We think the cooldown lineup at the start of PvE encounters has gotten out of hand, and it’s having some rather negative effects on gameplay. Particularly with the number of RPPM procs most raiders have these days, the pull has just become way too important. It’s affecting gearing, it’s punishing classes that can’t capitalize on it as well as others, and it’s not how we’d like raiding to work.

To that end, we’re going to make another change to how RPPM mechanics work on the pull. Starting a raid encounter will set every RPPM proc’s “time since last proc” to 90 seconds. That means the more frequent procs will still be more or less guaranteed to go off, but the rarer (and more powerful) procs will just have a high chance. This should hopefully chill things out a little bit, without changing how you play too dramatically.

Can we clarify what 'rarer' RPPM procs are? We talking the meta-gem here?
We're not changing the actual RPPM proc rates at all, just how much time is "banked" before the pull. The underlying math that determines what the actual chances are isn't changing.

So, here's a couple hypothetical examples using very rough napkin math. I don't remember RPPMs for actual trinkets off the top of my head (and they're not particularly necessary for illustration purposes):

Trinket A has an RPPM that allows it to reach a 100% proc chance if it hasn't fired after 60 seconds. This trinket will have a guaranteed proc on the pull.

Trinket B has an RPPM that allows it to reach a 100% proc chance if it hasn't fired after 100 seconds. It will not be guaranteed to proc immediately, but will proc within the first 10 seconds.

Trinket C has an RPPM that allows it to reach a 100% proc chance after 2 minutes. It will not be guaranteed to proc immediately (regardless of how much time you've spent out of combat), but will proc within the first 30 seconds.

Make sense?

My 502 UVLS doesn't have a guaranteed proc chance 2 minutes in though. Lore's example needs a trinket D, which is only guaranteed in excess of 6 minutes of no procs.
This is true -- some trinkets will now be unlikely to proc immediately (which is the point of the change). However, it should be noted that it's extremely unlikely for any RPPM proc to take until it hits a 100% chance to activate anyway.

Guilds are still going to wait. This change is good, but it's not good enough.
Aside from the fact that most groups wouldn't be ready for another pull within 90 seconds anyway, waiting has no effect whatsoever. As soon as a raid encounter is pulled, the time since last proc for all RPPM mechanics in the raid will be set to exactly 90 seconds. Doesn't matter if it's been 10 seconds or 10 minutes since the last pull.

I do want to say, this is distinctly a nerf to fun. It WAS A LOT of fun to open up full force pot, cloak, enchant, 2xtrinkets, meta, stormlash, + elemental + lava burst. I was hitting 75,000 spellpower
I feel like the "nerf to fun" argument gets overstated quite a bit. We're not nerfing it because it was fun, we're nerfing it because it was breaking the game.

I'm sure a lot of players would find it fun to be able to take down Heroic Lei Shen with a single spell. That doesn't make it good gameplay.

I'm skeptical to the idea that not getting a proc in the initial burst will somehow make these trinkets not worth using. After that first proc on the pull, the time since last proc is 0 anyway. It'll tone back the initial burst, definitely, but I'm not convinced that the entire value of a trinket like Unerring Vision of Lei Shen depends on that first proc.

Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Patch 5.4 Arena Changes
Yeah, i miss the teamnames but the patch is still going to be really good.
We understand that there are some players that will miss the customization and comradeship that came with arena teams. We're looking into ways in which we will be able to retain these particular feelings in arena after these changes occur, but at this time we don't have anything to share in this regard.

I wonder how the ladders will look now. Players with highest ratings etc? I hope they thought this through thoroughly.
The ladders will show individual players and their rankings will be based off of their personal rating. End of season rewards will still be awarded in the same manner as they are now, to the top "X"% of competitors, the percentage of course being different depending on the reward.

So it's all 100% individual? If I play with a team to 2600 and one of my teammates ends on 2560 and cutoff is 2570 he wont get a reward?
Well, while you may play with a few specific players and you consider yourselves a team, you're not actually in a set team. But this is also the case as if he also got the title just for playing with you, because there are no teams in 5.4 you could also feed the title to anyone that you wanted who was just under the cutoff.

Don't encourage wintrading...
I feel that I need to clarify on my last post as there was some misunderstanding of what I meant. I was not promoting win trading, nor was I saying that you will be able to feed your end of season rewards to others. I wanted to point out that if the system worked as Easydragon questioned, then you could feed your rewards to others if they were just under the cut-off because there are no set teams. Don't worry as you won't be able to feed the title to others by playing with them, the rewards are based off of your own personal ratings alone.

I apologize for any confusion my post may have caused, I have now rephrased it to clarify the above points. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Utility and Hunters
So, this isn't solely specific to Hunters, but since it's an issue I see you guys bring up a lot, I want to talk briefly about "utility."

From a top-down perspective, our design philosophy regarding utility goes something like this: everyone brings some sort of benefit to the group, but no one gets an invite based solely on that benefit. We feel that current class mechanics satisfy the first part of that. We're mostly there with the second half, with some exceptions.

Sometimes we just make something too strong to the point that it feels mandatory. That's absolutely true. A current example would be Demonic Gateway, particularly in PvE. It gives a very large benefit in many encounters, and since more Gateways are nearly always a good thing, many raid teams will seek to bring as many Warlocks as they can (though obviously, Warlock DPS has been a factor as well). In that particular case, we're making some changes in 5.4 and, if necessary, may continue to make changes.

The reason I bring that up is that it has the tendency to cast a harsher light than is probably fair on other classes. We feel that, ignoring the extreme outliers like Demonic Gateway, Hunters bring an acceptable amount of utility. Every Hunter has Trueshot Aura and access to an array of buffs and debuffs through their pets (even if not specced Beast Mastery), and abilities like Misdirection and Ice Trap which can be valuable on some encounters. If that's not enough utility to guarantee you a raid invite... then good. We'd rather you get your invite by being a solid raider with good performance.

I'm also slightly confused as to the logic behind some arguments, specifically those along the lines of "our DPS is low, so we need more utility to justify our raid slot." If that's the case, wouldn't you prefer we fix your damage output and/or tone down the overperformers?

I know this doesn't address every concern that's been brought up, and I apologize for that. If and when we have more to share, we will. But I did want to at least shed some light on our thoughts on the "utility" issue overall, for the sake of discussion.

Oh, one thing I can share: we like the idea of removing the focus cost from Dash, so we're going to. That includes Dive and Charge as well.

As has been mentioned in other "utility" threads, part of the problem here is that nobody agrees on what "utility" is. Is the dev definition of the word something you can shed a little light on? (I realize that may raise the "it's a trap!" alarm, so feel free to ignore if you think that would do more harm than good.)

My own working definition for a few years now has been: anything that is beneficial to the group, while in combat, that doesn't pertain directly to my personal performance in my role. Which basically, for a DPS class, would mean anything that doesn't cause me and only me to deal additional damage, and isn't an out-of-combat thing like summoning.
This is probably pretty close to our definition. As you mention, it's the sort of thing that I'd be hesitant to try to define precisely (it's something of a fluid term even internally).

Do you think it's fair that certain abilities (namely Ancient Hysteria and battle rez) are locked to Beast Mastery only? If it's a 25 man situation, probably, but in 10 man you do run the issue of not having either of these. Sometimes that could lead to Hunter's feeling as though they must have Beast Mastery as a spec.
It's something I can bring up again, but we do like these as Beast Mastery perks. Note that, at least in the case of Ancient Hysteria, 5.4 is adding Drums of Rage (a consumable form of Bloodlust/Heroism made by Leatherworkers) that, while not quite as effective as the Beast Mastery buff, should make things at least a little more flexible for 10-mans. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Death Knight (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
RPPM scaling with Runespeed Mechanics
As an update to this, since we've seen some confusion, Improved Unholy Presence is getting the same treatment as Unholy Presence, meaning it will now grant additional haste, not just additional attack speed and rune regen. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

PTR Testing and You
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
From Zul’Gurub and Ahn’Qiraj onward, we have made extensive use of our Public Test Realms in order to help find bugs and improve the tuning of our raid content. We have an extensive team of Quality Assurance testers and an internal raid group, but it’s impossible to replicate the sheer breadth of information we get from having hundreds of real raid groups attempting diverse strategies as they experience encounters for the first time. We learn a tremendous amount from that testing, both in the form of written feedback on these forums, which is carefully read by every encounter designer, and from spectating raids and observing how they fare.

Now, that’s what we get out of the PTR. Speaking pragmatically, we understand that not everyone's motivation in logging on to the PTR is to give us feedback. They want to check out the new content firsthand, see what’s coming to the live servers in a few weeks or months, and, in the case of raiding, get some competitive edge that will help them clear the content faster on the live servers when the patch is released. That’s fine. We thoroughly appreciate everyone who takes the time to give measured feedback, or goes out of their way to methodically test new features and report bugs they find. But at the end of the day, we’d rather have a packed PTR with a small percentage giving direct feedback, than a nearly-empty PTR where everyone gives it. Bugs that require very specific conditions are much more likely to occur with thousands of testers than with hundreds, and it’s clearly beneficial to everyone for us to find and fix those issues before they affect millions in a live environment.

When it comes to raid testing in particular, there’s a symbiotic relationship: The bleeding-edge guild that intentionally wipes to a boss at 5% so they can set up their boss addons, try out unusual strategies, and practice execution is there for competitive reasons. But we gain information even just from silently observing that will help us make our encounters better, and fundamentally, that is the purpose of raid testing on PTR. Our raid testing times are scheduled to coincide with our core work hours, so that designers can observe as much of the testing as possible, with the exception of LFR and Flexible tests which require more open-ended scheduling given their nature and target audience (and even then, if you were doing a PTR Flexible raid this past weekend, odds are decent that I or another developer was spying on your group – creepy, I know). When it comes to Heroic testing, we try to keep the testing windows as brief as possible, in order to minimize the impact of PTR testing on the progression “race.”

But that symbiotic relationship requires that we be around in some capacity to observe. Players who find a way to access bosses (especially Heroic bosses) that aren’t currently being tested should let us know, so we can correct the problem. We discovered that over the weekend a progression raid group accessed the Siege of Orgrimmar raid and spent hours on a Heroic boss in the middle of the night, after copying fresh characters with generic names, presumably with the hope of going unnoticed. Those actions go against the intent of the PTR, the spirit of fair play, and were clearly intended to go against our wishes for specific boss testing periods. PTR testing is a privilege, and we reserve the right to revoke PTR access from those who have shown an intent to abuse it.

If you come across an oversight in our testing protocols, or a serious, abusable bug or exploit in the course of your testing of a boss encounter on PTR, and you want to let us know without alerting everyone, please note that we can read edited or deleted forum posts. (On the live servers, please use the in-game bug reporting interface.) Otherwise, carry on with the fantastic feedback that we’ve been receiving about all facets of 5.4 content thus far, and we look forward to seeing you on the Public Test Realm!

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This article was originally published in forum thread: Item Level Squish, Kor'kron Dark Shaman, 5.4 RPPM Mechanics Change, Blue Posts, Art started by chaud View original post
Published on 2013-07-31 07:10 AM
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  1. Cows For Life's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Somebody View Post
    I think its sorta funny how people still think that old content will somehow get harder with a squish even though everything in this game is based on a scale on very little on numbers.
    On the other hand, I don't think it's funny that people still don't understand what an item squish actually means. It's kinda sad. I count at least 10 such people in this thread so far.

    Such as this guy...

    Quote Originally Posted by Sodia View Post
    rofl its funy to see that some ppl think the item squish is goin to buff old boses :P stupidity know no bounds whot do you think they ar goin to give as gear from tbc or whot ?? ehh
    You would think after all this time, people would understand what the item squish is. Toss in the people who know nothing about computers trying to explain how they work... pure gold.
  1. Tython's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kazefiend View Post
    I actually hate how stupid people are being about the item squish. We need this shit to happen already because numbers are getting dumb.
    Whose fault was it the numbers got out of control? Why do the players have to suffer for it?
  1. Pheros's Avatar
    I am super duper pro-squish. I totally understand where the other side is coming from, but I truly feel it will be better overall for the game--especially for the next xpac. As it is already, I don't really "feel" or care about the difference between a 50k or 70k hit much less 350k-500k+. It all just looks like a huge jumble of number strings. It's also strange to see such vast amounts of primary/secondary stats now, in the sense that we're talking 5 digit stats on a single piece of gear @ L95. Overall it just feels like we've reached the point of absurdity.

    Keep in mind this is coming from someone that has played the game for a very long time, and practically skipped 75% of Cata. It makes the difference feel even larger. I remember the first time ever that I hit for over 1k in MC. I just stopped playing for ~30s and sat there amazed. I never had that feeling @ 2k, 10k, 35k, or 50k, etc....

    Just sharing my opinion. These comments are in no way intended to be hostile to the group that is against the squish. I value all informed opinions. We can still be friends
  1. Durandro's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Tython View Post
    Whose fault was it the numbers got out of control? Why do the players have to suffer for it?
    Its Blizzard's fault for adding so many tiers and demi-tiers to expansions, and the players' fault for constantly demanding more and whining when there's not a big enough gear jump between expansions.

    Blizzard are fixing the problem.

    Players will not suffer for it in the slightest. You'll suffer as much as losing 90% of your wages when all items become 90% cheaper - i.e. not in the slightest.
  1. tyrindor's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by grandpapeckinpah View Post
    Seriously? First you tear into someone for voicing their opinions on the matter, then go on to make assumptions on behalf of "the majority" of the fanbase? Well as a casual player you can take that assumption and stick it up your ass. In no way to I want someone with your questionable reasoning skills speaking on my behalf.

    As for myself, I really don't care about the squish as long as they are committed to keeping the old raids soloable, which as of right now it appears they are.
    Don't think I ever teared into anyone for voicing their opinion, I've been mature with all my posts. You on the other hand are telling me to stick something up my ass for voicing my opinions. Very ironic.

    Let me quote myself:
    "Most of the people who would not like this change are casuals, which is the majority of the fanbase."

    No where did I state all casuals would not like this change. I said most of the people who would not like it are casuals with the logic that most casuals do not like changes. In no way shape or form does that mean all casuals or even majority of casuals. Don't put words in my mouth, thanks.

    Quote Originally Posted by Cows For Life View Post
    You would think after all this time, people would understand what the item squish is. Toss in the people who know nothing about computers trying to explain how they work... pure gold.
    Well, you would think so.. but you guys still seem to think a % based item level scale down is possible and it won't affect soloability. If this was true, then why did GC tweet that max level characters in old raids would be given +% stat buff so they can still solo? It's because it's not possible to do without a lot of tweaking, math, and man hours which they simply won't do. If we are required use a passive buff everytime we go into old raids in order to be able to solo.. then it did infact affect soloability. They just threw on a really bad bandaid to fix it.
  1. Azrile's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Tython View Post
    Whose fault was it the numbers got out of control? Why do the players have to suffer for it?
    It wasn´t the devs fault the numbers got out of control (except maybe in the middle of WOTLK). It is just the product of a game that is 8 years old and has 4 expansions and a game that is set up with ´raid tiers´. The game is set up to have raid tiers, and it has had a lot of expansions, and the final part, and the devs are correct for doing this.. each tier´s gear MUST be noticeably stronger than the last tier. All of those correct decisions have led to this problem, but none of those things were a mistake in themselves.

    I really laugh at your use of the word ´suffer´.. is seeing 821 flash above the bosses name really suffering compared to seeing 105,380. do you need medication to ease the suffering you will feel. I seriously think people believe that their characters will be less powerful.. they will not. Bosses will still die in the same amount of time, quest mobs will still die in the same amount of spell casts.. nothing will change except the appearance of the numbers on your screen and in your combat logs.

    Maybe the solution is for the devs to commission an ´add-on´ that multiplies their new ´squished´ numbers to be 1,340,502,304,234 so all these ´suffering´ players can feel powerful again. You can all take screenshots and send them amongst yourself.
  1. DetectiveJohnKimble's Avatar
    "This demonstrates why you should take our news with a grain of salt, even though we're willing to post any sensationalist crap to generate revenue for Master Curse"

    -chaud
  1. Layuth's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by grandevil View Post
    Why do people cry over the "squish" all they are talking about changing is arbitrary numbers. Everything will still function the same. Any change will be across the board.
    Way too many people are clueless about what would change with the "squish" and I do not find it shocking. Plain and simple people...EVERYTHING will be reduced by the same amount. 10 attacks to kill something now...10 attacks to kill it after the squish. Mob punches you now and takes 5% of your life...mob punches you after squish for 5% of your life. The change is in the size of the numbers. No more 43523456264526k dps. No more attacks for 245262563457345624325dps. It will all go back to something reasonable like 540dps and attacks for 900.

    NOTHING IS GETTING NERFED...NOTHING IS GETTING BUFFED. NUMBERS ARE JUST GETTING SHRUNK.
  1. Contritus's Avatar
    One billion people on this planet speak Standard Mandarin. Finding one to translate these tweets, avoiding these indefensible errata, would lend credence to the platitude that our species is advanced.
  1. Crackleslap's Avatar
    So the item squish debate has come back? Well, I guess my WoW days over. I have pretty much quit anyway...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Layuth View Post
    Way too many people are clueless about what would change with the "squish" and I do not find it shocking. Plain and simple people...EVERYTHING will be reduced by the same amount. 10 attacks to kill something now...10 attacks to kill it after the squish. Mob punches you now and takes 5% of your life...mob punches you after squish for 5% of your life. The change is in the size of the numbers. No more 43523456264526k dps. No more attacks for 245262563457345624325dps. It will all go back to something reasonable like 540dps and attacks for 900.

    NOTHING IS GETTING NERFED...NOTHING IS GETTING BUFFED. NUMBERS ARE JUST GETTING SHRUNK.
    The only reason I don't like the squish is because it would seem lame first of all, and I would feel nerfed, even though not. But, I don't like it. So i'm going to quit. Oh well.
  1. lazzy's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by tyrindor View Post
    Yes, this is true but it would require a lot of man hours and lot of tweaking to get it right. It's not as simple as running a % based number reduction across the game like many people seem to think. If you read the tweets by GC, he already said how they plan on doing it. They are just going to give buffs to higher level people in old raids, which is a rather terrible concept in my eyes. https://twitter.com/Ghostcrawler/sta...53330179534850

    They keep making the game feel faker and faker, there's no surprise they keep losing subs. I don't want my character to be stronger in some areas, than weaker in others. This change will be the biggest sub loss for them, I am certain. They just can't seem to grasp that their main player base, casuals, do not want major changes.



    What about the players that have been playing since launch, and keep playing for bigger numbers and the sense of getting stronger. A large chunk of the player base thinks this way and plays for personal character development. Now they go from doing big numbers to tiny numbers, and feel weaker. You cannot tell me that if they did something like this in Diablo 3 that the entire player base wouldn't freak out. Lots of players use numbers as a sense of strength, by lower these you piss off a lot of the fanbase.

    There is nothing stopping people from upgrading their low end PCs. It's in the terms that the games requirements will raise overtime and it is up to the user to upgrade their computer. Big numbers play a very small part in the overall performance of the game, and would only make a large difference on people with very cheap and very old computers. Computers that should of been upgraded years ago. Why should the entire playerbase have to deal with a number squish because John wants to play on his $150 e-machine that he bought 8 years ago?

    The argument goes both ways, by doing the number squish you will piss off a lot of people that have the "bigger numbers" mentality. This is a LARGE chunk of the player base. By not doing the number squish, you piss off the people who refuse to upgrade their incredibly out dated systems, or want to play on higher settings than they should be. The people who have the argument "I'm tired of seeing giant numbers" can be resolved with addons or a future patch that condenses numbers into better formatting, such as 100K, 100M, 100B, etc.
    If you or anyone else playing WoW are against the item squish just because " Dah, Big numbers man" you're retarded.

    Who cares about the "casuals". They're the reason the games gone down hill since the end of LK. Funny how the easier the game got the more subs WoW lost huh? The harder WoW was Vanilla - BC up to LK, we had the most subs and it was rising.

    If you're so dumb that you can't grasp the concept that you will still be the same in power as you are now with lower numbers, than by all means quit the game.

    Tired of seeing retards crying about their "big numbers".

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    Quote Originally Posted by crackleslap View Post
    So the item squish debate has come back? Well, I guess my WoW days over. I have pretty much quit anyway...

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    The only reason I don't like the squish is because it would seem lame first of all, and I would feel nerfed, even though not. But, I don't like it. So i'm going to quit. Oh well.
    Peace, please never come back.
  1. Cassidin's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by lazzy View Post
    If you or anyone else playing WoW are against the item squish just because " Dah, Big numbers man" you're retarded.

    Who cares about the "casuals". They're the reason the games gone down hill since the end of LK. Funny how the easier the game got the more subs WoW lost huh? The harder WoW was Vanilla - BC up to LK, we had the most subs and it was rising.

    If you're so dumb that you can't grasp the concept that you will still be the same in power as you are now with lower numbers, than by all means quit the game.

    Tired of seeing retards crying about their "big numbers".
    I'm sorry, but it doesn't make someone "retarded" because they have a different view than you do.

    As I have quoted before (not going to bother finding the quote again now) even GC said that when they did try the squish it "felt wrong".

    As for casuals..... it was how LK was that made more and more casual players enter the game, they didn't join "since the end of LK" and as for "who cares" about them.... well Blizzard do for a start as they represent by far the larger amount of the player base.

    I'm sure there are some people that cannot grasp that they will do the same representative damage as they do now, but mostly people against it are not complaining that they will BE nerfed (as in be harder to kill something), but that they will FEEL nerfed. Why is it that you are unable to grasp that?

    One day you may discover that it doesn't make someone "retarded" because they feel differently to you.
  1. BrerBear's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Layuth View Post
    Way too many people are clueless about what would change with the "squish" and I do not find it shocking. Plain and simple people...EVERYTHING will be reduced by the same amount. 10 attacks to kill something now...10 attacks to kill it after the squish. Mob punches you now and takes 5% of your life...mob punches you after squish for 5% of your life. The change is in the size of the numbers. No more 43523456264526k dps. No more attacks for 245262563457345624325dps. It will all go back to something reasonable like 540dps and attacks for 900.

    NOTHING IS GETTING NERFED...NOTHING IS GETTING BUFFED. NUMBERS ARE JUST GETTING SHRUNK.
    If you think everything will be reduced by the same amount, then you actually don't understand the math at all and should probably stop calling other people "clueless".

    Alternatively, tell us a sample amount everything could be reduced by and we'll tear your numbers apart here for everyone to enjoy.
  1. Crackleslap's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by lazzy View Post
    Tired of seeing retards crying about their "big numbers".

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    Peace, please never come back.
    I won't.

    Tired of seeing retards crying about people who don't like 'change'
  1. Fizzl's Avatar
    Do we have any idea who the exploiting guild was? And how far out of their way they had to go to exploit it in the first place?
  1. Cows For Life's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Layuth View Post
    Way too many people are clueless about what would change with the "squish" and I do not find it shocking. Plain and simple people...EVERYTHING will be reduced by the same amount. 10 attacks to kill something now...10 attacks to kill it after the squish. Mob punches you now and takes 5% of your life...mob punches you after squish for 5% of your life. The change is in the size of the numbers. No more 43523456264526k dps. No more attacks for 245262563457345624325dps. It will all go back to something reasonable like 540dps and attacks for 900.

    NOTHING IS GETTING NERFED...NOTHING IS GETTING BUFFED. NUMBERS ARE JUST GETTING SHRUNK.
    You're one of the people that don't understand it at all and shouldn't be calling other people clueless. Your scenario is only true in one very specific circumstance: player power against a same level mob, e.g. level 60 vs Ragnaros (MC) or level 80 vs Lich King (ICC). By now, mods should be editing posts like yours that are pretty much 100% misinformation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BrerBear View Post
    If you think everything will be reduced by the same amount, then you actually don't understand the math at all and should probably stop calling other people "clueless".

    Alternatively, tell us a sample amount everything could be reduced by and we'll tear your numbers apart here for everyone to enjoy.
    I liked the CAPS yelling at the end when the poster is pretty much mostly wrong on all counts lol.
  1. Aquamonkey's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Contritus View Post
    One billion people on this planet speak Standard Mandarin. Finding one to translate these tweets, avoiding these indefensible errata, would lend credence to the platitude that our species is advanced.
    The translation of "will reduce stats" from the Chinese site was correct. The problem was that it was an interview and they likely mistranslated GC's answer to Chinese.
  1. Lukazor's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Cows For Life View Post
    You're one of the people that don't understand it at all and shouldn't be calling other people clueless. Your scenario is only true in one very specific circumstance: player power against a same level mob, e.g. level 60 vs Ragnaros (MC) or level 80 vs Lich King (ICC). By now, mods should be editing posts like yours that are pretty much 100% misinformation.
    And neither do you, since how the squish is going to work hasn't actually been properly explained at all. So for all you know he could be 100% correct and you could be spouting 100% misinformation.
  1. BrerBear's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Lukazor View Post
    And neither do you, since how the squish is going to work hasn't actually been properly explained at all. So for all you know he could be 100% correct and you could be spouting 100% misinformation.
    Just plain dividing everything by a flat number would wreck the 1-60 experience. It doesn't take advanced maths to see why that solution wouldn't work.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tyrindor View Post
    You didn't really answer his question though, why exactly does this bother you? It makes the game feel rewarding. If people are raiding 8-16 hours/week, or even more, they want to feel rewarded. That's why we see large gear upgrades in raids over the course of an expansion, and also why new characters going into a new expansion see massive upgrades. I *love* getting to a new expansion on alts and seeing these massive upgrades, it makes leveling more fun and rewarding.

    Why would people want to spend 8-16 hours a week raiding for minor stat upgrades that don't really make all that big of a difference? The gear gaps are there because they are a large part of the game being fun, at the current ilvl, if we were only getting +10 main stat upgrades per piece of gear, it wouldn't even be noticeable with a full set of new tier gear. There would be no real reason to put tons of effort into raiding for most people, and many people would quit because their basically "gear capped" already. There are other MMOs out there, like GW2, that allow you to spend hours and hours doing dungeons and raids for virtually no stat difference in gear. The #1 complaint I see on GW2's forums is the fact there is nothing to do because there's no gear worth getting.
    Exactly my point. When I got my item level 600 cloak, I marveled at how it had huge amounts of my primary stats (not to mention a good chunk of secondary stats). That was a massive, 86-item-level upgrade for me. We all know how much RNG is involved in obtaining said item; what would be the point if we're all scaled back to piddly numbers and stat gains? The huge jump in stats is a great motivator for people to stick with challenges/time sinks like the Wrathion quest line.
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