Hey I'm a 10 man normal feral, not even top ranked afaik, and I wouldn't think this a good change.
Why are we even deciding that WoL ranking matters anyways?
Well whatever, on a whole other note do they really think this Ysera's Gift junk is a suitable replacement for NS?
Last edited by Kojo; 2013-06-12 at 04:42 PM.
I agree - and if that's the case, Blizzard failed. The idea behind the revision to the talent system was to a) make a variety of builds viable, and b) to eliminate the possibility of sucking because you chose a talent that seemed attractive, but was poorly designed and balanced. Instead, what has happened is exactly what was happening before: every top-flight player is choosing the same build based on the highest Simcraft numbers. So they're just as cookie-cutter as they ever were.
I don't use that talent I love 6% more agility ,so I don't really care, but still it's really a huge nerf making talent to be valiable as it was their design plan when switching to new talent system
first they kill NV now DoC on the target list
I don't play DoC and I can't see how this is a good change. It makes HotW superior in every way. Before there was a choice, from what I've read even the people that played DoC would switch to HotW for encounters where they needed the extra healing from Tranq. Does anybody have some numbers and how much you gained from DoC over HotW before and how much worse it will be now?
These are preliminary numbers, but on live DoC beats HotW by ~14.5k in full BiS, on PTR HotW beats DoC by 8k. So a net loss of 22.3k DPS for DoC, or 8.07%.
RIP DoC.
It's not just the fact that 5.4's DoC only buffs Rip by 15% instead of the current 25%, it's also the fact that you can't buff Rake, Thrash, etc anymore. Bleh. Sad Kitty.
I can totally understand them wanting to make DoC viable for Guardian and Resto, but please don't mess up Feral in the process.
nerfed a little yes but not that much that you can say they killed NV, the utility was doubled so was the duration. The dmg loss not that much
Its really not that good for guardians, but if I understand it correctly its really nice getting 10% more dmg during eclipse thats seems good.I can totally understand them wanting to make DoC viable for Guardian and Resto, but please don't mess up Feral in the process.
Last edited by Viromand; 2013-06-12 at 06:15 PM.
It was originally fairly comparable to HotW. The nerf killed it because it now does less sustained DPS than HotW and it's not even good for bursting because it's only 10%.
With the change to make Nature's Swiftness Resto only, now Guardians have to take DoC for Bear form Rebirths. I've had to do Bear form Rebirths in CMs so this will probably be my talent of choice for those. Bummer since Nature's Vigil is nice to have.