Thread: 2.4 Patch notes pre release

Originally Posted by Wildhorn

Boubou could you do some research to find out if the new Spell Haste reducing GCD would also make NG and Bloodlust/Heroism to reduce it too?

If I were a betting man, my money would be on "no". They're simply going to add something to the actual "Spell Haste Rating" that decreases the GCD. So I'd imagine you could stack spell haste as any class and reduce your GCD. At least that seems the easiest way to implement it.

Originally Posted by Azain

edit: on a 2nd note double tokens for all tier gear, perhaps blizzard listened to the QQ of pve'ers and not getting their gear faster than pvp'ers...

Technically it would be a 3rd token, since they already drop two. Most of the QQ is about the bosses dropping void crystals every week, instead of dropping useful items.

Originally Posted by Rodamer

Technically it would be a 3rd token, since they already drop two. Most of the QQ is about the bosses dropping void crystals every week, instead of dropping useful items.

Loot is random live with it.

"Healing grace will reduce the chance that all of your spells will be dispelled by 10/20/30%"

WOW.. Hunters got MS and Purge on Arcane shot. And we get this.. WOW. Im looking forward to playing on my Shaman some more...NOT! ???

Originally Posted by Woogs

Lacerate finally scaling w/ attack power is a long awaited buff. If you're still doing Kara w/ bleed immune mobs, then I'm sure thats why you're laughing. Any real druid tank is counting down the days.

Any real Druid won't care unless it's gonna scale extremly good.

Originally Posted by bingobent

"Healing grace will reduce the chance that all of your spells will be dispelled by 10/20/30%"

WOW.. Hunters got MS and Purge on Arcane shot. And we get this.. WOW. Im looking forward to playing on my Shaman some more...NOT! ???

Yep and another Elemental Shaman nerf.

In blizzards attempt to Balance arena they are nerfing our only Utility (burst) because it actually works. This means that, once again, end game PvE will get nerfed in an attempt to balance arenas...

Originally Posted by Woogs

Lacerate finally scaling w/ attack power is a long awaited buff. If you're still doing Kara w/ bleed immune mobs, then I'm sure thats why you're laughing. Any real druid tank is counting down the days.

Any REAL druid tank doesn't rely solely on lacerate damage, and can generate enough threat to hold agro, bleed immune or not.

Originally Posted by Bury

So many possibilities open up for exploiting the honor system..

Such as? It is impossible to exploit outside BGs because the ressurection cooldown for repeated kills makes honor farming individuals practically impossible. The only downside I can see for BGs is it will make mid-BG kill farming much more profitable than objective capture.

Originally Posted by syntax

Yep and another Elemental Shaman nerf.

You must be looking at different notes than I am, I saw nothing about elemental shamans, apart from the possible buff with Bloodlust now with the 1s gcd.

One thing I thought about with the ability to summon into instances.
Shortly after BC was released, summoning throughout ALL of Netherstorm was disabled except via the meeting stone in front of Tempest Keep. This was to prevent cheesing of running sub-70s through the TK instances, which would normally require a level 70 and a flying mount.
With the reactivation of summoning inside instances, will they disable summoning to Tempest Keep 5-mans or will they just lift the summoning restriction over Netherstorm?

We're going to lift the summoning restriction in Netherstorm.

Edit: im slow etc

Originally Posted by Windcape

.... Paladins is definitive the most emo class after mages.
...

Blizzard hates us /cry!!!

We are not Emo /cry!!!

:P

Well, tbh, I do think mages have a lot to complain about. Not necessarily about what they sometimes complain about, but Blizz has screwed mages over in TBC, on purpose or not.

Thats life :P

Originally Posted by Pyrostemplar

Blizzard hates us /cry!!!

We are not Emo /cry!!!

:P

Well, tbh, I do think mages have a lot to complain about. Not necessarily about what they sometimes complain about, but Blizz has screwed mages over in TBC, on purpose or not.

Thats life :P

I wouldn't call not being viable in the current drawn out mana draining arenas a lot. They are pretty much required for heroics, they kick ass in BGs, they do very well in raids and they do pretty well in BGs. Yeah they have it tough in arenas now but they had it easy in the arena in early seasons. The problem is mages are working fine in most areas of the game, that makes it very hard to make changes to them in arena without pushing them towards being overpowered elsewhere.

The mage problem is that they are a disruptive class, sheep, snares, silence all are designed to disrupt their opponents and are countered more and more as opponents get more organised which in arena is pretty much everyone as you get any decent rating.