Icecrown Citadel, Season 7, Blue posts

[Erick]

I don't get why everyone is saying that Mal'ganis will be one of the raid bosses in IC...he was killed when Arthas obtained Frostmourne. Am I missing something here :-\?

A nathrezim can't be killed by anything other than its own kind. Which is why its the only known forbidden thing the nathrezim are sworn never to do. So Varimarthas, Balnaazar, Mal'Ganis, Tichondrius and all the rest are all still alive

[aabeba]

[blizzquote author=Ghostcrawler]
[...] once we say "tanking niches" players have visions of the DK who parks outside of Icecrown until boss 4, 17 and 31 (yes, IC is that big).
[/blizzquote]

Guys, so many of you are referring to the '31 bosses' Icecrown Citadel 'will have'.

I really don't think he cites the number literally, but rather as an example. I'd be surprised if they knew how many bosses there will be from now, and even more so if there were that many. I believe he simply means that Icecrown Citadel will be larger than current raid zones, which I think is commendable.

[AK_47]

We'll obviously know more about icecrown in exactly 10 days.

[Cassio066]

i dont know if someone posted this yet, but...
guys...
quantity =/= quality

[Leonoire]

If there is something you think is wrong with the game that we have't addressed, usually one of the following is true:

1) We don't think something is wrong.

This coming from the idiot who thinks it would be "bad for the game" to split PVP mechanics from PVE mechanics.

Yeah, does ANYONE believe a word GC says at this point?

Yes. stop your crying you little baby.

[Djinni]

Again, the goal is "close enough" and the mushiness of that definition is intended. For some groups, having a tank that is "5% harder to heal" (whatever that means) is acceptable and perhaps not even detectable. We just need to avoid the extreme situation where the guild that feels gimp because their MT is a paladin (or whatever) and paladins have a lot of liabilities on the current raid content to the extent where that player is getting replaced on more than just a couple of fights. (And I should add by knowledgeable raid leadership, and not just the Naxx pug guy that read on the forums that bears are the best tank and so only accepts bears.) ([url=http://blue.mmo-champion.com/26/19110293530-33-is-the-age-of-the-warriors.html]

At what point was a bear ever 'better' than a paladin for ....well... anything?
(and thats comming from a bear....) Just about every fight seems easier with a pally tank... so much so that I wind up DPS'ing more than tanking, even if Feral Tank is my main spec.

[TheSecretArts]

Someone didn't play Warcraft 3

someone didn't do his Icecrown quests...
Mal'ganis is alive, amazingly enough, and was under the guise of the Admiral guy who you see in Hearthglen and the Icecrown base for the onslaught.

[Skiball]

I did some research to back up my earlier post on this topic. I looked at arena junkies and took the top 15 teams worldwide in 2v2, 3v3, and 5v5.

There was a TOTAL of THREE prot paladins in all FORTY FIVE TEAMS. The best part is, TWO of them were TANK SPECCED meaning they did nothing other stan stun healers and eat melee. there was ONE prot pally healer.

Everyone else was ret or holy, holy being dominant. The healing paladins has the standard 51/20/0. This problem blizzard seems to think there is does not exist, according to the facts.

As I stated before, prot healing is a fun gimmick spec, a creative use of game mechanics, and I applaud those who thought of it and are good at it. It is NOT a trend or a problem.

I sometimes think blizzard does not look at the facts and just listens to whiners who happened to get pwned by these people in BGS.

Whatever they decide to do I certainly hope it does not mess with TANKING prot because of them trying to fix a fake and non existant problem.