Blue Post 4.0 Ghostcrawler

[Bûllshift]

Rather than try and address multiple threads, I'm just going to plop our current thoughts in this one post. Please excuse the brevity.

1) We think Fury, Arms, Feral cat and Retribution dps is too low and we will be buffing them.

2) We think mage dps is too high, especially Fire, and will be nerfing it.

3) We think Shadow priest dps is too high, but that's largely a result of Shadow Word: Death spam, which is tough on healers. We'll be fixing that.

4) We think Destro warlock dps is too high, but that's largely a result of Searing Pain spam, which is tough on tanks. We'll be fixing that.

5) As we suspected, PvP dps is just too high given that the health pools of Cataclysm haven't kicked in yet. While competitive PvP is over for the moment, we still want the environment to feel better so we will be buffing resilience. This change might be reverted at level 85.

There will probably be more changes after another night of raiding and BGs. Many of the bug fixes we have made today will affect dps as well. Stay tuned.

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Ghostcrawler
Lead Systems Designer

Looks like we may get a fix sooner rather than later!

[Emaluri]

Rather than try and address multiple threads, I'm just going to plop our current thoughts in this one post. Please excuse the brevity.

1) We think Fury, Arms, Feral cat and Retribution dps is too low and we will be buffing them.

2) We think mage dps is too high, especially Fire, and will be nerfing it.

3) We think Shadow priest dps is too high, but that's largely a result of Shadow Word: Death spam, which is tough on healers. We'll be fixing that.

4) We think Destro warlock dps is too high, but that's largely a result of Searing Pain spam, which is tough on tanks. We'll be fixing that.

5) As we suspected, PvP dps is just too high given that the health pools of Cataclysm haven't kicked in yet. While competitive PvP is over for the moment, we still want the environment to feel better so we will be buffing resilience. This change might be reverted at level 85.

There will probably be more changes after another night of raiding and BGs. Many of the bug fixes we have made today will affect dps as well. Stay tuned.

Got a proper quote there for ya.

Gotta say, excited.

[dekadron]

Dang, swdeath was so fun, I knew it was too good to last...

[Scuravolpe]

Oh good. It seems the tidings of doom people have been hashing back and forth are going to be rectified. That's nice.

People will still make twelve thousand threads a day about how each of those issues is ruining the game though.

I agree with the mage part especially. My mage has the best non-raid gear I could get, including Quel'Delar, and I can get arcane blast to crit for over 50k in groups.

That is an absolutely preposterous amount of damage.

[Grimbold21]

If they were whining when they(casters) had high dmg, imagine now.

[psdew1813]

yes so can we kill that fury warr QQ thread then?

[Deleted]

Lets kill LK25HC before changes go live!

[aristocle]

Lets kill LK25HC before changes go live!

I wouldn't be surprised if a few PuGs and guilds were doing just that atm.

[Blastro]

yea now sounds like a time to get some casters and rip up lk heroic 25 to be honest

[KassieDS]

Should be nerfing arcane as well then. Nerfing fire but not arcane is fucking stupid.

[Mathaios]

Should be nerfing arcane as well then. Nerfing fire but not arcane is fucking stupid.

We think mage dps is too high, especially Fire, and will be nerfing it.

l2read, the nerf bat is for the mage class not just fire.

[Petal]

Should be nerfing arcane as well then. Nerfing fire but not arcane is fucking stupid.

"We think mage dps is too high, especially Fire, and will be nerfing it." the key word here is 'especially'

[axelnomnom]

80% of the QQers are still going to post threads because they don't read. Just complain complain complain...

[KassieDS]

Yeah it's 3am. Would like to care. But i don't.

[TerraMagus]

Well, I sure am glad that Mage DPS is being nerfed into the ground. I mean, at least I can respec to another role so I don't have to-

Oh.

Oh right.

[Baygon]

Oh good. It seems the tidings of doom people have been hashing back and forth are going to be rectified. That's nice.

People will still make twelve thousand threads a day about how each of those issues is ruining the game though.

I agree with the mage part especially. My mage has the best non-raid gear I could get, including Quel'Delar, and I can get arcane blast to crit for over 50k in groups.

That is an absolutely preposterous amount of damage.

he said Fire dps, not arcane, if arcane can get 51k crits and higher why isn't that being nerfed instead of fire?

[Daggy1111]

So yeah nothing we didn't expect in the end. Mage is nuts(over 14k dps in t9.5) lock is nuts(destro was just unbelivable sick) and spreist sw: d spam will prolly get a 6 second cd(yay).

[Emaluri]

he said Fire dps, not arcane, if arcane can get 51k crits and higher why isn't that being nerfed instead of fire?

"We think mage dps is too high, especially Fire, and will be nerfing it."

Let me translate that for you.

"We think ALL mage DPS is too high, but Fire in particular is WAY too high, and will be nerfing mage DPS to be more in line with the rest of the DPS."

[Degenerator]

Emaluri, Thank you for the giggle, there are pockets of coffee all around my desk at work <3

[Instinctz]

Well, I sure am glad that Mage DPS is being nerfed into the ground. I mean, at least I can respec to another role so I don't have to-

Oh.

Oh right.

go compare the 18k dps that you are pulling to the rest of the melee.