Tier 16 Priest, 5.4 Dev Interviews, 5.4 PTR Notes Update, Raid Testing, Blue Posts

[voskopoula]

Some 1-2 weeks ago some posters told me to stop whining and that changes are not final. I wrote then, that no matter what, these nerfs will happen and the community will be happy about them because just before the patch, blizzard will remove 1-2 of them. That this is their strategy, to implement nerfs without the nerfed spec community whine or stop playing by throwing many nerfs in the ptr only to remove some just before the patch goes live.
Some posters in here said i was nuts but oh look! 1 nerf went out, all the enhancement shaman community will stop whining and boom! ptr goes live with 4 nerfs.!

[Edlarel]

That has to be the ugliest and most uninspired tier set yet.

Also, damnit at making ele shamans less fun.

I happen to like this set and am even considering pulling my priest out of retirement to run LFR for whichever version it has available.

[Sodia]

Some 1-2 weeks ago some posters told me to stop whining and that changes are not final. I wrote then, that no matter what, these nerfs will happen and the community will be happy about them because just before the patch, blizzard will remove 1-2 of them. That this is their strategy, to implement nerfs without the nerfed spec community whine or stop playing by throwing many nerfs in the ptr only to remove some just before the patch goes live.
Some posters in here said i was nuts but oh look! 1 nerf went out, all the enhancement shaman community will stop whining and boom! ptr goes live with 4 nerfs.!

so whots your point ?? they almost destroy that clas with no big reson !! This is exacly whot take old subscribers from the game they got bored from this crap and move along and no new players ar comin But whu we ar to tel them how to do ther jobs is ther Job to begin with

[VanishO2]

"For hardcore raiders, having highly geared "Alts" is needed.
That's a choice very competitive guilds make. I don't see why we'd need to make alts easier to level and gear just for them."

Funny how ppl use hardcore raiders as a excuse for whatever they want... not matter if it doesn't make any sense.

When they want things nerfed or easily handed, they complain about Blizzard thinking about the "minority" hardcore raiders. Now they want even easier alts and say that Blizzard SHOULD catter to hardcore raiders, because geared alts are needed... ok.

[Shudder]

"So, will I be able to send heirlooms to a connected realm?
The goal of connected realms is to give you folks to play with, not to give you more alts."

So that's a no. Pathetic.

"Inventory space is a resource. It has been since vanilla."

Stfu with this shit. Make stacks go to 99 not 20. Sick of their excuses. As for all that ignorant crap he spewed about alts. It's like they don't even play the game. People like leveling and gearing alts. I don't give a shit if the developers don't like it, WE the fucking paying customers do. Get your head out of your ass.

[Deleted]

priest set ?? it looks more like its made for druids..

[Crovyn]

What annoys me is that 99,9% of GCs replies he shoots down and oberservation or suggestion with something silly or illogical. There is always at least a "but". The arrogance he shows is infuriating.

[SodiumChloride]

Some 1-2 weeks ago some posters told me to stop whining and that changes are not final. I wrote then, that no matter what, these nerfs will happen and the community will be happy about them because just before the patch, blizzard will remove 1-2 of them. That this is their strategy, to implement nerfs without the nerfed spec community whine or stop playing by throwing many nerfs in the ptr only to remove some just before the patch goes live.
Some posters in here said i was nuts but oh look! 1 nerf went out, all the enhancement shaman community will stop whining and boom! ptr goes live with 4 nerfs.!

LOL. I think you are giving Blizzard too much credit. I doubt they would bother to "engineer" a PR response of that complexity. They are probably used to the whining now. LOL. QQing without a good argument to back up your QQ will just get your QQ ignored.

[voskopoula]

What annoys me is that 99,9% of GCs replies he shoots down and oberservation or suggestion with something silly or illogical. There is always at least a "but". The arrogance he shows is infuriating.

dude you are totally right. He is arrogant and he chooses dumb questions to reply to and he replies to with an ironic attitude. Does he not know what happened to everquest?

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LOL. I think you are giving Blizzard too much credit. I doubt they would bother to "engineer" a PR response of that complexity. They are probably used to the whining now. LOL. QQing without a good argument to back up your QQ will just get your QQ ignored.

my QQ wasn't ignored back then, it was just that some posters thought i was over reacting. I am just saying that this has happened many times before in many patches to many specs and the strategy of blizzard was the same. Throw 10 nerfs in ptr, make community go crazy, remove 4 nerfs before live and voila, community nerfed but happy.
I am not the first to see this attitude towards community in wow, many have seen it and wrote about it in the last 4-5 years

[girlTheory]

it looks more like its made for druids..

This was my first thought! I don't mind it so much since there's xmog, but it's been a while since I've (personally) been excited about a priest tier set.

[SodiumChloride]

my QQ wasn't ignored back then, it was just that some posters thought i was over reacting. I am just saying that this has happened many times before in many patches to many specs and the strategy of blizzard was the same. Throw 10 nerfs in ptr, make community go crazy, remove 4 nerfs before live and voila, community nerfed but happy.
I am not the first to see this attitude towards community in wow, many have seen it and wrote about it in the last 4-5 years

As I said, you are probably over think it.

They are just probably nerfing and buffing as they see fit. There is no "strategy".

And when did Blizzard ever give a rat's ass about whether the "community" is happy? Your whining on the forums have next to zero effect on Blizzard FYI. However if you can produce a good arguement with proper data backing said argument, then yes, you have a chance of effecting change. Otherwise, you are just wasting bandwidth as Blizzard isn't going to put the design of the game up to a vote.

Look at all the bitching about CRZ ... it's still here. LOL.

[Jueles]

Since when do priest bring to mind birds? I am not keen on the T16, okay I can live with the shoulders (although lifting my arms to heal with those shoulder...don't know about that), the helm no way (bird beak), and I'm fed up with the robes they keep giving us (ugly). I think priest should look elegant - ethereal - spiritual. Remember the days when walking around Ironforge in full Tier 1 meant you were something? Tier 2 was a really "wow look at that priest" (I kept all my Tier 2, I worked so hard to get it all way back when). I liked my Tier 5 and Tier 6 also. No comment on cloaks, I generally just hide mine, hide the helm also unless it is really a look I'm going for that day. Ah well- I could transmog -

I do miss the days when you could tell a class from a distance just by their gear - well unless it was a certain rogue I knew who dressed to look like a priest and would join 5 mans as healer and see if anybody noticed(Vanilla). He was great at bandaging

[Metacrias]

I think that developers need to take a more serious look at ways to allow dedicated, tested players do harder material without premade groups (allowing random flex raids, heroic scenarios, etc). My issue is my schedule: I play WoW A LOT, but I teach a course at my University (I'm a PhD Cand.), work a second night-job, and generally have a sporadic, ever-changing schedule. Most guilds won't keep me on as a raider because I can't commit to specific times and nights weeks in advance or with guaranteed regularity. Yet lfr is too easy, heroic scenarios can't be done randomly, the gear I can get on my own isn't optimal... I want more challenge, but my schedule (and many other players' schedules) doesn't allow me to plan what nights I'll be available for what more than a few days in advance - all I've got is lfr now and it's frustrating.

Why not implement random flex-raids (with their higher ilvl rewards) and random heroic scenarios, but do so in a way that ensure that more serious players are going to be the vast majority choosing to do them. Perhaps require they run a particular lfr or random heroic once normally before allowing access to doing that one with a random group? Perhaps have certain higher ilvls required to run'em? Maybe have a set of one-time 'tests' for a toon to 'qualify' for access to special, high-difficulty randoms?

It would be great to have a set of individual scenario/challenges to qualify to be allowed to run random flexes, random heroic scenarios and RANDOM CHALLENGE MODES for regular dungeons. I, and many other players in similar situations, would love to access this content but am limited by an unpredictable schedule from being able to do so easily and regularly by the current means of accessing this content. Guilds don't want members for regular raids, challenge mode dungeons, heroic scenarios who can't guarantee regular availability on a set time schedule, current random content is too easy... Allow randoms for challenge mode, flex raids and heroic scenarios but find some means of ensuring that those who can access them are serious about it (more exclusive, but available to everyone so long as they commit to improving their play individually and in a way that does not necessitate guild membership or premade groups).

[Explicit Teemo Nudes]

Well how could they not see reforgning would turn out the way it is? Damn, Blizzard developers are really stupid. I thought they mostly implemented the feature to a) give players another way to "personalize" and decide over their characters, and b) another gold dump mechanic.