Cataclysm Beta - Build 13241 (Updated)

Excellent beta build, excellent indeed

Almost every DPS class got smacked with the nerf bat except for Ele/Enh Shaman LOL. Good thing, we needed it on the beta.

Yay!
Feral Nerfs!

I cannot believe what I just read. Seriously.

"Shadow Orbs *New* - You have a 10% chance for your Shadow Word: Pain and Mind Flay spells to grant you a Shadow Orb each time they deal damage. Casting your Mind Blast or Mind Spike spell consumes all Shadow Orbs, increasing damage of that spell by 0% per Shadow Orb, and granting 0% increased damage on your periodic Shadow spells for until cancelled. You can have up to a maximum of 3 orbs."

Does anyone if this means that we will get a dot damage increase when shadow orbs are up, or when shadow orbs are comsumed? Because I am pretty sure everyone will leave out MB out of their rotation again if we will get a huge dot damage increase when shadow orbs are up..

oh my lord?

Rogues and warriors got annihilated!! TO THE GROUND BABY :S

Originally Posted by smrund

Wow, fury just got crushed. And we were already falling behind in DPS.

And Divine Stome now costing mana: LAME. Not to mention only doing 60& wep damage. Jeeze, gonna toss that ability right off my bar.

...

So what you will do about AoE fights? Also, the mana cost is a good thing, better then building holy power just for AoE. It was like a rogue need to waste 5 combo points just to use FoK.

Edit: Everyone except the shamans got the nerf bat muahhahahahhahha!

Originally Posted by mistuhbull

Guess locks aren't allowed to be competitive.

Where are the Arcane nerfs?

Arcane is shit at 85 so thats probably why.

Originally Posted by Litryn

"Shadow Orbs *New* - You have a 10% chance for your Shadow Word: Pain and Mind Flay spells to grant you a Shadow Orb each time they deal damage. Casting your Mind Blast or Mind Spike spell consumes all Shadow Orbs, increasing damage of that spell by 0% per Shadow Orb, and granting 0% increased damage on your periodic Shadow spells for until cancelled. You can have up to a maximum of 3 orbs."

Does anyone if this means that we will get a dot damage increase when shadow orbs are up, or when shadow orbs are comsumed? Because I am pretty sure everyone will leave out MB out of their rotation again if we will get a huge dot damage increase when shadow orbs are up..

I read it as when they're consumed.

What the fuck why the hell are they nerfing HUNTERS for god sakes it's already the worst class

first pet - 100% charity
and shortly after another pet 50% charity
and then something big like a mount 0$ to charity

Oookay, so they're lowering or perhaps re-balancing damage yet MS is reducing heals by only 10% still.

I am Confounded

or

It seems we're in a bit of a Kerfuffle here

People please think before you act, what sounds more believable?

Blizzard leaving some already good dps specs as they are, and then nerfing ones that were under preforming. Or them putting in scaling so that at low levels our abilities wouldn't do as much damage and it would reduce the ridiculous amounts of damage we do at low levels and balance them without having any impact on 85.

Someone ón one of the earlier pages said that they would let enh stay op...

Currently ón the beta we're still miles below other specs ón the pve meters

That said, we will be making several balancing changes in patch 4.0.3a based on what we've been seeing since patch 4.0.1. With regard to lower level players, we plan to adjust damage and healing for all classes from levels 1-79. The base points of almost all spells and abilities are being reduced in order to bring combat times at low levels to a more acceptable length. Some specific spells/abilities are being reduced in damage even more, and in the case of most abilities that deal weapon damage, we're going to make the damage percent scale with level. So as an example, Sinister Strike is currently planned to do 42% weapon damage at level 1, with the percentage of weapon damage rising per level up to its maximum potential at 80.

So all we see are the low lvl balancing changes to skills nothing more nothing less. Just read the buffs *jey*

Hunter main shots get buffed so people cant just arc spam and THINK they are winners...Thank you. Only shot that got nerfed I use in my Surv rotation is Steady, and thats replaced almost as soon as cata hits

This isn't going live people. It's just for beta testing. I would be shocked if this was to stay.

Originally Posted by Voltair

Oookay, so they're lowering or perhaps re-balancing damage yet MS is reducing heals by only 10% still.

I am Confounded

or

It seems we're in a bit of a Kerfuffle here

well...party of it may have to do with warrior's absolutely shitstaining everyone in PvP on beta.

I guess we will really get our asses handed to us by the elemental spawns in the pre cata event .)

Erm a question,if its true that these are the base values and these will scale by level up to lvl 85, does that mean that currently at lvl 80 we will still see a huge dps loss because abilities havent reached their "peak" values?

My god..... My warlock just got crited for over 9000 with the nerf bat.

Originally Posted by Ramis

That said, we will be making several balancing changes in patch 4.0.3a based on what we've been seeing since patch 4.0.1. With regard to lower level players, we plan to adjust damage and healing for all classes from levels 1-79. The base points of almost all spells and abilities are being reduced in order to bring combat times at low levels to a more acceptable length. Some specific spells/abilities are being reduced in damage even more, and in the case of most abilities that deal weapon damage, we're going to make the damage percent scale with level. So as an example, Sinister Strike is currently planned to do 42% weapon damage at level 1, with the percentage of weapon damage rising per level up to its maximum potential at 80.

So the mined data is a Level 1 character that will scale, so basically we don't know what the new endgame percentages are for anything... Awsome