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Armory Stats - Level 90 Boosted Character Class Representation
Today we are taking a look at what classes are being boosted to level 90. Unfortunately the only way we can tell if a character has been boosted to level 90 is when they are still wearing some of the starter gear. This is still the case for ~106,000 level 90 characters in our database, allowing us to see a snapshot of what classes were boosted to level 90.

We have included data for all level 90 boosted characters, all characters, all item level 510+ characters, and all characters that have killed Heroic Dark Shaman (as of late January). You can toggle on and off the data by clicking on the category in the legend.

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Patch 5.4.7 Hotfixes - March 18
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Character Boost
  • Boosted characters now start in the Shrine of Two Moons for the Horde and Shrine of the Seven Stars for the Alliance.
  • Resolved a number of questing and phasing issues for boosted characters.

Classes
  • Rogue (Forums / Skills / WoD Talent Calculator)
    • Talents
      • Resolved an issue where Vanish modified by Glyph of Vanish was incorrectly causing the Subterfuge effect to trigger twice. Vanish will now cancel its effect when the duration of Subterfuge expires.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
  • Siege of Orgrimmar
    • Cross-realm raid groups have been enabled for Siege of Orgrimmar on both Normal and Heroic difficulty.

Battlegrounds and Arenas
  • Resolved an issue where Monks were unable to use Roll, Chi Torpedo, or Flying Serpent Kick while carrying the flag.

Isle of Thunder
  • Resolved an issue where base camps for the Kirin Tor Offensive, Sunreaver Onslaught, and other areas on the isle may incorrectly revert to an earlier progression stage.

Warlords of Draenor PvP
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
There's a ton of awesome PvP-related stuff happening in Warlords. Just off the top of my head:

  • CC Disarmament: there's a lot fewer CC spells, especially instant and auto cast CCs, and more shared DRs among the ones that remain.
  • Health and scaling rebalance: means little to no Base Resilience or Battle Fatigue are needed, and classes that aren't as reliant on gear to perform. Also does wonders for PvP class balance.
  • Ashran: our new open world PvP zone, which we're not quite ready to share details on yet (but what I've seen so far looks awesome!)
  • Skirmishes: unrated Arenas that can be queued for either solo or in a group.
  • Spectator invites & Tournament gear: additional tools to allow tournament organizers to run high-quality tournaments without needing direct intervention from Blizzard.
  • Our new built-in Group Finder: much easier way to find party members for rated BGs or Arenas.

And that's just from the stuff we've already talked about. There's more to come as we continue development.

I know healer scaling was mentioned, but what about damage scaling? It has just gotten absurd how quickly damage scaled in MOP - we went from doing 60k dps to 400k+, which is why Battle Fatigue and PVP Resilience had to be set so high in the first place.

You need to hit the root of the problem NOW while you are doing the item squish - if you wait until after WOD then it will be too late and you'll have to do an item squish again for the next expansion.
So, there's actually a lot going on there:

Currently, in Mists, level 90 characters have a relatively high amount of base health, and a relatively low amount of base damage or healing on their abilities. As a result, your health from Stamina doesn't increase as quickly as your damage or healing from Attack or Spell Power. To use some made up numbers for perspective, your gear might account for 80-90% of your damage, but only 40-50% of your health. That's why, as the quality of your gear increases by hundreds of item levels over the course of an expansion, we see such a high swing in damage output compared to health pools.

For Warlords, we're simplifying that by making health and spell effectiveness scale a lot more linearly. Base health is being lowered dramatically (and the effectiveness of Stamina increased) to the point that as damage or healing goes up, health pools go up alongside them. That lets us ensure that PvP gameplay at low gear vs high gear feels relatively similar.

On top of that, we're increasing health pools in general -- they'll be much larger in comparison to the damage players are able to deal to each other than they are today. Resilience and Battle Fatigue were added because without them, an attack or heal would account for massive chunks of a player's health bar. With higher health, that same spell doesn't have as big of an impact.

(It's worth noting that all of this is after the item squish, so it's all relative. The actual numbers, including health pools, will end up much smaller compared to how things are today.)

Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Classes
Paladin (Forums / Skills / WoD Talent Calculator)
50% Lay on Hands?
We're actually planning to let that one stay at 100%, which is effectively a large buff. (Celestalon)

Priest (Forums / Skills / WoD Talent Calculator)
can you remove shadow orbs?
Virtually zero chance of us removing Shadow Orbs. (Celestalon)

SInce absorbs are going to be so limited is Disc going to have more direct heal throughput?
Yes, we'll make sure that they can still perform well. (Celestalon)

Why can't we have instant as disc/holy? Seems slightly unfair.
Because we want to make healers less mobile. Good for both PvE and PvP. Encounters will demand less mobile healing. (Celestalon)

Will cascade, divine star and halo still be instant for spriests, or will they need to be casted as well?
Yes, they're still instant for Shadow. (Celestalon)

still want to know what happens to disc barrier. the barrier forces me go disc, not lack of holy hps.
No planned changes to PW:B, but if encounters do less raidwide burst damage then PW:B is inherently less essential. (WatcherDev)

Shaman (Forums / Skills / WoD Talent Calculator)
Seeing a big jump in Resto Shaman representation despite so few balance changes this season. This should be interesting to watch unfold. (holinka)
translation resto shammy is about to get nerfed
Just wanted the community to go on this journey with me where representation changes profoundly despite minimal class changes. (holinka)

Warlock (Forums / Skills / WoD Talent Calculator)
Warriors getting a talent turning Prot into DPS spec. Any chance Warlocks could get a talent changing Demonology into tank spec?
Not right now. Turning Prot into DPS is trivial compared to turning Demonology into Tank. (Celestalon)

Warrior (Forums / Skills / WoD Talent Calculator)
But is warbringer still a 20s cooldown for a single charge with a 1.5s stun? Seems like a high risk gambit for a chance to nix gate
Sounds like a tough choice you'll have to make (holinka)

Has there been any info about how you plan to improve haste for warriors yet?
Not yet. I can assure you though, haste will be a very good stat for you. (Celestalon)
Will it benefit tanks like prot pallies
Haste will be a very good stat for *all* Warriors. (Celestalon)
Please let it be more than just more rage which would result in more HS spamming.
It's more than just rage. (Celestalon)

Will Divine Shield be undispellable in WoD? Shattering Throw seems to be removed, what about Mass Dispel?
Shattering Throw is not removed. (Celestalon)

Art
Any chance to be able to toggle weapon enchants glow on/off (like helm/cloak) in WoD?
Doubtful for WoD unless as totally different enchants. Enchant visuals effects & control of does get discussed though. (Dave_Maldo)

Character / Items
The Heirloom Garrosh weapon. will the heroic version be as good as flex one while leveling?
They'll converge at 100, but a higher-difficulty one will be superior while leveling. (WatcherDev)

Warlords of Draenor Flying
without wasting 10-30 minutes of your time getting there and back to what you were doing.
I've been trying to say this, but if it takes you 10-30 min to get from one part of Draenor to another, we screwed up. (WatcherDev)
Meanwhile when you take a flight path in Mop you many times fly in circles to reach a destination.
Honestly we've neglected flight paths a bit post-BC. We won't make that mistake in Draenor. (WatcherDev)

Please make me want to not fly, dont force me not to.
The idea is that limiting vertical movement creates gameplay. Imagine how Timeless Isle would play if you could fly there. (WatcherDev)
yeah, but I hate going to TI. An entire expansion of that is going to suck.
And ultimately it's our job to make sure it doesn't. I realize I'm not going to change opinions here; all I can say is wait and see. (WatcherDev)
yes imagine being able to get to rares before they die.
Just to play Devil's Advocate, they'd still often die before you arrive since everyone else would get there faster too. (WatcherDev)
let's not buff their health pools to scale with number of attackers, that would be a silly notion
A majority of TI rares do have health scaling, up to a max of 500% HP. Some don't; will look into hotfixing those. (WatcherDev)

Poll: Level 90 Boost Classes
Assuming you bought Warlords of Draenor and used your Level 90 boost already, what class did you use it on?



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This article was originally published in forum thread: Armory Stats - Level 90 Boost Classes, Mar 18 Hotfixes, WoD PvP, Poll, Diablo Fanart started by chaud View original post
Published on 2014-03-20 07:42 AM
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  1. AnTwan's Avatar
    I like healing the most but I wanted to be able to solo. Looks like I ma among the minority who boosted a paladin.
  1. Nerraw's Avatar
    Interesting warlock stats.
  1. mmoc3f25629bd0's Avatar
    well that graph is pants.

    Priest hardly shows at all, and the key to the bars is not coloured, and the bars for a class are all a solid colour so you have no idea what the key relates to....
  1. xalenthas's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Houyi View Post
    well that graph is pants.

    Priest hardly shows at all, and the key to the bars is not coloured, and the bars for a class are all a solid colour so you have no idea what the key relates to....
    Mouseover is your friend ... try it on the bars
  1. Eucep's Avatar
    I'd like to use my boost, but used up all my character slots on my server. So perhaps could transfer one of my 'doubles' off the server. But also kind of want to wait and see how some of the other race models will look like troll and such before even considering it.
  1. lunchbox2042's Avatar
    Pretty soon everyone's going to be a Warlock. Maybe then they'll give us the tank spec we've been asking for.
  1. frymastermeat's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Moradim View Post
    "letting lay on hands stay at 100%"

    "buff"

    this is the idiot in charge of class design?
    Larger health pools combined with weaker heals means keeping a 100% heal at that same level is a huge buff. If even that's too complicated for you to wrap your head around then it might time to stop calling people idiots.
  1. Doomchicken's Avatar
    Warlocks getting the most. I imagine it's a combination of people wanting a warlock to see if its fun/because it's currently an overpowered class. Would be interesting to see a poll on why they chose certain classes as well
  1. DizzyMonk's Avatar
    I have 2 lvl 90 warlocks already...not sure what to boost
  1. Doomchicken's Avatar
    Correct answer is always warlock. Jk. I suppose it depends on what you want to do. I enjoy brewmaster tanking. I enjoy my ele shaman, despite not being great this tier. I enjoy my hunter. I guess you just have to figure out what it is you want to try, and then figure what class would be the most fun to do that activity.
  1. mmoc63fb61dd2c's Avatar
    the game is dead
  1. Funky Kong's Avatar
    I like how people are opting to boost the flavour of the month class. There's no guarantee that Warlocks will be as powerful as they are now when WoD launches; I imagine some people will be very upset if they aren't.
  1. Sauronxyz's Avatar
    Yeah, so that first fan art pic is my new desktop background. AMAZING!
  1. mmoced3a8de52c's Avatar
    As someone that's played a Lock from Vanilla i actually hate they they are the "popular" class now. It worries me that it means the nurf bat is imminent!
  1. Toiran's Avatar
    I used it on a Shaman as that was the only class I've never had above level 35, but if I had a Shaman, it actually would of been a Warlock as well...my guilds alts in the last week is a majority of Shamans for sure, no Warlock alts or boosts though weirdly enough.

    Poor Rogues, even when you don't even have to level them up, no one wants one.
  1. FrogFries's Avatar
    I remember the days when warlocks were near the bottom of class popularity. Now everyone is playing one and my warlock main is like, "Where the hell were you guys 6 years ago?"
  1. Krazzorx's Avatar
    Even though it has nothing to do with insta 90s: I'm somewhat surprised more monks have killed heroic dark shaman than rogues
  1. Kezmaefele's Avatar
    http://media.mmo-champion.com/images...vcontest02.jpg

    The second fan art pic is my favorite.
    - Wizard looks out of it from chugging mana pots
    - Barb has a <3 Cain tattoo
    - WD's zombie dog is about to chomp down on a bone fetish
    - Barb has an old crappy flip phone
  1. CasCrow's Avatar
    The Lay on Hands is gonna be extremely OP. Can you imagine a couple pallies in arena popping their lay on hands whenever the debuff isn't there while near death? I wonder if it will still be instant. But what do I care? I don't even pvp.
  1. ImpTaimer's Avatar
    Anyone else NOT surprised Druids are the "most popular"?

    I remember when they were the least popular class.

    I also remember I've been playing this game far too long...

    @DK - FYI you can't boost a DK if you can't even create one till 55+. Helpful tip for people analyzing data.

    *I didn't pre-order yet, but I might use the 90 boost for a faction alt. Doesn't hurt to have a max level available for both. Faction change is a waste of money if you're looking to start fresh.
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