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More Hp = less Resolve, less self-healing? Sounds werid and unfair to bear and dk?
No. That's why Resolve benefits from Stamina, as well as the incoming damage. (
Celestalon)
Would you agree with the sentiment that players should always have "button/s to press" (Never hit "Everything is on CD") ?
Nope. (
Celestalon)
Many players would disagree. Especially DKs who have grown very attached to their established playstyle-feel.
He asked about the extreme. Not everyone is in that extreme. (
Celestalon)
What's with stat attunements? Doesn't making one stat "better" eliminate choice? People always choose to play optimally if the performance gap is significant.
Not at all. Stats are tuned around the existence of these. Different stats are still totally viable; this doesn't change that. (
Celestalon)
I feel like you're trading ability bloat for tooltip bloat. Super long tooltips are just as bad imo.
Tooltip clarity is important. We're simultaneously doing a pass on that. Paragraph-long tooltips fail at informing. (
WatcherDev)
Death Knight (
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Have you considered any further the huge downtime of Blood DKs in the Alpha? Inactivity makes for frustrating gameplay,
Yes, current Blood rotation is too slow; will be iterating. (
Celestalon)
Druid (
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and why is FF removed from moonkin. i still don't understand that. my raid doesn't have -12% amour. in pvp for rouge..
That debuff is gone completely in 6.0; that's why. Replacing it with a new type of raid buff. (
WatcherDev)
Is there really nothing new for feral? We lose abilities and are gaining nothing in WoD. Even talents are recycled and bland.
Feral is in a very good place in Mists. What have you lost that you miss? (
Celestalon)
Will Feral Mastery affect all other bleeds like Bear Thrash, or the weapon enchant that causes a bleed?
Bear Thrash yes. Weapon enchant, unlikely. (
Celestalon)
Mage (
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Will the change to Living Bomb still allow you to refresh it prior to it's detonation or will it cancel it's action?
Yes, you can still refresh Living Bomb. Yes, Prismatic Crystal will automatically target it. (
Celestalon)
What is Evanesce supposed to be for? Bad things in alpha are ground effect that it doesnt work on, or which last too long.
What ground effect does it not work on? It should absolutely work on most ground effects; that's kind of the point. (
Celestalon)
Monk (
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Monk fist weapons showing during combat in WoD alpha, bug or intended?
Intended. (
Celestalon)
My Windwalker has 37 active abilities(exact number, not hyperbole) is there some reason why you are only removing one of them?
Windwalkers are on the low side, actually. (
Celestalon)
Paladin (
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any plans to give ret something unique (aoe grip, solarbeam), so RLs would bring them to RBGs? if u say we have offheals ill mur...
you have offheals (I want to see what happens next) (
holinka)
So, we're intended to use Seraphim every time it's up? I feel it's questionable to use it w/out Holy Avenger.
You'd be leaving a lot of DPS on the table if you only used a 30 second CD every 3 minutes. (
holinka)
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"Devouring Plague now always costs 3 Shadow Orbs." What is the point of shadow orbs again? Just put DP on a CD.
That'd be significantly different. (
Celestalon)
It would be the superior method. You try so hard to make shadow orbs work but they offer no real advantage over just a CD.
Hyperbole gets you nowhere. It *obviously* offers significant real advantage. (
Celestalon)
You could just slap a longer cd on plague then reduce it through haste or MB casts or apparitions or w/e. Objectively superior.
I think you have a different concept of "objectively" than I do, and also ignored what I just said. (
Celestalon)
Shaman (
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Also being able to spam big heals while oom seems very counter-intuitive
There's a very big HPS difference between spamming Healing Surge and Healing Wave. (
Celestalon)
I am just very doubtful how mana management would ever work if no-one can ever go OOM
What does "going OOM" mean to you on live? You can still spam Healing Wave, Earth Shield, Riptide, etc. (
Celestalon)
"Going OOM" really just means being unable to cast your more inefficient heals. (
Celestalon)
Which in warlords I can spam small heals while oom and my mana would go up. In previous case I can't spam nor gain mana
Correct; it's different. (
Celestalon)
I'm just worried about situation "spam X > burst > burn mana > spam X for N seconds > burst> repeat situation (boring)
"X" being a complex combination of half a dozen heals? That's not boring, that's gameplay. (
Celestalon)
I was referring to baseline efficient heal (due to twitter limits)
Then not using your other half dozen heals would be extremely bad. They're some of your most efficient. (
Celestalon)
Here's a key distinction that may help understand: There are no more big vs small cast time heals. They're fast vs slow. (
Celestalon)
Warrior (
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all of this ability removal and still no combination of Battle+Commanding Shout? Why not?
It's actually a benefit; it's added flexibility. Many DPS bring 2 buffs, you bring Versatility + (Stamina or Attack Power). (
Celestalon)
Re: Arms... How do we generate rage now? Charge/auto attack/crits only?
Correct. (
Celestalon)
No Rend, no Slam, no Thunderclap. Is Arms now just MS, CS, Execute, and Sweeping Strikes?
And Whirlwind. (
Celestalon)
Hint to arms' rotation on your end? All I see is MS > CS > T4 talent > nothing. WW in ST like 5.0 fury did before WS buffed?
Yes, WW as a filler. (
Celestalon)
Is WW free now or something? If it costs any rage, we won't touch it as a filler.
Why not...? (
Celestalon)
Why would I use rage on WW if I need my rage for MS and CS which both hit much harder?
Because you've got more Rage than you can spend on just MS and CS. (
Celestalon)
So MS still has a six second CD, and Colossus smash still has a 20 second CD?
Correct. (
Celestalon)
And that CS CD is fixed with no Sudden Death to refresh it?
Correct. (
Celestalon)
Not to mention I have no idea how rage generation is getting that high when the only change is increased rage from crits
"Battle Stance for Arms Warriors now generates increased 100% Rage from auto-attacks..." (
Celestalon)
Art
Since the whiners are always loudest, I'd like to throw in that plenty of people prefer end game PvP and PvE shared sets. /raise
Yeah the people who are happy usually aren't as vocal as people that are unhappy. (
holinka)
Warlords of Draenor Stats
my math shows Multistrike behind crit until 66.66 (repeating ofc) Assume Multistrike will require less rating per percent yes?
Yes. (
Celestalon)
Will the proposed hunter masteries lock us into one spec? If so, please reconsider reforging.
They won't. Really it's little different from how different specs have somewhat different secondary stat preferences today. (
WatcherDev)
PvE
Or more of no content, t14 could have lasted much longer esp before 5.1, and tot could have too. Any comment?
Little question that with hindsight we could have spaced our Mists tiers out better. No excuses, but we need to improve. (
WatcherDev)
PvP
What is the ideal 3v3 game length that you intend to shoot for? I hate long games just as much as getting 1 shot in the opener.
5-10 minutes (
holinka)
How will the latency reduction in WoD affect "deathing" CC? Won't it be close to impossible with that low of a latency?
it's possible. Juking interrupts is another concern. (
holinka)
how is the latency reduction looking from your experience?
We get a lot of feedback that juking is harder to do but it's too early to tell if it's a matter of the feel changing. (
holinka)
If you do have to add a SMALL amount of Resil back in, any chance you could put it on PvP gear to give it a slight edge?
It will already have an ilevel edge. (
holinka)
thought it was going away, but it just might be base resilience that's leaving. Hard to keep this all str8
The trinket set bonus will just say "10% less damage from players." No need for it to be resilience. (
holinka)
Lore
Will the Sporeggar be appearing again in Draenor or did they only appear after it became known as Outland?
Origin story of the Sporeggar is told in WoD Well, hinted at... (
Muffinus)
Reputation / Questing
so, I've seen these titanic megabeasts in pictures.. are they only in gorgrond, or all over Draenor, and do they drop cool stuff?
They are the "Wanted: ____" equivalent for Gorgrond, but elite targets exist in most every zone. (
Muffinus)
Why is one a Yeti though, is he an interplanetary yeti? Cause that would be awesome
I believe that's a placeholder model for a baby gronn (
Muffinus)
I understand that Shadowmoon valley will be Alliance's initial zone but will horde players be able to do ANY quests there?
Each faction will have some end-game content in the opposite faction's starting zone. (
WatcherDev)