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Warlords of Draenor - Level 100 Warrior and Paladin Talents
Today we are taking a look at some of the visuals used for Level 100 talents. You can find the Warlords of Draenor Talent Calculator for Warrior and Paladin on the beta WoWDB site.

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Warlords of Draenor - Face Variation
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Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Classes
Don't understand devs' love for players standing still. Movement is fun.
So is caring about the specialness of movement, and the gameplay value of it. (Celestalon)

Death Knight (Forums / Skills / WoD Talent Calculator)
What's the intent with new blood 4pc? Blood shield can't deplete, so immune to physical damage for 10sec?
Your Shield can't drop below X% of your health; ie, every hit on you, Blood Shield will at least absorb that much. (Celestalon)

Druid (Forums / Skills / WoD Talent Calculator)
SI really gone for balance? Barkskin is so weak in comparison even with a 30second cd
Barkskin is generally regarded as stronger, especially in PvP. (Celestalon)
I get killed with barkskin up almost every time I queue. And SI would help a lot more in raids since druids have no immunity
With the Barkskin glyph? It's extremely strong in PvP. (Celestalon)

Hunter (Forums / Skills / WoD Talent Calculator)
Are you even considering changing the new MM mastery? .. I would like to PVP as MM .. dont ruin my spec please
I'm not sure how that ruins your spec. It's valuable for PvP, situationally (and is optional anyway). (Celestalon)
stand still in PVP, hunters need to kite all the time, or else we get instat wrecked. It never goes off in PVP
You should try harder to get some stand-still time in. It is absolutely possible. You only have to stop for 3 sec. (Celestalon)
only hunter def is roar of sacri, and one talent row. That is no where near other classes. You cannot face tank melee or casters
And Deterrence, and Disengage, and the other defensive talent row, and traps... (Celestalon)

Mage (Forums / Skills / WoD Talent Calculator)
yes, thanks for reply. Speaking about heating up fade on none crit hit. The grace delay was a good fix 1/2
We feel like the grace delay worked well. It may need some slight retuning after the responsiveness fix, though. (Celestalon)

Priest (Forums / Skills / WoD Talent Calculator)
And in the category of nearly mandatory talents: Spirit Shell at Level 75. http://t.co/s5xP9BnOGs
We think that's an interesting choice because Spirit Shell is not necessarily a throughput gain, whereas the others are. (Celestalon)

Rogue (Forums / Skills / WoD Talent Calculator)
MM, ele and arms masteries changed for being too similar to MS. Why not combat?
Combat's Mastery we changed to offhand dmg; has interaction with your other abilities. We decided it was different enough. (Celestalon)

Shaman (Forums / Skills / WoD Talent Calculator)
Is the Echo of the Elements ui notification final? Looks like it's hard to see and not as flashy as Lava Surge & Fulmination.
No. (Celestalon)

I know it's MOLTEN earth, but sounds like it should be nature damage.
Nature is heavily overloaded, unfortunately. Rocks/Earth doing damage are typical physical, and we didn't want this to be ... (Celestalon)
...affected by armor, or weirdly bypass armor."Nature" damage is crazy. Poison, Solar, Plants, Lightning, Earth, Wind, Chi, etc. (Celestalon)

Minor Glyph to make Molten Earth for Shamans summon Pandaria Earth Spirits.
It doesn't summon anything. Heard that misconception several times now, perhaps there's a better way to word the tooltip. (Celestalon)
"incite the earth around to come to their aid" Since shamans call Elementals for aid, "incite" sounds like the earth comes alive
In a way, it does, but they're not units, they're missiles. (Celestalon)
is this the same stone missiles the ogre shamans use in frost fire ridge?
Very similar, but more polished for players. (Celestalon)

about new Ele mastery, will CL last target be the one you cast or the random one hit by the last chain?
First target. (Celestalon)

Did the cool lightning from sky visual effect got scrapped for ele shammies? ;(
I reckon that that was not the last you'll see of that visual. (Celestalon)

Any chance LB for EnhShaman will be revisited? Or is hardcasting LB as melee (to avoid MW overcapping) part of our skillcap?
Part of your skillcap. (Celestalon)

Warrior (Forums / Skills / WoD Talent Calculator)
Any chance you'll ever take WS off the GCD? Fury still feels terrible as is.
It'd feel worse with WS off the GCD. You'd have a *ton* of rotational deadtime. Would feel extremely slow. (Celestalon)

"Tanks now take 25% additional damage while engaged in PvP combat." Does this count Protection warriors in Glad stance too.
Currently, no. It's something we could do if needbe, but don't think it's needed currently. (Celestalon)

...2 RB, bloodsurge proc, and full rage, no matter what we do feels wrong. Rage capping, wasting RBs and letting enrage fall...
In that case, you should be doing WS-WS-WS-WS-WS-WS-WS-WS-BR-RB-RB-BT. No lost rage, or RBs. (Celestalon)
Did BT get a massive nerf/change in your build? You really prioritize it last? Dump to 0 rage / 0 RB before you BT...
During a CS? Absolutely. It's the lowest DPCT. (Celestalon)

does Sudden Death's Execute proc increase based on rage or will it be as if we had minimum rage?
Currently, yes. Strongly suspicious that that's too strong, though. (Celestalon)

Prot Warriors can continue to avoid/block while in Bladestorm dispite the tooltip removing that description. intended?
Yes. That wording was removed from several tooltips to make them more understandable. No functional change. (Celestalon)

Art
Will Yrel have a custom, unique model like Jaina,Vol'jin etc or will she use a heavily modified version of new Draenei female?
Yrel's model has a couple custom elements, but isn't a whole unique model like Velen or Khadgar. (DaveKosak)

Character / Items
color variation artists have made whenever you want, for a fee
I love the idea of dying armor like Diablo did. I get a little worried with user-made content, because we're internet people. (Muffinus)

PvP
so you're fixing small details to the flag points that no one looks at when you could fix mmr and stop 0 point games
The artist that made this flag post does not work on the MMR system (holinka)

Could we get any information regarding the Tournament realm when it's coming up and so on or is it top secret?
We're finalizing details to share. Sorry for the delay. (holinka)

Does the damage against Tanks stack higher if they are carrying a flag In a Normal or Rated BG?.
The damage debuff for flag carrying remains the same so they'll stack (holinka)

Garrisons
Do Garrisons have specific music? Would be awesome; for example variation of vanilla Orgrimmar music.
They have their own music, but you can get a boom box that lets you change the music (Muffinus)

Heroes of the Storm - New Map and Master Skins
Blizzard announced a new map and previewed some Master Skins today! Garden Of Terror is a new three lane map with darker nights that reduce visibility. Players can collect seeds until they reach 100 and control the limited duration Garden Terror.



This article was originally published in forum thread: Level 100 Warrior and Paladin Talents, Blue Tweets, Heroes of the Storm Map and Skins started by chaud View original post
Comments 45 Comments
  1. Yig's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Howard Moon View Post
    You would think someone at Blizzard would Tweet using proper grammar and punctuation.
    I know you have a problem with my downstairs mix up, but come on,.... it's twitter and there's a character count.
    Creamy Bailey's.
  1. Pickynerd's Avatar
    Ignite Weapon looks retarded and Ravager... ffs just put cleave back in.
  1. Funya's Avatar
    Kinda interesting to see the Ashbringer in a pally talent again. I recall a blizz post saying that holy avenger wasn't gonna use it because of "lore reasons" or something a while back. O.o
  1. Stormykitten's Avatar
    Again the arguments for movement tuning, they are just nonsensical to the extreme as usual.

    "So is caring about the specialness of movement, and the gameplay value of it. (Celestalon)" <- This has absolutely nothing to do with the amount of movement, except that there is more value if you can use your ability to move as a part of the gameplay.

    Like I've said before, love art stuff, I love Draenor, it's just awesome. But the class stuff is so very uneven this time. For example, at the same time as we see the birth of a really cool new mastery for Ele shaman, the movement cutoff not only makes it less fun to play but also risks creating even more burst problems just to make up for not being able to consistently shoot lightning bolts in pvp.
  1. Kataroku's Avatar
    Player: "Don't understand devs' love for players standing still. Movement is fun."
    Blizzard: "So is caring about the specialness of movement, and the gameplay value of it."

    Specialness of movement? Explain that to shadow priests; if you stop moving for one second then you die, and if you keep moving then you do next to no damage. There's no strategic "gameplay value" decision to be made in an arena setting - you run around like a headless chook trying to conserve your one and only "oh shit" button while your partner bludgeons your attackers to death. Not fun.

    Come WoD and all casters will be in the same boat but that's okay in Blizzard's eyes.

    Disclaimer: not subbed to the game anymore so my opinion doesn't matter. Carry on.
  1. freakyduck's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Funya View Post
    Kinda interesting to see the Ashbringer in a pally talent again. I recall a blizz post saying that holy avenger wasn't gonna use it because of "lore reasons" or something a while back. O.o
    Paladin (Forums / Skills / WoD Talent Calculator)
    I recently noticed Holy Avenger no longer uses the Ashbringer model for your weapon. Bug or intended? I always loved the model.
    Intended, for lore reasons. (Celestalon)
    However, Seraphim does give you a really sweet-looking custom 2H hammer, or 1H hammer and shield. (Celestalon)
    Yup, i recalled the same thing. I guess "for lore reasons" now means "because we're putting it on another ability".

    Just glad it's back, i always liked the visual effect of Holy Avenger.
  1. Raqubor's Avatar
    Warrior spells don't fit the class, paladin spells look terrible.

    Oh well... Glad Stance all the way anyway.
  1. kamuimac's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kataroku View Post
    Player: "Don't understand devs' love for players standing still. Movement is fun."
    Blizzard: "So is caring about the specialness of movement, and the gameplay value of it."

    Specialness of movement? Explain that to shadow priests; if you stop moving for one second then you die, and if you keep moving then you do next to no damage. There's no strategic "gameplay value" decision to be made in an arena setting - you run around like a headless chook trying to conserve your one and only "oh shit" button while your partner bludgeons your attackers to death. Not fun.

    Come WoD and all casters will be in the same boat but that's okay in Blizzard's eyes.

    Disclaimer: not subbed to the game anymore so my opinion doesn't matter. Carry on.
    good

    cry me river

    as melee im extremly satisfied with what they are planing

    u have it hell lot of easier while avoiding stuff pay the price - in form of dps loss

    finally the reign of bring in 5 range and maybe 1 melee will end
  1. Silver Forte's Avatar
    Boring and bland looking spells. That's level 100? Jeesh.
  1. Gaicka's Avatar
    Why so many skills has been removed? It is not secondary skills.
  1. Nero412's Avatar
    Scumbag blizzard logic: Inquisition isn't fun. *Pruned*. Adds seraphim.
  1. Axxy's Avatar
    I wish they synch everything up on that warrior video, cos it looks very meh!
  1. Stacie's Avatar
    I just cant get myself hyped up about heroes of the storm It looks good just for some reason just not interested in playing it.
  1. dontknowdoya's Avatar
    The new paladin animations are kind of meh and the warrior talents really seem out of place. What? Warriors now have telekinetic/pyrokinetic abilities? Flame me if you want, HA, but are not warriors suppose to be weapon masters, not melee mages?
  1. Farabee's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Nero412 View Post
    Scumbag blizzard logic: Inquisition isn't fun. *Pruned*. Adds seraphim.
    It's OK, because as it is in beta everyone is busy with Empowered Seals.
  1. SgtDidymus's Avatar
    In b4 Announcer is the legendary reward for WoOd
  1. Hotmail's Avatar
    PvP
    "so you're fixing small details to the flag points that no one looks at when you could fix mmr and stop 0 point games"
    -The artist that made this flag post does not work on the MMR system (holinka)
    "Wait, you mean I run my mouth on twitter when I don't know shit about game design or how the real world works? The internet has lied to me!!"
  1. Pickynerd's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by dontknowdoya View Post
    The new paladin animations are kind of meh and the warrior talents really seem out of place. What? Warriors now have telekinetic/pyrokinetic abilities? Flame me if you want, HA, but are not warriors suppose to be weapon masters, not melee mages?
    I totally agree with you.

    All these new spell effects are going to turn pvp/raids into GW3 AoE screen explosions directed by Michael Bay.
  1. derpkitteh's Avatar
    the armor that paladin is wearing is really sexy.
  1. mmoc3016107352's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Pickynerd View Post
    I totally agree with you.

    All these new spell effects are going to turn pvp/raids into GW3 AoE screen explosions directed by Michael Bay.
    I guess you haven't heard that they will filer out spells and abilities of other players in raids?

    Also Seraphim's ashbringer is probably just a placeholder.

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