Really? You're sure of that?Originally Posted by Valunii
Really? You're sure of that?Originally Posted by Valunii
Honestly it looks like all they're doing is bringing back more stable rotations. The helter skelter rotations in Wrath haven't been well-received at all. DoTs will now scale with haste, but have their full duration, same with channeled abilities. Who knows how else they're changing things. It's way too early to worry about it. We don't even know if Mind Flay will be 3 seconds anymore. Blizz has converted set bonuses to being the norm several times now (did it with both BC and Wrath). So... I'm actually expecting 2.5 second base cast on Mind Flay. Who knows though. For all we know we won't even have an auto-refresh on SW:P anymore, which was implied.
I'll have to admit, even if I don't often play my shadow priest, I'm not really happy of this change.
Why ? Game "feeling" I'd say. I like having priest's MF, mage's AM or warlock's drains go off quick. I like having a lot of haste because I "hit more buttons". I don't think I'll like standing still chanelling for 3 sec anymore... However, we'll see
Originally Posted by Dark
So evocation gives even more mana?
oh shit now ppl will be 3-shotted with chaneled spells too... let's hope blizz doesn't make pvp even more easy for the geared ppl like in vanilla and WotLK
and I was like,arthas...if you don't stop killing ppl I'll kick you in da nouts
Mind Spike will only do same damage as MF+SW:P when spammed because it will buff itself kind of like Arcane Blast. Look up the quote. This means that using the spell at its maximum damage for extended periods of time is going to be very mana-heavy and thus not sustainable in Cataclysm where mana is an issue. Not to mention that we know nothing of the duration of the buff and if it's too short, you might not have time to even refresh your DoTs before it wears off and you have to start stacking it all over again.Originally Posted by AzulFuegO
Ultimately though, I think it's a bit too early to complain about something that hasn't even seen the public test realms yet.
If they call ArP "too mathy", I'd be interested to hear what they make of the new haste mechanics in regards to DoT and channeled spells.
The new mechanic as we currently understand it would've worked better if all such spells ticked 10-100 times faster at a 10-100th of the current damage because being stuck with haste just under getting another tick wouldn't have been such a breaker, but frankly that example just illustrates how flawed the it is (and for bandwidth reasons alone it probably isn't even a viable solution). Especially when considering spells with few ticks, such as Mind Flay.
Obviously Blizzard can change it further to compensate for such scenarios but that likely makes it even more complex to calculate damage on, even if they introduce some quirk to make a suboptimal amount of haste become less of a dps loss.
That's not skill, that's latency. Good luck being consistently within a .2/.4 second window on any connection that isn't forged by Zeus himself.Originally Posted by fabian
I'm expecting MF to work similarly to DoTs; i.e. if you recast it before it runs out it will continue ticking at the same pace without interruption, but if it doesn't work that way it's not a big deal to clip it appropriately either. Just get a castbar addon that shows when each tick happens and clip it after the last tick; personally I use Gnosis.
Even if we will have to work around "haste plateaus" I doubt haste will be anywhere close to a bad stat for us. Seems like by removing the only downside to haste (increased mana expenditure) it's becoming an even better stat compared to crit. Considering the 2nd SP Mastery bonus is crit, I do hope crit will get buffed a bit so it's comparable to haste in terms of dps output.
Interesting, do you have a quote for that? I somehow missed them mentioning it.Originally Posted by harky
Which is worse, ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares?
I hope shadowfiend will still be able to do damage in 3.1., it's my second "nuke" button next to Inner Focus!
Leap of faith:
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Where did they say Mind Flay would still have 3 ticks at default haste?
For all we know they can make it 6 ticks at .5 seconds instead. This would make the haste scaling less of an issue (although it would remain one).
Originally Posted by AzulFuegO
We're both correct, the ability to clip MF is based on one's ability and one's latency.Originally Posted by Abuelo
This is actually a good solution for the problem.Originally Posted by Cham
The only other i can imagine that would not feel totally clumsy is something like saving the time channeled to your character, so that, using the example mentioned above, you channel the 0.6 seconds without a tick, and whenever you cast your next mindflay, the first tick will appear after 0.2 seconds, instead of 0.8 seconds. Any other solution would lead to the feeling of having to clip at the exact right spot in the cast, which, in my opinion, is a really annoying mechanic.
This post is filled with people trying to squeeze Cata mechanics into today's constants. Nothing has been verified to continue on as is.
They could change the event length as a function of event rate. Haste could determine how many ticks and the "channel length" is a function of ticks * tick length. The resulting channel length will average 3 seconds, but fluctuate depending on haste and how close to adding another tick the level is, as you reach the "next tick added level", the channel time will decrease as more haste is acquired until another tick is added (thanks to Althor). Linear DPS scaling from haste results.
They could have ticks become capacitors. The charge rate is determined by haste. At the end of the channel, the last capacitor fires with how much charge it has (partial +1 tick). Linear DPS scaling from haste results.
I doubt they will be using stepping, creating dead time at the end. Not only does this not scale linearly, it has caps, steps, etc. that will make balancing very difficult. Cata's goal is to make class/spec development simple, not more complex. It is also to lower the amount of client-server communication, server execution time for procs/damage/healing, and DB calls. Today's functions won't be there, which is why "nerfs", "more difficult", "horrible change" to every little comment by Bliz results: stop using today's hammer complaining it doesn't work with Cata's screws.
Sweet. The best of both worlds!Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
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should make things interesting.
I'd assume this means we get a 3 sec mf with 4 ticks at the same point that a 4 sec cast would become a 3 second cast so ~33% haste?