In the past few days, Ghostcrawler has made two comments in Moonkin threads across the official WoW forums.
The first comment was to a suggestion to make Owlkin Frenzy be an on-use ability, such as Beastial Wrath or the like. Ghostcrawler didn’t seem to like that idea, stating that “I also don’t think it’s a great place to buff them for PvE. There are fights without a lot of predictable raid damage, and void zone diving shouldn’t be critical in keeping your dps up.”.
Thats all fine and dandy, Ghostcrawler. I understand if you don’t want to give us a burst ability, or if it’s too big a change to make at this point in the expansion. It would be rather easy to balance though, and would give us that little edge.
The second comment was aimed at a suggestion about changing Glyph of Wrath into something that increased its cast time by 0,5 seconds, and its damage by x%, to account for the longer cast time. This is a brilliant idea, because it would give us better scaling with haste, and it would remove a rather useless glyph. Ghostcrawler, however, stated that “I understand the intent and it’s clever in a way, but we would be hesitant to introduce a glyph that would actually be a bad glyph for players who weren’t capable of benefiting from a bunch of haste.”.
This makes no sense to me. We already have Glyph of Healing Touch, which is the excact opposite of what is proposed for Glyph of Wrath and that doesn’t seem to worry the developers. Even if new players did use the “new” Glyph of Wrath, it would probably not be a very big deal for them. Never the less, this is how the developers feel, and I suppose they know what they are doing.
However, the PTR forums are getting clearned up, which usually means that the PTR is coming soon. I find this curious, to say the least, because we usually don’t get many comments in moonkin threads.
This is pure speculation, but maybe – MAYBE – Ghostcrawler is passing on these two ideas, and being so “active” in moonkin threads, because they have something else in store for us?
At least it shows they are seeing the suggestions, and so at least can see what people are complaining about. Fingers crossed we’ll see something in the next PTR version
If they find a way to get the soft haste cap up to 600, I’d be super happy.
Lots of updates on the PTR – lots of class updates. Zero for druids
Ah, holding on
2 new comments on balance already… seems like Blizz is finally taking an interest in boomkins. Let’s hope something good is coming
Yes, but what worries me is that Ghostcrawler said that they would want to give a burst to PvP. He did acknowledge that no druid would complain about that spilling over into PvE, but he didn’t really acknowledge that PvE could do with a slight buff.
Q, multiple devs have acknowledged numerous times over the past few months that moonkins are heavily lacking in pve however nothing has been done.
Sure, got a slight boost to earth and moon and a slight boost to eclipse, but the latter buff served to further increase our scaling issues.
I personally do not think we’ll get any substantial buff as per say until cataclysm, however I hold no doubt that patch 3.3.5 will introduce a new spell for pvp burst purposes that might be helpful to us in pve. Might…