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Blizzard hates druids!

Posted Jun.14, 2010 under World of Warcraft

Forums and blogs have been buzzing with talk for months now, ever since we saw the first alpha leaks on MMO-champion, and with the official information released by Blizzard.

And there are mixed feelings about all of these changes. Some people, myself included, are jumping up and down, clapping their hands, wearing their Blizzard fanboy shirts. Other people seem very negative towards all of these changes, filled with an age old mistrust to Blizzard, thinking that no matter what Blizzard does for us, it’s “not going to be enough”.

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Quick Quip: Speculations

Posted Feb.18, 2010 under World of Warcraft

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?

- QQ

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Best-In-Slot theorycrafting

Posted Dec.16, 2009 under World of Warcraft

Please check out the new and improved 3.5 Best In Slot list for Ruby Sanctum!

I have never been a fan of Best-In-Slot lists. People tend to forget that, while a list of items might yield a set of stats that will give you the absolute biggest upgrade, there could still be other setups that aren’t very far behind. People get tunnelvision and start only going for those items. Instead, I look at it like a Better-In-Slot list; Upgrades that you would like to get, which would put you at a comfortable amount of stats.

So, I wanted to try and take a closer look at the upgrades available in ICC, and I’ve created a quick, very noobish spreadsheet with some of the drops. The list is mostly made from items from ICC25 (with only one item from ICC10, Muradin’s Spyglass). This is just a preliminary list, but I suppose ill work on it and tweak it as we go along.

One of the major issues with this list is the topic of caps. From doing this, and the discussion on MMO-Champion that followed, I realised that I am a mere 1,66% crit away from being soft crit capped during luanr eclipse. This is troublesome, because I don’t have the mental capacity to recalculate the value of crit after that.

I did, however, come pretty close to a number that supported that it would still be most valuable to stack crit. The deal is generally, according to what I found, that its worth stacking crit until you can swap to have 712 haste rating and still be soft crit capped. This is not impossible with ICC gear, but I need to do some more research before I can set an actual conclution.

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Four quickies

Posted Nov.19, 2009 under World of Warcraft

I hate to make two blog posts just after the other, fearing that you will ignore the – much bigger – blog post below, but I figured I wanted to share these four bits of random notions:

Ghostcrawler explained how they are going to nerf elemental shamans tier 9 bonuses, because they don’t want people to use older sets because the bonusses are too good. Doesn’t that just strike you as currious, considering that we are still using 2pt8, and probably will until we get four pieces of 264 tier 10?

The mace replacement for Quel’Dalar, the Hammer of Purified Flame has been changed. It now has haste instead of mp5, making it slightly better than the 245 weapons available in Trial of the Crusader, and a very good weapon for new moonkins starting out.

I bite the bullet, troll myself and admit defeat, all within 10 minutes, and my views on Insect Swarm suddenly changes a lot. Previously, I did not deem it worthy to be cast during Lunar Eclipse, but after some amateurish napkin map, I am suddenly a lot warmer on the ability. I am cow enough to admit when I am wrong – as long as I am the one to point it out. Phew, I think I dodged a bullet there.

My gear is shaping up, after I was lucky enough to get the heroic version of Cry of the Val’kyr. I’m down to very few items that I want from TOTC now, other than upgrades from normal to heroic. The last items I have in mind are Lurid Manifistation (either version), aswell as Illumination and Drape of the Sunreavers from 10 man heroic. Ofcourse I want the 272 cloak, but I’m trying to be realistic here.

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