Earlier this week, I got a mail from Avl, a moonkin blogger on the Russian WoW fansite noob-club.ru, who asked if I would be willing to do a… short… interview for his Russian community. It seemed like fun, so I obviously jumped right in.
If your Russian is strong, you can read the original article here. What, you can’t read Russian? Well, you could try and see if this Google translate makes it easier for you. It doesn’t, I know, but it lets you somewhat see the comments people are posting.
I’ve gone ahead and posted the original transcript of the interview here. A few bits and pieces was cut out of the article posted on noob-club.ru, but this seemed like the easiest way to do it.
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The first changes are coming up on the patch 4.1 PTR and in them are a couple of things I’d like to address. First of all, I don’t want you to freak out. I’ll be honest, sometimes I feel like the blogs I do sometimes are merely to do some damage control. You know “The world isn’t going to end” and that sort of thing.
- Starsurge damage has been reduced by 20%.
Don’t worry, the world ISN’T going to end. I looked up our latest Chimaeron log, and from what I can tell, it sets me back by around 3,3% DPS. That means I would have lost around 675 DPS, which isn’t too bad – I would have been 7th on that fight instead of 6th.
And to be fair, I do think that Starsurge has a little bit too much power. I’m loving the 75k crits, but maybe we could shift a bit of our damage over to starfire and wrath. After all, it will be a long time before the PTR is done, and nothing is set in stone. Even if we do just get a nerf, it’s one that we can live with. Our damage is very good these days, and this won’t really change a thing.
The second important part I wanted to talk about, is the change to Death Knight’s Raise Ally. It will now function like a combat ress. I guess thats pretty fine, because we have had situations where we have only had two druids in the raid, and we haven’t been able to use combat resses up to the 3-per-try limit.
It’s not so much the fact that DK’s are getting a combat ress, but I want to use this news to transition into talking about the whole combat ress cap situation we’re dealing with.
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For the last couple of weeks, I feel like I have been championing the cause of Gale Winds. You know, the talent that we all hated during Wrath that seemed like a complete waste of points? The talent that we only really took on the fights like Anub’Arak heroic, where AOE mattered?
Lots of things has changed in Cataclysm, most notibly the fact that Hurricane is terrible for both damage and mana at this point in the game, but also the fact that Typhoon is actually a pretty awesome spell now.
But alas, many people seem to look down on Typhoon and on Gale Winds as a talent. I opt to change that!
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It sure took me a while, but I finally managed to get my 4-piece tier 11 set bonus. The main reason for this was that I picked up a pair of epic pants in the first week of raiding, and figured I’d just take those last.
Of course, when people actually managed to get the 4-piece bonus, they started doing the math, and as it turns out, it’s really rather badass. But, I figured I might as well continue my epic-upgrading, and I have now finally managed to get my very last item from Valor Points.
Of course, had I actually run the random heroic every day, I would have gotten this a long time ago. Several guildies of mine has been making a killing on selling valor boots, and now that I’m finally finished, maybe I can catch in on some sweet goldmaking. But that is not the topic of this blog post.
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I want to touch upon a subject that has spiked many debates over the years. You might remember my Blizzard hates druids post nearly a year ago, and this post is much like it.
If you recall, there were too camps to the story back then. The “Blizzard hates druids!” group, or as I like to call them, the self centred ignorants that think everybody are out to get them, and the “Well done, Blizzard!” group – we are often referred to as fanboys.
Now, I don’t want to say “I told you so”, but I did, and as it turns out, we are actually pretty alright today. Our biggest issues in Wrath had been taken care of, and when Cataclysm came out, we were in a really good spot – and we still are.
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Logging into WoW on wednesday was fun. But it was also quite disturbing. Testing the new changes to moonkins was interesting, but it didn’t take long to realise that a few things were a little bit off.
Starfall was supposively changed so that it doesn’t pull mobs that you’re not in combat with. In reality, if you are not in combat, starfall doesn’t hit anything. If you are in combat, it will still tag any mob in a 40 yard radius. Something went wrong there, I suppose.
But Starfall was also acting very weird in general. On a single target, I could get anywhere between 9 and 16 stars. On two targets, I got up to a total of 29 stars at best. Three targets gave me 40 stars, and everything was just so eratic that it was hard to figure out excactly what was going on. This was obviously a bug, and was hotfixed on thursday. Not a very big suprise.
But now, another hotfix is in the works. I worry about the repercussions of this, and how you guys will react. Let’s keep it short and simple:
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Oh, before I forget, the Moonkin Guide has been updated to match 4.0.6!
Back in Wrath, when I was all blinged out in heroic gear, people used to come up to me and inspect me. Maybe that was because of the awesome tier 10 looks. Maybe it was because I was mounted on Invincible, draped in a pillar of light from the endless supply of moonstones. Who knows..
And now, as my troll is idling in Orgrimmar in the most travelled streets, facing in a way so the sunlight catches the shine of my shoulders, I find that people inspect me once again, and once more, I see people drop their jaw at my awesomeness.
Al right, kidding aside, this was a lead up into the following: When people do happen to notice a person wearing gear which is better than their own, the most common question they ask is “Whats your DPS?”.
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