Breakfast Topic: It's the end of the world as we know it....
by Elizabeth Harper 
Nov 18th 2006 at 8:00AM
...and do you feel fine? The level of general grumpiness on the official forums seems to be going up without any sign of stopping. Nearly every class is complaining of game-breaking nerfs as adjustments continue to be made to the Burning Crusade beta. So what do you think? Is it really the end of the world (of Warcraft)? Time to respec, reroll, or just find a new game? Or might things still work out in the end?
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Yz (Echo Isles) Nov 18th 2006 8:23AM
They did some play balancing. And, as usual, the folks who thought through what the devs were trying to accomplish end up defending these rational moves to folks who are venting some knee jerk reactions.
On the hunter changes, pets are having their attack speed normalized to 2.0. This means broken tooth won't smack the snot out of casters as often, but he will still do the same amount of base dps as every other pet in the game. This means that you choose your pet based upon the family and the skin you like - no more camping rare spawns for days looking for the pet with the special stats.
As for the nerf of the beast within, the major component of this talent was the crowd control element. That hasn't changed. A hunter has an 18 sec immune to fear, sheep, stun, etc... on a two minute timer. That's insane. The added damage is just topping on the cake. It was overpowered, when considered in conjunction with the other talents in the BM tree. So, they nerfed the lesser part of the talent to appease locks and mages getting owned on the beta servers, but left the core of the talent intact.
Now, as far as the druid useable item nerf. I remember when they first thought about putting this in during the druid talent rebalancing. It would overpower the druid too much. Here's the sole reason: You let a druid in bear form with that massive heal spell add in healing pots and bandages, and druids will be beating the snot out of stuff that nothing else in the game can come close to.
So, I have faith in Blizzard. I don't always like what they do, but I respect their jusdgement. After all, they made a game with 7 million subscribers. If I could do that, I would be sipping umbrella drinks in Bermuda, instead of posting here on the boards right now.
Unkle Nov 18th 2006 9:25AM
Well put Yz ... although I still get to cry NERF!!! if I want. :)
Supamunky Nov 22nd 2006 2:01PM
I just play the game. I don't really care about changes and nerfing. I just have a laugh on it.
Argent Nov 18th 2006 10:54AM
well, i hit 70 yesterday, and i can honestly say that i'm doing less dps (with newer gear) at 70 then i did at 62-64. personally, i think blizz has kinda gone off the deep end with their balancing and made the game pretty tedious for a lot of classes.
Roseroyce04 Nov 18th 2006 2:13PM
I doubt you're being honest, Argent. That is unless, of course, you deliberately put on weaker gear and called it "newer" gear just because you weren't wearing it before.
Brian Nov 18th 2006 4:20PM
As a druid, I want my weapons to proc. If I work my ass off to earn some nice mace with a proc, then I want it to work in the forms that I actually fight in.
I feel that, as the ONLY class that does not get weapon procs in our combat forms, that we deserve equality. And I HATE excuses about "Oh, that would be too hard to code" blah blah blah... For the amount of money Blizzard rakes in, they can pay someone to code anything they want.
SoL Nov 19th 2006 1:50AM
"Now, as far as the druid useable item nerf. I remember when they first thought about putting this in during the druid talent rebalancing. It would overpower the druid too much. Here's the sole reason: You let a druid in bear form with that massive heal spell add in healing pots and bandages, and druids will be beating the snot out of stuff that nothing else in the game can come close to."
That doesn't make sense. By your logic, pally's shouldn't be able to pot either cause they can heal, LoH, bubble, stun AND they wear plate, cause now pally's dps isn't laughable any longer depending on spec. Giving druids pots in form's adds to thier survivability, yes, but it's not gamebreakingly overpowered.
In order for a druid to heal him/herself they have to shift out of their form, which cut's his/her armor by 5 if they are in bear, just to start a 3 second heal which more than likely is going to get intterupted, unless you have NS and it isn't on cd. And by the time you actually get that heal off, depending on what/who your fighting, most of the life gained can be gone by the time you shift back into bear, wasting more mana.
I've fought on my druid where I shift out of bear, NS+HT myself to about 70% life just to have it crit off me again by a warrior by the time I can get back in bear form, and frenzied regen just wasn't enough to keep me up after my stun got dodged. Having a pot may not have let me beat said warror, but it may have as well.