Koraa chats about Priests

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9-11-2008 @ 8:18PM

Linaara said...

First time commenting, long time reader :).

Seems to me they're nerfing everyone to buff them up to a shadow of their former selves just so they'd be satisfied. Like with gas prices.

They give us almost exactly what we need, everything's fine and dandy and everyone's excited, then they take EVERYTHING away, then restore only some of it. People think, "well, it's better than the nerf, right?" and keep on going. This beta business is starting to disgust me.

9-11-2008 @ 8:36PM

Electro said...

I was thinking the exact same thing

9-11-2008 @ 8:49PM

Mr. Crow said...

I would disagree with the sentiment that the latest nerfs reduce the efficacy of priests below where they are at currently. WotLK finally assigns a real purpose to the Discipline tree that it's lacked since the Classic game -- instead of just being a point dump for mana efficiency talents for Holy/Shadow, Discipline is now a full-fledged healing spec that plays differently from Holy.

Holy priests are the kings of group healing, beyond simply CoH-spamming. Shadow is getting some nice new tricks, but the VT nerf (as part of the change in raid buff mechanics) was necessary and there haven't really been any definitive numbers by anyone that Shadow DPS is being appropriately upped to compensate.

Repeat the mantra with me: "This is Beta. We shall see."

If the rollercoaster ride of beta changes disturbs you that much, you can always ignore it and stick with playing the live game until the change comes. For me, being a game designer means I like watching development in action, and I can think of fewer games with a development cycle as open and complex as WoW.

9-12-2008 @ 2:58AM

clegane said...

@ Linaara

If you can't handle reading the patch changes as they work through the beta/balancing process, then DON'T READ THEM! It's called beta testing. It's not like they are taking things away... they never gave them in the first place.

I love the priest class, and look forward to learning the new stuff in LK. Haven't read up much on the changes, but I'm sure I'll learn them all from 70-80. No point in stressing about it till then, imo! See you guys in LK!~

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