Monday, 11 August 2008

More Wotlk news


Iv been busy at the weekend and not had much time to have a look at anything. But today iv been looking at the beta forums and have noticed 2 very interesting updates.
"The big 3" Retaliation, Shield Wall and Recklessness no longer share the same CD... and on top of that they now have a 5 min CD each. Now this don't mean they come with out any changed. Recklessness now only affects the next 3 Yellow attacks only. And has a 15 second duration, Also no longer immune to fear. Nerf or not? I'm not to sure my self, in a 7-8 min boss fight we can use it twice integrating it with our rotation first time and execute spam when needed, but again we will have to be careful being that the threat mechanics are being changed in WotlK. Cant really make up my mind if this is going to be a good thing or a bad thing with Recklessness (WTB beta key! )
Shield wall now only reduces damage by 50% Not that I'm to interested in the prot side of things but it is a significant change. As for Retaliation... not seen whats actual changed to this. but hey! it becomes useful for grinding at least now with a 5 min CD.
Second thing that caught my eye was that Impale is now moved to Tier 3 in the arms talents. Bonus TBH
Now if only they moved Blood frenzy to where rend is i wont be so worried about Fury in WotlK!
BUT! Blue post says : "Blood Frenzy is a special case because we're still evaluating what to do with unique raid buffs in general. We're not at all happy with the "fun choice" of deciding whether to take a Fury warrior with awesome dps but no buffs, or an Arms warrior who begrudgingly picked up BF just to earn a spot in the raid"
This really caught my eye as this has been a worry for me for a while now. So maby there is hope!
Devs say there still working on us warriors. So keep ya heads held high and cross ya fingers that Fury warriors be aight!
Source
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=8765690042&sid=2000&pageNo=2

1 comment:

70TW said...

There have been a few concerns from people about the current state of Warriors in Beta. Like you said, Blizz are still yet to work on the class properly so I don't think we should be too worried at the moment.