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Blue posts A few blue posts I forgot to mention before christmas, I'm sure Santa brought you tons of new weapons to kill more elves. <div class="blizzquotewrap"><div class="blizzquoteinner"><div class="blizzquoteheader">Quote from Blizzard staff</div><div class="blizzquote">Crowd Control in PvP Players complained endlessly about being chain feared and stunlocked too. Still do. It's the reason there are so many ways to break CC in the game now. You can't pretend that crowd control was an elegant weapon for a more civilized age. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/27/13587719113-ive-never-seen-something-move-obvious-since.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) Bug - Huge DPS Buff To clarify, we're not just looking for any case where you see big numbers. There are situations in encounters that buff you quite a bit. We are looking for a specific bug almost certainly related to the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37220" target="_blank">Essence of Gossamer</a> trinket where someone's dps is suddenly tremendously higher than the rest of the group for no apparent reason. Like I said, it's probably fixed already, but you can never be too sure. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/28/13275298048-gc-11k-dps-as-feral-on-patchwerk-explain.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) Password problem on PTR We implemented some fixes overnight and we believe this issue is now resolved. Please re-test. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/13/7313171378-blue-password-problem-on-ptr.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) Talent builds in PvP I understand your point, but we actually do ask players to choose between more damage or healing and survivability. It is supposed to be an interesting decision. When you really want a talent because it is really useful for PvP and that prevents you from getting another talent that you also ideally want, you can argue that means the talent trees are actually working. One of the things I like about PvP specs is they do place a lot more emphasis on hybrid builds in order to pick up certain talents, while a great many PvE specs choose one tree and try to max it out. I am probably taking the mob example far beyond what you intended, but I think it is actually illustrative. You are going to defeat, by a huge order of magnitude, most of the mobs you meet. In many examples it won't even be a challenge -- you will two shot them. If the PvP matchmaking is working well, however, you will lose 50% of every match (and that assumes classes are perfectly balanced, which I won't pretend to claim). It is much harder to feel like a hero in an Arena because we aren't trying to make you feel like a hero. Psychologically, I think that is a bigger deal than a lot of players realize. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/27/13909403180-cloth-tank-pvp-concept-doesnt-work.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/24x24/priest.jpg" alt="" border="0" /> Priest (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=640" target="_blank">Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?priest" target="_blank">Talent + Glyph Calc.</a>) Divine Aegis nerf You guys have poked holes in some of the extreme examples that have been mentioned, and understandably so, but this essentially is the gist of it. Players are really good at finding clever ways to exloit mechanics to trivialize encounters. Healing damage is a pretty well understood mechanic at this point. Shielding players from taking damage is a little scarier -- preventing 2x damage is a much bigger deal than healing 2x damage. While we probably could come up with a system that bullet proofed every possible potential Diving Aegis exploit, I just don't know that the bang for the buck is there. Even if you have 3-4 Disc priests healing a raid, it seems like they could all be pretty effective even with a limitation of one shield per target. If we get to the point where it feels like the third or fourth Disc priest is being excluded from a raid or an Arena team, we'll probably look into it some more. For now, we just want to see Disc be more common in general. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/27/13909401951-divine-aegis-nerf.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) PvP survavibility First, I think the warlocks would disagree pretty vehemently about their survivability. This message comes up pretty regularly on the damage forums. Second, we know it's posible to make very tough priests, because Disc priests were exactly like that in later seasons. It took a high amount of resilience gear and some specific talent choices, but they could take a lot of damage and heal themselves through a certain amount of it. I agree we have some work to do on Holy priests in PvP. I think the concept of a cloth class without a lot of mobiliy that is supposed to just heal itself through damage would be a pretty hard sell. But we try to address it on the mitigation side for priests (and the occasional fear bomb doesn't hurt). (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/27/13909403180-cloth-tank-pvp-concept-doesnt-work.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/24x24/warrior.jpg" alt="" border="0" /> Warrior (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=600" target="_blank">Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?warrior" target="_blank">Talent + Glyph Calc.</a>) Clarifications on the "DR" from the latest Q&A post My bad. You said "DR" and I even responded "DR" but what I meant wasn't diminishing returns, but breaking on damage (as fear does now). That is a topic that comes up a lot. My point was that it wouldn't make a big difference on very short stuns like Charge, but it would change being stunlocked quite a bit. To answer several other questions, yes I realize the questions were directed at PvP. The poster even said that up front. I mentioned Fury pulling aggro because it suggests their damage may also be pretty RNG if they can't control it better. RNG in PvP is a pretty big topic. In general you will probably find us more tolerant of random elements than players typically are. Misses, crits and resists are all very random and sometimes those numbers can determine success or failure of a match. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/28/13908721775-concise-questions-seeking-answers-warrior.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) Sudden Death and Taste for Blood randomness No, I think I understood the issue in this case (which isn't easy, since so many of these questions are typically written in "gotcha" format). We did want them to be random abilities. It would have been very easy to make them on-demand, but we have also had to nerf a lot of on-demand burst (just ask the Ret pallies). In your mind you are probably envisioning a Sudden Death that does what it does now when you want it to. But in our minds, if we made the ability less random we would also make it hit less hard. That might be a fine trade-off for some warriors. We have discussed making Sudden Death more like mini-Executes. The reason we haven't done that yet is it just waters down the ability. Players might start to think, eh, it's not a ton more damage than MS, so I'll just stick with MS. It is really easy for players to match out abilities when randomness is downplayed. Stance penalties I think in the minds of most warriors they say "Would I like to have a 10% percent damage penalty or not? I think not." But of course that's not the way it would work. If we redesigned the stances it wouldn't be in order to give warriors 3% more crit and 10% more health. That's just a straight buff. What we would likely do is something similar to the death knight presences -- lower your health by 10% and then increase the damage reduction of Defensive Stance and give Battle Stance a tiny bit of damage reduction. (Or maybe Battle Stance would take the same damage as Berserk, but have a more meaningful bonus like movement speed or attack speed). Now your tooltips don't use the word "penalty" so you maybe feel better about them, but the balance hasn't really changed much -- Berserk would be an offensive stance and Defensive would be a defensive stance. Being in Berserk would still be risky. If instead you're just arguing that warriors are weak and need to be buffed, that's a different issue. But there is no reason we would have to solve that by removing stance penalties. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/28/13908721775-concise-questions-seeking-answers-warrior.html" target="_blank">Source</a>)</div></div></div> Video - The Craft of War: BLIND Every now and then, someone releases something awesome and eventually push the limits of WoW videomaking a bit further. I think this is what just happened with this video. <div align="center"><object width="549" height="309"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2625538&server=vimeo.com&sho w_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=c9ff 23&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2625538&server=vimeo.com&sho w_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=c9ff 23&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="549" height="309"></embed></object> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=97157">The Craft of War: BLIND @ Warcraftmovies</a></div> A few words from the author, Percula Earlier this year I got pretty bored and decided to do something creative in my spare time. I've been wanting to do a fight scene for a while and decided to ...

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