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Midsummer Festival - Currently Known Issues <div class="blizzquotewrap"><div class="blizzquoteinner"><div class="blizzquoteheader">Quote from: Tisephus (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/23/17900054075-midsummer-festival--currently-known-issues.html" target="_blank" style="color: white;">Source</a>)</div><div class="blizzquote">Greetings! While the Midsummer Fire Festival event has begun, we wanted to take some time to explain that there are some currently known issues with the Festival, and to let the community know that we are working on resolving them. The first issue, and what seems to be the most prevalent reported issue, is regarding gaining Fire Blossoms from fire quests that were completed last year. This affects the Honor the Fires and Desecrate the Fires quests, as they appear to have not reset from last year. We understand the concerns many players have about being able to obtain enough blossoms for this year to buy what they wish, and we are actively working on the issue. Second, there have been many reports that the quest “Unusual Activity” has not reset from last year. This is being investigated by development. In addition, we have had many players report that Crown of the Fire Festival from last year is not granting achievement credit for King of the Fire Festival. This appears to be a result of the quest not having been completed while the achievement system was live (as last Midsummer was before the achievement system was implemented). If it were to grant retroactive achievement for King of the Fire Festival, it would have been granted upon launch of the achievement system. While we do apologize for any frustration, we want to actively assure the community that we are working on resolving these issues, and any others that may appear. We will update this information as it becomes available. The thread will continue on our Customer Service Forum here: <a href="http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=17899684390&sid=1" target="_blank">http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...99684390&sid=1 </a></div></div></div> Blue posts More 3.2 related blue posts, it wouldn't be surprising to see the PTR going live this week, stay tuned! <div class="blizzquotewrap"><div class="blizzquoteinner"><div class="blizzquoteheader">Quote from Blizzard staff</div><div class="blizzquote">3.2 Resilience Changes Resilience affecting heals We considered the idea that resilience acts like a debuff for heals, but we're not happy with what that might do to the game. You'd be in a situaiton where sometimes you might not want extra resilience since it lowers your healing. Resilience is already something of a trade-off since it often comes at the expense of other stats (though hopfully less after these changes). There is a possibility that if fights go on for too long that dps casters may run OOM more than they should. That is something we may have to adjust, but we don't think it's simple to math out what kind of buff casters should be given at the moment. Note that the intent is not to turn every Arena match into a 20 minute slog. The intent is to have fewer 30 second matches. I do see some people saying that healers were already in god mode and this will only buff them. Just realize that player perceptions or intentions are different. For one person, a healer in a 2 vs. 2 shouldn't be able to keep their partner up alone. For another, having a 1 healer, 4 dps team in a 5 should be perfectly viable. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/28/17899681400-resilience-change.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) DoT Damage reduction Dots were (and currently are) lowered when they do normal damage and lowered when they crit. I don't think anyone is arguing that fact. What dot-classes often contended was that this design wasn't fair, while our position was that they were balanced around that design. It didn't make sense to us that dots that couldn't crit (say the player didn't take those talents) should be able to do more relative damage. If anything it made those talents a mixed blessing. What is changing is that we decided not to continue this design going forward since warlocks and shadow priests could stand to be buffed. If anything, you could say everyone got the warlock design, and perhaps that is a more sensible design in the first place. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/28/17899681400-resilience-change.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) Classes Bring the player, not the class The design intent is very simple, though it gets lawyered a lot by players asking for buffs. We want to promote diversity and flexibility in the raid group. Here are examples of what we DON'T want: <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>You have to have a shaman in every 5-player group within a raid.</li><li>You have to have 1 Holy paladin, 1 Disc priest, 2 Holy priests, 2 Resto shamans, 2 Resto druids.</li><li>You have 2 have 2 Holy paladins to heal the tanks.</li><li>You have to have an Unholy DK for Ebon Plague.</li><li>You have to have a warrior MT and a druid OT.</li><li>Etc.</li></ul> We push niches for healers, to a small extent, so that players don't just say "Well, druids are the best healers. Let's take 6 of them." We want you to get a couple of druid healers and then think that you are probably better off getting a few different kinds of healers to balance out your raid. We want you to be able to raid if your best Holy priest is sick that night by getting a paladin, shaman or druid instead. Some players like to claim the sky is falling after every set of patch notes, and to be fair, it's a pretty understandable reaction. But the fact is that the Ulduar raid groups have been more diverse than at any point in the history of WoW. Even the most competitive, cutting-edge guilds in the world don't all raid with the same mix of classes. From that perspective, the "bring the player" philosophy has been pretty succesful. This doesn't mean there are no balance problems (or even quality of life or fun issues) left to address. Let's just keep it in perspective. Not many guilds are running with 8 [fill in the blank of the preceived overpowered healer of the month, probably Resto druids currently], and nobody is going to start doing that in 3.2. I'm still having a hard time seeing why you can't substitute DPS classes into this statement and have it be any different... except you don't push niches for DPS, you do the opposite. Because you realized that "niches" were holding people back. First, there are more dps slots in the typical raid so even if you bring say 5 mages, you have plenty of room for everyone else. Second, if you stack too many of one particular class then you risk not having enough of the buffs and debuffs you need. Third, there are niches for dps classes too, but they are also not overly rigid niches. If you bring too much melee, you suffer on some fights. If you lack strong crowd control, your pulls may be a little messy. All I am saying is that the design is, more and less, working. Players are still concerned about being curbed, sometimes only when they are trying to look into the future or having bad memories of the past. But for most guilds out there, it isn't a problem. In most cases, bringing a more skilled player of any class will have a bigger net effect on your raiding success than bringing someone for their buff or narrow healing or damage niche, provided you have your bases covered. On the other hand, man did that soundbite stick. <img src="http://www.mmo-champion.com/Smileys/classic/smiley.gif" alt="Smiley" border="0" /> I don't think anything I could say at Blizzcon this year could have that kind of staying power. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/27/17900053896-bring-the-player-not-the-class-except-healers.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/ihunters.gif" alt="" border="0" /> Hunter (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=620" target="_blank">3.1 Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?hunter" target="_blank">3.1 Talent + Glyph Calc.</a>) Roar of Sacrifice changes in 3.2 The Roar of Sacrifice change we are trying in 3.2 is to give hunters back a little of the utility they lost when we changed it to be hunter only. Relating the ability to crits is to make sure hunters don't use it to keep the MT alive. Before we made the change to its current, live version, this was happening, and we didn't want to have to start balancing around the assumption that hunters were RoS'ing the tank. This would have led to making sure other classes had a mandatory buff, and so on. The 3.2 change is intended to restor RoS to the PvP functionality it had before, which is something a lot of hunters said they liked since they could use it on team-members and not just themselves. The cooldown is something we could iterate on, though we needed to start fairly conservatively with it to avoid having to nerf it right away. We can't change the ability back to damage reduction for anyone or we'd be back with the same tanking problem as before. But this is intended to be a buff to utility not a nerf to the ability itself. Feel free to offer your feedback on the change in this thread. This thread has gotten into some other hunter topics as well. While, I have no problem with you discussing them, I am going to confine my comments to RoS for now. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/28/17900023373-hunters-dont-go-through-with-the-ros-change.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/ipaladins.gif" alt="" border="0" /> Paladin (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=610" target="_blank">3.1 Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?paladin" target="_blank">3.1 Talent + Glyph Calc.</a>) Illumination nerf If it matters, we changed Illumination first to correspond with the Beacon of Light changes. Then when we agreed on changing resilience (and it was a very long discussion) we kne...</div></div></div>

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