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30/10/2008, 01:58

WotLK Beta - Build 9155 The beta servers have been updated to build 9155. Undocumented changes None. But it seems that as previously mentioned in <a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/1/11829374580-achievements-update.html" target="_blank">this post</a> the character attributes have been removed from the statistics in the achievements interface. Europe - 29/10 Free Character Migration <div class="blizzquotewrap"><div class="blizzquoteinner"><div class="blizzquoteheader">Quote from: Wryxian (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/1/6584489046-2910-free-character-migration.html" target="_blank" style="color: white;">Source</a>)</div><div class="blizzquote">Due to population differences between the highest and lowest populated PvP realms, the following Free Character Migration will be available from October 29th to November 4th: From: Grim Batol, Sylvanas To: Shattered Halls, Burning Steppes From: Frostmane, Kazzak To: Karazhan, Xavius From: Outland, Al'Akir To: Haomarush, Auchindoun From: Burning Legion, Ravencrest To: Bladefist, Veknilash Please note that this migration may be closed at any time should a destination realm's population rise too high. If you have any questions about this specific migration, please feel free to add them below. However, note that migration is opened based on realm population analysis, not popular demand, so requests for other free migrations will not be responded to. FAQ: <a href="http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/faq/charactermove.html" target="_blank">http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/faq/charactermove.html</a></div></div></div> Blue posts <div class="blizzquotewrap"><div class="blizzquoteinner"><div class="blizzquoteheader">Quote from Blizzard staff</div><div class="blizzquote">Mana drain abilities The mana drain effects do seem to make more sense as a percentage than a flat number given how wildly mana pools can vary. The warlock version also seems lackluster compared to Viper Sting in particular given the difficulty in getting each of those off. This is something we're looking at. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/9/12065377584-from-the-pally-forums--drain-mana.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) Dispell Mechanics The whole dispel system in general is something we're actively discussing. Classes were not initially designed with a lot of thought into how easily their various buffs or debuffs could be removed in a PvP setting. We were pretty close to changing it a couple of times for LK but we had a lot of big changes already and wanted to make sure they got the attention they deserved before we started overhauling even more systems. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/6/12065188824-a-simple-question-for-gc.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/24x24/deathknight.jpg" alt="" border="0" /> Death Knight (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=650" target="_blank">Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deathknight" target="_blank">Talent Calc. (9095)</a>) Sigils I'm pretty sure there are some sigils you haven't seen yet. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/18/12065328511-zero-new-sigils-in-northrend.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/24x24/druid.jpg" alt="" border="0" /> Druid (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=700" target="_blank">Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?druid" target="_blank">Talent Calc. (9095)</a>) Customization options New art for forms, customization per form, and even the possibility of showing some gear in a form is all stuff we are talking about. When we have a firm plan we're ready to unveil, I'm sure you'll hear about it. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/2/11829579415-feral-druid-need-a-fair-chance-at-visual.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) Feral Q&A (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/2/12065146837-ghostcrawler--any-news.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) 1. Feral Mana Pools are very limited, is there a planned fix for this? en you're in a form feels like it's enough to let you occasionally use that mana for something. We think you will probably still go dry quickly if you're healing a lot (which ultimately isn't something we want Feral to do a lot) or if you're chain shapeshifting (which is also something we don't want you ideally doing a lot, but recognize sometimes you need to -- dealing with a Frost mage perhaps.) 2. Protector of the Pack limitation mechanic - not very fun, what was the thinking behind this and can the limitation be removed? I've avoided this debate for a long time because it seems to really, really upset people that they can't do something they really, really want to do in a very niche case. Bear isn't designed to be something you run around solo to kill things in, and even if you want to do so anyway, your damage reduction shouldn't be a big deal. It's designed as a tanking talent and "solo tanking" is sort of nonsensical. Bear itself works fine without it, and in fact you can even tank just fine without it as long as you aren't doing progression raiding. (If it affected your dps or something, I'd be a lot more convinced.) 3. Feral talent point usage in resto tree, means we have to focus too many points on a non-feral tree, also very difficult to get all the "tanking" talents offered, no room for pvp choices in a tanking build - is this intended? We designed the new Feral tree with Omen as a trade-off. If we ever moved Omen around, we would also juggle Feral talents. We don't want you to be able to get all Feral talents and OoC. You can be a good bear, good cat, get good PvP talents or get Omen. But you can't do it all with one build. 4. Swipe / Thorns combo (360') Aoe. Is it possible to get a 360' upgrade to our bear form aoe ability? We don't think too many druids are having trouble using Swipe in its new form. A little difference among class abilities that are otherwise very similar is probably good for the game. 5. Feral Itemization issue 1: Too much Armor on some earlier tanking weapons compared to 25 man naxx gear is this intended? Do you mean you're going to keep using the older weapon instead of the Naxx bear staff? 6. Feral Itemization issue 2: Not enough "Armor" trinkets in game making them invaluable to druids, basically once you have these trinkets you will not grab anything else unless you reach armor cap. - Can more armor trinkets be added, with different usage stats? My suspicion is you are still over-valuing armor compared to other defensive stats. I realize you don't want block or parry but that doesn't mean it's armor or nothing. 7. Feral Itemization issue 3: Tanking gear - PVP gear seems to be better for tanking, more stam, why is this the case? PvP gear pays a lot more of its item budget on resilience than it did in BC so you're going to be giving up something else (like Agi) to use it. Also make sure you are comparing PvP gear to PvE gear of the same item level. 8. Kitty AOE - Kitty form basically has no aoe ability, which limits damage output in multiple mob situations - we would have to switch to bear / caster which would mean taking a chance on pulling aggro or doing minimal damage with hurricane. Are there plans to add kitty form aoe? Hurricane and Swipe do pretty good AE, certainly better than rogues have (on which cat was modeled). 9. Cat charge being linked to Bear charge. - Why is this the intended mechanic for these two attacks? We think this would encourage quickly shifting from one form to another, which is something we have actually taken pains to discourage (RIP powershifting). 10. Berserk - The current version of Berserk feels weak now that the immunity to all snares has been removed, and its cooldown is too long. - Is there any way the snares functionality of berserk can be restored? We thought it was too good if it broke all snares and granted such a great dps increase. 11. Savage Roar - Is it possible to have it persist through shifting? Same answer. We don't want to add anything else to the class that encourages you to say go cat, use an ability, then go back to bear. Changing forms is cool. Changing forms to buff yourself in one form then going to another isn't what we're going for. If you're a cat and shift to humanoid to heal or decurse or bear to survive when being attacked -- that's cool and what the Feral design is all about. It's when you start to chain several shifts together that we get uncomfortable. I use cat in short bursts when I feel like the opportunity to survive is there, but this seems to indicate you want people staying in cat OR bear for extended periods. No, that's not exactly it. Using cat in short bursts is awesome. Shifting out of feral to Innervate or Rebirth is cool, even if you immediately go feral again. Where it starts to cross the line is being a bear, going cat to hit a button, then going back to bear to benefit from the cat button. Doing feral charge bear, shifting and doing feral charge cat is not what we want. Anything that starts to feel like the old powershifting (changing just to generate mana) is what we're trying to avoid. If it helps, think about it this way: shifting once in a small window is cool. Shifting several times in a small window is less cool. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/2/12065146837-ghostcrawler--any-news.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) Infected Wound Infected Wounds is a disease, so it can fail, which shows up as a miss in combat logs. Stacking hit should fix the problem if it seems to happen a lot. Poisons have the same issue. (Fonte (http://blue....</div></div></div>

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