So, it decided to start snowing early this year. Not snowing in game, but actually snowing IRL in the middle of October. OMG it’s too early for snow. I had to drive to & from campus Thursday in a mix of slushy snow gunk, but fortunately, not too much stuck to the roads during the [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2009
More on Rejuv: GC’s forum feedback analyzed
Okay, so I know Ghostcrawler doesn’t like us combing over his every word, but I think his latest post relates to some of the frustration I’ve been expressing over the 3.3 rejuvenation changes. Here’s a link to his forum post. Lets take his first post and see what he said about the rejuvenation changes in [...]
New PTR Build: Combat res & resto druid changes (and more!)
So, there is a new PTR build for patch 3.3. This post is still subject to change, but I finally got the first round of EJ forum haste GOTEM numbers, so I figure I’ll post this before we’ve got all the rest worked out… Rebirth: The cooldown on this spell has been lowered from 20 [...]
Battle.net accounts: Understanding the switch
Okay, so within the next month, all WoW players have to switch to battle.net accounts. I just want to clear up some misconceptions. Their Battle.net FAQ can be found here. Why do I have to use a battle.net account to log into WoW? The battle.net account is basically just giving you a new login & [...]
Does hasted HOTs favor smaller group sizes?
With the possibility of rejuvenation becoming a HOT that will scale with haste, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what it means for resto druid healing. Also, it’s possible that all HOTs & DOTs could scale with haste at some point in the future, so I want to take a “bigger picture” look [...]
Patch 3.3 – prowl & penguins!
Some of this is a little outdated, but I wanted to cover it now, anway. In part of WoW moving away for having ranks of various spells, they changed prowl (and rogue stealth) to only be one rank. Prowl will now only have to be trained once, and this will have a 30% speed decrease, [...]