Category Archives: Player Versus Player

An interesting Blue perspective on PvP balance

By Lissanna | Published: June 6, 2009

On the damage dealing forums, GC posted a general statement about PvP balance, that I thought was interesting. Having all specs viable in PvP is a goal, but it’s a long term goal. It’s more important that every class has at least one PvP option.  Having all specs viable in PvE is also a goal, [...]

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Improved Barkskin: Explaination and suggestions

By Lissanna | Published: June 1, 2009

Okay, it has taken me a few days of watching the forums to get a really good handle on what’s going on with the improved barkskin change. Originally, I thought the extra armor bonus would only be active when barkskin was (which made sense in my head). However, ghostcrawler clarified what the talent will do [...]

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Please don't re-nerf innervate.

By Lissanna | Published: May 25, 2009

There has been many tears spilled on the WoW forums regarding druids in Arena PvP. Some think they are too hard to kill. Others have decided that innervate is the root of all evil, and have started crusades against my beloved mana regen spell. Most of what gets posted in “nerf innervate” threads is a [...]

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Thorns nerfed – moonkin further crippled by a resto "fix"

By Lissanna | Published: May 23, 2009

So, after spending all last night and today working on my UI project, I seem to have missed a hotfix that went into the game recently: The bonus damage from spell power on the Druid ability Thorns has been reduced by half. This spell power change also effects paladins’ retribution aura. Well crud. I’d go [...]

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Moonkin PvP failure – and how to rise again? (part 2 of 2)

By Lissanna | Published: May 19, 2009

This is part 2 of my moonkin PvP analysis series. Part 1 can be found here (read part 1 before part 2). There was also some good feedback from part 1 in the moonkin repository cross-post. I suggest reading the moonkin repository comments, as well. So, lets jump right in! If typhoon was the answer, [...]

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Why moonkin pvp failed at level 80 (part 1 of 2)

By Lissanna | Published: May 18, 2009

Okay, so one of the reasons why I hated the children’s week achievements so much was that I went into each battleground as a moonkin wearing PvE gear. My focus really isn’t PvP, but with all the nerf resto druid posts on the WoW forums (half of which are misplaced in the damage dealing forum [...]

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