Gathering Professions Preview and News Round Up: Dragon Soul 30%

Live Geposted 12.07.2012 um 12:29 von perculia

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Herbalists get a new rank of : Uses your skill in Herbalism to absorb energy and nutrients from the earth, instantly healing minor wounds and granting 2880 haste for 20 sec. Can be used while stealthed or invisible.

Spaten des Kräuterkundigen is sold by Trade Supply vendors. It increases your herbalism by +10 and does not need to be equipped.

Narrenkappe: high-level areas with water nearby: Windward Isle, Briny Muck in Dread Wastes, etc. Requires 600 skill.

Goldlotus: requires 550 skill, any zone, rare spawn node. Picking one gives you Glück des Lotus. Also chance to be inside Rätselhafter Samen from Tillers.

Teepflanze: grassy areas in all zones, most common herb. 500 skill to gather.

Regenmohn: by inland water. 525 skill to gather.

Sha-berührtes Kraut: similar to Gefrorenes Kraut in Northrend. Found in corrupted areas like Stoneplow Fields in Tal der Vier Winde. Requires 575 skill.

Seidenkraut: by water in low-level zones. Requires 545 skill.

Schneelilie: snowy mountains in Kun-Lai Summit. 575 skill

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Miners get a new rank of : All your hard work spent mining has made you exceptionally tough, increasing your Stamina by 480.

Verstärkte Spitzhacke is sold by Trade Supply vendors. It increases your mining by +10 and does not need to be equipped.

Geistereisenerz: Used in Geistereisenbarren. Geistereisenvorkommen requires 515 Mining and Reiches Geistereisenvorkommen requires 550 Mining.

Schwarzes Trilliumerz and Weißes Trilliumerz: Used in Trillium verhütten (two of each). Trillium Deposits are rare nodes in level 90 zones. White Trillium Ore can also be prospected for Funkelnde Scherbe, needed for Serpentin.

Kyparitvorkommen and Reiches Kyparitvorkommen are used to make Kyparit which is needed for many engineering recipes. Spawns at the bottom of Kyparite trees in Dread Wastes and Townlong.

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Kürschnermesser is no longer a plain weapon--it gives +10 skill.

Fette Eingeweide: The Seltsamer aufgeblähter Magen of MoP--chance to loot upon skinning a normal mob. Currently they contain several gold, but may have crafting materials in the future, like Cataclysm had Volatiles.

Prächtiger Balg: the rare leather for MoP. Very low drop rate. Takes 50 Nebelberührtes Leder to make.

Prismatische Schuppe: From reptiles and turtles.

Nebelberührtes Leder: Staple Skinning item from most mobs. Combine 5 Sha-berührtes Leder.

Sha-berührtes Leder: From low-level Pandaria mobs. Combine 5 into Nebelberührtes Leder.

Windwollverband requires 500 skill, healing the user for 54720 damage over 8 sec. It costs 1 Windwollstoff to make.

Schwerer Windwollverband is trained at 550 skill, healing the user for 123120 damage over 8 sec. It costs 3 Windwollstoff to make, but upon hitting 600 skill, it is reduced to 2 Windwollstoff.

Not tied to First Aid skill yet, Kampfhaustierbandage will also be available for healing battle pets.

IconsHit the break for the news and blue posts!Dragon Soul Difficulty Change: 30%

Blizzard

Once scheduled server maintenance is completed during the week of July 17, the “Power of the Aspects” spell will grow more powerful, reducing the health and damage dealt of all enemies in the Dragon Soul raid by 30%. This spell has grown progressively stronger over time to reduce difficulty and make the encounters more accessible. The spell will affect both normal and Heroic difficulties. It will not affect the Raid Finder difficulty.

If you don’t need the help of the Dragon Aspects, the spell can be disabled by talking to Lord Afrasastrasz at the beginning of Drachenseele.

We hope you continue to enjoy Drachenseele, and that these changes encourage you to attempt a higher difficulty, or just keep pushing to take down that next boss.

World Boss Testing

Watcher

We have applied a hotfix that causes the Sha des Zorns to respawn within minutes instead of the usual period of hours, to facilitate testing of this encounter on beta. If you have not yet checked it out, you can find the encounter in Kun-Lai-Gipfel.

Please use this thread to share any feedback. Thanks!

Watcher

We have applied a hotfix that causes Galleon and his band of marauding saurok to respawn within minutes instead of the usual period of days, to facilitate testing of this encounter on beta. If you have not yet checked it out, you can find the encounter on the southern edge of Tal der Vier Winde.

Please use this thread to share any feedback. Thanks!

Hardmode Beta Raid Testing Soon

Watcher

At this point it's likely that we will do 10-player Heroic testing before we do 25-player testing. In any case, that testing is waiting on the next beta build, which contains numerous balance changes and fixes made based on the first round of tests. We'll try to provide as much advance notice as possible regarding the date and time of the next testing sessions.

Guild Mentoring Program

Blizzard Entertainment

Azeroth -- It’s a land of turmoil, harsh and unyielding for heroes of the Horde and the Alliance as they struggle against enemies from within and without. For those stepping forth for the first time into this implacable realm, life can seem overwhelming, but surviving in this hostile environment is not insurmountable with a little help. Will your band of brothers and sisters, heroes and mentors, heed your call for aid?

Azeroth needs more heroes to rise through the ranks and your guild can help. We’re looking for a few good guilds to volunteer for the new Guild Mentoring Program. Guilds participating in the program will take part in identifying new players within selected realms, offering to invite them into the guild, and teaching them the ways of Azeroth as they level and reach the end game content.

F.A.Q.

Q. What is the Guild Mentoring Program?
A. The guild mentoring program identifies guilds on select realms to act as mentors for new and low level players (below level 85).

Q. How long does the Guild Mentoring Program run for?
A. The Guild Mentoring Program will run for a period of four months from the time that guilds are selected and notified.

Q. Is there a certain criteria for being selected as a mentoring guild?
A. Guilds must meet certain criteria to be considered for the Guild Mentoring Program:

Guilds must be located on one of the selected realms.
They must be willing to commit to the program for a four month period.
They must be willing to change their name for the four month Guild Mentoring participation period. (Names will be changed back at the end of the program.)
Guilds must be at least level 6 and have an active membership.

Q. How many guilds will be recruiting per realm?
A. Only one guild will be selected per faction on each realm.

Q. What does my guild need to do to volunteer?
A. The guild leader will need to submit an application to wowguilds@blizzard.com with the following information:

Current guild name and guild leader name
Current realm and faction of the applying guild
Current guild level and number of guild members
Guild leader’s real name and phone number (this information will not be published and is for internal use only)
Brief description of the Mentoring Guild

Q. How long are you accepting applications for?
A. We will be accepting applications for two weeks. We will then select a guild for the Guild Mentoring Program from those that meet the criteria and contact the guild leader.

Q. On what realms will this program be available?
A. Mentoring guilds will be chosen for the following realms:

Cenarius
Dalaran
Doomhammer
Garona
Garrosh
Ravencrest
Sen'jin
Shu'halo
Ysera

US Realms	Oceanic Reams
Aggramar	Dath'Remar
Azuremyst	Saurfang
Blackhand

Q. Do participating guilds get anything special?
A. Some of the benefits for taking part in the program include:

MVP status on the forums for the guild leader and recruitment officer
Guild member private forum access
Recognition for your guild as being participants in the program

Nakatoir

All applicants for the Guild Mentoring Program will go through an approval process to ensure that they fit all necessary requirements. On top of this, the guild leader and anyone else who receives MVP status through the program will also be checked thoroughly to ensure that their tenure in the program will not cause any problems.

In the end an MVP is all about being a helpful player who generates a positive influence amongst the community and these are just some of the qualities we are looking for in these guilds.

To sum up; it takes a lot more than just a well written email to get into the program, we will ensure every candidate fits the bill for the new status they receive :)

Beta Class Balance Analysis

Ghostcrawler

Yeah, we will try to add dodge from Agi to the Agi and dodge tooltips. Currently they’re just included in the title of each of those tooltips, which are final values after summing all of the sources and applying DR. The “(before diminishing returns)” line in the dodge tooltip, refers just to the “dodge of X adds Y% dodge” line, not the total. It’s somewhat confusing right now. All of this goes for Strength / parry as well.
All Agility (base and bonus) grants dodge at a rate of 951.158596 to 1% at level 90. However, dodge from bonus Agility and dodge rating is affected by diminishing returns. “Bonus” Agility refers to all Agility beyond what you have with no gear/buffs (for example, a level 90 troll Druid has 97 base Agility and all other Agility is Bonus).
It's easy to play the "I didn't see feedback on X, therefore there wasn't feedback on X" card. We wouldn't have removed Judging for haste if plenty of players hadn't told us they hated the mechanic. If there's a mechanic the developers don't like, I'm more than happy to state that, so there isn't a need for us to invent some kind of silent majority to justify changes. You'll just have to trust me that when I say we heard feedback, that it really exists.

Related, we don't remove mechanics just because we receive negative feedback on them (or else there would be nothing left in the game!); it's a balancing act, based on how much feedback we here from different vectors (keeping in mind that we have a lot of players who don't post on US or even English forums), the logic made in the argument, how much the argument makes sense to us, how much we respect the arguers, and so on. There's no red meter on the office wall that we can read, and even if there was, sometimes the right answer is still one that may be unpopular in the community (at least at that moment). But I digress.

We understand that winning meters can be fun. We're not going to design encounters around that though. There are DPS checks, but sometimes they are to beat the boss before the healers run out of mana or before the boss enrages, and other times they are to kill a key add in an even shorter window. Players already know ways to pad meters by cleaving adds that don't matter and the like. Overall, we don't think we're doing anyone a favor by emphasizing DPS meters even more than they already are. We'll commit to making sure you don't feel like a third wheel on any fight, especially when it's new or within the first couple of progressive nerfs.

I was puzzling it over, but it would be nearly impossible to guarantee that even when we nerf encounters to 20%+ that the relative damage dealt by everyone is going to stay in sync. When the length of a fight shortens so that you can no longer squeeze your 3-minute cooldown into the fight twice, that's going to have an impact. I understand the concern, but I'm not sure of a reasonable way to solve it. We're not going to buff and nerf classes every time we do the progressive nerfs -- that would feel crappy to everyone I think.
Class designers and encounter designers are all part of the same team. There is even some overlap in office space. You may also have tried a boss in Mists where you need to AE for five minutes or more.... At the risk of turning classes against each other, if you think there are specs that are essentially just channeling Blizzard and going from 0 to 100% very quickly, please let us know. We are more likely to adjust those than we are to give every spec very simple, boring AE rotations given that AE is more of a thing even on bosses these days.

The argument that you aren't contributing meaningful DPS on nerfed content is a little tough to address. It is most important for every spec to be able to contribute on cutting-edge content, when the risk of class stacking is at its greatest. Most reasonable players understand that as content gets nerfed, fights will get shorter and shorter, and that allows different cooldowns and mechanics to shine. If your raid leader is threatening to sit you because of your AE DPS on very easy content, then maybe he's avoiding telling you the real reason. (I jest.)
Yes and no. Plate tanks now get a very significant amount of parry from Strength (the same amount that druids get dodge from Agility). So yes, plate tank parry is going to be significantly higher than their dodge. We want parry rating and dodge rating on gear to be of similar value, so we drastically eased the diminishing returns on parry for these classes. Saying that tanks are going to be “stacking parry over dodge by a 3:1 ratio” is probably exaggeration; we’re expecting you to naturally get Strength on gear, giving you the majority of your parry, and then favor parry rating and dodge rating roughly equally beyond that. There’s still some tweaking to be done to get that more tightly tuned (especially since our recent change to ratings of only needing ~85% as much rating to get the same result as before), but it’s in the right ballpark.
It's fine for specs to have different sorts of AE mechanics, but the simpler ones shouldn't also do the most DPS. (Granted, "DPS" when referring to AE has a lot to do with duration, area and and number of targets.)

Todesritter

Ghostcrawler

Question regarding : assuming it costs Runic Power

Froststoß

It's not about the QQ. Yeah, other tanks get it free. So what? Classes are different.

What we need to focus on is the consequences of this change. To put it briefly, blood DKs will ignore diseases beyond using the free Ausbruch to maintain 50% uptime.

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, and Todespakt (Possibly the whole level 60 tier of talents) are generating healing AE threat similar to that of regular healing. Is this intended? Seems rather odd, since the threat generated by the healing portion of death strike was removed. Both these healing abilities do generate AE threat on live as well, but they aren't modified by the thread modifier provided by blood presence like it does on beta.
Probably not. We'll discuss those. Specifically, as the poster mentions, the issue isn't the heals causing threat. The issue is the heal threat being magnified for a tank, such that you risk asking the tank not to use their self-heal for fear of pulling stuff off of the other tank.
should work just like any other AP buff. For tanks, we explicitly make certain abilities scale with AP, so that they do become stronger while tanking. I think the simplest example is Schildblock vs. . We want Schildblock to generally win against hard hitting (such as raid boss) creatures, and to win against weaker hitting creatures. But we don’t want that difference to be so stark that the other feels useless in either situation. Schildblock naturally scales with the incoming damage. We made scale with AP, since we know that your AP is also going to be higher when fighting those harder hitting creatures, thanks to . If something scales off for AP and isn’t counting that sounds like a bug. The one you mention, Antimagisches Feld, scales with 400% of Str for Blood / Frost and 325% for Unholy (to counteract the +25% Str that Unholy gets). We didn't want Antimagisches Feld to be significantly stronger for Frost or Unholy, such that you're asked to switch specs just to bring a stronger cooldown.
Ouch, I was already fairly resource starved on the beta and figured this was (part) of the cause. If Raureif no longer gives RP from it's Heulende Böe, that's going to be super painful.

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Ghostcrawler

Zermalmen is still a DPS button. It may not be one you use often, but there will be times when you don't care about surviving (when the boss needs to die NOW, or even when you're solo or running a scenario perhaps). We may eventually end up adding a proc or something (hopefully not exactly like ), but we're not sure it's needed. At the moment Guardian damage is too high, so encouraging more Zermalmens isn't super high priority. :)
Issue #1. Guardian dps seems to be EXTREMELY skewed towards mangle.

Issue #2. Guardian dps is pretty overpowered.

Jäger

Ghostcrawler

Agree 100%, I think GC is too stuck on balencing for pve right now, not really looking into how sirvival feels in pvp, rather just saying "dots are powerful in pvp", not really, especially when the enemy has heals. And survival has no burst even with the current . Not to mention dispell protection, but dispells are on a 6 second cd now..

is scaling exactly as the coefficient described. The problem is that, its scaling modifiers were admitted to by Ghostcrawler himself to be very much flawed but it was never addressed in the actual game design.

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In the current beta build, survival's damge is being hindered by ticking for almost less than a serpent sting tick.

Based on my testing so far with the formula, it looks like is going to be doing enough damage (at least for SV) that we would want to include it in our rotation (assuming I calculated the scaling right).

Mönch

Ghostcrawler

It's a good stat for Brewmasters for sure, and it needs to be because monks will have haste on their gear. However, Brewmasters probably have the most valuable secondary stats of any spec in the game. They don't really have bad stats, and their good stats aren't a ton better than others. (If you think that isn't the case, please feel free to argue that point though.)
It's 8 for Windwalkers, with a +30% buff for Brewmasters to provide a 10.4 per second. The free s for Brewmasters (which you may or may not have yet - I can't remember) are intended to fill in for some of the down time.
Is it intended that the stacks of Manatee a Mistweaver Monk can gain from doing DPS in Der wilde Tiger will persist through stance changes, and is it intended that in periods of downtime Mistweaver Monks are to use this fact in order to build up a reserve of Manatee at no cost other than what it takes to consume the stacks when later needed?

Paladin

Ghostcrawler

Are you using a white weapon for those numbers or something like that? We show Kreuzfahrerstoß hitting for about 10K and HotR for 6K in gear similar to yours.
Holy paladins being required to Judge was super controversial. I think we would cause a lot of unhappiness if we tried to bring it back. There are several talents that tie into using Judgment if you want to use it. We intend to handle the lower haste numbers by adding 10% spell haste into .

Priester

Ghostcrawler

Sanctuary should scale with haste like Efflorescence. It just adds more ticks.
"Why does not benefit from haste like Heilender Regen and Efflorescence. Is it intended?"

Schamane

Ghostcrawler

Ausgebrannte Glyphe is incredibly weak, such that Shaman would be better off electing to handle AOE raid damage on a spread raid as we have since Ulduar--through single-target healing.

Kettenheilung

Ausgebrannte Glyphe. Points about the lack of and Rückstrom procs aside (because they were addressed earlier), what concerns me most about this glyph is the usage that it's seeing by shaman in the Beta, who are recording parses where RT is their primary or secondary heal because of its Rejuv-spam-like application. This practice essentially devalues Flutwellen management and spell weaving in favor of RT blanketing.

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Is it intended for Elementarschlag to give a random buff instead of your increasing your highest stat?

A simple quick glance at this list clearly shows the cheapest spell for shaman being more expensive than ANY priest spell in either spec.

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That talent is the only thing keeping Rshamans wanted due to our lack of spread healing(Double Totem der Heilungsflut helps with that). If you remove that ability you might as well leave us how we were in T11/T12 due to lack of such healing. It also doesn't help the other two choices are not even a choice due to how bad they are. You can make Totemischer Rückruf a 30 minute cd and we would still take it.

From the logs I have seen so far we are either behind other healers or barely equal in select cases with regards to healing numbers and I pray hardmodes will solve this due to our mastery. Not to mention our mana regen is nothing to brag about

Totemischer Rückruf

Do the stats of temporary pets like Wildgeists (ones that don't have a pet stats page) adjust dynamically according to thier master's stats? Or do they still take a "snap shot" of thier master's stats?

Hexenmeister

Ghostcrawler

s don’t decay until you’ve been out of combat for 30 sec, and decay at a rate of one every 25 sec. So if you’re spending a full minute between pulls, you’ll lose 1 ember. It shouldn’t feel particularly punitive. You may be remembering how it felt several builds ago, where they started decaying immediately and decayed one every 10 sec.

We aren't trying to be punitive here. What we want to avoid is the warlock feeling like the right way to play is to go build up full embers before any boss encounter or other serious fight. That stops feeling like breaking the rules in a fun way and starts to feel like a chore. "Let me eat food, drink a flask and go find something to build up my embers."
Ultimately, Destro is largely using their single target spells to do AE along with Feuerregen. You can also prepare for the ramp up by saving up embers just before the AE moment starts.
For maximum sustained damage, you will probably do better using on Verbrennen. There are times when burst damage is more important though, and faster Chaosblitzs will be attractive.

I say this with a little tongue in cheek, but for some players, winning meters is more important. For others, beating the boss is. :)
Are you happy with the benefit that each spec is deriving from this cooldown? Right now, Destro yet again feels like it falls behind because RNG can significantly negate the benefits of its cooldown (i.e. - you may not crit any more than you would normally; it's even possible to crit less frequently during its duration!

ChaosblitzKrieger

Ghostcrawler

We are happy with the beta design for now. The idea is that we can't ask Prot warriors to spend Rage on offensive attacks if we are also asking them to spend resources on defensive abilities -- the defenses will just always win. The proc is there to let you use and Cleave for free sometimes. When you aren't tanking (like you are solo or off-tanking) or when survival isn't a question (you're running an easier dungeon perhaps) then you can instead of Schildblock or Barrier. As you point out, you can use and Verwüsten at the same moment since they aren't on the same cooldown.
Rache - 4.5 sec cooldown. Instantly attack an enemy and two additional enemies for X damage. If Rache is on cooldown, a successful dodge or parry refreshes Rache. Generates 10 Rage in Frontkämpfer.

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Ghostcrawler

I think one of the real questions here is how does the game determine this exactly.

This is sort of off-topic but semi-related, but how will World Bosses work?

Will they use the LFR loot system or require that I be in the group that tagged it? I foresee a lot of same-faction griefing if it didn't use the LFR one (ie: pulling the boss early and dropping combat immediately forcing it to respawn several minutes later in a different location, or just plain pulling it early to wipe the group before they're ready) or pulling a lot of extra nearby mobs, etc.

I know you didn't mention here, GC, but someone (Blue) has in the past, and that is the idea that the mechanism for LFR loot distribution may be that the game chooses X random people to win loot, where X is some number either hardcoded into the loot system, or chosen by some other mechanism at the time the loot drops (for example).

So does that mean if you win something in LFR in mists it is NOT tradeable?

So if two friendly priests queue for LFR and one of them wins a piece that he already has, he cannot trade it to his GF who actually needs it?

Will it select loot as it deems "appropriate" for just the class in general, or for their specific spec? I would really hate to win loot, just to find out i received an item for holy, when I am playing Ret.

With random rolls you don't really get that feeling because it is all visible and most people don't believe that Blizzard is altering the /roll just for them (although sometimes it feels that way). The new LFR system doesn't look very transparent, and so a person constantly seeing nothing go into their bags might lose hope that they will win anything and stop raiding altogether.

What if it's entirely guild based group, it will still use LFR loot rules and not master looter? that seems a bit ackward.

Does this mean that you might consider switching the Dungeon Finder loot system to use something similar to the new LFR system? I realize that random 5-man groups should be able to distribute loot appropriately through communication, but in practice this seldom happens. Instead, some people will roll need on everything they can which ends up in undesirable loot distribution - particularly with respect to gear that is not armor-type restricted (e.g., Hunter rolling need on dodge trinket).

The game keeps track of who is in who's group upon entering LFR. If say 5 friends grouped up to help one person gear, couldn't the game allow trading of items that drop between those people only? That way everyone still gets their roll chance but if a few geared players want to help a friend they still can? It wouldn't affect the overall roll chance in the new LFR system but it would allow people who want to help their friends gear up quickly for whatever reason.

Language Barrier in LFD and LFR

Nethaera

While we understand some of the sentiment about this, it's important to understand that by separating pools of players, we impact queue times. Overall, the language of the game itself can bridge the gap in most cases. There's not much else I can say about this other than I'm going to close this thread since these can often devolve into inappropriate discussion.

Blizzard at Comic-Con

Blizzard Entertainment

Going to Comic-Con this week? Here is the full line-up of where you can find our licensed products!

Blizzard Entertainment Product Showcase
Thursday, July 12
Room 6BCF
2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Love Diablo, World of Warcraft and StarCraft? Join Chris Metzen (Blizzard Entertainment SVP Story and Franchise Development) and a team of esteemed guests as we reveal never-before-seen licensed products and plans for 2012/2013! Talk to the creative minds behind the Blizzard product lineup, including the Mega Bloks sets, novels, comics, statues and more! Panel and Q&A session moderated by Kat Hunter (host of BlizzCon coverage on DIRECTV).

Blizzard Entertainment Autograph Signings

Insight Editions Booth (#1035)

Book of Cain -- Friday 10:00-11:30 a.m.
Micky Neilson, Flint Dille, Matt Burns

Art of Blizzard -- Friday 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Chris Metzen and Sam Didier

Christie Golden Autograph Signings

Thursday from 7:00-8:00 p.m.
Cryptozoic Store
411 Market Street, San Diego CA

Thursday from 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Mysterious Galaxy Booth (#1119)

Our licensing partners will also be showing off new and upcoming Blizzard products.

Insight Editions: Stop by for a sneak peek at the upcoming The Art of Blizzard book, which offers an exclusive look at the ideas and imagery that have defined Blizzard games. Booth #1035

Brady Games: Drop in for a discount code towards the upcoming Mists of Pandaria strategy guide from Brady Games. Booth #2913

Sideshow Collectibles: Check out sculptures featuring characters from the Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo franchises, including the latest terrifying figure from Diablo III, to be revealed during the Blizzard Product Showcase panel. Booth #1929

Cryptozoic: Check out the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game at the Cryptozoic store in the San Diego Gas Lamp district. 411 Market Street

Consuming Content Too Fast

Draztal

Honest question, do you realistically think your guild, you, and your friends, would have kept up with 10 months of straight bashing your head against Ragnaros? 10 months, 40 weeks of knowing that there's nothing new in your raid than this one boss you're seeing where you're making almost very little weekly progress. Time is a big factor here. There's a difference on keeping the willingness to tackle a challenge for 2 weeks straight until you see it fall, with keeping that same willingness during 10 months.I said it several pages ago, but I'll repeat. Anything you can put in a concise manner, and without being demeaning to others, it's always useful (regardless of whetther the developers agree or not with that feedback). So yes, of course it's valid feedback!Why wouldn't they want to improve? I'm actually yet to see a player in the forums saying something like "waiting for the 20% nerf before raiding!" (that it's not trolling, either).

It's one of those arguments that I've never understood. Apparently, other than you (those saying this), noone wants to improve. When in reality, what's happening, is that in most cases people have different learning curves. Some will learn and improve very quickly, and others will need much longer before reaching that same level.
This is kind of a good comparison to what the game offers right now. Some cookies you don't like (there're pve players that don't enjoy pvp, and vice versa), and some will eat more than the rest (World First guilds reaching the end before everyone else). But still, the same jar of cookies to everyone.

The equivalent to what some people are asking here for would be something like having a different jar of cookies that has a label saying "Sorry, this is only for people that are this cool".

WoW Summer Challenge: Black Temple

Bashiok

Every week this summer, we’re challenging you to get together with a few friends to explore a part of Azeroth that you may not have seen in a while, or perform a feat that you may have never done. We’re calling them World of Warcraft Summer Challenges, and we’re going to be playing along with you as we hunt down rare achievements, get screenshots of amazing bosses, and try to find some rare gear for our transmogrification sets.

This week's challenge: Black Temple

In this thread, we're talking about this week's challenge, posting stories about experiences completing it, and linking to screenshots.

Furthermore, if you've thought of something awesome to do while exploring Black Temple (that we didn't include in the blog post), this is the place to say so!

Affliction Warlock DoTs

Taepsilum

Hello Littlefinger,

I think Classtimer can partially do what you want, but not everything, it’s a very simple addon without many options.

Personally I love Power Auras Classic and I use it for almost everything that has to do with buffs, debuffs, procs, cooldowns and any kind of warnings, it's an extremely powerful addon.
The thing is, with great power comes great responsibility... er... I mean, with great power comes great headaches with configuration! No, not really, I'm actually just kidding, it's surprisingly easy to configure for the amount of features it provides, and from your description I can already imagine how to configure almost everything that you want. It will take a while to get used to the menu but trust me, it’s one of those addons that once you get used to it, you will use it for everything on every character.

Please note that, as always, this is my personal opinion and preference, we do not officially support any 3rd party applications. So please take it as a mere player-to-player recommendation, because that's what it really is.

Hope you find what you're looking for and have tons of fun with your Warlock!

Tanks and Kindness in LFD

Taepsilum

<3

So nice to read a thread like this one.

I think we have all been in many instances where people are too trigger-happy to jump on and criticize anyone that does a mistake, while the opposite doesn’t happen just as often.
There’s nothing strange about that though, it’s normal human behaviour to focus more on the bad things than on good ones, almost everyone remembers negative things more strongly and in more detail.
That’s why it’s so important to remember to give praise to a job well done, as we often forget about doing exactly that when everything goes smoothly. I think everyone enjoys being complimented for something they did well.

I must say though, I don’t really fully agree that tanks are that easily disregarded, I think they are actually the center of attention and that’s why they probably get more heat from everyone, for example when a pull goes wrong...
But on the other hand, I’ve seen some tanks doing amazing moves, using uncommon and fun strategies and just being good at improvisation and reacting to unexpected stuff, that just shows creativity and mastery of their class and role, and of course everybody notices it and usually says something congratulatory about it.

I must say few things in this game make me feel as good as when I’m tanking with my Lilliputian but oh-so-proud gnome warrior and suddenly I’m in one of those moments where everyone is expecting a wipe, somehow you turn /godmode on for 10 seconds and take care of all the chaos and surprise everyone with skills that some players didn’t even know tanks had in their arsenal.

I always try to remember saying thank you or just complimenting players especially when I see someone playing really well, whether it’s a tank, healer or a dps, I think it gives people a rewarding feeling that promotes them to keep playing at their very best and not start slacking because “no one really cares”, as this thread shows, that's not true at all.

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Natryndon

Hello Matsy.

This is an interesting debate you started here, and I certainly admire your intent. However, we cannot comment on each and every script/macro/add-on that our community generates, nor do we officially support or 'sanction' any 3rd party applications. Therefore, while I realise this is not the 'blue' response you are looking for, my personal and professional advice to you is 'if in doubt, keep out'.

I'm willing to leave this thread open for further discussion, but you may also want to discuss the matter with other script enthusiasts here in our Interface and Macros forum:
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/874706/

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