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[zaeni]

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=24038460683&sid=1

I like how each day does 3 classes at a time whilst the paladin get it's very own day at the very end of it.

Saving the best for last?

Or preparing for the massive backlash

here's hoping they bring shaman tanking back since :
1) plate doesn't provide that much ac difference versus mail in cata
2) having a shield provides 30% mitigation if you block.
3) Shamans are awesome.
4) Goblin Shamans will be awesomer.

www.wow.com/2010/03/01/cataclysm-and-warriors-tanking-edition/

[zy]

Oh paladins. Paladins, paladins, paladins. Can't say I'm surprised.

Very exciting news about it all, I can't wait!

[shadowscout]

Actually I would have though that Hunters would have been last seeing some of the biggest changes are for us

But still we'll see soon (and for once not the Blizzard version of soon )

[Grindelle]

WoW players (and by this I mean your average Official Forum Posting WoW player!) really are the most lovable idiots in the world.

I read the new Rogue changes, they seem fairly interesting but nothing hugely drastic and really not enough information to base opinions on at this stage.

Still you get a bazillion children chucking their toys out of the pram and threatening to re-roll because the class is broken.

Good old WoW players. Same old story. I lol from far away.

[kurnak]

Rogues upset? They haven't read DK or priest. Priest (holy) may turn too anodine to stand in front of other healing classes, specially shaman (healing rain! wtf!). And DK may turn into a real broken class with the new rune regeneration method if not implemented and tuned carefully.
The only "nerf" I see on rogues is no more stun chainlocks... about time! the rest seems a great class buff to me, maybe too much.

[Nefernet]

I won't read all the trolls posting after those announcements on the forums... I will rather wait for the bloggers to write about it...

[valgav]

So I got up today hungover, and Sprink told me about all of the cool mage changes. So I went to look at warrior changes... and there's almost nothing. passive proc attack for arms... and they're trying to add heroic leap again. Yay?

Though allowing the Juggernaut talent to apply to HLeap will be sweet.

[aleanathem]

I'm afraid my post will be all QQ. lol

Fix Cower and Shred...that is all.

[zy]

I've been reading posts and pondering for the last few days, come up with a few opinions. I'm tempted to wait for the paladins since they are apparently coming out tomorrow but oh well.

Mages: Mages came out very well. They are getting interesting new spells and I think all three specs will be in a very good place in Cataclysm. They are in a pretty decent place now and with the talent tree mastery system Blizz will be able to tweak things as needed without having to mess with all three trees/styles.

Shamans: Came out okay. I understand why they are taking dispells away from DPS specs, really I do. I think it might even be a good idea in the long run as far as paladins go. For shamans? It's not like they have a ton of defensive options. The lack of defensive cooldowns has me, well, defensive about them taking away poison and disease. It's downright insulting when you consider the whole nature side of shamans plus the fact they openly admit they are doing this for PvP. Makes it a bitter pill to swallow for folks that only dabble in PvP (like myself) or don't play it at all.

I'm worried about how little they talked about enhancement. I hardly took this as TEH PATCH NOTES 4.0 but seriously, enhancement has some survivial issues. They have acknowledged this openly. Yet it did not get touched on.

Totems did not get nearly enough talk. The shaman community has been downright gushy over the change to Fire Nova, I know very few who are still unhappy about it. And Blizz said they wanted to make totems more interesting. Yet. . . Nothing. Worrisome.

Enough griping. Elemental looks like it will rock, love the mastery it is getting for its tree. And EARTHQUAKE!!! Need I say more?

Resto is (hopefully) making out like a bandit. I pray Spirit Link makes it thru beta, I wanted that and was so unhappy when it got taken out. Healing Rain? YES PLEASE. I've wanted that ever since I saw it in ICC.

Unleash Weapon? Fun. Looking forward to it. Spiritwalkers Grace? I'm not as excited as some folks but still happy. I'm absolutely fine with Mages getting Time Warp.

Druid: Pretty good. Yay for Thrash, Stampeding Roar looks fun. Exploding Mushrooms, eh. Losing tree form? NOT HAPPY. I don't want tree form to be a fancy sort of trinket Bell covers many of my complaints far better than I could at 4haelz.blogspot.com/2010/04/deforestation-into-homogenization.html

No mention of lolCower has me an annoyed kitty.

I'm glad that tree healing is staying focused on HoTs. After new direct heals were announced for both shamans and priests (and we all know paladins will be getting one too) I was terribly afraid Blizz would give druids another heal and we'd be pushed more into direct heals. Sounds like they might be doing the opposite though, I'd much rather be rolling Lifebloom (I desperately hope Lifebloom gets a complete re-working and is made wonderful again) and jumping and casting other instants. Mobility and that sort of character is what drew me to my druid in the first place.

I am a bit concerned about burst healing. That is the resto druid's weakness and I didn't see that adressed at all. I didn't really want another heal but think either we could use another AoE heal or either Tranquility or Wild Growth need to change. I'm not a fan of Wild Growth and really hope it get reworked a bit.

Overall I'm optomistic and looking forward to seeing how things go. I'm sure Beta will bring a lot of changes. I wish other folks would remember that, the QQ on the forums is just disgusting right now (yes, even more than usual)

Oh, am I the only one wondering where the heck I'll be fitting all the new spells? I'm already short on keybinds and mouse buttons! I know some stuff will go away, I wish they'd let us know what already!

[balthazario]

I really do NOT understand taking dispels away from DPS. DPS has less & less raid utility and and becomes more & more about lame rotations.

Crowd control? - nope don't bother. Not necessary.

Dispels? - Blizz doesn't want us to have em.

The only *possible* reason I can see for this might be PvP, in shich case why the heck is blizzard rebalancing the entire game around 15% of the player base?

AGAIN.

And with the whole "homogenize homogeinze homogenize" things, while they continually forget the second (equally important) aspect: "balance balance balance".

I mean, if every class can provide the equivalent to heroism, or pally buffs, etc, and yet there's nothing to balance/make up for the "hybrid tax", there becomes little or no reason to even bother bringing "sub par " classes on the raid.

If you're stuck trying to PuG?

fuggetaboutit.

If you're TRYING to get into a guild (espeicailly with the upcoming Blizz emphasis on guilds) then good luck with that.

[zy]

I don't have time to dig up the blue post right now (I'll find it later) but yeah, the dispell changes are officially to help balance PvP. Which is why I say, "Yeah, I get it" but also "I hate it and this sucks".

Not enthused about the paladin review. Holy is really only getting one new spell and it sounds situational. The pet is technically a second spell but I don't have much confidence in that working out. I really need to ask why the heck Paladin tanks get a new survival cooldown when bears are the ones that that could really use one. . .

Really asking WTF about Holy Light becoming Paladin's medium heal!

Glad to hear the Paladin tanking rotation will be different for single vs multiple mobs. No comment on Divine Plea which worries me.

Crusader Strike change: About time! Merging Might and Wisdom? Fine by me.

Holy Shock being baseline?? WTF?

Sacred Shield being 30 minutes, fine. Lowing DS? They'd better lower hearthing time

[callimonster]

We're getting Heroism! HEROISM!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAA!