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icamefromtheblog — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:27:40 GMT

I like how Bliz changes things up everyonce in a while, but i think they may have gone too far

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Dewman101 — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:27:39 GMT

This is stupid, they ruined the warlock buffs.

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justthompson — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:27:38 GMT

I thought Improved Scorch increased the Damage taken from Forst, Fire and Arcane magic.... not increases Spell Crit Chance, that way, you could benifit from both Ipm Scorch, and Winter's Chill

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xal — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:27:37 GMT

and how have they done that?

As it says, you cannot look at these changes in isolation from everything else they will be doing. This is a big change for sure however, once it's settled down they are going to review each and every class to rebalance EVERYTHING.

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xal — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:27:36 GMT

It used to be that way but now it gives mages the option of being Fire OR Frost and bring the same raid wide debuff. Previously not possible in earlier Beta builds.

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Eleanor_KT — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:27:35 GMT

When is the last time Blizzard successfully balanced *anything* ?

RIP, my beloved "debuffer" class :'(

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dsheddan — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:27:34 GMT

Crazy young whipper snappers at bizzard, changing things with they're silly ideas. I don't wanna learn new things...............and get off my lawn!

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Azaka — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:27:33 GMT

Time will tell I guess but my first impression upon reading this is that some of the unique flavor each class/spec lends to a raid will disappear?

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Potterharry — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:27:32 GMT

It would be better if you put it all in specific order so if we were a hunter or a pally we could see exactly what we got for buffs and de-buffs but thats just me. Other wise it as good.

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ephydias — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:27:31 GMT

As you could read, this is still on test and they will try it on Beta.

Blizzard is trying to change the way the Raid system and grouping currently work to provide us with a better and easier mix and match for both 10 and 25 men RAID.

Let them try and find out. Blizzard can always change their way back and find something else. I'm sure they do what they can to don't "scrap" their own game.

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ephydias — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:27:30 GMT

Those change will be improved with testing.

but for sure the way it was looking it was going to be too powerful and RAID would have a advantage with selecting certain "buff" class instead of others DPS.

Now you can just "stack" all buffs to have the most powerful team. You'll need to mix up with every class and spec.

This is opening the door to a new type of raid and grouping.

On the side:
I don't know why but the sound of "You won't need to be stacked with only one Spec" is resonning trought everything Blizzard is currently doing. I mean by that, that you won't stay Holy all along and will need to switch Ret or Prot for certain encounters / RAID.

Don't you feel it too?

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Lazare — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:27:29 GMT

I'm sad! No more back to back Bloodlust from having multiple shamans in raid or party :(

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subjohn — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:27:28 GMT

I choose my classes cause I like the Gaming Experience they give me. I've COPED with the Tampering from Blizzard and NERFING long enough. When the Patch comes out and I CAN'T STAND IT!!! Well you can take the game, all our Toons and The Money you make off the 4 subsciptions my family uses and put them where the Sun Don't Shine!
:)
Good Luck to you
Cause You might not recover if you screw this up to BAD :(

And BTW They RARELY change it back!

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GTValidus — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:27:27 GMT

I don't know, I like a lot of the changes and I think others do too. Also the new experiences extremely outweigh some class changes. I play the game, not just the classes, therefore I wont be arbitrarily quitting due to changes of the classes. Either make a new character of a new class, or cope with it because in most cases it will probably still be a lot of fun.

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nightfalcon — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:27:26 GMT

OMG, I thought they finally give us moonkins some real uniqueness with improved moonkin aura...
now they nerfed it by giving instead of 20% spell haste...just 3%...lol

They also nerfed Imp Faerie Fire (+3% hit on melee/ranged attacks) a buff that is beneficial mostly for melees. It helps alot.
They changed it to +3% spell hit!.... most casters are already on spell hit max... /cry!

Please revise that, Blizzard... or Moonkins will become useless again!