Poster: Blaine at 4/19/2005 11:21:35 PM PDT
Subject: Diminishing returns on Frost Shock Damage |
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Let me start by being very clear. Im not talking about its effect. I am talking about its damage and only its damage.
Maybe frost shock without diminishing returns was a bit to powerful, so fine give it deminishing returns, I have no arguement there. My problem is that if I use it to attack someone with and they are immune to it, then it not only does not slow them down (the origional plan of diminishing returns) but it does no damage... Now I know all you alliance blow hards are about to type how Im here complaining and such because I have nothing better to do, but I tell you what. Take a mage and tell him his 4th fireball wont do damage, or a druid and tell him his 4th moonfire wont do damage; take any class and tell them that any non basic melee ability they have will do ZERO damage after its 4th use and see how many complaints there are.
The problem with this is that any shaman sub 60 has a good chance to have frost shock being their "high damage" shock which is why it is "spammed" so much. Frost shock deals the most damage in a burst out of the three shocks avalaible to them. Now that damage has diminishing returns you just about make the spell useless in both PvP and PvE for anyone who has it as their main damage shock.
These level ranges are as follows (Frost shock damage > Earth Shock Damage)
20-24 (Frost shock 90; Earth shock 60)
34-36 (Frost shock 210; Earth Shock 120)
46-48 (Frost shock 340; Earth Shock 230)
58-60 (Frost shock 500; Earth Shock 375)
While none of these situations are that long in for leveling situations, the last one (58-60) is the longest part of the game to get through and it has the greatest difference in the bunch. It essentially makes shamans horrible damage dealers in these level ranges, and while alliance will love this it will only help to deter prople from joining horde since they lost a unique class and gained a class that take a lot of grinding to get to the top, especially through the level ranges listed above.
The suggestion is simple, the solution is simple, but coding it would probably be the problem because Im sure frostshock is one entinty which is why damage is reduced along with the effect.
| | | http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=2671497&p=#post2671497 | | | Poster: Eyonix at 4/19/2005 11:36:39 PM PDT
Subject: Re: Diminishing returns on Frost Shock Damage |
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Frost Shock's damage wasn't supposed to be affected by the diminishing returns effect, Blaine. We're going to be discussing this issue with the development team and hopefully a fix will be implemented sooner than later. We will provide an update as soon as additional information becomes available.
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