Poster: Bort at 3/14/2005 2:22:57 PM PST
Subject: Feedback on Warrior Changes |
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I'm going to comment on each of the changes Blizzard has in the patch notes:
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Battle Shout - Rage cost reduced.
Very good change. Probably one of the most helpful changes in the patch.
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Bloodrage - Health cost reduced.
This is a good change. It takes about 300 life now. Useful for getting rage if you need it for intercept. However it will probably still remain underused because of the health cost.
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Heroic Strike - Damage increased.
I'll start off by saying, I really hope the current change is a bug. Currently Heroic Strike Rank 8 (level 56 skill) has a 14 point damage increase. Was this damage increase as described in the patch notes meant to affect a warrior's game play at all? Maybe you meant for it to be a 140 point damage increase? Either way, this skill needs a significant damage increase; which would be at least ~100 damage increase. A 14 point damage increase is just a slap in the face in my opinion.
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Thunder Clap - Now causes Physical damage instead of Nature damage; damage increased; duration increased with each new rank.
Will probably still remain underused, however this is a good change.
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Improved Sunder Armor - Now decreases rage cost by 1/1/1.
I think a lot of people will look at this as a nerf. This is not a reduce in rage cost in addition to the current increase in effectiveness talent on the live servers (as people thought it would be). 3 less rage wont help much, at all. While the increase effectiveness helped protection specced warriors hold aggro.
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Thunder Clap - Now decreases rage cost by 1/1/2.
No one used this before, doubt people will use it now. The skill itself isn't worth using talents to decrease rage or increase effectiveness.
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Execute - Full rage is no longer consumed when the ability does not hit.
Good change, seems like a bug fix.
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Overpower - Should now be usable when a special attack is dodged.
Good change, seems like a bug fix.
The rest are just bug fixes. The biggest thing is the "Damage Increased" of heroic strike. I really hope 14 damage wasn't Blizzard's intention. Overall, these changes are very underwhelming. The warrior's effectiveness in PvP remains basically unchanged. Complaints will continue...
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Poster: motive at 3/15/2005 4:00:47 PM PST
Subject: Re: Feedback on Warrior Changes |
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Regarding the change made to Sunder Armor:
We intend this as an improvement for the following two reasons:
- With the old Improved Sunder Armor talent, the 4th and 5th application of the ability accomplished very little on many creatures as their AC was already 0 after 3 uses.
- Reducing the rage cost of the new Improved Sunder Armor talent gives it more usability and improves the threat to rage efficiency as Sunder Armor causes a considerable amount of threat.
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