Poster: Ordinn at 4/25/2005 10:02:35 AM PDT
Subject: Warrior Concerns: 4-25-05 |
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Hi all,
The devs were, and still are, busy monitoring the Honor System, but they had time to answer some of the major concerns you listed in the thread I posted last week. Please feel free to post more questions in this thread; I'll see what I can do to get them answered over the next week or two.
Talents: Fury & Protection
Most of the questions centered on the current talent lines available to Warriors. Players are concerned with the current state of the Fury and Protection lines in particular. Good news! The developers acknowledge that those two lines need some love, and they plan on making some improvements to the Fury and Protection lines in an upcoming patch.
The Big Three: Retaliation, Shield Wall, and Recklessness
These three abilities are very powerful, and when used they drastically change the outcome of any one fight. Reducing the cooldown or unlinking these abilities would considerably alter the Warrior's current state. Before the developers think about altering these abilities, they'll be focusing on the improving the Fury and Protection talent lines.
Talents -- Part 2: Tactical Mastery
The developers agree that this talent is one of the most useful talents for Warriors and that it tends to lead players to the Arms talent line. Instead of making Tactical Mastery a purchasable skill, they are going to look for ways to balance it out in the Fury and Protection talent improvements.
Rumor: Sunder Armor
Many players seem to think that a change was made that reduced the threat of Sunder Armor. This is false, and just to make sure we tested it. No changes were made. It seems that any increased difficulty in holding agro for warriors is more of a result of other characters doing more damage now that "block" and "parry" events from behind are translated into "hits" rather than "misses".
PvP: Aggro
Many players are calling for a way to make the current Warrior aggro control abilities, such as Taunt, work on players in PvP. The developers feel that Warriors, in their current state, are capable of doing good damage and have a great survivability rate in PvP. We've found that the spells and abilities that frustrate players most in PvP are the ones that cause players to lose control of their characters (ie: stun, fear, polymorph, etc). Much of the focus of improving the PvP environment to make it more fun and playable has been in developing ways to counter those effects. As such the developers are very hesitant at this stage to add more ways in which players lose control of their characters (even if it's brief).[ post edited by Ordinn ]
| | | http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-warrior&t=218885&p=#post218885 | | | Poster: Ordinn at 4/25/2005 10:10:43 AM PDT
Subject: Re: Warrior Concerns: 4-25-05 |
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Ok what the heck all I heard there was we plan on fixing the other trees. Nothing about the major imbalance in slow weapons and many other issues. As much as I love you guys blizzard this is not gonna get many happy replies.
Actually - the Fury / Protection revamp will also take into consideration this issue. I took the most popular issues to the devs. The talent tree improvements will cover almost all of the Warriors current concerns - that is one of the reasons why the feedback was so short. That and the release of the Honor System last week.
| | | http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-warrior&t=218885&p=#post218912 | Poster: Ordinn at 4/25/2005 10:15:09 AM PDT
Subject: Re: Warrior Concerns: 4-25-05 |
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To the question - are there any plans on making Protection Warriors more useful in PVP (group or solo)? Would the changes to Protection tree make them more useful? (E.G. give Protection tree a talent shout that buffs a party in some significant way, perhaps a shout similar to Battle Shout that makes everyone take 10-20% less damage)
I'm not sure what the devs have in mind for the talent lines. I'll make sure I update you when I get more information. However, since Battlegrounds are coming next patch, I wouldn't expect to get more info for a few weeks.
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