Poster: Meroko at 2006-12-13 08:30:41
Subject: Kay so I noticed... |
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What's the deal with soulshards in the arena? I was under the impression that during the preparation period our spells wouldn't take shards. Still, that's not so much the problem as conjured items being destroyed upon entering the arena. So every time I want to do an arena match I have to burn shards recreating a healthstone, a spellstone and summoning my pet again? Is it so much to ask to retain conjured items upon entering or remove the shard cost along with mana during preparation. I know I'm whining, but after six or so matches my shards are poofed, what are we supposed to do, play a match then run outside and farm for a half hour?
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Poster: Nethaera at 2006-12-13 08:54:16
Subject: Re: Kay so I noticed... |
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Q u o t e:
What's the deal with soulshards in the arena? I was under the impression that during the preparation period our spells wouldn't take shards. Still, that's not so much the problem as conjured items being destroyed upon entering the arena. So every time I want to do an arena match I have to burn shards recreating a healthstone, a spellstone and summoning my pet again? Is it so much to ask to retain conjured items upon entering or remove the shard cost along with mana during preparation. I know I'm whining, but after six or so matches my shards are poofed, what are we supposed to do, play a match then run outside and farm for a half hour?
The mana and shard cost shouldn't be there in the Arenas. Here is the page on Arenas for reference- http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/pvp/arena/index.xml
We state in it the following:
Warmup
At the beginning of each match, both teams are placed in separate holding areas, similar to battlegrounds like Arathi Basin or Warsong Gulch.
- Any existing buffs and conjured items will be purged or deleted upon entering. This is to ensure outside buffs are not used, and no conjured items from players not actually in your group are being used.
- Your health and mana are set to full.
- While your buffs are removed, your debuffs are not. This is to prevent players from using arena matches to clear their debuffs.
- Mana/Rage/Energy costs are reduced to zero in the holding area so that teams can buff up and prepare for the match.
- Soul Shard costs are reduced to zero so that warlocks can summon Healthstones for their party without needing to bring an excessive number of stones for their group. This also means that warlocks can summon pets during this period without using a soul shard.
- Pets are dismissed upon entering an arena. Players must re-summon, otherwise they'd be able to summon their long-cooldown pets before entering.
The issue regarding the soulshards has been reported and hopefully we'll have a resolution for that before too long.
In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.
-Christina Rossetti
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Poster: Nethaera at 2006-12-13 10:50:38
Subject: Re: Kay so I noticed... |
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Just a little information for you all, the prep area soul shards and costs at zero should be applied in the next patch along with the other fixes such as the temporary item buffs not persisting on entry (as they are not suppossed to). It just didn't make this last push but it will be working as intended before too much longer. Hopefully that should help with the concerns people are having about it not working right now.
In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.
-Christina Rossetti
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