Monday, February 11, 2008

Arena Water and MSD

MSD is total garbage in PvP right now. It gives you a 4 second buff of 320 spell haste and still retains the 45 second hidden cooldown. I've tried to like it, but I can't. BAD. Chaotic or bust? The new 2% Int gem really isn't getting it done neither.

The water change is pretty misunderstood by people, so here's a recap:
  • First ticks yields ZERO mana
  • Second tick yields normal + 66% extra mana (FUCKING HUGE TICK)
  • Third tick yields normal + 33% extra mana (Pretty big)
  • Afterwards, water is normal
Basically, the first tick of water is rolled into ticks 2 and 3. This reduces the effectiveness of microdrinking moderately, although if you can make it to the second tick, it's no big deal. It does make heal-drinking (where you heal and spam drink as it goes off) somewhat less viable. The change is not a huge "druid nerf" or anything of the sort. If anything, druids will get hit the least as they're the most capable healer of getting away to get in a few ticks of water, especially if they're Night Elf.

The change does make trying to squeeze in drink ticks against pet classes a real fucking pain, and if has a real balance shifting effect, it's indirectly improving the ability of pets to keep players in combat.

25 comments:

Anonymous said...

stun resist meta is actually still pretty nice, if the MSD is in fact only 320 haste with same internal going

ive said...

well 320 haste over 4 sec is alright kindof if you're like... a druid lifebloom spamming

Anonymous said...

Take the chaotic one, you'll be pleasently surprised how much your (frost only)crits really get boosted...

Anonymous said...

in due time.
we'll finally see
there's barely time
for us to breathe.

in due time.
we'll finally see
there's barely time
for us to breathe.

in due time.
we'll finally see
there's barely time
for us to breathe.

Anonymous said...

Last week I had the strangest dream
where everything was exactly how it seemed

Bregor said...

Blizzard just couldn't figure out how to fix heal drinking so they put in this stupid fix.

Hey, one thing is broken so lets break 10 other things to try to fix it, then one week later we'll find out it's not even fixed.

Not that I really care, I still haven't drank in arena before :]

lolwarlock

Sycknezz said...

MSD was so clutch when getting off a poly before a deadly throw, with a pet beating the hell out of me, or sneaking in a frostbolt shatter combo. I hope they add something to compensate for casters...I'm not a fan of ice lance spamming.

Anonymous said...

dont forget drain teams

Barrelroll/dwarfgimli said...

I wouldn't mind THAT much if the water actually worked like that 100% of the time.

But it doesn't, sometimes it just decides to never raise your MP5.

And yeah, chaotic meta gem is the new in

Anonymous said...

where the hell is the poker noir?

Anonymous said...

raddy will do the pokers in his own pace, be patient!

skaterboi2 said...

srsly bro. its kinda hard to jerk it to frostbolt crits. it not workin out bro. more coked out hookerz plx.

Anonymous said...

the water change barely effects the heal/drink sploits, dunno what the hell the point of this was

Raddy said...

It really does affect heal/drink a lot since the first tick is totally worthless, so yeah, you're down with the syndrome, gg nr ky.

I WILL WRITE PART SEVEN BUT LET ME ENJOY PTR ITS THE ONLY FUN SHIT IN THIS TERRIBAD GAME THANK YOU

p1n said...

so on which realm are you playing raddy? I presume the us pvp ?
Didn't really have the chance to even log into ptr :\
Or let me put it just this way: WHERE ARE ALL THE PVP BALLERS AT!?

Anonymous said...

Radi come duel me on us pvp ptr im in dun morogh bored as hell (stay fire =P )

Andy said...

Get http://www.wowhead.com/?item=32641

But it realistically takes a 25 man raid(or more) to get to the Aether tech master, but it's worth it. Good way to get rid of some apexis shards.

Anonymous said...

fix the size of the text underneath the body (the timestamp and comment link). it looked better bigger

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Anonymous said...

Is PTR up?

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

is there a dueling scene on alliance side ptr?

horde is pretty dry whenever i check

Anonymous said...

the lake outside IF is where all pro horde and alliance go. oops, did I just give away the secret?

Anonymous said...

On the PvP or PvE server?!

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