RN: Da Scrolls

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Da Scrolls

Spell haste will now reduce the global cooldown.

First, I present you with this. Priest trinket from ZG.

And of course, Mind Quickening.

But best of all, DA SCROLLS. (Think Da Bears)

DAAAA SCROLLS.

Best get that BWL group going.

The neat thing about MQG and Da Scrolls is that both are exactly enough to reduce the global down from 1.5 to 1. It's not immediately obvious to me how you might take advantage of this, but there's probably some opportunity in revisiting some of the old haste trinkets.

A lot of people are theorycrafting how this is a mage and pally buff -- I'm going to go with a big N-motherfucking-O on that idea. As the two classes that actually cast spells, it isn't intuitively obvious that everyone having faster instants is a beacon of awesome. I think it's still unclear what, if any, effect this change will have in arena. Probably intended to be mostly a PvE relevant change, but it's a substantial game mechanic change.

More thoughts on 2.4 incoming!

DA SCROLLS

34 comments:

Oppo said...: Warlocks may now full-dot you in half the time! WOOOT!; February 2, 2008 at 2:43 PM
Anonymous said...: Wouldn't this be a buff due to Icy Veins?; February 2, 2008 at 2:55 PM
Anonymous said...: Sif this isn't a buff? You can spam 150% more ice lances in the same amount of time.; February 2, 2008 at 3:34 PM
alexial said...: Better get to work on that shammy partner bruh

oh yea...and I hear that MQG only gives 20% haste at level 70 which is total gaysauce if that's tru

hopefully there's enough haste gear in the game to not have globals eventually; February 2, 2008 at 4:06 PM
Anonymous said...: illexial,

its true; February 2, 2008 at 4:19 PM
skaterboi said...: BETTER GET YOUR NIKES BRO; February 2, 2008 at 4:38 PM
Anonymous said...: Nope, you can't get rid of the GCD because it will still be capped at 1.0 seconds. So 33% haste (330 rating) is the new effectiveness cap.

My question is, will the GCD reduction, even if maxed from rating, stack with Bloodlust? If so, you could halve your GCD. It may not seem too useful for Mages right now, but playstyles will adapt to take advantage of this when available. (For example: trinket + bloodlust followed by arcane explosion spam. Could actually be viable.); February 2, 2008 at 8:42 PM
Anonymous said...: Wearing a maximum spell haste set (as a Paladin) you can reach 408 rating. 330 is the cap so obviously a variety of classes can hit 330 from just gear. To look at individual classes in high-end useful gear, their respective max spell haste ratings are:

Mage/Warlock/Spriest - 372
Holy Priest - 292
Resto Druid - 340
Balance Druid - 401
Resto Shaman - 380
Elem Shaman - 402
Holy Paladin - 341

So, any class/spec combination other than Holy Priests can achieve the GCD cap of 1.0 seconds simply by gearing in high-end haste gear that really doesn't gimp their stats. At T6 level, they should be wearing most of it anyways, apart from Resto Druids.

Clearly many of those classes have large buffer space to work in for gearing if they aren't concerned with further haste rating to improve longer casts (SB, FB, GH, etc).

In conclusion, PvE raiders gain another huge PvP advantage. They basically receive a free -0.5 seconds on their GCD just by wearing top-of-the-line T6 gear. For those who have access to this kind of itemization, enjoy yourselves until this change gets nerfed.; February 2, 2008 at 9:18 PM
Anonymous said...: *341 max haste for Holy Paladin should be 381.; February 2, 2008 at 9:19 PM
jordan said...: what's the amount of stam/resil/crit/mp5 you give up to get those spell haste sets?; February 3, 2008 at 1:30 AM
Anonymous said...: Who cares? Why would you target a paladin with PvE gear on 5s anyway??

durp durp l2p naga; February 3, 2008 at 2:13 AM
Anonymous said...: I am dreading facing high-end PVE players in this gear. Healing is kinda scary in smaller arena brackets already, 1sec flash heal/flash of light heal will be sick.

Sure it will be nice to pop IV+MQG and cast 1sec Scorches with an arc/fire or deep fire build but healers generally benefit more from pve gear (i.e. can get away with it more readily) and it is those which scare me. It will also put pvp-geared healers at a distinct disadvantage.; February 3, 2008 at 7:04 AM
Anonymous said...: You guys are clearly overlooking 1 second arcane blasts!!!

C'mon, I mean freaking ARCANE BLAST!!!!; February 3, 2008 at 8:33 AM
Anonymous said...: raddy, imp fireblast, hot or not?; February 3, 2008 at 9:56 AM
Wizardspike said...: hot; February 3, 2008 at 10:42 AM
Wizardspike said...: Oh and 1sec arcane blasts...seeing how it's the highest dps spell in the game, i could absolutely see it tear holes in players. Provided you can kill someone fast enough to not go totally oom from the retarded mana cost of max stacked AB.; February 3, 2008 at 10:45 AM
wizardspike said...: http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=ozxVcofdrIuioVZV0G0o

Yes!; February 3, 2008 at 10:48 AM
Anonymous said...: Arcane blast has no pushback protection, how the hell you going to get enough casts?; February 3, 2008 at 11:12 AM
Wizardspike said...: Well obviously if you have a zerg on you, you can't chaincast.
You CAN however cast 100% uninterruptable AE even when trained or smth.

BOP; February 3, 2008 at 11:28 AM
Raddy said...: Man how fun would it be to run a terribad 4dps caster team with a pally healer as deep arcane.

You could have sick macro yells for when you pop cooldowns.

PALADIN - I REQUIRE BLESSING OF PROTECTION

WARLOCK - CURSE OF SHADOWS ACTIVATE

SHAMAN - ENGAGE THE BLOODLUST

PRIEST - SUPPRESS ALL PAIN

BY YOUR POWERS COMBINED I AM CAPTAIN PLANET.; February 3, 2008 at 1:15 PM
Oppo said...: "Man how fun would it be to run a terribad 4dps caster team with a pally healer as deep arcane.

You could have sick macro yells for when you pop cooldowns.

PALADIN - I REQUIRE BLESSING OF PROTECTION

WARLOCK - CURSE OF SHADOWS ACTIVATE

SHAMAN - ENGAGE THE BLOODLUST

PRIEST - SUPPRESS ALL PAIN

BY YOUR POWERS COMBINED I AM CAPTAIN PLANET."

Engage hyper-pillar defense system!; February 3, 2008 at 2:44 PM
alexial said...: you should try playing w/ a disc priest as like 33 fire / 28 arc or 40 fire / 21 arc lol

not sure if using fireball or scorch is better, but you'd like get PI and pyro on last combustion guaranteed crit every time. You'd have 10% less dmg and 50% less crit dmg =/ but I guess it depends on how much you crit pyros on people now; February 3, 2008 at 3:58 PM
paer said...: lifebloom lifebloom lifebloom?
more like
lifebloomlifebloomlifebloom

this change will be massive for druids, but it'll also further contrast how gimp pummel is in comparison to other interrupts.

slight buff to locks but what lock uses 330 spell haste? not even the heavy pve geared ones as far as i've seen. will they start now? probably.

whoever came up with the idiotic idea of "preventing" high end pve-ers to do arena just for the weapons obviously didn't think of the opposite scenario.; February 3, 2008 at 4:54 PM
Anonymous said...: A. I'm so happy the priest I play 3s and 5s with has that trinket.

B. I'll never be able to find a BWL group. And I'm not keyed :<; February 3, 2008 at 5:22 PM
Kolenzo said...: You actually need 50% spell haste to cap the gcd at 1 second. It's not cast time x (100-%reduction), it's cast time/(100+%reduction)x100.

So if you have 50% spell haste, your gcd looks like this:

1.5/150x100 = 1 second global cooldown, as opossed to the commonly believed

1.5x.5 = 0.75 second global cooldown.

Stacking full effect troll berserking and icy veins will put you pretty much right on that 1 second global cooldown, but there's no way you're hitting it without some sort of cooldown bullshit. Even the staff from illidan is only around 3% haste, stack with IV and MQG and you're still ~6% short.; February 3, 2008 at 11:00 PM
Wizardspike said...: Yees, and add player macros for each for some yelling!
Like..

Paladin - /cast bop; /yell Earth!
Priest - /cast PS; /yell Fire!
Shaman - /cast lust; /yell Wind!
Warlock - /cast cos; /yell Water!
Mage -
/castsequence IV, AP;/yell By YOUR powers combined, I am Captain Planet!

all /yell Go Planet!

There should be a 6v6 format so you could yell a heart too, for the sake of authenticity ;(

ah..the 90's; February 4, 2008 at 1:52 AM
Occam said...: DA SCROLLS WIT DA FUR

Were like season1.

GB2 Scarab Brooch.; February 4, 2008 at 7:40 PM
Anonymous said...: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html;jsessionid=FC5C1CF3A45F87161DC2796D0FECFE6A?topicId=4311209023&sid=1; February 5, 2008 at 12:33 PM
Anonymous said...: MQG, Bloodlust, Icy veins fireball spam.

Get me a cig i just came.; February 5, 2008 at 6:56 PM
barrelroll/dwarfgimli said...: yo raddy, where's your ret partner for 2v2 son

ret + frost mage = hot; February 5, 2008 at 11:25 PM
barrelroll/dwarfgimli said...: actually ret and pom pyro would be sex and a half too, the burst would be recockulous; February 5, 2008 at 11:33 PM
Blindenvy said...: Raddy, post something new, today is the slowest day of my life....; February 6, 2008 at 1:37 PM
wizardspike said...: http://worldofraids.com/
Not quite shattering for the CAPTAIN PLANET team, but quite a heavy blow :(

Write stuff - hurry!; February 6, 2008 at 4:30 PM
Anonymous said...: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=19958; February 9, 2008 at 8:39 AM

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