Friday, February 8, 2008

Spellsteal in 2.4

I made this point to a few people individually, but here we go:

In 2.4, Spellsteal will not steal buffs of which you currently have a longer duration version.

Against mages, you won't steal their armor, dampen and int. You'll be able to get Barrier, Wards, Arcane Power, etc. No big deal really.

Where it gets interesting is in 3s, particularly mage/lock/druid. With both lock and druid buffs, you'll ignore thorns, mark, underwater breathing, detect invisibility, along with the mage buffs. This really opens up a few things obviously, especially against teams with weak offensive dispel -- war/rogue/druid, war/lock/druid, war/hunter/druid etc.

This change along with the rumored 50% reflection on Frost Ward should change up how RMP mirrors play out as well.

I'm not going to theorycraft too much on stuff that isn't even on PTR -- but even this "junk" spellsteal change has some interesting potential.

11 comments:

barrelroll/dwarfgimli said...

arcane buffs would be sex girlfriend imo

Bregor said...

Won't that spellsteal change just make AP mages even more worthless?

Arcane mage pops AP, WE mage spellsteals it and shits on his face.

Anonymous said...

"Won't that spellsteal change just make AP mages even more worthless?"

To be perfectly fair, the AP mage would be able to steal it right back.

Also, you shouldn't get presence of mind stolen unless you get really unlucky, or are in fact terrible at the game.

qual said...

Between spell reflects and endless spellstealing between mages, I'll probably never duel another mage again.

Raddy said...

I had to go saqe >.<

We've never dueled though. At least not me on the character. No noggenfogger = not raddy.

I tried to ap + pom so you could steal it and wings with that pally but you got zerged by a million people. =(

gh0st said...

Same place on PTR when its up? I know you dont want me posting it here probably...

Anonymous said...

Your poker noire is pretty bland and pointless.

Thanks for WoW related posts.

saqe said...

long time ago at skettis we had a uh 'duel' haha. i opened with r1 frostbolt, you missed the cs. then i novad you and you trinketed it. i call that a bad start =(
long time ago when brobocop was here

alexial said...

Hit me up on IRC when PTR is up and has people on it and shit Raddy

so long as it isn't lagged out and full of premade shitbags

Xenitan said...

Spellsteal will no longer overwrite a longer duration buff.

Exact words. Spellsteal will dispell those buffs you have, you'll just keep the version that's longer.

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