Fantasy class changes for 3.1. (Yeah right) I'll get into my current design "issues"/rant probably tomorrow or the next day, but the trees cover some (if not all) of the bases.
Linky
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Affix Ruined the Class, Bro
GET RAGED ON 'FIX.
The engineering trinket is severely underused by players currently, mostly because I believe people do not understand its mechanics very well. I didn't realize this till pretty recently, and have yet to arena with it, because wtb teams, but I digress -- observe.
The engineering trinket is severely underused by players currently, mostly because I believe people do not understand its mechanics very well. I didn't realize this till pretty recently, and have yet to arena with it, because wtb teams, but I digress -- observe.
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Barrage Coefficient Ninja Nerf
Coefficient on Barrage has been nerfed to 72.8. (Roughly a 10% nerf) They went pretty balls out on the Arcane nerfs -- I think the spec is probably still pretty strong, although I think the relative draw of frost is definitely increasing. (Arcane will still happen with these nerfs -- the real gay part of arcane is the huge damage that comes from blasts but whatever)
Monday, February 9, 2009
Some Old Video Links
Decided to rehost a few things on WeGame now that vimeo is down. Nothing new, sorry. ^^
I always end up with a lot of remix/redux versions of vids with somewhat different soundtracks/clips included which is pretty obvious if you've watched the stuff I've put out so far.
I always end up with a lot of remix/redux versions of vids with somewhat different soundtracks/clips included which is pretty obvious if you've watched the stuff I've put out so far.
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Why People Should Chill on Whining About Arcane Nerfs
Okay, this is going to be VERY brief, but, let's be real, AP at 30% + PoM was generally overkill.
By blowing AP you FORCED defensive cooldowns such as PS, DS, IB, NS, IB, etc -- you probably could have forced these CDs doing marginally less damage. Previously you had to survive 2 minutes to reset CDs for the finishing burst/next set of defensive CDs, you now have less long to wait and still probably do enough damage to score kills.
I'm not saying OMGARCANEISBETTERNOW, but I think all the forum emoraging is blowing things out of proportion and is very out of perspective.
The big nerf everyone should be bitching about is the casting speed debuff nerf. Considering the duration and potency of these debuffs, it is generally not worth spending a global removing them, which speaks pretty strongly on how useful they are. The ability to CC 1.5 players with slow on one and poly on the other was VERY good and underutilized, it's basically gone now. I think putting a short CD on Slow and Tongues and a big fuck you to Mind Numbing would have been a better bandaid.
A lot of the strength of lolarcane I still feel comes from how stupidly gay Impact is (despite the horrible trend of 57/3/11 which I feel is awful but whatever). An impact stun into PoM-Pyro-> Imp CS-> AP Barrage->fblast->Barrage is still going to score kills and potentially 100-0.
See how it ends up playing before emoing too much, goddamn. =p
By blowing AP you FORCED defensive cooldowns such as PS, DS, IB, NS, IB, etc -- you probably could have forced these CDs doing marginally less damage. Previously you had to survive 2 minutes to reset CDs for the finishing burst/next set of defensive CDs, you now have less long to wait and still probably do enough damage to score kills.
I'm not saying OMGARCANEISBETTERNOW, but I think all the forum emoraging is blowing things out of proportion and is very out of perspective.
The big nerf everyone should be bitching about is the casting speed debuff nerf. Considering the duration and potency of these debuffs, it is generally not worth spending a global removing them, which speaks pretty strongly on how useful they are. The ability to CC 1.5 players with slow on one and poly on the other was VERY good and underutilized, it's basically gone now. I think putting a short CD on Slow and Tongues and a big fuck you to Mind Numbing would have been a better bandaid.
A lot of the strength of lolarcane I still feel comes from how stupidly gay Impact is (despite the horrible trend of 57/3/11 which I feel is awful but whatever). An impact stun into PoM-Pyro-> Imp CS-> AP Barrage->fblast->Barrage is still going to score kills and potentially 100-0.
See how it ends up playing before emoing too much, goddamn. =p
Sunday, February 8, 2009
BG5 Top 5s Strream
http://www.xfire.com/live_video/sleena/
Bunch of top teams playing. Bradley has been repping Arcane to the point where a new term is needed: ARCANE JUST HAPPENED.
Also, Carmen is a chaos bolt god and I want inside.
Wow, right after ARCANE STARTED HAPPENING out of control last night, they're nerfing it?
Bunch of top teams playing. Bradley has been repping Arcane to the point where a new term is needed: ARCANE JUST HAPPENED.
Also, Carmen is a chaos bolt god and I want inside.
Wow, right after ARCANE STARTED HAPPENING out of control last night, they're nerfing it?
Cleaning
I deleted a bunch of deadish links from the sidebar and fixed a few of the ones that needed redirecting.
Been having a lot of trouble with my priest/rogue vs hunter/pally -- I've been told that I need to holyfire zerg gib the hunter but even against bad pallies that I easily fear, we're still not able to kill the hunter thanks to fairterrence and sacrifice bubble coolness. I guess I just have to mash smite harder. (Always a good strat)
I'm pretty psyched for 3.1 priest changes -- hopefully, I'll have a (badly geared) priest ready before the patch hits. I'm still looking for teams on my mage, and if I know you and you arent' bad and want to push for deadly, bug me in game. Why does nobody run 2345, GODDAMN. (Besides the fact that 5s is awful, but well, that's been true since s2)
Been having a lot of trouble with my priest/rogue vs hunter/pally -- I've been told that I need to holyfire zerg gib the hunter but even against bad pallies that I easily fear, we're still not able to kill the hunter thanks to fairterrence and sacrifice bubble coolness. I guess I just have to mash smite harder. (Always a good strat)
I'm pretty psyched for 3.1 priest changes -- hopefully, I'll have a (badly geared) priest ready before the patch hits. I'm still looking for teams on my mage, and if I know you and you arent' bad and want to push for deadly, bug me in game. Why does nobody run 2345, GODDAMN. (Besides the fact that 5s is awful, but well, that's been true since s2)
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