Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Yay for patch

"Biggest patch in MMO history since patch 3.0" according to Blizzard.

Missing critical features such as the equipment manager to go along with dual specs.
Missing the promised ammo removal change.
Missing trap launcher (which is piss easy to implement since all the fucking code is there already).

Did I mention the 50% nerf to LnL proc rate? That too. And the 10% nerf to ExS base damage thus requiring a constant difference in AP over raidbuffs (read: more gear) to compensate for it?

They forgot one patch note:
# Fixed a bug where Hunters could do damage.

What do I expect at patch day:
  1. Unbearable lag at Ulduar. Hopefully all scrubs wipe on Lame Leviathan for a few hours and call it. Hopefully only top 10 guilds per server are allowed inside.
  2. Flood at target dummies, Argent Tournament (as if we needed city reputation EVEN MORE simplified), trainers, Ulduar instance portal to see Ensidia&co. storm the door.
  3. Morons in trade chat asking "WHERES DUALSPEC LOL" or "IS IT PATCH NOW" and of course the usual "We're selling gold to idiots who can't play the AH" spam.
  4. "LFG ALGALON WHISPER STATS AND ASHIVENT" jokes.
  5. "LFG Ulduar10 even though we haven't been there but we want you to have full ilvl 226 set to carry us to ilvl 213 epics"

At least I get a free respec out of it.

Let's not forget that we get ANOTHER dot thus having to push 5 buttons (OH NOES) to DPS properly. How fun is managing a 24s dot, a 21s (glyphed) dot, LnL procs, pet and everything else on the priority queue?

The next thing is that Arcane/ExS and Aimed/Multi get unlinked. So we won't use Steady-doing-less-than-Auto Shot at all and have clearly the most complex rotation in existence.


Fun fun, isn't it?

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