Metamorphosis: the fail, the fact, the future

#0 - Nov. 2, 2008, 4:12 a.m.

To keep this short. meta sucks. you know it, i know it. we all know it.

Over it's CD, it's only a 3% increase to our damage. soul link gave more than that pre-3.0 and it was a 31 point talent, not 51.

it makes us MORE susceptible to CC, and is just plain laughable in terms of its special abilities.

Overall, aside being a permanent form which blizzard does not want to do. Making it mimic the hunter's bestial wrath would work to at least be a tolerable talent. Enrage your pet using demonic empowerment, and the side affect would be to turn you into a demon, increasing damage you and your pet do by 20%. forget all the other bonus crap, that's all garbage.

Discuss.

Ghostcrawler

#12 - Nov. 2, 2008, 5:29 a.m.

The taunt is there because we thought it might be fun in a 5-player instance for the warlock to be able to tank once in awhile, especially if the main tank goes down on a pull. It's not the signature ability of Metamorphosis.

We don't have a problem with the spell. It is useful in PvP and provides a nice damage buff in PvE. Some of its abilities, like the Immolate, can be useful in the right situations.

Ghostcrawler

#42 - Nov. 2, 2008, 8:47 p.m.

Q u o t e:
It was said in a blue that Demonology = PvP Spec while Destruc is turning into PvE spec

What I said, and I clarified later, was that Affliction and Destro seem to do competitive damage in PvE. Demo is lower than that, which is not ideal, but we are also concerned Demo's survivability might make it the only raiding spec if its dps was just as high. In the meantime, we think people will still spec Demo because it is useful in PvP.

Our new design is there are no PvP vs. PvE trees. But it will take some time to reach this point because we didn't want to rip out every talent of every class and start over. The death knight has 3 trees with different flavors, but no PvP, PvE and tanking tree. The warrior and hunter are a lot closer to that than they used to be. We're working on all the others, including Demo.

My advice is to be very, very careful about making statements such as "nobody likes Meta." Someone in the same thread is going to immediately prove your wrong. Trying to invoke a silent majority when such a small percentage of our players ever even post isn't a great strategy in the first place. Trying to tell us your problems with a spell will work just as well, if not better, and won't risk angering other players.