#81 - Jan. 8, 2009, 9:08 p.m.
Q u o t e:
It's because GC disproportionately posts on bad threads because he doesn't want to ruin good ones.
There is some truth to this. I greatly appreciate the good threads, but sometimes even popping in to say so can turn it into a bad thread. Blue posts tend to attract flies (I know *that* one will get quoted). Players also sometimes get frustrated if I just say "Good post" without going line by line through all of their points. It's an understandable position, but a difficult expectation for me to meet.
I wish players wouldn't GC-ify every title, but I'd rather spend my time reading good posts than trying to enforce that. You have to pick your battles.
I do think it's pretty lame when players dismiss someone's PvP concerns because a class is good in PvE or vice versa. While we have to balance both aspects of the game, not every player cares equally about both, nor is every topic about both.
Most intelligent, honest players would probably agree that rogues are a little too good in PvP and weaker than the top dps dealers on raids -- but since many of those top dealers are getting nerfed, hopefully rogues will be in a very good place after 3.0.8. But all of that is for one spec of rogue. We feel that hunters will have 3 viable trees in 3.0.8 and we'd love to get rogues into that same place. It's just harder for rogues.
One idea I see a lot is to give a little bit more armor pen to deep Combat and I think there are a lot of things we can do to deep Subt. But those changes all need to be deep, or rogues will just skim off the top of any tree to maximize their dps. Making haste, and perhaps armor pen too, a little more beneficial to melee will also bring them up, though that may mean nerfing some other classes. These aren't announcements, just the kind of things I see on the forums.
