Vortex Damage

#0 - Feb. 2, 2009, 1:58 a.m.

Now that the "so called" dreaded CoH/WG CD has been applied, what are the current thaughts on the damage done by Vortex?

Currently, it is doing a total of 20k damage, +~15% (i think) of the persons hp upon falling.

Guild attempted maly on the weekend, with myself and a shaman healing. If there were 3 people out of range of me that did not have enough HP to take the vortex and drop without healing, at least 1 person would die (barring lucky choice on pre bubble target or lucky PoM bounce)

With the current changes to healing spells, would blizzard be considering reducing Vortex damage somewhat?

also, has anyone ever done 10 man maly (using 10 man gear only) been able to kill him successfully with 2 holy pallies as the only healers? If not, this goes against what blizz wants to make "bring the player, not the class".

personally, i feel a total of 15000 damage would be acceptable. Healers will still be challenged as to getting everyone topped off before the arcane balls thrown out by maly after vortex to prevent a 2 shot.

/discuss

Ghostcrawler

#22 - Feb. 2, 2009, 11:22 p.m.

We identified a bug preventing Circle of Healing and Wild Growth from being able to find targets in Vortex. It was not our intent that these heals be prevented during Vortex (beyond the nerf we already made to prevent them from being spammed).

We should be able to fix this in the next couple of days.