Doomguard - A simple answer plz

#0 - March 16, 2009, 4:46 a.m.

So DG has been changed to a 30min CD on the ptr.

MY QUESTION- When balancing Afflic dps did you take this pet into account?

I seriously hope not, some people will imediatly say "why wouldn't they". Well DG dps is just a gimmick. My dps is important on progression and althought dps is alway important (to a dregree) it is less important when a boss is on farm.
On a progression night where it takes 10 tries (wipes) to take down a new boss, i most likely will only be able to have the DG out for the 1st and 9th attempt. This is why I don't think our dps should be balanced around the DG.

EDIT - i can't spell gimmick, among other words :)

Ghostcrawler

#2 - March 16, 2009, 5:02 a.m.

Q u o t e:
MY QUESTION- When balancing Afflic dps did you take this pet into account?

If you mean do we forget that players have the Doomguard out on some fights, no we don't do that. We don't say "Yep looks like warlock dps is perfect" only to have someone else say "Dude, he had the DG out then!"

This may seem obvious, but it must not be because after we announce a nerf, you'll always see a slew of posts that crop up. "Dude, did you forget we do bonus damage against cats?" (Now, there are bugs sometimes that artificially inflate dps numbers. Deep Wounds and poisons are two recent examples.)

We do balance classes around the fact that they sometimes have abilities on a long cooldown. They are still abilities and you do use them. If it's a 10% dps increase that is up 10% of the time, then gratz, you have a 1% dps increase from that ability.

Similarly, we don't just balance around one type of fight with one type of gear and one set of raid buffs. There isn't just a magic number that everyone is supposed to hit.