Vanquish the evil!--More Moonkin stuff

#0 - March 19, 2009, 9:08 p.m.

Fellow Moonkin, I called you all here today to go over the evil that has plagued our feathers for generations! We have been kicked down, spit on, and have yet to receive respect from those who created us. Our creators feel this to be a cruel joke as we squirm with the life that was set before us. Never changing, never allowing freedom from this cage we call a talent tree.

We have put up with the PVP balances they have instated long enough. We have become nothing but a moving target. Nothing but a punch bag for all other classes. We have no survivability and have yet to see any change with it. The one called GhostCrawler claims to be on our side. Yet! He is pure evil. His pincers of hate and deceit follow us around, plucking out of feathers on each turn. Even now, he cackles at our injustice. Creating more pain as he releases what is supposed to be our teir set. A set that upon item level, should be better than what we have; yet is worse than anything we have seen.

We are victim to Random Number Generators. This polarity is terrible and our children's children feel the hate that comes with it! This evil needs to be vanquished! We must stand up and fight! No longer will we stand by and just let this evil crustacean tear our of hearts and feathers, one by one. No, we will fight!

I ask that my brother's and sisters no longer typhoon each other out of the nests, instead, aim all of their abilities at this creature. So in one swoop, we can knock him into a boiling pot of water and have dinner that will satisfy our families for generations to come!

TL;DR

Fix our pvp
Fix our set bonuses
Eclipse is to RNG
Crab Legs are tasty

We will take a stand!
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Ghostcrawler

#8 - March 19, 2009, 9:25 p.m.

I was trying to find a good Balance thread to post in. There are several good ones, but this one made me laugh.

Typhoon -- what we are most likely to do is add a daze effect of some kind. This is what the mage spell Blast Wave does. The daze (it's like a 50% snare) can add a little bit more time to do something before the targets get back on you, such as cast a Cyclone. We might mess with the knockback distance a little, but Typhoon is built differently from many spells, so there may be a limit in what we can do here.

2P Ulduar set bonus -- we increased the Eclipse boost to 15%, which should actually grant a dps increase.

We know many druids still don't like the inherent RNG that Eclipse offers. However, we like mechanics that encourage players to dynamically (meaning if they pay attention) swap which spell they are using. Balance has often had a real tunnel-vision problem of just using the same spell over and over. Even mages do that less these days with all the other procs and cooldowns they can blow at certain times. Eclipse did have some problems, particularly with the Wrath part of the talent not actually doing enough, but we believe those are in a better shape now.

Ghostcrawler

#13 - March 19, 2009, 9:32 p.m.

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2P Ulduar set bonus -- we increased the Eclipse boost to 15%, which should actually grant a dps increase.
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Set bonuses are nice but a class should never be balanced around the assumption that people have certain gear.

We don't, but we also want the set bonuses to be attractive. The version of the data that player saw had a lower boost on Eclipse (6% maybe?), which actually turned out to be fairly trivial, as many players helpfully pointed out.