Is bloodboil fair? - Blue Tracker

#0 - April 19, 2009, 5:38 p.m.

Should a DK be able to destealth anything it wants?

Q u o t e:
Blood Boil Rank 4
1 Blood
Instant
Boils the blood of all enemies within 10 yards, dealing 180 to 220 Shadow damage. Deals additional damage to targets infected with Blood Plague or Frost Fever.

As it is right now, a DK can just spam this ability with no penalty, allowing him to destealth anything that gets within 10 yards of the DK. When it is used, no resource is consumed, which allows for infinite spamming. Once a target is in 10 yards, the damage will proc, and any stealthed target will be unstealthed.

Working as intended?

Ghostcrawler

#135 - April 20, 2009, 6:36 a.m.

We made Blood Boil require a target so that it wasn't an attractive button to just hit whenever to generate runic powr. However, we have now come to think that only charging the DK when the ability does damage is inconsistent with other AEs and unfair. We'll try to come up with a solution that doesn't just involve pulling off the runic power generation.

Ghostcrawler

#265 - April 20, 2009, 10:56 p.m.

A reasonable solution is something like changing Blood Boil to always consume a rune whether or not it does damage. Then you can use it to try and catch stealthers, but you're going to burn resources to do it. That is consistent with most AEs. Then, we would only give you the RP boost if the spell caused damage. So if you just Blood Boil in Ironforge, you would (typically) not get any RP.

We're not 100% certain we can do that in the short term, but that seems like it solves the problem for the most part.