Patch 3.3.5 - Blue Tracker

#0 - June 18, 2010, 6:28 p.m.

So I got the notion in my head that I should "get ready" for patch 3.3.5 and started looking into it. I've been shocked to be unable to find anything as far as class changes in the works for the new patch.

I'm not going to make a "FIXIT NAO!" post, but I am surprised to see that there are no class tweaks or changes that have been either announced or datamined.

Did I miss something, or are we actually going to get a patch that doesn't even tweak class mechanics?

Zarhym

#6 - June 18, 2010, 9:25 p.m.

Our systems team is hard at work tweaking classes, updating talent trees, and restructuring the way in which new spells and abilities are learned during the leveling process (given that spells and abilities will scale with level rather than have multiple ranks). These changes are planned to coincide with a future patch which will implement the framework for Cataclysm. No major tweaking is planned to take place beforehand unless serious class gameplay issues arise.

Zarhym

#24 - June 18, 2010, 10:13 p.m.

Q u o t e:

Pro tip, patches with a n.n.X suffix are not really major patches.

3.3.5 is NOT a major patch.

This is correct. While there are a couple of major features coming in patch 3.3.5, it's still considered a minor content patch. That isn't to say that even most minor content patches don't have a few class changes, but they're still generally very different from major content patches.