"Your rotations won’t change"

#0 - July 8, 2010, 3:12 a.m.

This is a direct quote from Zarhym's post. "Your rotations won’t change and you won’t lose any cool talents." I'm focusing on the first part of that statement.

But my response is: "Really?"

All these changes and our rotations won't be changing at all? We won't be getting any interesting new abilities to put into our rotations, or pruning things like Whirlwind that won't make the cut? Why am I forced to do 5 more levels of content to gain no new and interesting abilities?

Ghostcrawler

#8 - July 8, 2010, 5:46 a.m.

Q u o t e:
I think you can qualify the statement. It's probably more accurate to say, "The essence of your rotations won't change."

Fire's rotation is clearly changing; they'll be using Scorch to force Hot Streak procs. But the essence remains: they use a priority rotation, maintaining Living Bomb and possibly Improved Scorch, watching for crits to use their proc, and filling in with Fireballs.

Frost's rotation is changing: we'll be using Ice Lance now, and two instants on Fingers of Frost instead of just one (or ignoring it altogether). But the essence remains: we're a proc-watching spec, with a multiconditional cast and some (hopefully a little more) pet management.

I don't think he's saying you won't change what you're doing at all. He's saying the overall feel of the specs is being preserved (and, where necessary, improved). They don't want Cataclysm to hit and make you feel like you have to learn a brand new playstyle.

Exactly. We didn't want anyone to worry that we were pulling fun talents like say Hot Streak or Borrowed Time. Some specs need a little more help in the rotation department and we weren't trying to say everything will play just as it does today.

"Your rotations won&rsquo;t change"

"Your rotations won’t change"