Is anyone HAPPY?

I'm happy.

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Of course you're happy. Blizzard signs your paychecks every week or two.

I still have the ability to experience other emotions and perceived states of being. It's in my programming.

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i'll be happy when arena disappears

Must you set yourself up for a life time of disappointment?

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(pops head out window)

Im as Mad as Hell And Im Not gonna Take it Anymore!!!!!

It's kind of bothersome when people use this saying as a vague statement of anger and dissatisfaction. It should be reserved for primarily the context in which it was delivered. ;)

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You know, would it kill you to say that you guys are looking at our mobility issues once in a while?

The new Kill Shot is crap, by the way. I can't name too many hunters that are happy about EW being made self only and FI no longer stacking. Nice to know that at least one family of exotic pet is already useless thanks to the buff/debuff stacking changes.

Just tell us you're listening, for crying out loud. Tell us something, anything that Blizzard is aware of our concerns.

All classes in Beta are still considered to be works in-progress. I can't guarantee you anything beyond the fact that the Hunter class is not finalized by any means.

Hmph. You could well be infringing upon my happiness. ;p

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I'm afraid your people there at blizzard arranged that for me with the addition of arenas in the first place.

I'll check with my people, but I'm pretty sure we didn't arrange for your unhappiness. We add to video games what we think will be fun. Those who say the arenas aren't fun discount that it's a subjective matter of opinion not shared by all.

If you really feel we've included in our business model the goal of bringing you pain, Mankrik... well, I think it odd we're having this conversation.

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i think based on the changes you made last nite (you meaning blizz not u zarhym) prove that this game is going into a direction a chunk of the playerbase do not like.

I do completely acknowledge that you have legitimate concerns about some of the upcoming changes. Understand though that, with nearly every big change introduced to this game, this type of language inevitably comes as the initial reaction from a percentage of the player base.

It is in the nature of many to fear changes to the core mechanics of the game -- particularly before the changes are even put into practice -- or assume we do not know or care what we're doing. What will most likely be the case though is that adjustments will need to be made to individual classes or specializations, and some of the Burning Crusade encounters might need to be tuned a little bit to compensate for these Wrath of the Lich King updates. Ultimately this should play out and players will see it's a good change going into Wrath.

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Tell us, Mr. Floating Skull, how much fun is it to be spell locked/counterspelled/kicked/pummled/etc and reduced to auto attack while you watch your teammates die?!

True, this isn't always fun. Fortunately this doesn't happen to me the moment I log into the game, nor would it be the summation of my game experience.

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Unless your a shadow priest, right Z?

I do completely acknowledge that you have legitimate concerns about some of the upcoming changes. Understand though that, with nearly every big change introduced to this game, this type of language inevitably comes as the initial reaction from a percentage of the player base.

It is in the nature of many to fear changes to the core mechanics of the game -- particularly before the changes are even put into practice -- or assume we do not know or care what we're doing. What will most likely be the case though is that adjustments will need to be made to individual classes or specializations, and some of the Burning Crusade encounters might need to be tuned a little bit to compensate for these Wrath of the Lich King updates. Ultimately this should play out and players will see it's a good change going into Wrath.

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Know what your doing? Christ, what you did to shadow priest is not a nerf, it's going to kill the class off completely! You screwed up in BC and thats why shadow priest were used to heavily in end-game raids,same thing with warlock dps vs mage. Now your going to pass slots shadow priest use to retadins cause they have better group regen? Just take the shadow tree way from priest,it will hurt them less and at least make them feel like healing is useful.

With deathknights coming out to help with the tanking shortage,all you have done is create a new one...namely healers. Alot of priest,denied a DPS spec are not going to change to healing,but re-roll or quit..hence a bigger healing shortage when your about to flood the game several million dps-tanks!

This is a dramatization of a reality that has yet to even come. Your feedback is much more useful when it's not put in terms that would rip this universe apart if vocalized loudly enough.

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thats probably because you havent just gotten told that your raid utility/spot has been murdered.

What's probable about that based on what I've said?

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Sticking to the posts about the future and ignoring those about the present to preserve that modicum of plausable deniability I see.



Ignoring the current issues does not make me happy.

Content doesn't get changed in the present. Work is being done to improve all areas of the game and you will see these improvements in the upcoming patch, as well as the expansion. You are correct though if you are trying to prove that I won't say "your concerns will be addressed via a content patch today."

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Yeah but you do not have the ability to relay your personal thoughts about the direction the game or each class is is heading because blizzard pays you to keep your personal opinion to yourself Cough sellout cough

I would do the same if placed in your shoes though.

You might have a point. I have the luxury of believing in what I say though.

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If I was paid to say something, I would have to believe it.

If I believed something, I'd be happy to get paid to say it.

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you can believe in it for sure, but when you keep it to yourself or only say it in certain closed places, what good does it do? Are beliefs (of all sorts) not meant to be shared?

A valid point. It's probably not appropriate for me to share my thoughts on the election season here though, among other things.

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to be sure, though i suspect for differing reasons (that said though, id love to have a political discussion with you. You seem to be sharp even when i dont agree with you).
I guess the issue with belliefs is not knowing whose beliefs are driving what, whose beliefs are being communicated to whom, and whose beliefs are being generated in a vacuum.

in the context of spriests, my worry stems from having no clue if anyone involved in these changes raids a spriest, why they are doing it and where the idea even came from (let alone what/if they are doing to compensate it). Its all about not knowing who believe what and how much they are aware of what others believe. or what they intend to do about what they do believe or know

You are very persistent, but always well-spoken and mostly constructive. Believe me when I say your name is one of a handful of names I clearly recognize whenever I'm responding, Fibrillation.

All I can say at this point is that we're aware of the concerns primarily presented by shadow priests with regards to the changes to buffs, debuffs, and raid stacking. We have no intention of letting the class fall by the way side. We'll be testing this in Beta as well as on the test realms. I encourage you and your shadow priest friends to copy over characters when the test realms are available and give us some good feedback about your raid experiences.

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How about the fact that Affliction no longer has utility and still doesn't scale meaning it has no DPS? Giving DoTs actual crit/haste benefits would make me happy.

Ew, affliction? You can fall by the way side.

I'm kidding of course. It has been noted several times that all classes and specializations will be carefully reviewed. No spec left behind!