Windfury nerf pulled?

The post is still there though for some reason it's not showing up properly on the forums. In IE, I see it listed fine. In Firefox, I can't see it unless I go directly to the link or do a search under my own posts. The text was simply edited for clarification since some were confused as to whether it affected "white" or "yellow" damage with the change.

This change was something that was intended to have been implemented when the Burning Crusade was put in along with all the other changes that came with BC. We had thought we had 'fixed' this before, but kept having an issue getting it to work as it was intended. It is now corrected so that it is working as we intended it to at the release of the Burning Crusade.

That said, this was done simply to modify the amount of dps that melee classes were able to do with it. This wasn't a spur of the moment change, but something that had been planned for awhile. This does not negate any plans or discussion that was held during BlizzCon like some seem to feel. There are positive changes for Shaman coming as we said.

Let me know if you all can see it now or not. I had to unsticky and resticky it for it to show for me.

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It's there now.

Thanks for letting me know. We've had sticky threads pull a disappearing act before which started many a conspiracy theory, but it's just a bit of strangeness now and then on the forums. :)

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If it has been planned for a while, why wasn't the community notified well in advance, and why wouldn't it just be implemented with your regular patch schedule? Last night in Black Temple, we noticed a severe dps drop from our combat rogues as a result of this nerf. This is a huge nerf, I encourage you to pass the information in this link below to the devs when and if at all possible Neth.

http://www.gameriot.com/blogs/The-Rogue-Compendium/The-Windfury-Nerf/

Thanks, Shaft. I'll pass the information along. We're always watching to see if changes to things like this need modified because they affect things more than intended. That doesn't mean anyone should expect a retraction of the change. But, we do watch to see if anything else needs changed or modified because of these sorts of changes and make adjustments from there as necessary.

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Could you tell us how this change is supposed to affect the warrior skill slam? It is neither an instant attack or on next swing. Thanks.

The Slam inclusion was an error. I don't believe there should be any affect to it since it's not instant.

I'll keep tabs on this thread and note questions that people have and forward them on. I can't guarantee quick answers or answers that people will agree with should we get more for you and we're able to post , but we'll be keeping an eye on feedback.

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Slam no longer procs Windfury as of last night. If you can fix this, at least part of our DPS will be salvaged.

I'll double check this.

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Thanks. If this truly is a bug, I won't be nearly as upset about it as I was before =p. I'll withhold further judgment until you get back to us.

You're collecting tar and feathers aren't you?

We'll do what we can to answer things for everyone as we can.

Keep in mind, Burning Crusade changed a lot of things from how much health people have to how much damage everyone was able to put out. Many changes were made to try to keep balance between it all and this was one such change that was intended to go in, that we thought had gone in, but had continued to elude us in it actually sticking and functioning as we intended.

Ok, all. Here's a bit more for you all as far the reasoning why this fix wasn't in sooner and to clarify that this also is intended to affect Slam:

With the release of The Burning Crusade, we had intended Windfury Totem to only work with normal auto-attacks and “on next swing” abilities such as Heroic Strike and Cleave. We uncovered the reason this fix did not work, and it was corrected with the Windfury Totem hotfix this week. At this time, Slam is intended to not work with Windfury Totem. We have no plans to return it to working with Windfury Totem.

We just weren't as clear as we would have liked in our original statement so hopefully this clears things up for people a bit more.