Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Shield of the Righteous nerf

Remember a couple of posts back, I talked about the PVP cries resulting from me getting a 77K crit ShoR on Festergut? Just to show how "not leet" I am, there have been several reports of ShoRs hitting Festergut for over 100K by better players than I.

Well, a new Beta patch today fixed that issue:

Shield of the Righteous now deals 609/1828/3656 damage depending on Holy Power. (Old - Deals 20%/60%/120% of Attack Power as damage)

Source

Now, we don't know what the attack power scaling this new version will have, but regardless, I bet we can kiss the massive ShoR crits goodbye. We shouldn't be surprised, this same exact thing happened to warriors with Shield Slam during the WotLK beta.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

This just in from Blizzcon!

We changed it so Divine Plea will generate 3 Holy Power when used so you can start with Holy Power on the pull.

Sexy.

No more nine second build up to our big threat move. We can roll in on a boss and smack him with a 3 HoPo Shield of the Righteous right off the bat.

I'm digging it.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Blizzcon is today...cont'd.

And the "Big" announcement is . . . Defense of the Ancients map for SCII and Demon Hunter class for Diablo III.

Seriously?  

Is that it?  

Color me disappointed.

 

Blizzcon is today

So, just in case none of you have heard . . .

Blizzcon starts today

Every Blizzcon has a "big" announcement, so what is going to be the "big" announcement this year?

Many people have speculated about what it will be, and I have my thories, but I'm keeping them to myself. Mainly, because I don't want to look like an asshat when I'm wrong (when have I ever cared about that before?).

Oh well, we'll find out soon enough.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

I can hear the cries in PVP now

Don't mind the UI (it is still a work in progress after the patch). I had to just go with it, as it was raid time.



Anyone notice something a bit off here? How about that 77142 over the bosses head? Yep, my ShotR with 3 HoPo and a 7 stack of Gastric Bloat crit for over 77k.

Incoming nerf to ShotR due to PVP concerns.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

sometimes, this game feels like a kick in the . . .

So, 

4.0.1 was released yesterday, and with it comes all of the systems and class mechanics changes for the upcoming expansion.  There are posts all over the place about which stats changed, were added, or were removed, but not many people have been talking about the changes to gear and how that effects their ability to tank.  Let's look at my unbuffed stats before and after the patch.

 

3.3.5

armor = 35778

health = 52849

dodge = 27.63%

parry = 21.69%

block = 14.88% (44.88% with Holy Shield up)

 

4.0.1

armor = 27365

health = 51706

dodge = 23.88%

parry = 19.71%

block = 21% (36% with Holy Shield up)

 

 

Effective Health

So, my armor went down by ~24% and my health went down by ~3% also.  

Avoidance

My dodge went down by 3.75%.  My parry went down by 1.98%.  

However, my block went up by 6.12% without Holy Shield, but went down by 8.88% when the Holy Shield buff is up. 

 

Sucks to be me.