Spooncraft

So let’s get down to it. I’ve been posting a lot of class changes and such over the past few days and I’d like to see what you guys and gals think of it all.

I’ll bullet a few specific notes that I’ve been mentioning in my own offline discussions about these changes.

• Death Knight’s Blood talent tree and Blood presence overall was slightly nerfed. A lot of the self healing passive talents and such were kind of knocked down, as was the overall damage done. Now Frost is pumping out 10k crits with frost strike and it feels A LOT more like a rogue with the additional 30 runic power you can ramp up through talents. Sitting on a mob and rocking out some of the VERY nice AOE damage of Howling Blast fills up that runic meter very quickly, then it’s just non-stop madness. Unholy is still kind of fluttering along but since Ghouls are REALLY kind of buggy lately I don’t have much to say on the tree. There’s also no more rune mastery talents so there isn’t a reliable way to spam the same move over and over since no matter what you do, once those runes tap they’re gone for the full 10 seconds. Overall, Death Knights seem to have been reigned in a little bit and at the same time a very unpopular spec is now 99% of what you see.
• Hunters can now leap back about 13 or so yards as a core ability. Their pets are (pardon the language) fucking incredible. So is Survival spec. Hunters are pretty much having their way with anybody and everybody in their path.
• Paladins are just kind of there right now. They haven’t gotten much attention at all this time around. The same can be said for Priests and Warlocks.
• Rouges got some nerfing and as much as I like the class, I’m GLAD they got another smack with the bat. The stun function of mace specialization for rogues was removed which means less RNG crap in PVP but instead was given an added crit damage bonus so in PVE it’s been a buff. At the same time gouge no longer rewards a combo point, this confuses me. If anything because it doesn’t give a combo point anymore it should be dirt cheap to cast. Like I said, I like the class but I don’t like the nearly infinite amount of tools and trick that make them neigh unstoppable against soft targets in PVP. We can go on for hours but you know the long list of moves already I don’t need to go into semantics about it. Ask any arena caster about rogues and how if they slip ONCE it’s pretty much a done deal.
• Warriors… I started a Tauren Warrior just so I could regain the class I miss so much from my beginings on the Alliance. There’s damn near nothing that would convince me and the wife to go back but this class has always been an x-factor for me. Especially now. Titan’s Grip is now the new 51pt talent in fury and has no swing speed penalty anymore. Fury warriors now can spec for a 100% chance on melee hit to apply the mortal strike style debuff to healing. Also rampage is changed to whenever a fury warrior crits he buffs his raid/party with 5% chance to crit. Kind of a mix between unleashed rage from an enhancement shaman meeting a feral druid’s leader of the pack aura. Arms warriors can also get the enrage buff everytime they crit which ties really well with their core trained ability that consumes and enrage effect but does XYZ damage; and improved mortal strike adds more dmg to MS but also more dmg to Enraged Assault which is core trainable and causes that move to refresh the MS debuff. Warriors don’t have mace stuns anymore just like rogues which is fine, RNG (random number generator) bullshit is annoying and the less the better. There is nothing worse in PVE or PVP than elements that are completely random. It throws skill out the window and makes everything luck based or gear based. Deathwish is also now an enrage.
• Shaman are sitting on standby as well.
• Mages got some damage nerfs but they are still due for a major pass, so are Druids. Expect more on these two classes very soon.

Alright I think I ranted enough. You guys look at the information, scour the web and let me know how wrong I am about things in the comments section.