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Registered: 2005-10-18 12:53:17
Zarhym posted:

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Classes General

Crowd Control
Many crowd control abilities no longer cause creatures to attack players when they are cast. The creature will not attack the player when the crowd control wears off, and nearby creatures will not become hostile to the player either. However, if a visible player gets too close to the target creature, the creature will remember and attack the player when the crowd control effect wears off. The intent is to make it easier for dungeon groups to manage crowd control assignments and pulling packs of hostile NPCs. The abilities affected by this change are: Hibernate, Entangling Roots, Wyvern Sting (will still cause hostility when it begins to deal damage), Freezing Trap, Polymorph, Repentance, Shackle Undead, Blind, Hex, Bind Elemental, Banish, Seduction.

Druids
Druids now gain 1 attack power per point of Strength, down from 2. They continue to gain 2 attack power per point of Agility while in Cat Form or Bear Form.

Entangling Roots and the equivalent spell triggered by Nature's Grasp no longer deal damage.

Innervate now grants an ally target 5% of his or her maximum mana over 10 seconds, but still grants 20% of the druid's maximum mana over 10 seconds when self-cast.

Insect Swarm now generates 8 Lunar Energy for druids with Eclipse.

Moonfire now generates 8 Solar Power for druids with Eclipse.

Sunfire now generates 8 Lunar Energy for druids with Eclipse.

Glyph of Innervate now causes the druid to gain 10% of his or her maximum mana over 10 seconds when Innervate is used on a friendly target, in addition to Innervate's base effect.

Mages
Ring of Frost now has a 1.5-second cast time.

Paladins
Beacon of Light can no longer be dispelled.

Speed of Light now increases movement speed when Holy Radiance or Divine Protection are cast.

Priests
Players will no longer prematurely cancel a channeled spell when clicking on the Lightwell.

Rogues
Blind duration against enemy NPCs is now 1 minute, while the duration against players remains 8 seconds.

Stealth now once again begins its cooldown once the rogue leaves Stealth.

Warlocks
It is no longer possible to leave combat while channeling Drain Soul.

Warriors
Overpower now has a 1.5-second cooldown and global cooldown (Taste for Blood's Overpower cooldown has not changed).

Retaliation, Recklessness and Shield Wall no longer have stance requirements.

Dungeons & Raids

Dungeon Journal is in the process of being implemented. While some UI elements may exist in the current Public Test Realm build, the feature is not yet complete.

Guilds

The Reins of the Dark Phoenix, purchased from the Guild Vendor, has had its art improved. It's now less transparent and indisputably more awesome.

PvP

Battlegrounds
Eye of the Storm has been added into the rotation as a 10-man Rated Battleground. The tug-of-war style capture points have been replaced with Arathi Basin style capture points to better support 10v10 competition. This change applies only to Rated Battlegrounds. Eye of the Storm is otherwise still a 15-player Battleground with tug-of-war style capture points.

War Games
Many improvements are being made to the War Games interface, though the changes are not yet fully functional.

User Interface

Characters can now be reorganized at the Character Selection screen. This feature not yet fully functional and the reorganization of characters doesn't save at this time.

The cast bar can now be moved to display below the Character frame.

Move Pad is a mouse-click interface for movement which is now built into the base interface.



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Spookysheep  4 stars
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VERY good change to the CC feature!

 

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Rill_of_WE  3 stars
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Registered: 2002-8-6 09:16:33
Spookysheep posted:

VERY good change to the CC feature!



Agreed! Now I'm hoping they'll increase the range of repentance so I don't have to kiss the mobs to cast it

 

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Spookysheep  4 stars
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This will make it much easier for us tanks to grab aggro from all the retarded DPS that start unloading cooldowns the second the group starts coming after the mage sheeps one.

 

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Blisteringballs  2 stars
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Registered: 2009-8-12 12:41:21
Great CC change, should make a tank's life much easier. I'm interested in seeing the reaction to the new questing hubs. On paper it sounds like it will give more casual players a strong alternative to mindless instance grinding, and try to keep things as fresh as they can in the little theme park. If it isn't Silithus round 2 (I.E. life consuming, boring grind) I may actually resubscribe.

 

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Spookysheep  4 stars
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I am pretty sure its going to be Silithus round 2 though

 

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NukeMage  2 stars
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Spookysheep posted:

VERY good change to the CC feature!

 

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GutterSludge  4 stars
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Registered: 2005-11-6 10:54:55
Agreed, and a long overdue change at that.

 

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Elaok  2 stars
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Registered: 2003-9-10 15:57:29
Rill_of_WE posted:

Spookysheep posted:

VERY good change to the CC feature!



Agreed! Now I'm hoping they'll increase the range of repentance so I don't have to kiss the mobs to cast it



it also needs to go baseline
Spookysheep  4 stars
Title: Lieker of Cheese
Posts: 1,248
Registered: 2002-1-9 06:49:19
Agree, they need to make all CC the same range for PVE. This will dramatically improve the dungeon grinds for everyone and I don't see any downside.

 

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