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-MrBean-  Title: Now With Extra Baldness
Posts: 357
Registered: 2001-5-23 14:15:00
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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HunterTalon posted:
I feel like Kate Beckinsale invited me over for a night of unbridled passion (her words, not mine), then when I got to her place she proceeded to strap on a Big Black and bent me over her Bentley...
Don't lie... it still wouldn't be that bad of a night for you 
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Pacorra Posts: 36
Registered: 2003-11-25 13:52:07
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Vault_News posted:
We realize that by making Power Word: Shield slightly more expensive for Discipline priests to cast that it might cause Holy priests to avoid using it. To that end, we are adding mana savings into the Body and Soul talent. The tooltip will not reflect this change until a future patch, however. Ideally, Holy priests should not notice much of a change to the Power Word: Shield costs.
My Holy Priest has not used PW:S since the 3rd heroic he ran, back in Dec. It will take a lot more than "not much of a change" to consider it again.
The WoW team has made mistakes in the past (like when they murdered BM hunter a couple months into WotLK), but this massive balance rollercoaster is by far the worst they have ever done. It absolutely feels like a B team, running around like headless chickens with no idea whatsoever about class dynamics and actual play.
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Ferrydust  Title: Iron Chef Jennifer
Posts: 938
Registered: 2002-9-4 20:32:54
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Pacorra posted:
Vault_News posted:
We realize that by making Power Word: Shield slightly more expensive for Discipline priests to cast that it might cause Holy priests to avoid using it. To that end, we are adding mana savings into the Body and Soul talent. The tooltip will not reflect this change until a future patch, however. Ideally, Holy priests should not notice much of a change to the Power Word: Shield costs.
My Holy Priest has not used PW:S since the 3rd heroic he ran, back in Dec. It will take a lot more than "not much of a change" to consider it again.
The WoW team has made mistakes in the past (like when they murdered BM hunter a couple months into WotLK), but this massive balance rollercoaster is by far the worst they have ever done. It absolutely feels like a B team, running around like headless chickens with no idea whatsoever about class dynamics and actual play.
I am all for the priest shield nerf because it was OP in arenas, and I am guessing in raids as well. However, the roller coaster has got to stop. It is a disaster and no fun at all. They keep over nerfing or overbuffing. I thought they were just trolling us, but I think they may just be that clueless. You don't apply 2 fixes per problem! That's what they keep doing. They don't try 1 fix and see how that feels, it's like they have 2 teams and each gets to pick their favorite fix and both get applied.
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Quazimortal  Title: The One and Only
Posts: 1,557
Registered: 2004-9-18 21:52:58
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Ferrydust posted:
You don't apply 2 fixes per problem!
More like 30 fixes per problem.
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Rezzinu  Posts: 185
Registered: 2004-4-17 10:20:46
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Incoming Healer Changes |
slythetove posted:
_Kewk_ posted:
Great example. No really. Put up all the failed and currently failing MMO's against the industry leader and say the failed devs are the ones who got it right. LOL. Do you guys even think before you type?
Actually...
DAoC's death warrant was signed once they decided they knew better than the players.
EQ's was the same. See also "The Vision"tm
SWG was the same.
Once a developer decides that they are going to force you to play the way they feel you should play in spite of thousands upon thousands of complaints it's all down hill from there.
--Sly
Thanks Sly, and to the rest of you for backing up what I said.
Kewk, obviously I do think about things before I type. It isn't that hard to see a game in a downward spiral, especially if you're not part of it.
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zukat1 Posts: 8
Registered: 2008-8-5 13:57:22
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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With all these changes for the worse as far as players are concerned, I'm getting this we're comming out with a couple new games and need a player base. Sure this is not making us look good with a game that has been out for years but guess what we can do with our new ones. Diablo 3 otw and titan < in the works > they'll need people to play those games.
For those that can't afford more then one monthly script why not make it to where they are leaving one for the other soon possibly. Can't think of any other reason to put a B team on their moneymaker myself.
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Azure-TheBlueOne Title: Made in Alaska
Posts: 319
Registered: 2003-2-24 19:25:37
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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^ I kind of doubt that Blizzard is purposely running off their WoW playerbase with extreme changes in the hopes that they'll try Blizzard's new MMO that isn't even out for over another year. It's much more likely that customers driven from WoW would choose an MMO that is already open, or opening relatively soon, if they opt into another MMO at all.
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Unstruck Posts: 260
Registered: 2004-3-24 18:59:13
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Activision took over. People with a lot of money and zero soul make stupid decisions that everyone has to listen to.
That's how most "good things" go "bad."
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heiromancerdrackus Title: Is, indeed, a fat ass.
Posts: 274
Registered: 2001-12-24 17:04:55
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Unstruck posted:
Activision took over. People with a lot of money and zero soul make stupid decisions that everyone has to listen to.
That's how most "good things" go "bad."
Morhaime does not report to Kotick. He reports to Kotick's boss at Vivendi, who has a controlling stake in ATVB.
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Sprawl-zero1eye- Title: IGN Vault Staff
Reziztance iz Futile
Posts: 1,001
Registered: 2002-6-28 03:39:29
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
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heiromancerdrackus posted:
Unstruck posted:
Activision took over. People with a lot of money and zero soul make stupid decisions that everyone has to listen to.
That's how most "good things" go "bad."
Morhaime does not report to Kotick. He reports to Kotick's boss at Vivendi, who has a controlling stake in ATVB.
True enough, but sadly the influence will always be there. I can't say things have gotten better since Activision joined up, can you? I won't say it is worse, because I really don't know, but nothing feels better about the merger/partnership/whatever.
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