Usually I cancel my WoW subscription due to boredom. After being away for a few months, I'm energized for the game again and resubscribe. This cancellation will be the first time I leave because of a class change/nerf. I'm actually still interested in the game but my favorite class (arms warrior) is having a nerf (acceptable) and a playstyle change (unacceptable charge/intercept change). I've tried a couple alts. I keep thinking about my warrior and how fun it would be to play him without that ridiculous change. I can't wash it away. I'm trying to drown my memory of the fun with other characters but it isn't working.


Normally I'd say I'd be back in a few months once my head clears. This time I hope I'm wrong. I hope Rift does it right.


I wish you all the best. I'll see some of you in Rift. Let me know what server you pick

 

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Harrow for the Beta going on this week.

Will have to wait for live to see where I end up.

I must have missed something...what exactly did they change with charge/intercept? Not played my warrior lately so have not noticed anything. And is it only for arms spec or all?

 

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Quitting over the Arms Charge/Intercept merged cooldown? Really? Jesus christ PvPers are a buncha whiners.

 

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Charge and intercept are on the same cooldown. It is a meaningless change to the PvE crowd (as you can tell from a certain poster in this thread) but it is huge for people who enjoy pvp on their warriors in this game. Jumping charges always leave us a good 5-10 feet outside of melee range which requires us to use intercept just to close the initial gap. I won't even comment on what it does for classes with snares and other CC.


I'm not the only warrior changing. Most are going fury for pvp as it offers more mobility now. Others are giving up on pvp and just raiding. Others are rolling alts and shelving the warrior for now. We all have our own ways of dealing with the changes. I don't enjoy fury, raiding is tiresome after the third clear, I don't enjoy the other classes atm. My only option was to look elsewhere for fun.

 

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Warriors have been a top PvP class for close to 5 years. More than most classes can say about being in the spotlight for that long. Even IF this change is going to absolutely destroy Warriors in PvP (Which it won't), they kinda had it coming. Charge, Intercept, Throwdown. 8 seconds of stun.

 

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i realize its on a minute cooldown in arms spec but doesn't heroic leap help offset this a bit? i mean it does add a completely new type of mobility talent to the arsenal that wasn't there before.

 

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Hilarity will definitely ensue when Trion makes a negative change to whichever soul combo Trigeminal chooses.

 

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I think the damage to anything within 8 yards is a drawback if there are any enemies CC near. I mean it is an added mobility option, it just comes with that caveat.

Although,I dont find the merged cooldown to be a deal breaker to be honest.

From a different point of view, I was frequently stunlocked by the frequent spam of just about every possible "jump/charge" feature of warrior. However, I am not surprised to see this fix due to the fact that Blizzard does tend to toss over long-lasting features and tag a "live with it" sticker on the change.

I know what you mean about that annoying feeling due to the change. Yet, it`s an "everyday feature" on rogue (and there were TONS of such changes alike this one). I also recall my buddy who enjoyed using a specific ability in the DK Frost Tree due to a seemingly awesome but nimble Glyph (and it wasn`t even overpowered) -- yet some day Blizztard just nerfed that Glyph for entirely different reasons and the entire gameplay fun was literally raped - and again, this is something that been happening to Rogues for the longest, in that style .

He is intending to get back on the DK wagon though, due to the changes that could actually make DKs a good Mage killer; he is really pissed off about frost mages whose mobility got way out of hand over the time (and goblin`s rocket jump puts the icing on the cake, no pun intended)

I don`t seen nothing wrong with changing or cancelling. Taking a break from WoW is the best thing to do because a) you save cash, and b) Blizz dont get that cash for the month ^^. I still suggest you putting a short constructive critism writeup in their "wai u leavin, dawg?" tool when cancelling and perhaps on the forums too.

It will attract trolls but you are free to write up what you like. Just keep it intelligeble and you`ll smash any troll ;D The same stuff happens here on VN too.

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Just remember that RIFT will also have its craptacular moment. It`s a MMORPG law

About me, dunno if we can play on the same server because I am in YUROP! ;D

The only great thing I like about RIFT is the class variety. Although the classes appear to be mirrored like in wow, at least tehre is enough variety so you don`t see the same crap over and over again.

 

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