To help settle the Sly/Kriegprojekt debate-

Does the DF always add a hybrid dps/healer for the 3rd dps role? If not, and the DF can throw together 3 "pure casters" for DPS, than that answers the question.

This pretty much sums up how I feel. Just don't really enjoy playing my Shaman or Paladin anymore.


I am leveling a Worgen Druid thru the new 1-60 then I will probably hang it up for a while and see how the game evolves. As it is now, its in a form that I do not enjoy at all. I see my guild struggling thru heroics and stuff, and I just don't have the kind of patience it takes to deal with constant wipes and whatnot.

 

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PvE


Healing in PvE is working out pretty much as intended. There are some Heroic dungeon bosses that are probably tougher than the required item level average permits. In general, you might have a tough time upon zoning into a Heroic dungeon with a bunch of strangers as soon as Dungeon Finder permits, especially if your group isn’t willing to communicate and work together. We want Heroics to be challenging -- if you want to zerg the content, stick to normal dungeons


When they run the numbers in 6 months and figure out no one is playing a healing priest anymore, they might pay attention. Maybe. Perhaps. Because it appears that Blizz is continuing their "tradition" of (what seems to be) allowing devs to put their personal prejudices into the game (Kaplan vs paladins, Chilton vs mages, GC vs healing priests.)


Glad I don't read CG's comments on a regular basis. I find them sadly ill-informed and condescending.


I know, I know, standard MMO Dev attitude - especially one who is not in touch with the real customer experience.


Focus Groups Blizz, Focus Groups.


/sigh


edit for things better left unsaid.

 

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- We have healing priests in my guild.
- They do pretty well.

=> learn to play?

 

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Korrigan I honestly don't know if you are just trying to be a jerk or not, but for the off chance that you aren't:

It's not that the class doesn't work in PvE (although it really didn't before the massive buffs 1 week in). It's that it is boring boring boring. The healing play "vision" this guy has is boring. His stated goal was to make it more fun, and have more variety than spam 1 button. The reality is he's made it far far less fun.

As for healing priest PvP ... well it just doesn't work. See also GC statements that they recognize it's not working.

--Sly

 

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Actually from what I understand and this goes back to before BC was released, is GC hated the guy who created and introduced the Hunter class because of how successful it was and all the adulation he got for it. Which why when he (GC) became lead dog for BC he started neutering, normalizing and otherwise beating down the Hunter class. Which Hunters as a result have been for the most part underpowered PVP fodder ever since and are currently in the worst shape that class has ever been since it's inception, particularly for PVP.

We have developers in Blizz.


-They apparently do not fully comprehend the customer experience


=> Learn to code?


(Seriously, Korrigan, sweetheart, there are other hardcore players out here. That are raiders. That have raided. That have led raids. In multiple games. WoW is not hard. Being elite in WoW is a joke. This isn't a L2P issue.)


Thanks for the laugh.

 

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Just because it bears repeating. Not that you made a dent in Korrigan's egoarmor, but yeah, words have never been more true.

 

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Technically this is a design issue, has nothing to do with coding. Once a design and development has been settled upon coding and implementing it is just the next step. Some would say that the coding and implementation of any project is the easiest part.

 

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Just because it bears repeating.... again. For the record, Korrigan's egoarmor is not purple- it's orange. And item level infinity.

 

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