{"id":66,"date":"2010-10-22T13:40:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T20:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/15minutesofwow.wordpress.com\/?p=66"},"modified":"2010-10-22T13:40:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T20:40:39","slug":"daily-thoughts-random-thoughts-about-4-0-1-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternateimage.net\/gaming\/2010\/10\/22\/daily-thoughts-random-thoughts-about-4-0-1-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Thoughts: Random Thoughts About 4.0.1 So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With such a host of changes in the 4.0.1 patch, a lot of little things can get missed as we talk about larger or more specific issues. Here&#8217;s a few of my thoughts that I think I&#8217;ve missed in previous articles so far.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AoE\u00a0&#8211; Blizzards design goals for the future of WoW is to limit the mass AoE\u00a0pull fun-fest\u00a0that Wrath has become. Most of their relevent\u00a0changes reflect this. Paladin&#8217;s\u00a0Divine Storm needs 3 stacks of HP before it does much damage, even then doing less per target that before, making it only very useful in large pulls. Hunters have lost their EZmode\u00a0AoE\u00a0trick &#8211; volley. Now multi-shot hits all targets but at much lower DPS (aside from maybe a SV hunter with key talents\/glyphs). Warriors cleave and whirlwind now have a stacking buff that increases their damage done the more you use it, to the point that cleave is comparable\u00a0single target damage to heroic strike even. Wait? How does that fit into the design goal? On my poorly gear warrior alt, cleaves can hit multiple targets for upwards of 13k each. Whirlwind is hitting about as hard as DS when both are buffed to 3 stacks, yet after WW gets its buff, its at full power til the trash is dead. So why is other AoE\u00a0getting nerfed, while warriors AoE got buffed and most other classes (casters particularly) stayed the same.<\/li>\n<li>Damage Balance &#8211; Most people will have noticed by now, even with the damage pass that nerfed\u00a0caster dps and buffed melee dps, caster dps is ridiculous. I watched a warrior with almost 1k resilience get hit for 36k by some mage. Admittedly, I&#8217;m sure the mage was geared, but there&#8217;s no good reason for a mage one shotting\u00a0a warrior in almost all pvp gear. At equal gear levels nearly all casters are doing 25%+ dps of their melee counter parts. There is a decent change that this wont get really addressed until cataclysm.<\/li>\n<li>Tanks &#8211; Where are they? People just don&#8217;t want to tank anymore. While trying to form a 10m group for the weekly quest last night our group, and at least 5 other groups in trade looking, had no luck finding a tank for over a half hour. We even had 4 people capable of healing in the group, and no tanks. Whats the deal?<\/li>\n<li>Subtlety\u00a0rogues don&#8217;t suck anymore. They hurt. Watch out for those extra sneaky back stabbers.<\/li>\n<li>Although mana isn&#8217;t too much of an issue for healers now because we overpower most of the content, I can see how it will be in cata. With the mana regen\u00a0changes characters of mine that wouldn&#8217;t go under 90% mana are now having to use special regen talents to keep going during an average boss fight.<\/li>\n<li>Overall it seems like Blizzard is following through with their stated design goals for the expansion. Expect lots of CC, healers going OOM, huge health pools, and harder instances\/raids in Cataclysm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See you monday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With such a host of changes in the 4.0.1 patch, a lot of little things can get missed as we talk about larger or more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[70,196,199,243,731,841,918,927,955,958],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-4-01","tag-caster","tag-cataclysm","tag-damage","tag-rogue","tag-tank","tag-warcraft","tag-warrior","tag-world-of-warcraft","tag-wow"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Daily Thoughts: Random Thoughts About 4.0.1 So Far - 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