Friday, August 29, 2008

Massive skill changes that I missed!

Sorry, distracted by the new BEST TALENT EVER(tm), I missed some new SKILL changes!

First up, AotV: "The hunter takes on the aspect of the viper, instantly regenerating mana equal to 100% of the damage done by any ranged attack or ability, but reduces your total damage done by 50%. Only one Aspect can be active at a time." Rilgon's verdict - yes plz. This means that, if I'm down to my last few hundred mana, I can fire off my Rapid Fire/Trinket combo, go into Viper, and pick up a massive ton of mana really quick.

Kill Shot: "You attempt to finish the wounded target off, firing a long range attack dealing weapon damage plus [ 15% of RAP + 2500 ]. The sheer power of the attack causes a strong recoil, causing you to be knocked down after the attack. 7% of base mana, 5-45 yd range, Instant cast, 35 sec cooldown" - It still sucks and I'm still angry that it became absolutely terrible. Good for lolpvp, but I don't PVP.

Hrm, that seems to be it. Oh well.

I'm hoping there's some new tameable pets (CORE HOUNDS, DAMNIT, BLIZZ, CORE HOUNDS. I WILL GIVE UP THE BEST TALENT EVER(tm) FOR ANCIENT CORE HOUNDS, JUST DO IT), though - we've gotten new ones with every push previous, right?

5 comments:

Neggles said...

Now, now Rilgon, you're scaring me. This makes it sound like you are BM at heart! :P

Rilgon Arcsinh said...

No, I'm "crazed Draenei with a giant gun commanding a HUGE TWO-HEADED DOG OF DOOM" at heart. :)

lazyjoe0316 said...

you also missed that they killed Expose Weakness :(

survival is now offically just a mana battery.

Rilgon Arcsinh said...

Lazyjoe: That was covered in the talent review.

lazyjoe0316 said...

lol, for some reason i didnt see that sorry. But the more i look at it the more i like the AotV change. it allows the hunter to basiclly have unlimited mana (with a very short period of reduced dammage), which supports the higher dps shot rotations. yes it will take up a global cooldown, but i think the overall dps will go up.

-admon (ive forgotten that ive had to put my sig up on this site since i dont have a blogger account)