Thursday, August 28, 2008

No way. NO. ****ING. WAY.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=9336665205&sid=2000

Attack Power Buff (Multiplier): Abomination's Might, Trueshot Aura, Unleashed Rage

READ THAT AGAIN. THOROUGHLY.

Attack Power Buff (Multiplier): Abomination's Might, Trueshot Aura, Unleashed Rage

Attack Power Buff (Multiplier): Trueshot Aura

Attack Power Buff (Multiplier): Trueshot Aura

THEY ARE MAKING TSA MULTIPLY ATTACK POWER, HOLY MOTHER OF CRAP

THEY'RE REALLY FIXING IT FOR REAL

8 comments:

lazyjoe0316 said...

yay, maybe i can spec back to mm on raids :) i wont have to feel bad for not doing my max dps in raids (though i would love to go sv more).

Pike said...

O.O

Grats!

Neggles said...

Expose Weakness: Buffs only self.

W.
T.
F.

Hunter's Mark: No longer increases attack power bonus from attacks against the target.
Improved Hunter's Mark: No longer grants melee attack power.

WTFx2

Rilgon Arcsinh said...

"Expose Weakness: Buffs only self. "

WHOA WAIT WHAT

How the christ did I miss that?

Okay, well, I missed it by absolutely ****ing dancing in my office when I read the TSA change.

Neggles said...

Sadly, another issue is the fact that an enhancement shaman is a staple of the melee raid group. Unleashed rage and TSA will not stack, making the two only useful for fights where we are spread out :(.

Aaron said...

Scaling Trueshot aura - about damn time in my books. Some other interesting stuff in there to say the least.

Change to Expose Weakness - survival hunters will instead be brought along for Hunting Party - which will definitely -need- to be good. I imagine it also depends a little on what the survival DPS contribution will be like.

Unleashed Rage and TSA not stacking. Interesting again, but I don't think this is the end of the world. The enhance shaman won't be quite as indispensable for melee parties anymore. It'll still be the best option for them, or at least it -should- be, but we'll have alternatives for the times when one can't be found for a raid.

TSA probably will be a fully viable substitute for unleashed rage, and windfury is raid wide, so any shaman can put one down. Granted the enhancement version is a little better, but what will the difference mean in light of the haste buffs some other classes are going to have?

There's a lot of theory to be worked out, and we have yet to see hard numbers for some of this stuff. I suspect that, while various existing synergies between buffs are going to be lost, we'll all be better off in the end.

And if you managed to make it through this little wall of text, then thanks. This kinda wound up longer than I was expecting.

Aaron

Maevet said...
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Maevet said...

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Fuck an A! About bloody time. Took me a bit to get the talent calc to load (net connection is borked)