MMO-Champion BlueTracker - Starfall and rogues

2008-11-03 18:11:17

Update: Starfall no longer removes rogues from stealth at 30 yards.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=12368278145&sid=1

What good was removing perception when you give boomkins a 30 yard range upgraded version of it?

More importantly than all the other arena maps, how is this going to nullify a rogue in the orgrimmar arena when the teams start literally right next to eachother? Once the gates open, there is no possible way for a rogue to get 30 yards away from the other team in time.

Is there any hope to land an opener against a boomkin team in the arena?

TLDR: QQ

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[ Post edited by Voyle ]

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Voyle

2008-11-03 21:12:58

Re: Starfall and rogues

We don't have a problem with Starfall breaking stealth. There are plenty of other spells that do so and Starfall is hard to spam.

However, Starfall is an unusual spell in that it isn't channeled and can even follow the druid around. So we are going to change it so that shifting cancels the spell. Having a druid run around in cat or travel form with Starfall raining down in an attempt to break stealth is not really what we had in mind for the spell.

Ghostcrawler

2008-11-03 21:27:12

Re: Starfall and rogues

Yes, we would also remove (or possibly suppress) the spell on mounting. It isn't intended to be used as a minesweeper.

If you want to cast it in caster or Moonkin form to try and catch a stealther, that's fine.

Ghostcrawler

2008-11-05 19:44:51

Re: Starfall and rogues

So this took some digging but apparently there was a change to stealth in between 3.0.2 and 3.0.3 so that the stars would no longer target a stealthed opponent. The AE splash from a star hitting another target will contine to take a stealther out of stealth. Maaven's answer was technically correct. It isn't a bug in that we changed the stealth code.The change to Starfall wasn't intended so we're trying to decide if we want to change it back or leave it in its current form. I'm not sure the world will end either way, but I wanted to provide an update since it was a bit of a head scratcher.

Ghostcrawler