New Spell changes

#0 - Nov. 3, 2010, 10:08 p.m.

I read the post at MMO-Champion.

Nearly all of the spell changes suck.

In particular:

Druid Feral

* Mangle (Cat Form) now deals 184% normal damage, down from 360%.
* Mangle (Bear Form) now deals 95% normal damage, down from 230%.

I've rolled many a druid, and now the one attack I strongly depend on has been reduced to being ineffective.

It gets worse. I don't even play a Rogue, and I think they are getting mangled (no pun meant).

I'm curious as to why the radical changes. My toons have been very playable up until now.

I wish I was exaggerating this: http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/

I was excited about the newest patch until I read that.

Ugh.

Zarhym

#6 - Nov. 3, 2010, 10:43 p.m.

This is one of those moments where reading data-mined material can be sorely misleading. I talked a bit about these changes yesterday here: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=27497534774&pageNo=1&sid=1#14

Most of these abilities have not changed for level 80+, however, they've been changed to scale from 1-79. As an example, Ambush deals a flat 190% weapon damage on live realms. With these changes, it now deals 90% weapon damage when first learned, and increases up to 190% again by the time you hit level 80.

We made these adjustments because healing and damage-dealing at low levels has been way too powerful. These changes will make more sense when you get into the game and see for yourself.