09-16-2006, 12:51 AM
Pet scaling is of course a good idea for flavor and just plain fun potential of playing these classes. We'll have to wait for the beta or release day to see how well they manage to balance the fun and usefullness of the implamentation of course.
My thoughts on HoT stacking immediately turns to Paladins and Shaman. No HoTs to bring to the table in raids means they may have gimped healing in future content without actually being nurfed. Hopefully this helps opens up the "offtank/whack stuff in the face with a hammer" and the "DPS/whack stuff in the face with a hammer" aspects of these classes in raids. I'm a serious proponent of making Paladins, and Shaman, better and funner* to play.
*yes, it's a word. So there:P
My thoughts on HoT stacking immediately turns to Paladins and Shaman. No HoTs to bring to the table in raids means they may have gimped healing in future content without actually being nurfed. Hopefully this helps opens up the "offtank/whack stuff in the face with a hammer" and the "DPS/whack stuff in the face with a hammer" aspects of these classes in raids. I'm a serious proponent of making Paladins, and Shaman, better and funner* to play.
*yes, it's a word. So there:P