Burning Crusade Beta Patch 2.0.2.6144

[Zarathustra]

More development. Seems they're putting the potions and procs BACK IN...
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?t...&sid=1&pageNo=6

Hi everybody :-)

We have some answers for you regarding the two first questions about consumables and weapon procs in forms, which is currently one of the major issues you have been posting about recently:



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Q u o t e:

1- Usease of consumables in forms:
Why restrain the feral druids from using such an important aspect of the game? The developers think it'll overpower druids in any form in concrete or is it purely to avoid druids to stick to one form for too long thus making the druid lose some of the "shifting" ability? Is this definate or still in testing?
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The fact that Druids in the beta test could use consumables and items while being shapeshifted was a bug. It was an unforeseen side effect of the original intent, which was to allow for Druids to interact with NPCs while being shapeshifted.

However, the developers do like the idea of consumables being used while in Druid forms, but the above mentioned bug prevented a proper implementation of this ability, which would otherwise allow shapeshifted Druids to use certain consumables such as Rage and Healing Potions, Thistle Tea and Healthstones. The developers are currently evaluating which items they want Druids to be able to use while in forms, and as soon as all issues are resolved, it will be reintroduced into the game.



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Q u o t e:

2- Weapon procs in feral
The most commonly asked is the enchant "crusader", but as we all know, the ramifications are much deaper than only just that enchant. Most people say its incoherent to lose weapon procs based on the fact that we dont "use" the weapon but we still use its stats and still have to repair the weapon... Question is, what is the reasoning behind the weapon proccing in forms, the 1.0s fast attack rate or the added dps from WF totems (for example), would put the feral druid out of the proportion blizzard intends for out estimated dps?
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Similarly with the use of consumables while being shapeshifted, the developers like the idea of allowing weapons with procs to be used by Druids being in forms. As with consumables, they developers are currently evaluating which weapons with procs should be usable by shapeshifted druids. When the evaluation is complete and all possible issues have been resolved, this will be introduced to the game.

That is it for now, but we will hopefully soon have more feedback for you regarding your other questions. :-)
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The interesting thing is that they're still calling it a bug, now as a "side effect of being able to talk to NPCs." How does that explain the new animations?