08-17-2009, 04:02 PM
My massive hatred for the changes has sometimes been misinterpreted as hating the burst changes. It's REALLY in the lack of interactivity like Mordh mentions. The lack of interactivity in the spec even made me rashly think about changing mains. I didn't, and I'm going to weather the storm, but man, At least with my mage the 3 buttons that I mash for DPS have some thought and decision behind them. With ret, I hit buttons, watch cooldowns. There is no interactivity.
The 'choice' that they ranted and raved about isn't even a choice. On our Yogg kill, I tried to throw heals whenever I could on myself or in the brain room on others. I NEVER used a free FoL on another person. If I used it, it was on myself. I would always wait and cast a Holy Light on someone as it was just always the better choice of heal to throw.
That means that I pretty much mashed Exorcism every 15 seconds. The only choice there is, is whether or not I try to time the cast of an Exo at the beginning of a pull.
I'm interested to see if SoComm will be good enough after these changes to be considered a choice for trash. The ability to smack secondary targets with it is going to be very nice, and could make it better than SoR. in an AoE situation.
From a PVP perspective, most people know, I hate PVP. Hate is not a strong enough word. I do it from time to time so that one day, in about 6 months, I can get the PVP mounts in my quest for 100 mounts.
After 3.2 I did some BGs to get another epic gem, and try out the mechanics. Nothing had changed except the seal I used. I went in in my PVE spec, with SoR and facerolled bad players with SoR. I ran 6 BG's and would have gotten Damage control in every single one (I even topped 1mil damage in an AV). I led in Killing Blows, Damage Done, and in a WSG I had the best time:
KB's, HK's, Damage Done, and Healing Done - All led by Sunetra. (that is just downright silly let me tell you)
The 'choice' that they ranted and raved about isn't even a choice. On our Yogg kill, I tried to throw heals whenever I could on myself or in the brain room on others. I NEVER used a free FoL on another person. If I used it, it was on myself. I would always wait and cast a Holy Light on someone as it was just always the better choice of heal to throw.
That means that I pretty much mashed Exorcism every 15 seconds. The only choice there is, is whether or not I try to time the cast of an Exo at the beginning of a pull.
I'm interested to see if SoComm will be good enough after these changes to be considered a choice for trash. The ability to smack secondary targets with it is going to be very nice, and could make it better than SoR. in an AoE situation.
From a PVP perspective, most people know, I hate PVP. Hate is not a strong enough word. I do it from time to time so that one day, in about 6 months, I can get the PVP mounts in my quest for 100 mounts.
After 3.2 I did some BGs to get another epic gem, and try out the mechanics. Nothing had changed except the seal I used. I went in in my PVE spec, with SoR and facerolled bad players with SoR. I ran 6 BG's and would have gotten Damage control in every single one (I even topped 1mil damage in an AV). I led in Killing Blows, Damage Done, and in a WSG I had the best time:
KB's, HK's, Damage Done, and Healing Done - All led by Sunetra. (that is just downright silly let me tell you)
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