Hi all.
I'm very excited about WoW and am greatly anticipating its release. There are a number of questions I have regarding the ways certain items/skills affect combat. I thought to post here since I remember what a great forum LL was for Diablo II technical info when I was playing it.
1. Do healing potions used in combat generate hate for the user? If so, this could allow for some interesting variations of combat strategy.
2. Do stealth/invisibility cause monsters to stop chasing a player? Let's say monster A will keep chasing the player until the player is more then 30 yards away and that the player is currently 15 yards away. The player then stealths or uses the mage talent for instant cast spell with invisibility. Would that cause the monster to stop the pursuit? How about casting fear and then using an invisibility potion?
3. What is the general accuracy rate for offensive spells and melee attacks against same leveled monsters? Do any stats increase melee accuracy or lower resist chances?
4. While soloing, does every class have (or will have) a way to deal with retreating mobs?
5. Can a hotkey macro be made to swap various pieces of equipment during combat?
6. Do monsters regenerate health/mana while they are being attacked?
7. Are there different items with manually activated special effects that share the same cooldown timer? Some examples are health and mana potions or the couple chain armors that replenish rage.
8. As characters progress in levels, how do monsters scale in comparison as far as their amount of life and damage dealt go?
It seems like quite a few people here have made the beta (congratulations!). Hopefully some of you can offer answers or insights to these questions. Thanks in advance.
-Edit: Typos
I'm very excited about WoW and am greatly anticipating its release. There are a number of questions I have regarding the ways certain items/skills affect combat. I thought to post here since I remember what a great forum LL was for Diablo II technical info when I was playing it.
1. Do healing potions used in combat generate hate for the user? If so, this could allow for some interesting variations of combat strategy.
2. Do stealth/invisibility cause monsters to stop chasing a player? Let's say monster A will keep chasing the player until the player is more then 30 yards away and that the player is currently 15 yards away. The player then stealths or uses the mage talent for instant cast spell with invisibility. Would that cause the monster to stop the pursuit? How about casting fear and then using an invisibility potion?
3. What is the general accuracy rate for offensive spells and melee attacks against same leveled monsters? Do any stats increase melee accuracy or lower resist chances?
4. While soloing, does every class have (or will have) a way to deal with retreating mobs?
5. Can a hotkey macro be made to swap various pieces of equipment during combat?
6. Do monsters regenerate health/mana while they are being attacked?
7. Are there different items with manually activated special effects that share the same cooldown timer? Some examples are health and mana potions or the couple chain armors that replenish rage.
8. As characters progress in levels, how do monsters scale in comparison as far as their amount of life and damage dealt go?
It seems like quite a few people here have made the beta (congratulations!). Hopefully some of you can offer answers or insights to these questions. Thanks in advance.
-Edit: Typos