MongoJerry,Mar 23 2005, 01:42 AM Wrote:In summary: Dire Maul has nice artwork but is a pathetically easy instance. Also, the drops are insanely rich and way too strong for how easy it is.
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I was waiting for that comment. Expect more of the same, and constant attempts to up the loot and special areas. Standard tactic that renders previous archaically areas futile to play in.
But to address the new patch:
New patch gripes: Fear is nerfed again. Not just upped mana cost... I could've lived with that if fear wasn't so supernerfed already (even alliance rogues boast how pathetically weak a spell it is), but I may no longer "pre-buff" fear against mobs.
You probably know better than most, but for those that do not: Psychic fear does not break from being resisted, and may be instant. It can and will last the full 8 second duration more often than not. . . as opposed to fear, which may break in 1-2 seconds and takes longer to cast than that from interrupts.
I.e. Near useless in pvp except pulling off someone else...
and now becoming a lot harder to wield PvE. Not that I'm against better skill for fear, but throw me a bone pvp and I ask... are other class PvE CC skills nerfed against pre-buffing?
Well? Can you re-sleep the sleeped? Repolymorph mid poly duration? Etc?
I've very rarely had two warlocks in the same party (rare to see another warlock period), so I haven't noticed seperate re-fearing pre-buffs yet.
New patch wonders: Ogrimmar guards are finally worth half a damn! I love them! Pre-patch, Horde's really gimped in terms of town defense. We get a few sparing guards that spawn slowly, and do jack against enemies. Once I went to stormwind, I became instantly jealous of guards that can daze, spawn fast, and often... but now I want to see what cool amazing abilities our new guards have.
One note about pre-patch stormwind though, its very easy to ride through your Allliance capital scott-free after the initial bridge. I was doing so for a good 10-15 minutes until I entered a building and auto-dismounted. Then I went fishing in stormwind canals. Where are your patrolling guards? Not that we had a lot of patrols in Ogrimnar at all. Alliance outnumber horde on my Mannaroth server, and consequently we encounter more people with have less skill and alliance suffer from inflation worse than we do.