Skandranon,Jun 21 2005, 08:07 AM Wrote:It was twenty seconds of protection, and an undead rogue can destroy any caster in eleven. The minutes of cooldown are rather irrelevant.Assuming the rather rare (and fair) 1 vs. 1 situation on the PvP battle field, but: Especially (Alliance) Mages are usually assisted and protected by 1 or 2 additonal players, i.e. a Tank, Healer and/or Hunter. And on PvP servers, where the number of Alliance players is often twice, or more, as high as that of Horde players, you can expect 3-4 assistants per Mage. And now tell me that crippling WotF on the HORDE side wasn't a severe blow against the Horde players! Considering the fact that the player ratio Alliance vs. Horde is overall about 2:1 on all WOW servers, WotF's spell duration should actually have been increased to 30 seconds to compensate this imbalance in PvP! What I also don't get is the fact why Blizzard crippled WotF to 5 seconds duration in both PvP and PvE. Programming-wise, it should have been easily possible - depending on the player mode - to leave the old duration for PvE, and limit it only in PvP (if that was necessary at all). No, this unfair change was obviously the result of the whining of thousands of Alliance players who saw that they can't simply trample down the Horde (and rake in "honor" points) fast enough on battlefields with a higher amount of Undead players among the opposing faction. And as far as Blizzard goes, these folks obvioulsy prefer Alliance players (the majority of the paying customers), and moreover have obviously absolutely no clue of the realities on the public WOW realms.
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