09-19-2008, 12:07 PM
Quote:Yep, those sales figures really show that WoW is in a major decline.
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What surprised me this time around is that Blizzard is so willing to throw the pre-expansion patch out there. Before TBC, this didn't have the impact it will now - completely thrashing arena balance and making Season 4 a joke. I guarantee there are going to be some ubercombos the moment the patch comes out that just can't be countered, because this many massive changes all at once can't be balanced at all yet. If you're playing one of those ubercombos, you're in luck. If not...oh well...
I have no idea if Priests will be part of an ubercombo. I'm betting not though since the core issues of Priest survivability in arenas aren't changing. Priests will gain armor and other defensive abilities, but still no ability to escape forces them to be reliant on their specific-class arena partners to peel. It'll be a wacky few weeks though as arena balance is completely turned on its head.
-Bolty
One of our mages (Higler) was playing on the PTR in some PUG arena groups. He said it was pretty amusing. Basically, the fight starts, folks get in range, people just blow up - no real time to consider getting heals off. We'll have to see how it is when live with organized teams, of course.
Jormuttar is Soo Fat...