Friday, April 9, 2010

Today my shaman died a little part 2

Still feeling a little hurt about losing my ability to take care of poisons and diseases in exchange for getting curse removal (and magic if talented into as resto), the final nail in the PvP coffin for my shaman was realized when looking at the warlock changes. I like to take a look at the changes to other classes so I can formulate strategies on how to best handle them in the field of battle; that is when I'm not just running around like a crazy man trying to demolish everything in my path. Anyways, the point that stuck out to me the most (considering recent dispel changes in the works)

Curse of Agony and Curse of Doom will be converted into Bane of Agony and Bane of Doom. Bane spells are considered magic instead of curses. This means you will be able to cast one Bane (e.g. Bane of Agony) and one Curse (e.g. Curse of Elements) on a single target.

So let me get this straight. First we lose the ability to cleanse poisons and diseases, but we get the ability to get rid of curses...and now you are changing warlocks so the 2 primary curses we would want to dispel (considering they actually deal damage) and make them into magic effects.

Normally I'm pretty fine with changes that Blizzard has in store, but this is just ridiculous. For some reason they don't want us to succeed in battlegrounds unless we are resto(since they will be the only ones that have access to magical dispels)

I guess they were thinking "Lets take a class that has issues with PvP due to lower health pools than comparably geared others, and let them have no option to dispel any type of Damage over Time effect that gets cast on them so they can die faster."

Way to go. If things go through as planned, I probably will not set foot in a BG with my shaman come cataclysm.

"But you can play as resto", says Blizzard.
"But I'm enhancement", I said. "And I thought you said you were going to work on this survivability thing for us"
"That's why we gave you spirit wolves."
"I do like my spirit wolves. Maybe they can keep me company while all my friends are in the BGs getting Honor."

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