Friday, March 7, 2008

Fooling us still: blink in wotlk

It seems like the warlock uproar has gained such a momentum that Kalgan is breaking the seal of secrecy and is doing his best to calm us down.

Quote:

We definitely feel the need for warlocks to gain some sort of active defense so we don't have to try to balance them around the assumption that they're "tanking" melee classes. For example, an idea we're running with internally is the concept of a warlock being able to cast a spell that places a circle of demonic power on the ground. The warlock would be able to teleport to this location from within a relatively short range (ie: 40 yards), and would also be able to summon demons more quickly if they're standing within the circle.

Note: this idea is intended as a sneak peek, it's not something that we're planning for 2.4, it would be more likely as an expansion ability, and may change entirely before said time.

In short they, blizzard, know that we cannot possibly carry on with the silly design of a tanking class in cloth with no escape mechanism. In short we managed to hammer in their thick skull that this is not acceptable. It is not acceptable that mage have a hard time against us in the same way it is entirely bad design that we have such a hard time (impossible) against melee (rogue / warriors).

So nothing still in store to sort out the problem of season 4 gear with armor penetration, still no talk on what cloth users are getting to balance armor penetration and the dps increase of melee weapon. Kalgan just throw a bone on a HYPOTHETIC change in store for us in .... the next expantion.

In the mean time mage obviously go beserk when they heard of the remote possibility of warlock getting a blink. Kalgan swiftly move on to attempt to calm the situation and mention that in the next expantion mage will finally get spell to allow them to better handle warlocks (fair enough).

In all this what do we see?

Blizzard is aware that clothies are getting shorthanded and their play style is turning into a "tank the melee" because of lack of options.
Blizzard should be aware that the population of warrior is one the highest and strangely is growing these days...
Blizzard is still silent on what they are going to change for season 4 to allow clothies to stand a chance.

I think that blizzard is betting on the next expansion to sort things out and have already thrown the towel for clothie: for 2.4 and until the expansion cloth users will just have to bend over it seems. By then either blizzard will attempt to stem the number of people leaving by throwing us bits about the coming expansion and obviously the CM will not answer any thread on balance and will carry on answering the "rickrolls".

Kalganised yet again.

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