Happy Hallow's End

[Kazilla]

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Happy beginning to a great halloween.

[-Spector-]

Hell yeah, Hallow's End is awesome.

[Tuttifrutti]

I can't wait, it looks cool, but I know I'm gonna be lagging in those major cities since everyone's gonna be there. ><

[Kazilla]

SM has never seen so much activity. You should be able to do most all of it on your hunter, and everything on your mage ;)

[Jessifer]

Whee! SM! :D

[Chruser]

Hallowed are the Ori?

[D3V]

Ya rly!

I'm such a nerd, this makes me wanna play WoW.

[Tyrannicide]

Heh, the HH is easy as hell. You can 2 man it lol...

I've been leveling my Ret Paly instead...so powerful...for..once.

[Jessifer]

People are selling some of the wands for like...40g a pop. Kinda rediculous.

[D3V]

WTS 70 epic druid.

[Kazilla]

Heh, the HH is easy as hell. You can 2 man it lol...

I've been leveling my Ret Paly instead...so powerful...for..once.
As I stated yesterday, we are happy with Ret's PvE damage and sustatined damage in PvP, but were concerned that the burst damage in PvP could be too high. We discussed this for literally hours yesterday, which was certainly not the first time we have discussed the issue. Thus I hope these changes are not perceived as a knee-jerk reaction, but I am sure that will depend a great deal on which class you play. :)

Divine Storm -- the damage was changed from Holy to Physical. As you know, Holy damage is almost never mitigated and this talent could pack a lot into a very short time. This is a nerf to the ability's damage. This change is now active on Live.

Repentance -- this ability now lasts for only 6 seconds in PvP (down from 10). Obviously this is also a nerf. This change is also active on Live.

Art of War -- now affects all damage done by Judgements, Crusader Strike and Divine Storm (instead of critical strike damage). Net dps should be about the same but less bursty. This change will be made before Nov 13.

Righteous Vengeance -- now applies a dot affect similar to Deep Wounds (instead of critical strike damage). This ends up being a significant buff to the ability to make up for the damage lost to Divine Storm, but is also less bursty. This change will be made before Nov 13. EDIT: The dot will NOT break Repentance.

Glyph of Crusader Strike -- now reduces mana cost (instead of increased damage on stunned targets.) We thought paladins could stack too much damage vs. stunned targets. This change will be made before Nov 13.

We also fixed a bug with Seal and Judgement of Light that could sometimes result in too much healing.

In our tests, Retribution dps remains the same over longer periods of time, but they can't do quite so much damage in the initial few seconds of a PvP encounter.

I know Ret pallies feel a little picked on since we've made this mistake before of having them come out the gate too strong and then had to correct them. For that I do apologize. It's a difficult spec to balance since part of its design is to have large crits and stuns, which have obvious PvP implications. We are pretty confident this will not nerf pallies into the ground as I facetiously promised yesterday, but if we overdid it, we'll be happy to back off some of the changes.

On the other hand, maybe we'll see fewer BGs with 20 paladins on the opposing side and can get some reasonable feedback on all the other classes in the game.

EDIT: To clairfy the new dot will not break Repentance.

You guys are WAY to strong in pvp.

[Tyrannicide]

Yea, I know, I read that before.

Midn you, my Ret pally is only level 55 atm. I actually stopped playing him and picked him up about a month ago, leveled him from 36-52 as Prot for some reason, mainly ret being shitty and I could easily tank 4 mobs at a time. I also knew of what was going on with Ret on the PTR and knew I'd get a free respec lol. Still, on my Paly, I never sat down adn drank once on those 3 levels i've gained so far. Between Art of War FoL's and judging light/wisdom(gaining replenishment), Ive never run low on mana or health lol.

Its still abd ass and playinjg my other 70 toons, Ive watched Ret Pallys drop Prot wars/pallys way to fast, let alone when they came at my squishy priest.

It is true, just dueling on my war if my Judgement and Crusader crit right off the bat, the person is nearly dead, without stunning them lol.

Will have to see how these changes work.

[Tuttifrutti]

Don't sell it you dork, play it again, it'll get your mind off the girls :D

[Sovereign]

Im just about to finish season 10. wheee.

I'm off getting all the pumpkins at inns. Yay for flight paths. Easy 4~ gold.

[Kazilla]

Season 10?

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GOT MY BROOM!!


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[Sovereign]

Now use it to go to all the pumpkin candy pots in the world. I did. Ez gold + achievements

[Kazilla]

I did all of Eastern Kingdom.. 1/2 through Kalimdor I wanted to shoot myself. I'll probably finish things up today.

[Jessifer]

So many pumpkins...

[-Spector-]

I killed the Headless Horseman several times yesterday, got my broom and both spell damage rings he drops.

I'd really like to get his mount! I saw someone with it and it looks badass.

[Jessifer]

I'm gonna try to get the HH quest done Friday. I'll have some time, then.

[Kazilla]

It's a daily quest, you can do it everyday.

[Jessifer]

I'm aware of that. I don't have the time to quest before work.

[!King_Amazon!]

If you're talking about killing the headless horseman himself, you start the quest right where you fight him, and you can easily 2-3 man him as long as you have something that can tank and something that can heal. Me and Nikki killed him 3 times last night in 30 minutes.