10-16-2008, 05:13 AM
Yeah, Enhance is doing fine right now, as is all melee. I'm not worried in the sense that "this is teh end of the world", my original post was mostly a joke. This is the same as pre-bc on scale of changes.
I'm just worried with their direction the last few months of really pushing melee, which is why melee has been dominating pvp and NOW melee (all melee) is beasting everyone else on damage. My friend texted me earlier to inform me that a badly geared retadin in his group last night in Heroic MagTer was doing 2300 avg dps. Your avg lock holds a min of 1000 to 1200 dps right now, and that's called "overpowered" by many. You can do the math there. Secondly, tanks in prot spec are in the top 10 of the dps. So in a 25 man raid with around 7/8 healers, and a main tank, maybe two or so for other purposes, that means there are 15 pure dps classes minimum BELOW THE TANK.
Just too much hybrid push, but they said they are watching it and plan to get the pure dps above them again because there is no reason for it. They also said recently that they are seriously reevaluating their thoughts on dots critting and on the shadow priest forums mentioned something about making it just baseline for all dot classes to scale dots with crit (hopefully hots too).
Oh, Orion... That's kinda your fault dude. That info about unified Spell Power has been out for months and all over the place, including talked about on the live servers in trade and general. I mean, I just went through getting my resto gear for my shaman, but I can use that equally for either purpose now (glyphs permitting). Always read the beta forums before an expansion, they put the info there to help you prepare for the massive changes that will always have to happen. Or http://www.mmo-champion.com or http://www.wowinsider.com
I'm just worried with their direction the last few months of really pushing melee, which is why melee has been dominating pvp and NOW melee (all melee) is beasting everyone else on damage. My friend texted me earlier to inform me that a badly geared retadin in his group last night in Heroic MagTer was doing 2300 avg dps. Your avg lock holds a min of 1000 to 1200 dps right now, and that's called "overpowered" by many. You can do the math there. Secondly, tanks in prot spec are in the top 10 of the dps. So in a 25 man raid with around 7/8 healers, and a main tank, maybe two or so for other purposes, that means there are 15 pure dps classes minimum BELOW THE TANK.
Just too much hybrid push, but they said they are watching it and plan to get the pure dps above them again because there is no reason for it. They also said recently that they are seriously reevaluating their thoughts on dots critting and on the shadow priest forums mentioned something about making it just baseline for all dot classes to scale dots with crit (hopefully hots too).
Oh, Orion... That's kinda your fault dude. That info about unified Spell Power has been out for months and all over the place, including talked about on the live servers in trade and general. I mean, I just went through getting my resto gear for my shaman, but I can use that equally for either purpose now (glyphs permitting). Always read the beta forums before an expansion, they put the info there to help you prepare for the massive changes that will always have to happen. Or http://www.mmo-champion.com or http://www.wowinsider.com
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