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Old 11/07/07, 7:21 PM   #69 (permalink)
Larisroth
Piston Honda
 
Night Elf Druid
 
Dragonblight
I'm from NZ too, and yeah arena as a feral druid is very frustrating.

One of the main issues I have is trying to work out when to trust my UI. Which bits of the system are actually calculated client-side, and which bits server-side.

A few feral specific questions would be:
When does mangle fade, presumably it's 12 seconds after the attack is processed on the server, rather than 12 seconds after your client gets the message that the aura goes up, thus with 500 latency you're going to have to hit that last shred 500 ms before the timer fades on your debuff monitor.

When should you powershift? Is energy kept track of seperately on the server and client? This will be less of an issue as you should always hit it immediately after using an ability, but if you need to wait for the client to get the tick before you can do it, it's going to cost you 250 ms of energy (so that's what, 2.5 energy).

Doing dps the biggest problem is that your next action can be dependent on whether your last attack hits or misses, especially if that was a mangle or rip.

The feral druid is a different beast altogether.
 
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