Current Resto/Balance Druid bugs on live
Just a quick list of potential bugs I can think of. I'll add more as I think of them or people remind me and then try to send them to Blizzard.
Balance:
--Sunfire has a 3 second tick rate before haste, as opposed to the 2 second tick of Moonfire. This makes a single Sunfire cast weaker than a Moonfire cast (in other words, the Sunfire talent currently brings a DPS loss).
--Entangling Roots is not affected by Moonfury damage bonus.
--If Shooting Stars procs while Starsurge is casting, the buff expires at the completion of the current cast. This is essentially the same problem as the Nightsong Battlegear bonus granting instant Starfires (though possibly more complex to fix here because there's a cooldown involved).
--Lunar Shower sometimes fails to refresh properly when you move. I don't have a perfect repro condition here--a pretty good one is that if you stack it to 3 and then stop moving for one second (so that the remaining duration on the 3-stack buff is 2 seconds), you can move for those full remaining 2 seconds and it won't refresh.
--The Moonfury tooltip misdescribes its behavior. It's not a Nature/Arcane school damage bonus, it's a bonus to some individual spells--15% to Starfire/Wrath/Starsurge/Starfall/Hurricane/Typhoon/Thorns/Moonfire(direct hit), and 25% to Insect Swarm and the Moonfire DoT.
--Glyph of Starfire still does somewhat strange things now that Moonfire is on a variable tick timer. I'm not sure you can really work around this in the new DoT refreshing system, but since the Glyph extension rounds to the nearest tick (like all DoT refreshes), it can give more or less time based on the happenstance of timing.
Resto:
--With 1/2 points in Swift Rejuvenation, the GCD of Rejuvenation is 1.25 seconds completely regardless of spell haste. Notably, if your GCD is less than 1.25 to begin with, the first point of the talent is a loss.
--Swiftmend is not affected by Gift of Nature.
--Wild Growth currently has a radius far greater than 15 yards.
--Nourish (with Empowered Touch) does not refresh Lifebloom on targets other than the caster. This is fixed on the Cataclysm beta.
--The Gift of the Earthmother instant heal itself has three or four errors:
--It's not affected by Glyph of Rejuvenation.
--It's affected by the talent Improved Rejuvenation in a way that makes no kind of sense. The first point of Imp. Rejuv does nothing, the second point increases the proc size by 14%, and the third point reduces that bonus down to 7% (additive with Gift of Nature and Blessing of the Grove).
--It attempts to account for the varying number of Rejuv ticks based on haste, but does so incorrectly. Rejuvenation itself gains a fifth tick at 12.5% total haste, and a sixth tick at 37.5%. The GotEM proc gains its fifth "tick" (for purposes of computation) the moment you get above 0 haste, and the sixth tick at 25% haste.
--It is not affected by Symbiosis.
Balance:
--Sunfire has a 3 second tick rate before haste, as opposed to the 2 second tick of Moonfire. This makes a single Sunfire cast weaker than a Moonfire cast (in other words, the Sunfire talent currently brings a DPS loss).
--Entangling Roots is not affected by Moonfury damage bonus.
--If Shooting Stars procs while Starsurge is casting, the buff expires at the completion of the current cast. This is essentially the same problem as the Nightsong Battlegear bonus granting instant Starfires (though possibly more complex to fix here because there's a cooldown involved).
--Lunar Shower sometimes fails to refresh properly when you move. I don't have a perfect repro condition here--a pretty good one is that if you stack it to 3 and then stop moving for one second (so that the remaining duration on the 3-stack buff is 2 seconds), you can move for those full remaining 2 seconds and it won't refresh.
--The Moonfury tooltip misdescribes its behavior. It's not a Nature/Arcane school damage bonus, it's a bonus to some individual spells--15% to Starfire/Wrath/Starsurge/Starfall/Hurricane/Typhoon/Thorns/Moonfire(direct hit), and 25% to Insect Swarm and the Moonfire DoT.
--Glyph of Starfire still does somewhat strange things now that Moonfire is on a variable tick timer. I'm not sure you can really work around this in the new DoT refreshing system, but since the Glyph extension rounds to the nearest tick (like all DoT refreshes), it can give more or less time based on the happenstance of timing.
Resto:
--With 1/2 points in Swift Rejuvenation, the GCD of Rejuvenation is 1.25 seconds completely regardless of spell haste. Notably, if your GCD is less than 1.25 to begin with, the first point of the talent is a loss.
--Swiftmend is not affected by Gift of Nature.
--Wild Growth currently has a radius far greater than 15 yards.
--Nourish (with Empowered Touch) does not refresh Lifebloom on targets other than the caster. This is fixed on the Cataclysm beta.
--The Gift of the Earthmother instant heal itself has three or four errors:
--It's not affected by Glyph of Rejuvenation.
--It's affected by the talent Improved Rejuvenation in a way that makes no kind of sense. The first point of Imp. Rejuv does nothing, the second point increases the proc size by 14%, and the third point reduces that bonus down to 7% (additive with Gift of Nature and Blessing of the Grove).
--It attempts to account for the varying number of Rejuv ticks based on haste, but does so incorrectly. Rejuvenation itself gains a fifth tick at 12.5% total haste, and a sixth tick at 37.5%. The GotEM proc gains its fifth "tick" (for purposes of computation) the moment you get above 0 haste, and the sixth tick at 25% haste.
--It is not affected by Symbiosis.
Total Comments 0
Comments
Total Trackbacks 0
Trackbacks
Recent Blog Entries by Hamlet
- Balance Feedback MoP Beta (04/02/12)
- Theorycraft 101: Regen vs. Throughput Choices for Healers (08/09/11)
- Theorycraft 101: Haste Breakpoints, update. (08/06/11)
- StarCraft 2 Speedrun (07/28/11)
- Theorycraft 101: Haste Breakpoints and Rounding (07/18/11)
