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Current Resto/Balance Druid bugs on live

Posted 10/16/10 at 4:35 AM by Hamlet
Updated 10/18/10 at 3:00 PM by Hamlet
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...
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Update: Recent hotfixes NOT in beta.

Posted 10/15/10 at 6:21 PM by Hamlet
Updated 10/18/10 at 2:09 PM by Hamlet
I just logged to Cataclysm beta (current build 13189) and confirmed that the IS and Moonfury reductions are not present there. IS is doing twice the damage it's now doing on live, and Moonfury is giving 25% to all spells.

The recent beta patch notes ( MMO-Champion - Cataclysm Beta - Build 13183 ) were all easy to verify, including that Starfire has had its cast time reduced without a corresponding change in coefficient. Only exception is the Moonfire note--I can't see any change...
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Hotfixes after first night of 4.0.1 Patch, and GotEM

Posted 10/15/10 at 3:33 PM by Hamlet
Updated 10/15/10 at 4:33 PM by Hamlet
As many people have noticed by now, a number of hotfixes went in after the first night or two of 4.0 raiding, to adjust the wildly disparate DPS values of some classes. I spent a long time last night retesting essentially all of the Balance spells to see how they'd been affected. Here are the results:
--Insect Swarm base damage and coefficient reduced by 50% (122 base damage per tick, 0.13 coefficient). This one many people noticed right away.
--The other big one: Moonfury is now...
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Using this Blog feature

Posted 10/15/10 at 2:08 PM by Hamlet
Hello,
I've decided I'm going start using the Blog feature on EJ a bit more. I could perhaps describe it as "starting a blog," but that's a bit misleading. I'm really intending to post the same things I already post in a variety of places, simply consolidated and more trackable (both for my benefit and yours). So the goal is to create one place where people can follow my writings on WoW (and occasionally other games), but I don't want to give the impression that I'm going...
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Druid Cataclysm comments from Blizzard chat today

Posted 04/17/10 at 2:25 AM by Hamlet
Blizzard had a developer Q&A on Twitter today. Transcript here:
World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> #BlizzChat Developer Chat on Twitter 4/16

Brief comments on Druid-related information.

Quote:
Q: How will haste affect channeled spells. Will it be similar to DoTs and HoTs?
A: They will channel faster but their duration will remain unchanged. You will get more ticks on the same cast.
This will largely have no effect on channeled...
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