Gogo Holyshock!

This is a funny one:

I wish I had a copy of the raw .dbc files

[E] Same name, different ability:

I just linked em on the last page. I think I did anyway. It's web based with a search.

Insanity. Combined with a fire and forget aoe dot, druids are going to be a really strong aoe component in raids. Between this, shadow priest aoe, and increased fire mage aoe I would expect a push for more aoe trash pulls and components on bosses.

I, personally, really love the attention blizzard is paying to the druid class. I actually feel like they've read and listened to the feedback threads/consistent complaints and made moves to address them.


Lets hope this continues for all the classes/specs.

I don't understand that direction - the developers have previously expressed that Mages are supposed to be the AoE kings, and now they're giving all the casters decent AoE.

My simple guess is that it gives them more freedom when having to make both a 10-man and 25-man version of each raid instance.

Ugh, based on this:
I think we can say that the "shock charges" have something to do with the 'player controlled dragon combat' raid encounter that Blizzard mentioned.

Yeah, that's what I'm using. But was hoping for the raw files themselves, so I could parse them a bit faster, as well as get more information from them.

Oh well.

Interesting what you find, though:

The only speculation could be wanting to put more aoe type fights in 10 mans, is going to require more classes capable of doing aoe effectively. With the changes you could bring a group with a balance druid and spriest as your main aoe, and a resto druid can contribute as well. That allows for more encounter design options in the smaller raids.

In addition on 25 mans you can expect greater overall raid aoe output than before, and allow for more places where prot pallies can shine and become necessary.

Oh here's something neat:

Apparently inscription (at least that's the implication) will be able to create temporary item enchants, like this one:

[E]

New hunter talent or set bonus?

[E2] Oh look, I found Bloodbath:

I found a Rend in there that had the Enrage bit, too. Seems a little weird to me...

Honestly (I'm not an expert so take it with a grain of salt) from what I can see of the DK trees they seem to have a fairly large collection of AoE tanking abilities. What I can't seem to find is anything that makes them the "anti-caster" tank other than a couple abilities that increase resistances, which is what the class was being billed as.

Of course, with the addition of things like Shockwave and the reduced cooldown on Challenging Shout it seems they are trying to make all the tanks capable of AoE taking effectively, which begs the question of what the hell are prot pallys going to do? Again, we'll have to wait and see what they do with paladins before we can make any assumptions.

Probably the most interesting thing I've seen so far is Demon Armor is being switched to +armor and +healing received, and Fel Armor is going to have +damage and allow spirit based mana regen. That would make Demon Armor the obvious choice for PVP, and fel armor the 'pve' armor.

Edit: http://urlshort.com/wotlk/site/views...?spellid=50511

Curse of Weakness now has a built in 'Thunderfury' effect?

Well yes and no. It seems like the secondary description is what would appear on the skill (if you have it, as in on your hotbar) or buff that you gain. If it's a tradeskill, or a tradeskill specialization, it may well not have a second description:

This is a good example. The Description2 would be what you see on the buff (or mouseover the buff icon), while the first is likely what would appear in a spellbook.

But this is just speculation.

Or it could be an abandoned ability.

The problem with looking through parsed spell databases and trying to extrapolate them into abilities is that there's way too much clutter in there. Except for alterations of existing spells and new spells that clearly have ranks (and are probably referenced with talents), it's just really difficult to get an idea of what's going on. Maybe it's a spell that got abandoned. Maybe it's a monster's ability. Or a pet's. Or a vehicle. There's just too many options and not enough information.

Surely if they introduced transmutes done by NPCs the cooldown would be on a per-player basis.

I believe there's actually more information in the .dbc files than this web-based search is actually allowing access to. But I'd have to get the files myself to parse them.

Here's another interesting ability, which has potential to be extremely overpowered:

If it's a boss ability, that's pretty nasty. Curses only?

That might also be yet another warlock ability, as it has a similar # to the warlock stuff, and I believe it has (Rank 1) on it.

I'm hoping something new and interesting. Sometimes consecrate/holy shield/judgement spam on every cooldown gets old. For a while, tanking the lazy way seemed nice (someone aggro'd a mob in hyjal trash waves...no, I won't run over and save you, I'll smack my Righteous Defense hotkey and eat some more cheetohs). =)

Here's some other interesting warrior tidbit I found after browsing around.

There's no old Bloodthirst when searching with http://urlshort.com/wotlk/site/spellsearch.php, the only ones that come up are new ones that do 100% of normal weapon damage, or 120% of normal weapon damage, or old AP based model BUT restores 1.5% total max HP. So maybe they're changing that too!
It'd be great with new ranks of bloodthirst, or one rank for all levels, where the only benefit isn't 10 more hp per hit!

Edit: A percentage of weapon damage would probably be logical due to Titan grip and the possibility of mainhanding a twohander.

Also interesting, there are two entries of the new Hurricane Rank 5, one with the old wording, and one explicitly stating it will increase time between melee attacks, ranged attacks and spellcasting. Odd.

The real question is, how the hell are any of us going to have enough hotkeys for all these abilities. Especially if they go back and make previously unused ones more useful (like Rend)

I've never been a fan of using alt or shift modifiers but I might have to start getting used to it because there's simply not enough keys to bind. I use ESDF to move and I have the following keys bound to abilities:

~123456
qwerty
ag
zxcvb
and all 5 of my mouse buttons (mostly for cycling through targets, /assisting and toggling attack)

I didn't see a rank on it, but then again, I'm just using the spellsearch thing, so there's a good possibility the whole "Rank 1" thing is a bit of extra information that it's not exposing.

The name seems consistent with warlock abilities, or maybe shadow priest?

[E] It does come a couple spells before a batch of lock abilities, however. They tend to come in "batches" so that might make a bit of a case for it being a lock ability. No additional ranks follow it, though.

This one made me laugh: