Thoughts on 2.4?Follow

Something went fubar with my patch download/install so I'm reading up on it while waiting for stuff to download and install. Very sad panda who needs his 2.4 fix.

The Shifting Perspectives druid blog at Wowinsider has some good info that's relevant to recent 2.4-centric discussions here. I'm hoping y'all log your impressions on 2.4 after playing for a bit. If not, whatever, I hope y'all are having fun in game. : )

Here's the biggies that caught my eye:

The "swipe doesn't break cc" change did NOT go live according to this guy. That true? That's cool, imho, as I think it'd take the skill out of multimob tanking and promote laziness in positioning.

Weightstones working in forms and the bleeding-ness of ghosts and mechanicals both went live. Cool and cool...I bought my weightstones before the patch in case the price goes up since their market just opened up.

We can buy the blue "Arena 0.5" gear for gold from faction vendors with honored rep? I'd missed that, and figured it'd still cost honor and tokens and stuff that I never have as a PvE'r. Wonder how much they'll cost? : ) Don't think there'll be any upgrades for me but it'd be great for fresh 70s, and if they're cheap enough I'll hook myself up with a little battleground set. Nice to have a little resilience for a change, and the movement speed boost will be nice.

Dragonhide Battlegear
* Dragonhide Helm (Lower City)
* Dragonhide Spaulders (Sha'tar)
* Dragonhide Robe (Thrallmar)
* Dragonhide Legguards (Cenarion Expedition)
* Dragonhide Gloves (Keepers of Time)

I also noticed that the drop rate of "depleted" stuff up on blade's edge plateau (badge anyone?) was increased. Interesting to see what that does for the farmability and cost of our favorite Badge of Tenacity.

Edited, Mar 25th 2008 11:48pm by JeeBar

DoTs dont get the extra gamage from evo?
on my lock they never show getting extra damage, even if i reapply then during the evo.....this may be because im too busy looking at the 5digit crits xD

I haven't done a lot yesterday, pretty much just fled to the new area, saw my framerate drop below 4, and went back to Booty Bay to finish wiping the goblin race out of existance.

What I can say is that I absolutely love the change to Nurturing Instincts (I had taken it in my last respec in preparation for the patch). Since I'm fighting the Booty Bay bruisers and they are not exactly easy foes, I can easily see how much of a difference it makes. I love how you can stack up all you HoTs on yourself and give them an additional 20% effectiveness just by switching back to cat.

Guess that makes it work like Quick Recovery for Muti Rogues. I sure love how bandages tick for so much more there.

one thing I thought I noticed last night was while in feral form my mana did not seem to regenerate at all if much at all.
At least that's how it seemed to me. In caster form I was getting it back like I should have been and maybe quicker with the spirit change.
Again I didn't do any real tests or have any numbers to show pre patch and after patch.
Just something that seemed kind of different.
I thought pre patch my mana regenned normally in feral form but now it definitely seems to regen slower than in caster form.
Can anyone confirm this or am I just high heh

The set bonus on the Wyrmhide gear is kinda cool. It seems to proc quite often and I sure like to get a SF in when I would have otherwise just spammed another Wrath. I miss the speed bonus though, and I guess it will take a while to get used to it being gone again.

I noticed the same mana thing. I would cast WotW and Thorns, switch in Cat, fight a couple mobs and when I went back to caster (around 2+ mins later) I wouldn't be back to fullmana yet. So I'm not sure ifit's because I'm at low spirit (I wear feral gear) or if they changed the mana regen rate for us while in Feral.

Love to hear our boomkin and tree brothers and sisters getting regen buffs... but I'm almost certain that many of us ferals lost regen in this patch. That may mean I may need to use my Everlasting Underspore Frond more than once every 6 months...

Edited, Mar 27th 2008 2:39am by soggymaster

I didn't notice any reduction in my mana regen. But then, I always have 3 points in Intensity no matter what spec I use.

One thing I did notice though..

Unless by properly they meant not at all... :P

Before the patch it would animate only if I pounced in mid-air (would do a second little jump), but now it doesn't seem to ever animate at all. Anyone else notices the same thing?

Improved Leader of the Pack is a fixed amount of healing based on the person's health, so no amount of +healing will help (kinda like Frenzied Regen). % based increases should work, though. %-based healing increases that I know of:

Nuturing Instincts (Feral Druid)
Quick Recovery (Sub Rogue)
Fel Armor (if a warlock were to get a melee crit LOL)

I haven't actually checked my feral regen since the patch, but I thought I read that Blizz did away with the class modifier to spirit regen. IE, a Warlock, Shaman, Paladin, Priest, Druid, and Hunter with the same int and spirit would all have the same resting mana regen. I thought that also included druids in feral forms, will have to check that out.

Regrowth is the same spell, it just costs less mana.

This patch? Shamans have gotten shafted every patch since BC. The ONLY decent thing we have gotten is the water shield buff (50 mp/5).

Not happy about the reduction of the totem GCD, then? Or did that not go live?