Patch Notes 3.0.3 (Warrior)Follow

BT and TG both buffed. Nice.

We'll see how well that goes over once WotLK goes live and other dps classes are complaining.

The 1 second CD reduction is gonna be something to watch for. 10 second WW 5 second BT...

NOT MATH 
 
0    BT 
1.5  WW 
5    BT 
10   BT 
11.5 WW 
15   BT 
20   BT 
21.5 WW

Works just like clockwork. No more of this funny CD watching stuff. Now you have more chances for slams...

It isn't all bad for SD it now procs on HIT rather than CRIT.

So in theory the reduced % chance is countered by there being more chances it'll proc, i.e. there are LOTS more white hits than crits for it to proc off.

Also TG being buffed is VERY sensible.

Quick q. is the change to Imp.Rend a buff or nerf?

Edited, Nov 4th 2008 10:52am by Zyven

Yeah, the rend change would probably be considered a nerf to most, but from some of the numbers i've heard about from geared folks, it was bound to happen to either rend or deep wounds.

Rend is a buff. There was a thread about the change awhile back. They upped the dmg from weapon base so much that they had to nerf the talent or it would be rediculous.

TG is a straight buff.

Sudden death is a buff in disguise. Instead of using a big two hander we'll be dual weilding one handers and staying in zerker stance. 9% chance on swing with two fast one handers will net a butt load of executes which are independant of weapon dmg.

The only problem I see with sudden death and the new proc is that it will be very popular early on and then as people gear up it will fall by the way side.

As we know execute is gear and weapon independant. All that matters is rage (and glyph). No scaling for execute.

Once people start gearing up higher and higher I see TG being the spec to be as there are a **** ton of modifiers. Namely Imp WW, unending fury, and enrage now that it is any damaging attack and not a crit. I doubt blizz will get rid of aoe dmg on boss fights.

I don't think the Sudden Death change made it into 3.0.3. It's crossed out on MMO-Champion with this as the source. Apparently they couldn't find anything that they liked better, so they left it as is (for now). I just wish I had a decent 2H Axe/Polearm to use, as it's by far the best weapon spec until SD is changed. I stand corrected.

The TG change is certainly welcome. It'll be interesting to how much this helps.

Edited, Nov 5th 2008 7:24am by CamelToad

WHAT ... NO ... NEVER ... how can you say MMO-C is being stupid ... they're ALWAYS right, aren't they, even more right that Blizz themselves !?!?

It's something people seem to not realise, MMO-Champion is not an official source of information, they interpret stuff and report on it, and yes, sometimes they get it wrong.

The patch notes say 9% hit ... the beta has had it as 9% hit for quite a while now... GC said they wanted to nerf it after the 9% hit change, but were leaving it as it was (9% hit). And STILL you have people trying to convince you, based on some really vague posts by GC (purposely vague imo), that it's staying as 30% crit.

/rant

This post may help to clear it up for you : http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=12363656821&pageNo=1&sid=1

If you don't feel like clicking the link ... this is what it says:

"Yes, sorry for any confusion. It has been 9% on beta for some time. We experimented with lowering the proc rate to 4% but it didn't feel good that rare.

I remember specifically discussing the issue that we thought Arms warriors who stacked crit at the expense of everything else could hit too hard, and we didn't want cirt (and axes) to be the only way to gear. I thought as part of that discussion, we said that Sudden Death was being changed to a proc per minute from a chance on crit. If I am mistaken, my apologies. It wasn't meant as a stealth nerf. "

However, he clears one piece of vagueness, and introduces another. The new SD is described in the Patch Notes and tooltip as 9% chance on hit. GC's talking about a PPM in this latest post. A PPM would make sense, otherwise Arms will become a DW dagger tree spamming Execute. PPM would make it more worthwhile to go for a slower weapon.

So yet again, nothing's clear .. even when everything's now clear ;-D

Thanks for the clarification.