Poison change i would like to seeFollow

I think it would be nice if they (blizzard) consolidate crippling with mind numbing poison. Neither do any damage but they both have a slowing effect. In pvp for me personally one blade always has a damaging poison and the other crippling, but to stop in pvp and change crippling to mind numbing and then to have someone else steal your target makes no sense. I just thought i would put this up here in case the ppl from blizzard ever go through the forums here to feel out its user base. Feel free to post your views on this and no i dont think this would be over powered , didn't they do something similar to this with the hunter and his 2 traps and the sham with consolidated totems...just sayin.

Oh that's nice, when I read it again. At the moment im only lvl 37 , but have this talent selected for when I lvl up. On first read i thought it meant if i had cripple on one blade then it would automatically apply it to my target i had no idea it meant that it would apply it even if i didn't have it applied to a weapon... very nice indeed :)

I don't find this to be an issue per say, but i think the change logically makes the most sense, for instance you run up to a mage and hit him with crippling poison... who cares hes not going anywhere hes going to stand in one spot and nuke and AOE like a mad man. What im suggesting is nothing compared to a hunter who can drop a frost trap and a immolation trap use a serpent sting on a melee class and hit the caster with a mana sting all in the same fight all while his pet interrupts the caster nad he pumps arrows into the melee class. Is that not technically the same as what i am asking for? And suggesting a rogue give up the damaging poison is exactly what I don't want to do as a bit of my damage comes out of there. This isn't so much an issue its a request to equalize the playing field :).


Edit, that same hunter is also spamming volley :)

Edited, Dec 14th 2009 2:01pm by nevercrits

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Not even. A snare and cast speed reduction would be WAY more annoying than a trap that snared and did a DoT.

Especially considering that BOTH effects are off the GCD, when it takes a hunter 1.5 seconds to place two traps.

This change would basically mean no caster could survive against any Rogue. And even Druids/Pallies would be having way more trouble.

It's probably not THAT big an issue, since most Rogues seem to be Mut even for PvP. But it's still a completely OP, unwarranted change.

The only thing I can imagine the Rogue class needs (as an outsider, granted) is some real AoE ability, which would require a reduction in their single-target damage. The current max expected damage for Rogues with currently available gear is something like 11.xK on bosses. Insane. O.o;;

Personally, I think they should just let poisons have something similar to the Wandering Plague effect that Unholy Death Knights have, and give them splash damage. Though, it couldn't be EXACTLY like WP, as Rogues get insane crit and poisons seem to hit for far more than diseases. Hell, make it a Combat talent. I'm not a player that tends to have problems with one DpS tree having better ST or AoE than another.

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Actually, nvm. I had an idea for a Combat talent that would act like a combination of Wandering Plague and a continuous chain, with a cap, with diminishing chance to enter the next splash event. But it just seems too complicated to code without letting it get ridiculously powerful at high crit levels even on Single-targets, let alone as you add mobs.

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I know this is a PvP discussion, but I just meant to mention the PvE side as 90% of those changes tend to have a heavy side effect for raiders as well.

Edited, Dec 14th 2009 9:21pm by idiggory