What do you think of the stat changes for us?Follow

In case you didn't see, here is a blue post with more details about the stat changes in Cataclysm we already knew about.

For the most part I think it's a neat concept. I like the idea of being able to specialize according to playstyle. There may be, say, a haste priest and a crit priest, and both are equally good, just different. Cookie cutters right now don't provide enough customization for special snowflakes.

This makes me a little sad:



The beauty of the merge of +healing/+spell damage at the end of BC was huge because it made it possible for healers to do more with one set of gear. You no longer had to choose between being a healer and being able to conveniently solo or do some damage once in a while. Healing gear is already separated by lack of hit, true, but overall I like the concept of caster gear, not further separation of healing gear versus othercaster gear.

Plus, it says to me: "We're going to punish you healers for the fact that peeps with good gear never had to worry about mana this expansion." For a predictable fight this can add a new dimension in planning for not running out of mana and learning to choose your heals more carefully. For a less predictable situation, like PVP, this could just be a PITA. But I'm willing to keep an open mind and see how this plays out. I'm all for healing being about being smart (choosing the right spell for the right job) rather than being a good spammer.

All in all though I like how they're breathing a little new life into things like stats and specs. After however many years a lot of us have been playing, it'll be fun to have something new to learn about a favorite class.

And you will still be a dwarf, instead of the noble, brave, Napolean Dynamite-dancing blood elf I know you have in there, crying to get out.

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No point in doing anything at all until you buy the expansion. You won't be leveling to 85 in anything you buy at the AH now anyway. When the expansion hits, the new gear you start acquiring via questing (or have now) will be adjusted accordingly. We'll all (regardless of main or alt or level 32 or 80) wander around befuddled and drooling for a while, until a sticky shows up on Elitist Jerks to show us the way.

It'll be nice to have some company in that.

YEAH!

To some extent yes for healing EJ is overrated. I look at it with regards to healing as a collective discussion of what works well for healing.

It is a great resource but if they are talking hard modes and you are barely clearing all of reg mode you need to take that into perspective.

Still I like it as a source of ideas.

With the Cata changes I am expecting a lot more different healing styles to be viable. It make me happy.

Dude, you're alive?

Zombies took over the main board.

Its freaking weird, necro posts from years ago are appearing. I'm scared.

Like you have anything to be afraid of, with all the alcohol in your body the zombiefication process won't work anyway.
Or maybe it will, and then you'll be a zombie but nobody will notice because your body won't rot away.
That would be freaky.

Edit:
*Starts leveling shotgun, kitchen knife and baseball bat skills to fight off the zombie invasion and get master of arms*

Edited, Mar 2nd 2010 12:43pm by Aethien

Apparently, the Zombies are dead.

I fixed my sig as a mark of victory.

Still level them skills, you never know when they will return.

No, EJ is not a substitute for thought, but it is a nice one-stop resource for certain things. I don't like to do math myself, so I like to use them as my theorycrafting minions for things like weighting stats and so forth. I also like to look at their cookie cutter builds, especially when starting a new alt, as a starting point for learning about the class. That doesn't mean I bookmark it and don't look at it again until I need to look up where to put a point (like I'd level with an endgame spec anyway). It means I figure out why they've included certain talents and excluded others, sort of working my way backwards from their build to the fundamentals of the class. If you were a new priest, for example, it wouldn't take more than a minute with the cookie cutter Disc build to figure out that your shields are important and you should probably cast them a lot. Boom, there's a big head start in how to heal as Disc, right out of the gate before you've even chosen a name for your character.

Nice to see that my priest will finally level a weapon skill besides wands past 4.

I really don't like how Shadow is being grouped with mages and warlocks, while Boomkins and Enhance shamans are going to be able to dps in their Resto gear.

I suppose it makes sense. Rather than having to make spell dps leather, healing leather, melee leather, hunter mail, spell dps mail, and healing mail, they only need healing leather, melee leather, hunter mail, and healing mail.

Doesn't mean I like it, though.

Edited, Mar 2nd 2010 11:04pm by IDrownFish

Edited, Mar 3rd 2010 1:05am by IDrownFish