Comments on: Now We Hate Patch 1.10

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:35:21 +0000

Short of CT Mods action bars and the Auctioneer, I think just about every mod I regularly use is going to be broken. Of course, I never bound Decursive to movement keys: I macroed it on the hotbar where God intended it to be. Still, I’m a heavy user of Decursive, Castparty, SCT, etc., since I play a Priest most of the time. I’m not really looking forward to this patch, and neither is my wife (who’s ready to spit bullets over making Scholo/Strat/BRD five-man only).

By: Byron Ellacott

Byron Ellacott — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:02:52 +0000

You missed out on the best part of the 1.10 ‘epics’ — they suck. One piece was held up as “why is this piece decent, while others suck?”, that piece being the Paladin gloves. Blizzard’s response was to nerf the Paladin gloves, heh.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-realm-test&t=160374&s=blizzard&tmp=1#blizzard

“Regarding the Dungeon 2 set gauntlets… the Soulforge Gauntlets were unfortunately a bit higher level than intended and are being brought down to the proper level. This may have skewed your initial comparison somewhat, and I apologize.”

What I hate is that the new set is still not an improvement over top of the line pre-ZG gear. It’s still not even ilvl 65 — it’s gear designed for characters who aren’t level 60 yet. The ol’ “raid or quit” message gets stronger all the time.

By: Staarkhand

Staarkhand — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 23:31:52 +0000

I’m of two minds with the ui changes. On the one hand, ManaConserve and the version of Decursive bound to movement keys were big crutches. But then, priests aren’t exactly a lazy or skill-less class, and they really do have a lot on their plates. The change to not allow casting decurse when it’s not needed might make some encounters (Chromaggus) easier, we’ll see.

I won’t comment on the ‘my $15 means I deserve epics even if I never log in’ debate, it’s a no win. I see it as the way that makes sense and is fair vs the way that a whole lot of people paying $$ want, in other words no self-respecting developer would ever make the right decision.