Comments on: The 2.4 Nerfing Heats Up

By: Tom Chilton and his righteous game design

Tom Chilton and his righteous game design — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:05:09 +0000

Tom Chilton and his righteous game design

Is the flag Blizz is trying to Bury this Blog with.
What a crock of shit.

WOTLK is the most imbalance piece of horse shit
ever conceived it may even be worse than AOS..
which is bad.

By: MrMe

MrMe — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:18:38 +0000

QUOTE 2007 from Leiahs blog

So this makes me wonder… if hawk + chugging mana pots

every chance we can get, using a 1:1.5 marks shot rotation is our best way to do DPS, and never weave viper aspect into our method… what’s the point of it (viper)? Strictly PvP? I can’t use hawk in PvP really, cause mana issues are much, much more constrained and more important that typically trying to burst someone down.

Also, unless I’m grouped with a shadowpriest, it’s still very difficult not to go oom using a 1:1.5 marks shot rotation while chugging mana pots using hawk 100% of the time.

It just doesn’t feel right at all.

I am so glad you decided my mana pool was JUST NOT RIGHT
stupid asshole.

By: MrMe

MrMe — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:56:40 +0000

Dude every class I like is now Nerfed all to shit, that mother fucker Chilton couldn’t stop at fucking up Ultima Online he had to bring his retarded shit to WOW as well.. don’t know how many of you kids know this is the same son of a bitch who ruined that game and now here the asshole is fucking this one up way to go asshole. Oh good job on the hunter mana nerf you fuckwad. You notice I say the word fuck alot.. when It comes to Tom chilton a howdy go Fuck yourself is Always in order.
Peace.

By: ken

ken — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:58:03 +0000

video of kalgan in real life?? not sure but its funny.

http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/index.php?module=see&lang=uk&code=b7a4b25887a75bf92f69652ccaf6a8d1

By: nordee

nordee — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:27:50 +0000

And, interestingly enough, a comment from Rob Pardo at a talk at GDC (from my friend’s blog):

“Math is the foundation for all the game balancing you do. Rob talked about his design philosophy being that everything should feel overpowered – don’t use the math to balance the game into mediocrity.”

There’s more than that in the article, but that’s more or less what I was getting at.

http://tara.teich.net/archives/gdc-rules-of-engagement-part-2/

By: nordee

nordee — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:24:17 +0000

Anyone who thinks that videogames aren’t balanced by one guy (or just a few guys) is wrong. There are plenty of computations and statistics you can look at, but ultimately you have to using only numbers leads to a static, boring, cookie cutter game. So you end up with a few people (or one person) balancing the game based on how it feels.

If you are lucky, the person is good at his job. I suspect that Kalgan is just way more observable than most developers. And the stakes are much higher, because there are so many people playing.

By: Mick

Mick — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:45:02 +0000

Hi, I’m Rummando the Shaman from those message pictures. And they banned my shammy from the forums for participating in that thread. The message that was sent to me was that I had harassed a Blizzard employee and that my ban in permanent. Oh well, my Shaman is screwed anyway.

By: ken

ken — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:48:41 +0000

i think Tom Chilton, aka Kalgan, should be flagged for an auto rename to Commodus. It seems to suit him much better.

I believe these recent nerfs are part of the blizzard politics to keep the shaman class below other classes, and force them to be substandard, which means they will often have to acquire a whole new set of gear to be resto, and although it seems to do well, i see resto shaman as the least dynamic healer in the game.

I also believe that these changes are being made to support mages to fill the elemental shaman spots in arena. If they weaken elemental shaman and with the buffs given to mages, such as 100% spell pushback resistance, 50% increased AOE damage, and increased casting speed that does not stack with bloodlust, they are effectively taking shaman out of the game. good luck with that blizzard.

By: megataur

megataur — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:14:09 +0000

Kalganism, Leiahgate, thank god my account expired

and my shaman will rest in peace, forever………

By: jeremy

jeremy — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:10:57 +0000

I think Blizzard should take some kind of action here to save their reputation. I think they should ask for Tom Chilton’s resignation.