BC - New talens and spells - official!

[Sandrion]

Don't you have an epic mount yet?

[Akall]

Don't you have an epic mount yet?

No

[Sandrion]

:doh: .
 
Btw, bears can drink: http://img466.imageshack.us/img466/9458/bearbabydrinkingqa8.jpg (from the US beta forums).

[Akall]

Some SS of my log, just to give an idea of how balance works now:

[Akall]

With my talent spec (47/0/4 - more pvp oriented atm) I tested also healing and this has gone nicely!

With these talents I have a nice boost to my + healing (form 680 to 780) and some nice mana regen (10% of my intellect) and the more I go up with lvls the more mana regen I will have, in fact @ lvl 70 I will take also 3/3 of Intensity (the old reflection) giving me 30% of mana regen while casting (15% from SR bonus).

So :thumbsup: to balance healing!

[Sandrion]

Yep, balance is indeed better for healing. Restro/balance kind of always have been :unsure: (<3 moonglow). But now you can do some sick ranged DPS as well :norty: .

[Sandrion]

Good news :clap: .
 
The devs seem to like the idea of pots and procs in forms, be it in a limited form. Let's wait and see what happens.
 

Hi everybody :-)
 
We have some answers for you regarding the two first questions about consumables and weapon procs in forms, which is currently one of the major issues you have been posting about recently:
 

   Q u o t e:   1- Usease of consumables in forms:    Why restrain the feral druids from using such an important aspect of the game? The developers think it'll overpower druids in any form in concrete or is it purely to avoid druids to stick to one form for too long thus making the druid lose some of the "shifting" ability? Is this definate or still in testing? The fact that Druids in the beta test could use consumables and items while being shapeshifted was a bug. It was an unforeseen side effect of the original intent, which was to allow for Druids to interact with NPCs while being shapeshifted.
 
However, the developers do like the idea of consumables being used while in Druid forms, but the above mentioned bug prevented a proper implementation of this ability, which would otherwise allow shapeshifted Druids to use certain consumables such as Rage and Healing Potions, Thistle Tea and Healthstones. The developers are currently evaluating which items they want Druids to be able to use while in forms, and as soon as all issues are resolved, it will be reintroduced into the game.
 

   Q u o t e:   2- Weapon procs in feral    The most commonly asked is the enchant "crusader", but as we all know, the ramifications are much deaper than only just that enchant. Most people say its incoherent to lose weapon procs based on the fact that we dont "use" the weapon but we still use its stats and still have to repair the weapon... Question is, what is the reasoning behind the weapon proccing in forms, the 1.0s fast attack rate or the added dps from WF totems (for example), would put the feral druid out of the proportion blizzard intends for out estimated dps? Similarly with the use of consumables while being shapeshifted, the developers like the idea of allowing weapons with procs to be used by Druids being in forms. As with consumables, they developers are currently evaluating which weapons with procs should be usable by shapeshifted druids. When the evaluation is complete and all possible issues have been resolved, this will be introduced to the game.
 
That is it for now, but we will hopefully soon have more feedback for you regarding your other questions. :-)

From: http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=84108466&sid=1&pageNo=6#117

[Bob]

Does this mean that Blizzard actually listens to the feedback they get through the druid forums :blink:

Well, good to see that things might be improving at least

[Akall]

Some other infos and a recap of answers!

Hi everybody :-)

We just wanted you all to know that some of the questions you have asked in this thread has been answered in other threads:

The information for question number 3, about weapon speed normalization, can be found in this thread:
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html;jsessionid=63D7F5CD09F7FF2AA24BD6D838B84B67?topicId=74427446&pageNo=9&sid=1#170

The information for question number 4, about shape shifting costs, can be found in this thread:
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html;jsessionid=63D7F5CD09F7FF2AA24BD6D838B84B67?topicId=61866863&pageNo=2&sid=1#23  

The information for question number 7, about Moonkin meelee mechanics, can be found in this thread:
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=43845353&postId=875913593&sid=1#42  

The information for question number 8, about parry in forms, can be found in this thread:
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html;jsessionid=63D7F5CD09F7FF2AA24BD6D838B84B67?topicId=75297651&pageNo=1&sid=1#16

Hopefully we should have some more feedback for you at sometime next week :-)

[Sandrion]

Looks like Europe's community managers are doing a good job lately.
 
Btw, I don't know if it has already been stated in this thread, but nature's grasp now works in forms and swipe (finally) scales with attack power. Both of those changes are pretty nice .

[Bob]

but nature's grasp now works in forms

Huh :huh:

Haven't it always worked in forms?  I clearly remember using it when facing a small group of mobs in cat/bear form - buff myself with NG, than it roots the first mob to hit me when I attack...

[Akall]

Nope it is not usable in forms tho it perists through shapeshifting

[Sandrion]

What I meant was that it will become castable in forms, I kind of wrote it down the wrong way :doh: .

[Bob]

Ah, ofc

If I had mad an effort the first time I read it, i might even have understood it the right way

[Akall]

Hmmm I was thinking that patch might come this Wednsday...but then I realized who from us will keep a resto spec?

I know that HoTs will stack and this is a huge improvment but losing all our Resto spec duids will hurt the raid?