Mobile WoWEdge and Blue Posts

Posted by admin on 12 6th, 2008

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We recently added a mobile version of WoWEdge so you can now check our site for the latest World of Warcraft news on your cell phone! Simply visit http://worldofwarcraftstrategy.net on your phone’s browser! Check it out and tell us how it’s working. Now to the blue posts..

AoE Healing and dungeon difficulty (Source)

Heroic Loken is hard. He’s the hardest heroic boss. Having a priest may make the encounter easier, but it doesn’t make it tirival and having a paladin doesn’t mean you are almost certainly doomed to fail. Honestly it has a lot more to do with what the rest of the group is doing to minimize the damage they take than what the healer has to do to keep everyone up.

Malygos is a slightly different situation. We kept amping up the damage of Vortex because CoH and WG could just easily heal through it. We finally decided those two spells were just OP and pushing priests and druids into just relying on that one spell too much. With the cooldown on COH and WG we will probably nerf the Vortex. I say probably because players are farming the encounter already so I’m not 100% that things will go from farm to impossible with this change, but we’ll be sure to test it out a lot and watch for your feedback.

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Game balancing and top guilds (Source)

I’m not sure we could ever nail the balance of the game so perfectly that even the most cutting edge raiding guilds would bring the player not the class. But these guilds are so selective in who they bring and train their guys so much that they can make an assumption (which most of our guilds can’t make), which is that all of their players are very, very good.

I know of guilds that have people respec tradeskills for certain encounters (or at least did in BC). That’s kind of at a level beyond whether shamans and death knights bring the same buffs, or whether warriors and paladins can both tank the same boss.

Healing Meters (Source)

Healing meters are a silly way of measuring healer performance. Often it’s when and who you heal that is much more important than how much you heal. But measuring healing is very difficult, so players tend to go back to meters.

I agree that if a team is beating the boss then their setup works. But sometimes raids wonder if they should have brought a different person or what would happen if someone respec’d so they start to wonder who their best healers are.