patch 5.2 ?

[Nooska]

Well some of the new VP gear will be behind reps, but not all of it.

[Worldie]

Well some of the new VP gear will be behind reps, but not all of it.

Do we actually know this or it's just speculating

[KysenMurrin]

It's what GC said in response to one of Nooska's tweets.

https://twitter.com/Ghostcrawler/status ... 1599556610

[benebarba]

Well, like I said, the valor is now going back to the DS model, buy the rep gear, run LFR or raid for the other slots, then go afk for 3 months.

I'm waiting for a 'Best Experience' meme like we got with D3, too

[benebarba]

Well some of the new VP gear will be behind reps, but not all of it.

Do we actually know this or it's just speculating

well, and to put a more positive spin on the words: it's possible (but I imagine unlikely) none of it will.

[Klaudandus]

One of the things I just realized... Gc said that 5.0 was not getting gradual nerfs because the vp upgrades were sort of a gradual buff to the raid... I wonder what will happen when the upgrades are removed

[KysenMurrin]

Access to new LFR gear could serve the same purpose, depending on ilevel.

[theckhd]

Well, like I said, the valor is now going back to the DS model, buy the rep gear, run LFR or raid for the other slots, then go afk for 3 months.

I actually prefer that model. I should really finish up the blog post on that topic. I started it a month ago and then got distracted by other things.

[Klaudandus]

From Twitter, including a tweet of mine GC actually replied to.

- 5.0 Raids will continue to drop valor, although not as much as it currently does
- There will be TWO reps in 5.2, one from the dailies, the other one is probably from the raid itself a la ICC

[KysenMurrin]

Yeah, two reps - the Horde/Alliance factions and Shado-Pan Assault inside the raid.

Edit: Looked it up, was in the initial patch notes before christmas: Kirin Tor Offensive and Sunreaver Onslaught.

[Fenris]

Tanks don't solo well, don't pvp well, and raid spots are rare. Responsibility aspect no different from healers.

Disagree. Tanks solo phenomenally well. They are also near mandatory as flag carriers for RBGs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zSHz7Thvbc

Guess GC has a definition of "phenomenally" quite different from mine

[Fetzie]

They solo incredibly well, in that they never die. Which kinda makes sense, because the mobs are tuned to not even endanger a clothie. It is just that you can't kill faster than the respawn timer because the mobs don't do enough damage to give any meaningful amount of Vengeance, and you can never pull more than 5-6 together to try and get some Vengeance because the damn things go on evade if you run too far. And if you can only ever pull 5 mobs anyway, why not go Retribution and be done in a tenth of the time?

[Fenris]

My point exactly

And i have done all the leveling and then 56+ dailies each day when capping reputations as protection (yeah,i hate myself),so i can't avoid laughing when he says things like that one

Pvp....I don't even care anymore at this point....

[Fetzie]

My point exactly

And i have done all the leveling and then 56+ dailies each day when capping reputations as protection (yeah,i hate myself),so i can't avoid laughing when he says things like that one

Pvp....I don't even care anymore at this point....

Yeah, I haven't set foot in a Battleground since a few weeks before MoP released and have only defended myself out in the world.

I levelled as Retribution, I did daily quests as Retribution. It took long enough as it did without any self-made hindrances.

A certain amount of sarcasm may have been used when writing that post, at least in the first sentence

[Flex]

Paladins be a whiny bunch.

[Fetzie]

Paladins be a whiny bunch.

When neither the lead systems developer nor his subordinates even acknowledge our questions, which are based in empirical testing and sound reasoning while holding an intense discourse with players asking questions about the other tank classes and writing pages of twitter answers on the topic (and even forgetting to even MENTION the paladin T15 bonuses in the thread explaining their intent with the bonuses), you can perhaps excuse us for being a bit pissed off.

[Newsom]

Delicious whining.

[Thels]

I'm not too bothered about Protection not performing all too well when soloing. Sure, it's occasionally a drag to have to constantly respec (though it helps if you macro it, so you only need to click 2 buttons each time you want to respec), and it's very annoying if you do it at the farm, and have the farm disappear. But it's a little odd to call it fine. It takes forever to beat like 2 of those rodents on your farm, while on ret, you click 2 or 3 buttons and they're down.

As for PvP, I don't think they ever thought Tank specs should be viable in PvP.

[jere]

and you can never pull more than 5-6 together to try and get some Vengeance because the damn things go on evade if you run too far.

I can't see the youtube video from here, so out of curiosity is this in reference to certain mobs? I find in general that what you state isn't the case for most mobs. You just have to make sure to stop and hit everything (HotR works good here) evey 5 or 6 seconds. I don't usually have trouble pulling 10+ things as long as I remember pop speed of light run back, HotR everything, and then continue on to pulling. There are a few mobs that are actually an issue (the cranes at the temple of the red crane area come to mind), but most mobs, including the rare spawns are not tethered to a location. At least most of the ones associated with dailies/quests/rares.

[Thels]

I can't see the youtube video from here, so out of curiosity is this in reference to certain mobs?

The youtube vid is more of a smilie. It's not WoW related.

And there's an item dropping from one of the rare spawns that pulls all mobs in a 40 yard radius. Might be helpful when soloing as prot.

[benebarba]

and you can never pull more than 5-6 together to try and get some Vengeance because the damn things go on evade if you run too far.

I can't see the youtube video from here, so out of curiosity is this in reference to certain mobs? I find in general that what you state isn't the case for most mobs. You just have to make sure to stop and hit everything (HotR works good here) evey 5 or 6 seconds. I don't usually have trouble pulling 10+ things as long as I remember pop speed of light run back, HotR everything, and then continue on to pulling. There are a few mobs that are actually an issue (the cranes at the temple of the red crane area come to mind), but most mobs, including the rare spawns are not tethered to a location. At least most of the ones associated with dailies/quests/rares.

I must be one of the few that actually *likes* questing as prot (read: trying to grab a dozen or more mobs and mowing them down). Would I like it to go faster? Sure, but I like trying to see how much I can pull at a time, and using the time to work on practicing my rotation and survival. And I imagine 'I want quest kills to go faster' really applies to everyone.

I think I've run into some evade issues, but not terribly many, and usually that's when I don't keep damaging mobs or I move em like 100 yds or more. The most annoying are some of the quest mobs that seem to randomly evade bug out just as you grab enough of them. For me, it's when all I have to do is kill 1 high-health mob that I get annoyed, but it's never been enough to switch to ret for it.

*shrug*

[honorshammer]

Paladins be a whiny bunch.

When neither the lead systems developer nor his subordinates even acknowledge our questions, which are based in empirical testing and sound reasoning while holding an intense discourse with players asking questions about the other tank classes and writing pages of twitter answers on the topic (and even forgetting to even MENTION the paladin T15 bonuses in the thread explaining their intent with the bonuses), you can perhaps excuse us for being a bit pissed off.

The Tankadin T15 bonuses were added to that thread and I linked the comments in an earlier post in this thread.

[jere]

I must be one of the few that actually *likes* questing as prot (read: trying to grab a dozen or more mobs and mowing them down). Would I like it to go faster? Sure, but I like trying to see how much I can pull at a time, and using the time to work on practicing my rotation and survival. And I imagine 'I want quest kills to go faster' really applies to everyone.

I like it as well. I prefer the playstyle when I quest.

[Darielle]

But it's a little odd to call it fine. It takes forever to beat like 2 of those rodents on your farm, while on ret, you click 2 or 3 buttons and they're down.

On a 16-farm, I just pull all the virmen/birds at once, pop AW/HA and pretty much everything is dead by the time AW ends. Not sure what the problem is.

[Thels]

But it's a little odd to call it fine. It takes forever to beat like 2 of those rodents on your farm, while on ret, you click 2 or 3 buttons and they're down.

On a 16-farm, I just pull all the virmen/birds at once, pop AW/HA and pretty much everything is dead by the time AW ends. Not sure what the problem is.

As Prot or as Ret? Admittedly, if there are 8 or 9 vermin, doing it as prot is probably around as fast as ret, due to how vengeance works. I still have no problem pulling them all at once and AoEing them down as ret. But if there's like only 1 or 2, you get zero vengeance as prot, and killing those few mobs takes like forever.

Ret is insanely much faster than Prot against 1 or 2 targets, and against a big group I can still survive well. Even if I'm taking a lot of damage and have to switch to SoI, I'm usually still doing more damage as Ret than as Prot, so I don't really see an intensive to go Prot for anything under 5 man HCs, where vengeance becomes enough to make Prot worthwhile.