Enchant Weapon: Blade Ward - testing results

Q u o t e:
Is the proc chance increased on blade ward?

Or is this some sort of bug on ptr, any info on the topc would be greatly appreciated.

The proc chance on ptr has increased astoundingly making it actually look like it could be useful for once.



This is a known issue, thank you.




GG blizz,,,, is blade ward useful now? and blizz,,, this is a known issue, it is not supposed to be useful..

What is absolutely hilarious, is thats my post ROFL.

Defiance of Blackrock hahahh

Has anyone done any recent testing on Blade Ward on the PTR? I'm using it on my Shiver (more to try it out than anything) now but am considering changing to Accuracy since my hit is lower than I'd like it to be.

I'm currently smacking the heroic training dummy in Darnassus around with it on Broxigar PvE. Will post a log in a bit when it's been a bit more time. It will be slightly inaccurate, as the dummies don't hit back so it stack it up higher. I did have a five stack a few minutes into this, and overall it does look like the proc chance has been increased by a fair amount.

I got about 20-30 minutes or so of just swinging on the heroic target dummey before someone else showed up, so I went and swung at Thrym from 100%-0%. Did use some judgements though, to keep my health up since just plain old SoL wasn't enough. The log file is uploaded at http://www.filefront.com/14096183/WoWCombatLog.txt

Has both the heroic dummy test and the Thrym test on it, may want to separate them. Thrym lasted 27 minutes and some seconds. Will upload to WWS tomorrow if someone wants.

Tolaana wrote:I'm currently smacking the heroic training dummy in Darnassus around with it on Broxigar PvE. Will post a log in a bit when it's been a bit more time. It will be slightly inaccurate, as the dummies don't hit back so it stack it up higher. I did have a five stack a few minutes into this, and overall it does look like the proc chance has been increased by a fair amount.

I got about 20-30 minutes or so of just swinging on the heroic target dummey before someone else showed up, so I went and swung at Thrym from 100%-0%. Did use some judgements though, to keep my health up since just plain old SoL wasn't enough. The log file is uploaded at http://www.filefront.com/14096183/WoWCombatLog.txt

Has both the heroic dummy test and the Thrym test on it, may want to separate them. Thrym lasted 27 minutes and some seconds. Will upload to WWS tomorrow if someone wants.

would be great to see any more analysis on this, cheers for looking into it.

I wrote an Excel macro to parse the results.

Target Dummy

Combat Time (sec) 1987.062
Buff Procs 71
Buff Procs per min 2.143868687

Damage Procs 0
Damage Procs per min 0
Total Damage 0
Damage per Proc NA
Damage per min 0

Thrym

Combat Time (sec) 1516.094
Buff Procs 37
Buff Procs per min 1.464289154

Damage Procs 20
Damage Procs per min 0.791507651
Total Damage 22056
Damage per Proc 1102.8
Damage per min 14.54791062

Apologies for the crappy formating.

From the patch notes:

Seal of Vengeance and Seal of Corruption: These seals have been redesigned to deal substantially more damage. Now, once a paladin has 5 copies of the debuff from these seals on his or her target, on each swing the paladin will deal 33% weapon damage as Holy, with critical strikes dealing double damage. In addition, the damage-over-time effect is now considered a melee attack instead of a spell attack.

Could the higher proc rate per unit time for paladins on the PTR simply be because SoV ticks can proc it now (not certain if this is the case, but possible considering the above patch note excerpt)? I have done zero testing, just a theory...

Janduin wrote:From the patch notes:

Seal of Vengeance and Seal of Corruption: These seals have been redesigned to deal substantially more damage. Now, once a paladin has 5 copies of the debuff from these seals on his or her target, on each swing the paladin will deal 33% weapon damage as Holy, with critical strikes dealing double damage. In addition, the damage-over-time effect is now considered a melee attack instead of a spell attack.

Could the higher proc rate per unit time for paladins on the PTR simply be because SoV ticks can proc it now (not certain if this is the case, but possible considering the above patch note excerpt)? I have done zero testing, just a theory...

hmm, dont know if that will effect blade ward procs, but it MIGHT effect the blood draining buff from falling off while ur not attacking the mob... HMM

steadypal wrote:hmm, dont know if that will effect blade ward procs, but it MIGHT effect the blood draining buff from falling off while ur not attacking the mob... HMM

Well, isn't that part of the reason Blade Ward sucks for us? Our only true melee attacks are HotR and autoattack, whereas for warriors everything can proc it? If SoV ticks can proc it now that might even it out for us. I don't know if they can, just an idea.