This week brought with it World of Warcraft’s patch 3.2, and with it some of the normal havoc big game patches bring.\u00c2 Even though I have not had a chance to really dig into everything new or changed,I have witnessed some pretty humorous gnashing of teeth and weeping.<\/p>\n
Of course my opinions may change as I play a bit more with the “new rules’, but it seemed prudent for me to get my thoughts down after two nights of playing.<\/p>\n
Poor DKs<\/strong><\/p>\n I know and regularly play with several Death Knight, in particular DK tanks. They are players whom I know are good players,\u00c2 maybe not the best most hard core players, but good players.\u00c2 And them tanking the same things this week that we tanked last week is a different experience.<\/p>\n They got punched in the guy hard. No really, hard.\u00c2 Was the class as a whole that much better at tanking than the other tank classes?\u00c2 I normally run with either a Warrior, pally, or DK tank and before all three appeared to be able to handle the job.\u00c2 \u00c2 Last night the DKs were struggling.<\/p>\n Changing course<\/strong><\/p>\n Of course part of the problem could be their class changes along with all the other balance changes.\u00c2 For months the course was set and people had a good idea of what they needed to do to get there.\u00c2 \u00c2 Well in a move reminiscent of the island in Lost, the target has moved.<\/p>\n And some people are more like big ships in the ocean; its going to take them some time to get turned and pointed toward the new target.\u00c2 Mix that with seriously class nerfs and raiding becomes a lot more difficult.\u00c2 \u00c2 I expect that as these players adjust specs, gear, and tactics that they will once again be good tanks.<\/p>\n Dungeons<\/strong><\/p>\n I love seeing people running 5 man’s again. And while I might not agree with the way bliz decided to correct the problem, I am happy to report that their change has sent people back to instances; at least for now.<\/p>\n New dailys and changes<\/strong><\/p>\n It takes me a bit longer to get my set of dailys done, but I like having something to do when I log in solo.\u00c2 So thumbs up on the additions, and heck I think removing some questing overlap was good too.\u00c2 There is still a bit of overlap, but the old set up was just a bit too close to exploity.<\/p>\n New Raid and Instance<\/strong><\/p>\n Sadly I have not had a chance yet to to check them out, but I hope to soon. I love seeing new places.<\/p>\n Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n Thus far in a general sense I think while the DK nerf might have been a bit too much at once I think the patch as a whole is a good one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week brought with it World of Warcraft’s patch 3.2, and with it some of the normal havoc big game patches bring.\u00c2 Even though I have not had a chance to really dig into everything new or changed,I have witnessed some pretty humorous gnashing of teeth and weeping. Of course my opinions may change as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[111,113,25,107],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-wow-games","tag-games","tag-mmo","tag-patch","tag-wow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}