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Apr 30, 2022

AoE is poorly designed

The inspiration for writing this was some discussion about AoE finishers, so that’s where I’ll start. AoE finishers and why they aren’t a panacea During BfA (and Shadowlands beta), many Feral, Shadow and Subtlety players were very loudly asking for an AoE finisher/spender (I’ll just call them finishers from now on, the 2 terms are effectively interchangeable). The…

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May 8, 2021

Why the Stellar Drift change is good for the game

First of all, the specific numbers used for the current Stellar Drift rework are not there yet. That’s not really what this is about, although I’ll briefly touch on it. …

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Sep 19, 2020

M+ ruins gear

Problem: Static loot table The most obvious problem that everybody should be able to appreciate is that the huge, static loot table makes gearing really uninteresting over the entire expansion. Take Legion for example, where every tier melees would farm a new Memento of Angerboda because it was just a strong trinket. Playing with…

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Sep 12, 2020

Essences: a framework for borrowed power

Why a framework? One issue that borrowed power keeps running into is that the amount of it, especially at the beginning of expansions, is all over the place. This causes problems when class design relies on borrowed power to fill out the holes that have been left, whether intentionally or not. In BfA, there…

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Sep 9, 2020

Talentless Arcane

Goals Arcane has a pretty solid foundation already, with talents that allow for specialization in different directions. This makes it fairly easy just to take some talents and make them baseline in order to create a well rounded baseline kit. The main issues with the current kit are Arcane Missiles feeling…

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Sep 8, 2020

Talentless Windwalker

Goals Windwalker is a bit of a special spec to me, in that it has 2 iterations with pretty big differences in how they play. The first iteration is the MoP/WoD one, focusing on sustained DPS with Tigereye Brew as a core mechanic of the spec, allowing for frequent minor bursts…

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Sep 8, 2020

Talentless Feral

Goals The current version of Feral is very much at odds with the identity that has been associated with it for the longest time: a slow paced, DoT juggling spec. Currently it’s a high APM direct damage spec, which maintains its primary DoT for free from the pull until the end…

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Sep 8, 2020

The problem with talents

There have always been different issues with the way talents work, and people prefer different iterations of the talent tree itself. The issue I’m talking about is primarily found in the iteration of talents we’ve had since MoP. These talents let you pick 1 of 3 options in each talent…

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Sep 2, 2020

Covenant Abilities 3: Is it fixable?

Realistically, no. There isn’t enough time and not a lot of people seem to have a problem with the abilities themselves. But if there was time and interest in fixing this, this is how it could be done. Make the abilities spec specific. This way you gain access to all…

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Covenant Abilities 3: Is it fixable?
Covenant Abilities 3: Is it fixable?

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Sep 2, 2020

Covenant Abilities 2: Putting them into buckets

Crucible of Flame Abomination Limb (DK Necrolord): Press button, do dam. Has the grip component which has potential to be useful, but utility is not a category. Death’s Due (DK Night Fae): You could potentially argue this has a minigame, but realistically you don’t do anything special beyond placing it on the ground. …

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