There’s been some talk again in the forums about the new Warlock soul shard system that Blizzard said they were working on. The idea behind the new system is to change something that’s not really necessary and possibly even annoying and turn it into something that’s cool and therefore would be used more as a core class mechanic.
Right now it’s still very vague as to how exactly this would work. I was thinking that since the warlock is a pure DPS class, the new use of the soul shard would also be used to boost their damage. In the Warlock …read more

A thought just dawned on me last week as I was being convinced to level a priest as an alt to accompany some of my guild mates as they level their lowbies. If you were to ask me in the Vanilla WoW days about playing a healer class, my response would be anywhere between “never!” and “probably not”. In those days, my mage was my main character and had a few now deleted alts that were also dps classes or hybrids that were sort of a dps spec. But since these alts were so low level, the spec didn’t really …read more

It’s time to close out the class Q&A feature with the Priest class having the spotlight. This feature is meant to answer questions about the thought the development team has for the class going forward. As usual Ghostcrawler answers the questions for the community. You can find the Priest Q&A here.
Priests are not a jack of all trades, master of none healer. Priests are strong and versatile healers and the only trade off is knowing how to manage the many spells that priests have since a lot of them have these small niches.
Shadow priests used to just a leveling …read more

We’re down to our last two class Q&A’s and it’s time for the rogue class to have the spotlight. As you know these class q&a’s are really more for knowing what the development team has in mind for the classes going forward especially in terms of design philosophy. You can see the whole Rogue Q&A here. As usual it’s Ghostcrawler giving the answers.
Rogues used to be the the class with the best dps but now Blizzard has been pushing them into being more normal and having some utility instead.
Blizzard is very happy with the combo point/finisher system that rogues use. …read more

Ghostcrawler has just admitted that the developers think hunter dps is still too low. Since Ulduar is the latest raiding dungeon, Blizzard decided to immediately implement changes concerning that range of progression. A change has been implemented to all level 226 guns, bows, and crossbows (Kel’thuzad, Ulduar and Furious Gladiator pieces) so that they will do 30 more dps, resulting in an increase to overall dps done.
Before you complain that this change only affects people who have that gear, it seems Ulduar isn’t the only thing in Blizard’s mind when it comes to hunter damage. Ghostcrawler also revealed that there …read more

After all the ruckus about the removal of Spiritual Attunement as a baseline ability, which affects a Retribution paladin’s mana regeneration very erratically, the talk has shifted a bit towards their low damage output. Fortunately for all Retribution paladins out there, Ghostcrawler admitted that such just might be the case and he offered a possible solution too!

When all that is said and done, Ret’s PvE damage is still probably a little low. Buffing Divine Storm or allowing RV to benefit from Crusader Strike are two possible places to add more damage.
Note that I made no promises. These …read more