Here We Go Again
When we try to log into the WoW beta and it throws some, “You’ve got the wrong version, dude!” errors at us, we know the Launcher has failed us, and we’ve got to go to a manual download site and grab the new beta-patch the old-fashioned way.
Welcome to 8926. Wonder if we’ll be able to tame Feral Druids in this patch like we requested…
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damn, i thought i was the only person getting the version error with the beta.
No One Tames Druids!;)
Taming Feral Droods. I like your thinking.
Nope, we just get a few things nerfed, an Aspect of the Viper that blatantly favors BM (what else is new), and a bunch of changes that has all the PVP smacktards on the Beta forums whining up a storm.
Yay.
Tame feral druids?
We got gutted. Knock yourself out:
* Wing Clip - New rank added “Inflicts 50% normal melee damage and reduces the enemy target’s movement speed by 30% for 10 sec.”
* Most Pet Skills - All ranks had a slight damage increase.
* Froststorm Breath - All ranks now slow for 5 seconds.
* Glyph of Aimed Shot - Now only reduces the cooldown by .5 seconds instead of 1
* Lock and Load - Now only affects your next shot, not the next 3.
* T.N.T. - Chance to stun only on when trap lands, and now increase the critical strike chance of your Explosive Shot and Explosive Trap by 3/6/9%, down from 5/10/15%
* Kill Shot - Now deals 200% weapon damage plus [RAP * 0.3 + 400.0] instead of weapon damage plus [RAP * 0.15 + 2500.0].
* Hunting Party - Effect now listed as lasting for 15 seconds.
* Master’s Call - Can no longer be cast while stunned.
* Aspect Mastery - Aspect of the Monkey - Reduces the damage done to you while active by 5%, down from 10%. Aspect of the Hawk - Increases the attack power bonus by 30%, down from 50%.
*Cobra Strikes - 2 special crits (was 3)
*Invigoration - 50/100% chance for 1% mana (was 1/2% mana)
You should put in the request for a pet that can res others. Hunters now have tanking pets, can’t we have one that can revive a fallen comrade?
I love the rezz’ing pet. Make it a penguin. Just because.
WTF, Wing Clip nerf?
And was looking forward to Improved Aspect of the Monkey for [hunter] tanking and PvP.
Well, lets not talk about the nerfs we got in this patch. Lets talk about the sweety fine look of the new Tier 7.25 set for hunters!!
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/september/set213_hunter.jpg
IMHO they did a pretty awesome job updating the cryptstalker T3 set to the new “valarous cryptstalker” set. Pretty awesome! I would definetly be proud to wear it and jealous if i see other ppl with it
Besides missing ArP compared to Sunwell gear, stats are also pretty impressive.
Currently downloading the new patch as well just to see how the set looks on my dwarfen hunter. HUZZZZZZZZARR!
Nice looking set there but 0 hit rating? I wonder why!
But aside from this all of the patch is a nerf bomb to the hunters.
hunters soon to be the new ret pally.
Apparently the whole wingclip issue was based on a mined mob ability as there was actually no change. AoTV sucks now though - no denying that.
We’ll see what makes it through the next patch.
BRK,
Add your Beta contact information to your forums so we can harass you during your next post TBC adventure!
http://www.bigredkitty.net/forums/index.php?topic=2142.0
-Guy
@ atla
Did you notice all the haste BM can’t use?.. that set sucks for BM. (along with the 10-man set).
Let’s face it, Blizz is nerfing the hell out of BM, and to a lesser extent hunters overall, in an attempt to balance this pox of exotic pets.
Exotic pets are evil.. they will be the death of our class, and certainly the BM spec. Sure they will be fine for doing quests, but you’ll be blown away on the damage charts by MM in raids.
Blizz: take these things back, and take the nerfs with them.
I have a question for the next podcast, which Fearstalker hinted at above:
What’s with all the haste rating on hunter gear? Why didn’t we have it before, why do have it now? Does it have to do with the removal of autoshot clipping?
I guess that’s three questions.
i
am sad
i
will suck in arena
i
must…
{snif}
/points riotgun at head of classdesign
TAKE BACK YER NERFS!
Why is haste bad for beast master hunters? With steady shot no longer clipping, your hasted attacks are faster, more chance to crit, more chance to proc improved hawk, more crits means more energy from go for the throat.
More energy means more moves for your pet, which is more chance for your pet to crit and activate his abilities.
WRONG
HASTE will not help us shoot faster
@ The Lord’s Breed
Take a look at the BRK WotLK forums for a good disucussion. From what I gather, with the quiver and SS, BM hunters are already almost haste capped; meaning that despite the cast time for Steady Shot getting mathmatically faster and faster, it is still limited by the 1.5 second Global Cool Down.
In one of the dungeons there is a orc hunter boss who has a feral druid tamed. It’s in one of Wowhead’s Project Lore videos.
I GOT ACCEPTED TO THE BETA TODAY!!!!
My patch fraked up too, what’s the addie for the beta patch mirror?
@The Lords Breed - Haste is useless in WotLK precisely because steady shot and auto shot are no longer linked. Auto shot will still be limited, as stated by someone else, by the 1.5 second CD. The stats on the Naxx 10 set are awful.
@Guntitan - Underbog.
@Hunters - Time to reroll!
Epic fail then?
I’d level my druid, but, feral and resto seem to have been nerfed too.
So anyone heard of this Warhammer Online game?
You can try logging in with your actual game credentials instead of the temp blizz account credentials. I tried. It worked for me.
@Xavior
Thanks, That worked for me too.
Xavior… While I called tech support and got in, they told me exactly what you did. I just didn’t wait.
Your suggestion was spot on though.
Haste will still rule. Just get yourself a SLOW weapon to get the best out of it. No longer need for a fast weapon as BM specced hunter to rule. 3.0 weapons will be your favourite now!
I, as a DWARFEN hunter, am looking forward to the Nerubian Conqueror gun
2.9 speed should be fine
“we’ve got to go to a manual download site and grab the new beta-patch the old-fashioned way”
Where can I find the manual d/l ? The Blizzard loader is taking forever, and when it does finish it tells me “Patch Failed”.
I just checked my mail, and looks like I’ll be joining you with the downloading fun. Hooray Beta key. I’ll probably focus on my Rogue, but I won’t even log on him until I get my Rhino
Ok, we can all stop the panic for now.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=9679754227&sid=2000
They are not done adjusting abilities, we just need to run to the beta forums and calmly and logically bury the forums with posts of what they farked up. Or rather, those of us with beta keys need to. We must remain positive, predicting doom and QQing over beta builds is silly. Internally the beta changes every day, I wouldn’t be suprised if some of the big nerfs(talking all classes here not just hunters) get reverted very fast.
Now if these problems hit PTR when they put 3.0 up, then its time to panic.
Found another blue post on viper. They at least are aware its borked. Go down to post 16.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=9679754397&sid=2000
Seriously getting up in arms about something in a beta build has got to be one of the worst waste of energy since the 1970 Chrysler New Yorker.
Think of the builds like pendulums they will swing both ways before they reach a middle balance.
Ganieda has it right wait and see what makes it to PTR before you cry your little river.
Looking at the blue responses, many of the changes are in response to WTF posts, so it IS important to raise the issues, get those with beta keys to ask WTF and hopefully get things fixed. Lot harder to get them changed once it hits PTR.
Drotar’s post about the Viper issue is a great example of how to post and get a blue response.
I made the same druid request. I want a Tauren Druid tho, with horns. It can count as all 5 pets and i wouldnt mind. a Cow, a Bear, a Seacow, a Cat, and a Bird. chyeah.
If I recall correctly, wasn’t haste changed so that it is able to reduce the GCD to a maximum of 1.0s?
If this is indeed true (which I’m pretty sure it is) then haste does help Beast Master Hunters to an extent. Also, because Auto Shot clipping is non-existent now, haste ups the amount of Auto Shots fired allowing for more DPS.
Correct me if I’m wrong…
DasFreshMaker: My Beta stuff took about 18 HOURS all told to get down loaded and working. It’s not just you man. You just have to sweat it out.
Mine especially sucked because my computer kept trying to auto update in the middle and the ‘postpone’ only would click for 4 hours…
lol. Fair enough.
Haste as far as i remember only effects caster GCD not hunter/melee. but then again i could be wrong
@Zymark: Well, either way, it increases ranged attack speed, so faster auto shots.
Yea took a day and a half to get the stuff from blizz and it would not get the last two updates, had to use these links, I used the torrent links and got them fast. Jumped on a shiny new Deathknight and then remembered that I hate !! Melee classes.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html;jsessionid=FAA0DEE8CD55CFFBE6ACA1DC7EB5AB58.app05_08?topicId=9023602703&sid=2000&pageNo=1
You OK, BRK?
My hunter and drude are running around Northrend. Hunter got a rhino first thing.