Downtime Tuesday #49, Legion Windwalker Monk Spell Animations, Pepe Dalaran Paintings, Blue Posts

posted 2016/03/08 at 10:04 AM by perculia

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Phalanx

There are some specializations we agree may feel "flat" with lack of utility tools right now on alpha. It would be useful for us to hear which specializations testers feel are in a bad/good/too good spot in that regard (with reasons why).

While the gameplay of specializations without PvP talents is important, it's most useful to us to hear feedback with full PvP talents. Some specs may feel flat baseline, but with talents feel like they're in a good/too good spot.

Desvin

We've discovered a bug where weapon damage is being calculated incorrectly in our PvP stat templates. A lot of damage is overtuned as a result. We're working on fix it as soon as possible.

Phalanx

Burst of Speed had nothing on these guys; Demon Hunters are able to zoom across the map before it even has time to appear on the mini map. Timed it and it was 23 seconds from point of pick up to capture.

Is it worth stunting their mobility like several other abilities while carrying the flag? It isn't fun when the flag is picked up and then captured before you really have time to react.

Desvin

Level 110 players will be able to queue for Ashran from the UI in Legion. It will work similar to battlegrounds, you can queue with up to 5 players.

Feral Druid

Celestalon

Re: The cooldown on 'powershifting':

This is indeed a philosophy change from live. Druids have been, and will continue to be, exceptionally good at breaking roots/snares. But that should be tied to shapeshifting, not macroing into skipping the shapeshift. It will provide better counterplay if there’s some cost (albeit still spammable and small) to shifting out of roots and snares.

Restoration Druid

Sigma

The minor tuning changes last build were intended to move a small amount of healing from Wild Growth to Rejuvenation, and to slightly increase costs overall due to the class's currently high efficiency, especially on a single target (the latter part is mostly represented by the Swiftmend change). But, we agree the simultaneous healing and cost increase on Rejuvenation looks like it fights against the mastery. Next build will move Rejuvenation's healing and cost slightly back down. Both changes are quite small, but should be noticeable on a spell as frequently used as Rejuvenation.

Outlaw Rogue

Celestalon

The intention is not for you to keep fishing for the lucky 5-buff Roll the Bones. If you have theorycraft indicating that it's optimal to keep using Roll the Bones, when you already have a buff (apart from the Health one), we'd love to review that.

Demonology Warlock

Celestalon

The Dreadstalker riders (from Call Dreadstalkers) should 100% count the same as, and deal the same damage as, regular wild imps. There are just likely some bugs with that.

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Comment by HarkenRebirthI heard a rumor that Pepe is Sargeras in Disguise. Its why he is everywhere and at the same time... NOWHERE. Also that look in his eyes..... So judginng... so evil..... It looks into your souls... those deep eyes.... just staring.Comment by GreySageFLAT specs = All rogue specs. Come on, you're taking away our only raidwaid utility in Smoke Bomb, which I would be upset about except that smoke bomb was USELESS to begin with.

Give us something better, something usefull, SOMETHING!Comment by AxeraxPlease get rid of your site ads, to clarify I clicked on the link to this page from the homepage of the website, not on any of the "AdChoice" ads which are fine. It literally took me to some advertisement for a hospital that is no where near where I live and unrelated to the website content. It even said in 10 seconds it'll "resume" my site, why it took away from there in the first place is beyond me, and then there is a link on the site that says "continue to site" which normally refers to the actual website I was viewing prior. I don't mind the ads when they are truthful and go back to the website I was viewing and I understand that your site does this for extra revenue, but you should evaluate who you're letting advertise, I have no idea where it took me and now I feel like I should run a virus scan.Comment by perculiaPlease get rid of your site ads. It literally took me to some advertisement for a hospital that is no where near where I live and unrelated to the website content. It even said in 10 seconds it'll "resume" my site, why it took away from there in the first place is beyond me, and then there is a link on the site that says "continue to site" which normally refers to the actual website I was viewing prior. I don't mind the ads when they are truthful and go back to the website I was viewing and I understand that your site does this for extra revenue, but you should evaluate who you're letting advertise, I have no idea where it took me and now I feel like I should run a virus scan.Comment by overthinkerWell I know what I will be painting next. If possible I would like that painting in the blizz store.Comment by PlaidiatorThey should have a long cooldown spell that animates all raid members' shadows to attack the enemy for a relatively short time, dealing a reduced percent of damage that the character is dealing. And the shadows would absorb the first attack that would have dealt more than 10% of health to its original character or something, destroying the shadow soldier.

Could be glyphed to be ghost pirates for for outlaw or something.Comment by PurgatorywolfYay more pepe stuff for my guide!Comment by SounaliusPepe still isn't news.Comment by RaynrePepe still isn't news.Comment by perculiaWe have a wide audience on Wowhead and try to vary the topics in the news so it's engaging for everyone. I think it's good to periodically remind users that Dalaran is getting a lot of flavor updates (the coffeehouse, building decor, new guards, Rhonin statue, etc), and Pepe does have a big fanbase. But others don't care about Pepe at all so that's why we mixed in more technical blueposts and the spell animation preview.

Outside of alpha build days, nothing is really 'new' news (outside of scattered blue posts), so it's a matter of presenting topics--models, zone updates, spell animations, etc--in a way that's engaging but not overwhelming. And I think mixing in some lighter Legion news is definitely good for news, like the new Felo'melorn interaction in Dalaran.Comment by GarbageJuicePlease get rid of your site ads, to clarify I clicked on the link to this page from the homepage of the website, not on any of the "AdChoice" ads which are fine. It literally took me to some advertisement for a hospital that is no where near where I live and unrelated to the website content. It even said in 10 seconds it'll "resume" my site, why it took away from there in the first place is beyond me, and then there is a link on the site that says "continue to site" which normally refers to the actual website I was viewing prior. I don't mind the ads when they are truthful and go back to the website I was viewing and I understand that your site does this for extra revenue, but you should evaluate who you're letting advertise, I have no idea where it took me and now I feel like I should run a virus scan.Comment by perculiaSo everything I said above still applies (and I hate noisy ads too, I'm sorry you experienced one) - the staff is not involved in choosing the ads that go on the site, we use a third-party provider which is standard among most websites. The staff does really care about the user experience though and we've left several advertising providers before because we felt they did not address our concerns seriously. We've also changed the size of some advertisements on the site as some dimensions are more prone to bad advertisements than others.

You can help us relay data to our advertising providers by going to "feedback" at the top right and selecting "Bad Advertisement." You don't need to type anything in, but we'll get metadata which makes it easier to track down the culprit.

Site Patrons also have the option to disable ads. If you want to support the site but also want to use ad-block, this may be a better solution.Comment by AlbaharmamarMost of these monk animations aren't really 'new' as much as just touched up with a few shiny graphics, Not that that's much of a problem though since their animations ar pretty new to begin with. I do hope they fix some of the serious twisting and clipping some races are stuck with during some monk animations though (BE and NE males have some of the worst) I hate seeing my monk twisting like a twizzler or decapitating himself with his shoulderpieces while attacking.Comment by sniperorcPepe still isn't news.Comment by Mindbender94Most of these monk animations aren't really 'new' as much as just touched up with a few shiny graphics, Not that that's much of a problem though since their animations ar pretty new to begin with.exactComment by SoeroahPepe still isn't news.Comment by permeusI really hope when they say there making changes to daemon hunters speed that they only mean for pvp, they finally made it so blizz devs can change skills in pvp and pve separately it would be a shame to reduce DH mobility in the open world if they have the option to only reduse it in in BG's.Comment by SilverDragon234Peep! Everyone's favorite peeper, Pepe. :DComment by Wombat62Pepe still isn't news.Comment by ChaosJackalI really hope when they say there making changes to daemon hunters speed that they only mean for pvp, they finally made it so blizz devs can change skills in pvp and pve separately it would be a shame to reduce DH mobility in the open world if they have the option to only reduse it in in BG's.

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