WOD alpha: A turning point since TBC?

[Frenchy]

So from what I'm reading, it looks as though Elemental will be one of the strongest classes and specs to multibox in 5v5 arenas at WoD. It makes me really happy to hear that, cause I loved playing my Elemental Shamans. Unfortunately, I had to respecc them to Enhancement lately cause Elemental just wasn't viable in 5s in MoP, and I simply haven't had much fun with Enhancement (perhaps it's because I'm not that comfortable with melee multiboxing and with Enhancement Shamans in general). Either way, this is very promising for me.

Now, Kruschpak, do you or does anybody else here have idea what hunters are looking like in WoD? I've heard so many different things from people, and since I don't have access to the beta, I'm not really sure what to think. How good do you think hunters will be at WoD? Do they still have Camouflage and Glyph of Camouflage? Is Aimed Shotx5 --> Chimera Shotx5 still looking like a viable 1-shot opener?

Thanks.

[Shodokan]

So from what I'm reading, it looks as though Elemental will be one of the strongest classes and specs to multibox in 5v5 arenas at WoD. It makes me really happy to hear that, cause I loved playing my Elemental Shamans. Unfortunately, I had to respecc them to Enhancement lately cause Elemental just wasn't viable in 5s in MoP, and I simply haven't had much fun with Enhancement (perhaps it's because I'm not that comfortable with melee multiboxing and with Enhancement Shamans in general). Either way, this is very promising for me.

Now, Kruschpak, do you or does anybody else here have idea what hunters are looking like in WoD? I've heard so many different things from people, and since I don't have access to the beta, I'm not really sure what to think. How good do you think hunters will be at WoD? Do they still have Camouflage and Glyph of Camouflage? Is Aimed Shotx5 --> Chimera Shotx5 still looking like a viable 1-shot opener?

Thanks.

With the health pool and damage changes (from watching bay's videos as well as bajeera's) it doesn't seem like you can 1 shot someone with any class composition. Aimed shot was hitting for about 16k and critting for 25k on a 370k ish health pool. Chaimera was hitting for 15kish it looked like. So... not happening.

[Fat Tire]

I would really wait for atleast the first couple damage tuning passes before looking at fotm's classes

[Kruschpakx4]

I have seen nothing that says titles from 5s are removed in Wod.

I suspected it because trial of gladiator was targeted only for 3s so 5s would've been without title rewards then, since it got scratched it should be as it is now ...I hope so

Now, Kruschpak, do you or does anybody else here have idea what hunters are looking like in WoD? I've heard so many different things from people, and since I don't have access to the beta, I'm not really sure what to think. How good do you think hunters will be at WoD? Do they still have Camouflage and Glyph of Camouflage? Is Aimed Shotx5 --> Chimera Shotx5 still looking like a viable 1-shot opener?

Thanks.

not up to date with hunters, however lone wolf seems to be good for this purpose and power shot should be > aimed shot then with careful aim nerfed to 60%

With the health pool and damage changes (from watching bay's videos as well as bajeera's) it doesn't seem like you can 1 shot someone with any class composition. Aimed shot was hitting for about 16k and critting for 25k on a 370k ish health pool. Chaimera was hitting for 15kish it looked like. So... not happening.

in case of oneshots not be possible we have to stick on the unholy dotcleave train I guess, it should be really good with necrotic plague on 5 people you'll get lots of runic power for deathcoil heals and basically tank them until they run oom

I would really wait for atleast the first couple damage tuning passes before looking at fotm's classes

this pretty much

[Shodokan]

I suspected it because trial of gladiator was targeted only for 3s so 5s would've been without title rewards then, since it got scratched it should be as it is now ...I hope so



not up to date with hunters, however lone wolf seems to be good for this purpose and power shot should be > aimed shot then with careful aim nerfed to 60%



in case of oneshots not be possible we have to stick on the unholy dotcleave train I guess, it should be really good with necrotic plague on 5 people you'll get lots of runic power for deathcoil heals and basically tank them until they run oom



this pretty much

Frost dks never had one shot ability, it was always a pressure thing. Nor did rets in wotlk.

But yeah, we need a high pressure high sustain team if there are no one shots.

[Kruschpakx4]

Frost dks never had one shot ability, it was always a pressure thing. Nor did rets in wotlk.

But yeah, we need a high pressure high sustain team if there are no one shots.

any sort of caster team needs a oneshot unless you can kill everything with dots since eles for example aren't that good in pillar kiting games

and yeah rets had magic dispel, those days are over :/

I did a short ele shaman session (video) vs the dummy after the last beta build. Granted there is a bug atm so lava burst does not consume lava surge, but still the damage relative to healthpools seems way off to me, I expected totally different numbers.

its really confusing somehow when you compare damage on dummies and damage on players, is versatility 90% damage reduction or what?

[ebony]

any sort of caster team needs a oneshot unless you can kill everything with dots since eles for example aren't that good in pillar kiting games

and yeah rets had magic dispel, those days are over :/



its really confusing somehow when you compare damage on dummies and damage on players, is versatility 90% damage reduction or what?

as soon as they fix arena ill try to get some 3's or 2's games boxing ehn shammys,

[zenga]

its really confusing somehow when you compare damage on dummies and damage on players, is versatility 90% damage reduction or what?

Well on the shattrath dummies the damage seems to be much lower than on the one I was spanking in orgrimmar. First time I noticed that the enemy level plays a role in the amount of damage that you deal.