3.3 patch today

[Shodokan]

Give it time... we all remember pre wrath patch right? With the talent changes? That made people DC for days and raids were not able to be run etc?

[Multibocks]

you think its bad now, wait for primetime and I am willing to bet that servers go down more than once.

[Fursphere]

Ya, I totally plan on not being able to even log in tonight. Probably won't be able to play until tomorrow morning when all the kiddies are asleep.

I don't expect the server to be stable until next week.

[Jubber]

But does this increase the value of damage to AoE pulls with less than 10 mobs?

There was a quote by ghostcrawler I believe answering this. I will try to look for it again. He basically went on to say that the way the new AOE works it allows the damage to scale better with gear for those first 10 targets. So instead of a base damage cap to your AOE now there is no base on the first 10, but the damage will be split evenly amongst all the targets if there is more than 10.

The only issue here is we don't know what the cap was before so it's hard to say if this is a boost or a nerf. We can only go on the dev's words that this will indeed be a boost.

[yaki]

the way the new AOE works it allows the damage to scale better with gear for those first 10 targets.

This is true...the previous hard cap was just a number in the system, your gear didn't affect it. The new cap is 10x your single-target damage with the spell, as determined by your current gear, buffs, talents, and so forth.

I don't expect the server to be stable until next week.

Oh look, an optimist.

[Jubber]

Can't the forums as they are down but I got the MMO-blue tracker link that GC talks about AOE damage. pretty much same thing i reiterated.

http://blue.mmo-champion.com/28/2162...n-all-aoe.html

[Tofino]

I'll be interested to see if this affects my boosting at all -- Consecrate never had the AoE cap apply AFAIK (only Holy Wrath did, according to Elitist Jerks). Wonder if the cap has been extended to include more spells?

[Shodokan]

I'll be interested to see if this affects my boosting at all -- Consecrate never had the AoE cap apply AFAIK (only Holy Wrath did, according to Elitist Jerks). Wonder if the cap has been extended to include more spells?

I doubt it, as Conc is still used to hold aggro.

[Jubber]

Aggro is only one of consecrates uses. If a ret paladin uses it, is he trying to steal aggro.. Consecrate is a viable AOE. I don't see any reason for it not to be included.

[yaki]

If a ret paladin uses it, is he trying to steal aggro.

Yes