PvP Resilience Changes

[Fat Tire]

Q u o t e:
All you're doing is encouraging DPS to wear MORE PVE gear which is already an issue. Healers are already nearly unstoppable and now you're making it even harder to kill them? Awesome, now I have to raid again to be viable in PvP.

I think teams may try to focus on PvE gear as a way of blowing up healers on the other team. If that doesn't work (because the healer has resilience), then the PvE-geared guys won't have the survivability to stick around long. If you can't blow people up very quickly, then the glass-cannon thing just doesn't work and longevity becomes more important to everyone. If you can blow up healers too easily (while wearing PvE gear), then we might need to buff resilience even more. If you can blow up dps specs wearing PvE gear easily, well, mission accomplished. If you can never defeat healers (note I said defeat, not blow up in 2 globals) then we will need to nerf healing. Again, the goal is to have slightly longer matches with a little more back and forth. (Emphasis on "little" -- 20 min matches can be as tedious as 20 sec matches are unsatisfying.)

[Fat Tire]

If someone knows how to imbed/show the blizzard actual quote let me know. I would like that better than copy/paste.


I do like this change or kinda like it. I do think healing or passive healing has to be toned down, even with all the new s8/ICC gear coming in the new few weeks. The healers are getting new gear too and I think this is what will spark a arena/bg MS type effect kinda like Icewell radiance. They cant go too far with it because then you would never have any healers playing.

[Svpernova09]

I wish they'd roll back and undo all the retarded nerfs that affected PvE Healing and make those nerfs *JUST* for PvP. Nerfing PvE for the sake of PvP got really old, really fast.

[Fursphere]

It's kinda funny - early in the season they were saying "we don't think burst is a problem in pvp" and now they are effectively saying just the opposite.
S.

This is Blizzard's style. There are countless examples of them publically stating one thing then going 180 on it shortly after.

End of TBC - "We don't like fear and abilities that take contol away from the player and would like to move away from it as a PvE gimmick" - (Old Kingdom, Halls of LIghtning, Utgarde Pinnacle... etc)

Hunter pets - Taming spirit wolves was on unforseen ability, but we feel its ok and won't be removing it. (two weeks later it was hotfixed)

Recently ICC Release - "we plan on having 6 weeks inbetween wings in ICC" - later bumped to two weeks with no reason as to why.

I could go on, but you get the idea. Whatever Blizzard employees say - its pure crap and WILL be shitcanned at the drop of a hat with no explantion or justification.

[Naysayer]

might be time to break out the lolsmite priests again.

fuck it. if i don't win, neither do they.

[outdrsyguy1]

wow, this is crazy, with my noob team of 4pally + dk there are priests that it takes me atleast 20 seconds to kill when it's 5 v 1. This will make them unkillable in my opinion. I'm sure it will get adjusted real fast, the question is by how much....

I may have to grind up a warrior for my druids and do a 4 resto drui ms warrior team and just play an hour each match until the other team quits or finally goes oom, which is probably unlikely lol

[heyaz]

wow, this is crazy, with my noob team of 4pally + dk there are priests that it takes me atleast 20 seconds to kill when it's 5 v 1.

Are they able to do this with pws, instant casts and HoTs? if you chain silence it would be hard for them to survive, especially if you land a 5 second strangulate as well as mind freeze.

[heyaz]

might be time to break out the lolsmite priests again.

fuck it. if i don't win, neither do they.

haha, I like that idea. I didn't think of how fun that could be if this ridiculous change goes live. When I got my shaman geared I tried 4x resto and would just sit and tank several people, to the point where people would actually just run away. A quad box healer could become practically invincible

[Fat Tire]

haha, I like that idea. I didn't think of how fun that could be if this ridiculous change goes live.

No, we are making the change before the start of the season. We wanted to give players a chance to experiment with it and make gear and team choices accordingly.

It's possible it is live right now.

Ghostcrawler

[Multibocks]

Wow that was fast. Love to hear some feedback on it!