[WoW] major water drinking nerf coming in 2.4

[Ziran]

Just a heads up. Another pointless aggravating PvE nerf to increase downtime just to fix an exploit by one class in the arena. WTG blizzard.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...93722351&sid=1

This is an intentional change to how drinking works. The amount of mana regenerated now ramps up, so you will see little or no mana regen the first few seconds and then it will increase as the duration continues.

It appears this change did not make it into these patch notes, I'll see about getting it added to future notes.

[Eteocles]

Yeah I posted about this in the other 2.4 thread....they are out of their fucking minds with this change. This's one change that isn't adaptable because of the timed or time-sensitive shit they force down our throats already, escorts, timed events, etc, all because of those stupid fucking glorified duels for free epics...

[Vyndree]

I don't see why they can't just implement this change if and only if you're in the arenas.

That would be fair enough to me.



I don't go oom often in PvE at 70, but doing things like the ony escort in brd? Durnholde, anyone?

With an NPC leeroying about, there's no way you can spend half a minute drinking.

[Nepida]

The reason they are making it apply to more than just arena is because of Lake Wintergrasp in the xpac :/

[Eteocles]

Lake Wintergrasp? What, are they gonna make our drinks freeze solid after 6 seconds of drinking just to piss us off and this is to get us used to it? lol

[Riault]

Also remember that mana regen is getting a nice buff ...perhaps no need to drink at all



Riault

[Eteocles]

I doubt it. That would actually help and blizzard nerfs such fun/helpful things, remember World Enlarger + Noggenfogger shrink? Catform + Noggenfogger Skele to fix range bug? AV snowballs that knocked back? All gone =(

[Hippieman]

Also remember that mana regen is getting a nice buff ...perhaps no need to drink at all



Riault

Ye, way to make arenamatches even LONGER by 1) Nerfing manaburn and 2)Making manaregen imbah. GG and soz @ 1 hour 45 min 'renamatches (yes, I've had one of those T.T)

EDIT: Oh, and I'm not saying this because this wouldn't benefit me, it would benefit me GREATLY tbh, as I 3v3 with two healers, but really... REALLY... this'll destroy everything called 2v2 (like the queues weren't long enough already).

[Tehtsuo]

Yeah I posted about this in the other 2.4 thread....they are out of their fucking minds with this change. This's one change that isn't adaptable because of the timed or time-sensitive shit they force down our throats already, escorts, timed events, etc, all because of those stupid fucking glorified duels for free epics...

Quote for truth. If I hear one more "This is being changed because of mechanics in arena" I'm going to get violently ill.

[aetherg]

Even outside of escorts, in 5-mans, I like starting a non-trivial pull with full mana, in case anything unexpected happens. I'll often sit down to drink for 10 seconds just to top myself off. Having to wait for 20-30 now ends up adding several minutes to a run. Not /wrists-worthy, but still annoying.

And as far as arenas go, let me get this right: it's still okay to... rez dead teammates ... but getting a few hundred mana back every once in a while (if the other team is not paying attention) is a no-no