Dev Watercooler: MoP PVP

[heyaz]

During ascendance stormstrike(bolt) and autoattacks become nature damage and have a 30 yard range. It's also not reflected on the tooltip, and maybe because it's ignoring armor or something, but stormbolt hits for like quadruple what stormstrike does. Stormlash totem is also much more significant for enhance because it procs off just about every swing. The whole thing only lasts for 15 seconds though and with the cooldown on stormstrike(bolt) they will only get about 2 off them off but in that window it's enough damage to kill you through BoP. They neither have the time nor the reason to blow a GCD to remove protection during this window, remember also you can get hit with an instant LB, shock, and take damage from a fire ele. I haven't played enhance enough to know if lava lash also is also 100% spell damage.

Outside of this, enhance hits like other classes that have blown all their cooldowns, like an autoattacking warrior with a couple MS/HS thrown in there.

[heyaz]

Speaking of the conquest cap raise hotfix, it looks like it was implemented.

And by 1500 rating they meant 0-1500 (which was the case in the past). I'd thought they may have meant we'd have to hit 1501 or something to get the increased cap.

My druid with no rating now has, according to the tooltip:
2200 RBG Cap
1800 BG Cap
1800 Arena Cap

At least, if you're like me and leveling a new melee team, they can have weapons in 3-4 weeks. Huge relief if you have a new melee team because the weapon is so vital, especially because of the 2500ish pvp power they have.

[remanz]

oh 0-1500 for 1800 cap. great. I was fine tuning everything and prepared to push for 1501 ratings (hovering around 1400 right now) in 2s. The blacksmith i463 2h axe are so inflated right now. You can buy them right away at level 90. The pvp conquest 2h is only 470. It is not a huge upgrade vs the blue one (do + some more pvp power).

[heyaz]

It's the 2235 PVP power that makes it so big. That's like 8% increased pvp damage on that stat alone:
http://www.wowhead.com/item=84790

The stats also doesn't have any weight against ilvl so, the end with all + 7 ilvls of the stats from the BS one.

Not that I won't be buying those BS ones (I'm not pvp'ing for 3.5 weeks with 350s), or at least doing a couple heroics and trying to score a couple free ones.

[remanz]

Ya, Scalet Halls, Shadow Pan and Scholomance I think. Those 3 drop 2h weapons. I run these 3 for like 40 times combine across two 5 man teams. Not a single 2h dropped for me. Ended up buying/crafting 10 2h weapons.

Btw, try 4 blood DK. It is unkillable in arena. Your damage it is kind of gimped but you will not die. People have been complaining about blood. It is the only tanking spec working in arena right now. I tried prod pally. It dies way faster than blood DK. A double blood DK team vs 2 dps team is "alllllmost" a guarantee win.

[Mokoi]

Blood DKs are getting nerfed in PvP.

The heal from their death strike no longer heals from any PvP or PvP controlled minion damage. now you will just slowly die, and not heal yourself. lame.

[valkry]

Blood DKs are getting nerfed in PvP.

The heal from their death strike no longer heals from any PvP or PvP controlled minion damage. now you will just slowly die, and not heal yourself. lame.

I'm sorry for you, but this makes me very happy

[zenga]

Blood DKs are getting nerfed in PvP.

The heal from their death strike no longer heals from any PvP or PvP controlled minion damage. now you will just slowly die, and not heal yourself. lame.

You almost made me fall off my chair by calling that lame.

[remanz]

It was a little over the top for sure. In the 2s matches I tried, my prod pally dies within 2mins. I used bubble, heals, defensive CDs, everything. Warrior / Ret picked it apart. My Blood DK was able to 1 v 2 and kill both of them in 7mins after that. So use it before they nerf it then.