5.2 PTR / General Information

[Lyonheart]

Knew that Monks would get some love.. 8) glad i have 5 at 85 8) Very happy about the shaman changes as well.. longer flame shock.. faster EM ..etc..

[Ellay]

Does this give Monks the potential to be decent now for PvP? or are they still lacking? I know it's too early to tell but looking for feedback because their abilities are very foreign to me right now.

[ebony]

New World Boss System

• All world bosses are now Tap to Faction. This new system offers every eligible player of the same faction that engages a boss the chance to earn loot. Under the new system, players will only be able to earn loot from each world boss once per week, but bonus rolls apply. Bosses will now respawn more frequently as well.

no longer need to be in a group for a world boss just be about where he is tag it and boom free lootz

PvP

• PvP trinkets that clear loss of control effects will now also clear these effects from the player's pet as well.

this is a great change! that meens hunter pets get double with there cooldown that now u can do even when the get is LOS.

[Fat Tire]

Does this give Monks the potential to be decent now for PvP? or are they still lacking? I know it's too early to tell but looking for feedback because their abilities are very foreign to me right now.

I like these changes alot monks have really good sustained dps and its even better, maybe too good along with them getting some burst now. However, I think they are still going to be trained by cleaves.

[Owltoid]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't one of the monk changes give them a permanent mirror image? If so, that's really cool for multiboxers. I think most of us love having an army, and 4x3 or 5x3 it a ton of toons coming at the enemy at once. Not sure if it will be effective, but it will look cool.

[Ellay]

Yep and 40% damage on each character is a total of 120%, so net dps boost! :P

[Ualaa]

I'd imagine the silence would have diminishing returns.
Would the disarm effect be diminishing as well?

8 seconds per monk, could stack quite a few monks especially for world pvp in Stormwind/Orgrimmar.

[Shodokan]

looking like some awesome changes that will actually make the game better... who woulda thought.
MAYBE not so much for boxers, but for 3's the changes are great.

[valkry]

Mages got nerfed with that deep freeze change lol, but then again, they aren't supposed to be deep freezing then 3-4 ice lances, they are meant to frost bomb > deep > cast spell > ice lance so they all hit at once anyway... for the pros, this won't change anything.

If anything, they got buffed with that frostbolt change...

[Multibocks]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't one of the monk changes give them a permanent mirror image? If so, that's really cool for multiboxers. I think most of us love having an army, and 4x3 or 5x3 it a ton of toons coming at the enemy at once. Not sure if it will be effective, but it will look cool.

Wow... I may just start playing my monk team at 90 that is collecting dust.