http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/ World of Raids Blue Tracker en http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21251926238-locks-and-what-happened.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21251926238-locks-and-what-happened.html Ghostcrawler : Go look at the numbers for a fight like Northrend Beasts. Jaraxxus is off because of Spellsteal. Faction champs are faction champs. Twins has a lot of buffs. Anub'arak rewards characters who can AE well. But if you look at Northrend Beasts, you'll typically see a lot of mages, rogues, locks and hunters all at the top of charts, with the occasional...]]> DPS Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:35:14 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21043890177-soul-shard-resource-system-implementation.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21043890177-soul-shard-resource-system-implementation.html Ghostcrawler : I can't answer Q&As like this all the time or even very often. I probably won't be able to keep coming back to this thread to answer follow up questions. Understand that when I do answer some questions and it drives expectations that everyone is entitled to have *their* questions answers, things get complicated. Sorry for all of the caveats, but I'...]]> DPS Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:34:02 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21035179788-set-bonus-more-trouble-than-they-are-worth.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21035179788-set-bonus-more-trouble-than-they-are-worth.html Ghostcrawler : I think gear might get really boring if you didn't have set bonuses (and perhaps trinkets) to look forward to. Somewhat boring gear is okay... to a point... in PvP, where you need to strike a balance between skill and gear. Players want to enter PvP thinking they have a relatively level playing field, but we still use the gear reward as an incenti...]]> DPS Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:53:43 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21035173927-hunters-with-focus-will-it-really-matter.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21035173927-hunters-with-focus-will-it-really-matter.html Ghostcrawler : If you ignore combo points (which we aren't planning on adding to hunters), then the biggest decision energy-users face is whether to use a single 60 energy attack or two 30 energy attacks. The answer depends on a lot of variables, including which does more damage, what is on cooldown, the synergy between the abilities, etc. If you consider the ca...]]> DPS Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:48:50 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21048550817-increasing-stats-to-what-end.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21048550817-increasing-stats-to-what-end.html Ghostcrawler : They're just numbers. We don't think it starts getting scary until the human mind literally has trouble processing the digits. If your new staff has 152,420 spell power, well, yeah that's a mouthful. But if your new staff has 4000 spell power, the only thing that can really be freaking you out is that 4000 is just a really big number compared to th...]]> DPS Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:23:50 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21043889664-fingers-of-frost-problem-any-analogs.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21043889664-fingers-of-frost-problem-any-analogs.html Ghostcrawler : The Fingers of Frost issue is really challenging to solve. It it procs on hit then the procs don't get eaten but you may have to interrupt a Frostbolt. If it procs on cast, the procs can get eaten. Those are really the only ways it can proc though. Mixing travel-time spells and instant spells can muddy things up. Things also get more complicated wh...]]> DPS Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:55:08 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21254575501-elemental-t9-nerf.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21254575501-elemental-t9-nerf.html Ghostcrawler : We don't want players to stick with older tier sets when new pieces become available. (It's one thing if it's a really good trinket -- it's another if it's your entire set..) We balance some things around absolute values (we're shooting for a target) and other things around relative values (how X looks compared to Y). A lot of shaman were saying t...]]> DPS Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:27:54 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21042559255-new-rogue-changes-not-enough-to-stop-addon.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21042559255-new-rogue-changes-not-enough-to-stop-addon.html Ghostcrawler : We also killed the addon, but we didn't want to do it without also trying to fix the problem it was trying to fix. Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> DPS Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:59:20 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21042558924-t10-elemental-set-bonuses.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21042558924-t10-elemental-set-bonuses.html Ghostcrawler : We think the tier 10 Elemental bonuses are interesting. Elemental Mastery itself is probably the problem. The tier 9 bonus also probably ended up a little good, even with the direct damage to dot change. Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> DPS Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:39:33 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21042558707-confused-about-thread-deleting.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21042558707-confused-about-thread-deleting.html Ghostcrawler : It would be pretty hard to get on a moderator's radar for talking about the game at all. Most players who are trying to discuss the game and get banned do so because they start speaking in an inappropriate manner about other posters (or even the devs). While I can't comment on a specific case, in general if you stick with the game itself you're fin...]]> DPS Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:04:34 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21038227946-how-come-wow-development-isnt-like-sc-2-s.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21038227946-how-come-wow-development-isnt-like-sc-2-s.html Ghostcrawler : Couple of things.... SC2 is being developed from day one as a multiplayer and single-player game. WoW added Battlegrounds and later Arenas after it had already shipped. That's a little bit about what Rob is talking about -- the difficulty we have had retrofitting WoW's PvP. I don't want to put words in his mouth, but I don't think he is saying Are...]]> DPS Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:00:59 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21042558325-give-caster-dps-a-4th-stat-in-cataclysm.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21042558325-give-caster-dps-a-4th-stat-in-cataclysm.html Ghostcrawler : Quote: Unless I'm mistaken, the Cata gear stats will break down like this: Melee: Hit, Crit, Haste, Expertise, Mastery Ranged: Hit, Crit, Haste, Mastery Caster: Hit, Crit, Haste, Mastery Healer: Spirit, Crit, Haste, Mastery You are not mistaken. Everyone also gets stamina, armor, and their primary stat (Str, Int or Agi). Resilience and Sp...]]> DPS Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:09:37 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20860805400-shamans-getting-talent-reset.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20860805400-shamans-getting-talent-reset.html Ghostcrawler : Refunding talents generally isn't something we do as a courtesy. Meaning, if we had our way, we would never refund talents. We only do it when the data would get seriously jacked up by not doing so. For example, you may still have points in a talent that no longer exists or something similar. As to why we don't like to refund talents, part of it i...]]> DPS Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:45:10 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20860805191-so-i-heard.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20860805191-so-i-heard.html Ghostcrawler : Quote: ur doin it wrong. should be a lvl one troll alt to properly post something like this. The cool kids also just post a link to a screenshot instead of actual text. Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> DPS Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:16:47 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21048545285-sw-p-and-haste-in-3-3.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21048545285-sw-p-and-haste-in-3-3.html Ghostcrawler : We removed Shadow Word: Pain from scaling with haste because we thought Shadow dps was too high with all 3 dots hasted. There is a bug where you can get big SW:P dots and then keep them rolling at that magnitude forever since the spell gets constantly refreshed. It's a nasty bug to fix. However, that isn't why we removed SW:P from Shadowform. It...]]> DPS Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:04:53 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20861003593-haste-off-swpain.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20861003593-haste-off-swpain.html Ghostcrawler : Banhammer for the OP. Feel free to try again with the topic though. Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> DPS Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:48:08 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21035173936-warlock-threat-part-2.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21035173936-warlock-threat-part-2.html Ghostcrawler : Quote: Soul Shatter is one of two that can be resisted. How certain are you that this is still the case? As far as we know, this was fixed back in patch 3.0.2 or so. Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> DPS Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:08:33 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21042556090-again-with-the-rating-system.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21042556090-again-with-the-rating-system.html Ghostcrawler : Maybe because you posted in a forum dedicated to a different subject? Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> DPS Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:43:41 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20861002648-elemental-will-see-fixes-post-3-3.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20861002648-elemental-will-see-fixes-post-3-3.html Ghostcrawler : Quote: Ghostcrawler says a lot of things that turn out later not to be true. As far as I'm concerned, GC has zero credibility with the WoW community, and no post about fixing Shamans should ever be taken seriously. It never happens. We don't promise anything. This is why. Quote: Just looking at recent issues, it is rather glaringly obvious GC is ...]]> DPS Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:51:13 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21038225289-why-doesn-t-spell-power-damage.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21038225289-why-doesn-t-spell-power-damage.html Ghostcrawler : It's an interesting concept, but we do like different spells being affected differently. As Luph (I think) pointed out, part of the fun of gearing up is analyzing whether it's time to change what you do. If you're casting Shadow Bolt at level 1 and Shadow Bolt at level 85 and the only thing really varying is the amount of damage it does, then you m...]]> DPS Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:26:21 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21043884738-rogue-weapon-swapping-isn-t-a-big-deal.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21043884738-rogue-weapon-swapping-isn-t-a-big-deal.html Ghostcrawler : As some players are pointing out, it's not the existence of an add-on that's the issue. It's what this means for playing a rogue. We don't want to see the "How to play a rogue FAQ" that starts "Step One. Download the weapon swapping add-on." It's one thing if it's a niche deal that generates a marginal dps increase. It's another if rogues feel lik...]]> DPS Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:55:48 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21038225022-this-forum-no-longer-covers-pvp-damage.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21038225022-this-forum-no-longer-covers-pvp-damage.html Ghostcrawler : In general, it's not a good idea to post about locked, deleted or moved posts. That falls under the general category of what some forums call "moderator sass." I don't see anything wrong with your thread specifically. It's easy for the role forums to become the AllThingsWoWForumBecauseIKnowGCPostsHere forum. PvP class balance is certainly a valid ...]]> DPS Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:00:31 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677336103-tranquility-nerf.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677336103-tranquility-nerf.html Ghostcrawler : Quote: After all the "incidental" nerfs to Balance Druids they still can't check up on us when they make changes? If its not an intentional nerf it's blatant careless neglect. Actually, whoever is in charge of the spec should be fired. Its like every day is his day off anyways. Maybe you should take a little forum break there, cowboy. This is not ...]]> DPS Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:42:11 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21048545146-first-ability-balanced-around-1-v-1.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21048545146-first-ability-balanced-around-1-v-1.html Ghostcrawler : So let's imagine for a moment you had Power Word: Kill as a class ability. This ability would strike another character dead instantly. It can't be used on creatures and it can't be used in Arena. Do you think such an ability would be balanced, fair or fun? Because that's how some of these "It doesn't matter if it can't be used in Arena" arguments r...]]> DPS Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:33:20 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20860801447-regarding-doomguard-as-guardian.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20860801447-regarding-doomguard-as-guardian.html Ghostcrawler : Singling out the Doomguard for just a moment... Are you saying you don't mind giving up your Imp or Felhound for the Doomguard? Are you talking like on a long cooldown or not? Because really with shorter cooldowns now my concern would be that every boss attempt you'd have the Doomguard out. In which case who would use the Felhound? With guardians...]]> DPS Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:30:04 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677337233-why-do-the-devs.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677337233-why-do-the-devs.html Ghostcrawler : If you want to discuss Soulshatter or lock threat in general, try doing it without the dev hate and so much foaming at the mouth directed against other players. Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> DPS Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:22:10 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677235429-infernal-cooldown-lol.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677235429-infernal-cooldown-lol.html Ghostcrawler : The problem with lowering the Doomguard cooldown to ~10 min is there is a reasonable chance Affliction would just use the Doomguard all the time. We want the temporary warlock demons to useful but not actually replace the core demons. Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> DPS Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:45:01 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20860999312-heroic-leap-for-cataclysm-please.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20860999312-heroic-leap-for-cataclysm-please.html Ghostcrawler : Quote: They've already confirmed no new skills or talents for 85... just more points, refreshing the talent trees (think class review2.0), and changing some racials/talents/spells to be more "fun" That's not entirely accurate. Our current plan is not to make the talent trees any deeper, but all classes will get new abilities as they level from 80 ...]]> DPS Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:15:09 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20860998922-so-no-mocking-blow-in-pvp.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20860998922-so-no-mocking-blow-in-pvp.html Ghostcrawler : Quote: I always thought it was a bug that it dealt no damage against players. Guess not... Seems like they're standing behind glitchy imlementation and calling it balance. Similar to how death grip works on bladestorm while knockbacks do not.... If it makes me weaker, it's glitchy implementation. If it makes me stronger, it's balance. This was j...]]> DPS Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:48:54 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677335671-it-took-3-health-bars-to-kill-that-ret-pally.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677335671-it-took-3-health-bars-to-kill-that-ret-pally.html Ghostcrawler : I must admit that I found it pretty baffling that so many Rets responded to my mentioning that other players shouldn't have to kill a Ret paladin three times with "See? Rets are underpowered. Buff us so we can kill them before they kill us three times." This falls into the two wrongs don't make a right bucket: Other players take forever to kill m...]]> DPS Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:42:55 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677335468-remove-rov-again.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677335468-remove-rov-again.html Ghostcrawler : Getting a little weary of moving all of these to the PvP forum. You can't use the role forums as the all-things-WoW forum just because I post here. PvP issues are totally valid when they concern class or occasionally even item balance. Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> DPS Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:42:02 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677675558-good-players-do-not-think-ret-is-op-at-all.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677675558-good-players-do-not-think-ret-is-op-at-all.html Ghostcrawler : "I like to bring the community together by linking some forums to other forums." Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> DPS Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:00:55 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20860798697-army-of-the-dead.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20860798697-army-of-the-dead.html Ghostcrawler : Night of the Dead reduces the cooldown to 6 min with this change. Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> DPS Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:41:30 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677234926-gc-balancing-ret-around-duels.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677234926-gc-balancing-ret-around-duels.html Ghostcrawler : Self-fulfilling prophecy is self-fulfilling. Hopefully "Ret is the only spec balanced around one vs. one" can join the annals of "Prot warriors will be nerfed until representation is equal" and "GC says you should choose avoidance over stam." Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> DPS Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:02:55 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677862444-blizzard-s-vision.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677862444-blizzard-s-vision.html Ghostcrawler : Quote: While I agree Ret should be viable in arena, I can't be certain Blizzard does. Since Ret representation has dipped, what steps have been taken to correct it? Ret should be viable in Arena and all aspects of the game. You have to be very careful when you analyze Arena statistics however. If say Shadow priests aren't viable in Arena, then ma...]]> DPS Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:40:43 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/14910003169-yes-we-finally-got-an-ms.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/14910003169-yes-we-finally-got-an-ms.html Ghostcrawler : Locking this because it's a necro with some pretty outdated info and I don't see any information in here that we can't afford to lose. Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> DPS Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:10:28 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677632565-about-that-vanish-fix.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677632565-about-that-vanish-fix.html Ghostcrawler : Quote: Vanish will never be fixed, just live with it. It was working for about a week on PTR while the "immunity" was at 1 second but the massive amount of QQ forced Blizzard to change it back. It actually wasn't working well on the PTR because some casts that should not have broken it still broke it and it also prevented legitimate stealth breake...]]> DPS Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:53:15 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677331652-please-kill-rogue-pve-weapon-swapping.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677331652-please-kill-rogue-pve-weapon-swapping.html Ghostcrawler : Quote: Patch 3.2.3: Swapping weapons now removes any buff/debuff applied by that weapon This is a myth. We haven't made a change like that. We think the problems with swapping weapons get overstated a lot. There is some theoretical evidence that you can get a small dps increase by swapping weapons. In reality, many of the rogues who try it find t...]]> DPS Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:33:14 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677861714-angry-ghostcrawler.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677861714-angry-ghostcrawler.html Ghostcrawler : Quote: I seriously doubt GC gets mad about what people post. If they post something trollish he just bans then and goes on doing what he does. The problem for Ghostcrawler is he posted so much on the beta forums and at the release of WOTLK that he gave the player base a false expectation that they could debate with him about the development of th...]]> DPS Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:14:34 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677331386-loh-nerf-ss-nerf-ghost-crawler-diaf.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677331386-loh-nerf-ss-nerf-ghost-crawler-diaf.html Ghostcrawler : Dear OP, Bye. Hugs, GC [ Post edited by Ghostcrawler ] Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> DPS Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:38:19 +0000