http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/ World of Raids Blue Tracker en http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21042556056-plate-chest-bug.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/21042556056-plate-chest-bug.html Ghostcrawler : We just like paladins. We make all their gear just a little better. Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> Heal Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:39:02 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20860804229-another-beautiful-trinket-found.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20860804229-another-beautiful-trinket-found.html Ghostcrawler : Quote: I find it amusing it's a healer trinket given who it's named after but I'm happy about it nontheless. :) When you consider Angelista has caster cloth, a tanking ring and an armor pen ring, you're in good company. :) Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> Heal Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:08:01 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677677312-devs-really-have-me-confused-with-the-new-lfg.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677677312-devs-really-have-me-confused-with-the-new-lfg.html Ghostcrawler : Just a couple of observations from our point of view: 1) Players who don't pug dramatically underestimate the number of people who do. 2) Players often assume every realm has the same dynamics that their realm has. Pugging is something an awful lot of players do and our (frankly inadequate) tool didn't facilitate that experience very well. The ne...]]> Heal Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:13:51 +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 ...]]> Heal Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:42:11 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677775489-loh-change-problematic-for-healers.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677775489-loh-change-problematic-for-healers.html Ghostcrawler : We think what we're likely to do is make LoH not trigger Forbearance if cast on other players. That is closer to our original intent of encouraging paladins to use it to heal someone besides themselves. Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> Heal Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:45:47 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677866064-clarification-on-infusion-of-light-please.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677866064-clarification-on-infusion-of-light-please.html Ghostcrawler : Coriel is correct. Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> Heal Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:36:35 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677865036-replenishment-and-cataclysm.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677865036-replenishment-and-cataclysm.html Ghostcrawler : We still like Replenishment. There are only so many ways a class can buff a group's damage or stats, so boosting regen is a distinct buff that is brought by a sufficiently large number of classes. It's really nice to have Replenishment, but with mana regen from gear and talents being what they are now, you can certainly run without it. We don't pl...]]> Heal Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:02:26 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20126982438-healing-nerfs-stop-it.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20126982438-healing-nerfs-stop-it.html Ghostcrawler : Healing has always been challenging and to some extent thankless in WoW. I don't think LK fundamentally changed that. When I heal, I like to be challenged. Just buffing healing overall, or taking some of the challenge away from the healers, I don't think makes the game more fun for them. It might be fun for a week as everyone thanks you for doing ...]]> Heal Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:40:04 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677581818-man-i-really-need-that-mail-piece-sigh.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677581818-man-i-really-need-that-mail-piece-sigh.html Ghostcrawler : We knew this change was going to be controversial, and we totally understand that e.g. cloth can be an upgrade for a Balance druid or leather can be an upgrade for a shaman. Looting to some extent is always going to have a heavily social component. There's only so much we can do (or should do) to try and "solve" that problem for players. On the ot...]]> Heal Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:18:29 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677671637-aura-mastery-useless-in-pve-intended.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677671637-aura-mastery-useless-in-pve-intended.html Ghostcrawler : You'll have to explain more why losing 4 seconds turns the talent from useful to useless in PvE. Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> Heal Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:20:00 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677581780-idea-change-lay-on-hand-as-follows.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677581780-idea-change-lay-on-hand-as-follows.html Ghostcrawler : Quote: I feel that they have no vision for the Paladin. In every patch during this xpac they have tried to change the class, sometimes adding, sometimes subtracting, sometimes going in a specific direction, sometimes doing a 180. I feel that they don't know what they are doing with the class. And all this talk about having a vision is just that ta...]]> Heal Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:27:32 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677861614-ghostcrawler.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677861614-ghostcrawler.html Ghostcrawler : I'm not a big fan of the head on a pike thing to be totally honest. Our moderators ban and delete just a ton of inappropriate posts all the time. You should consider yourself lucky that you don't have to read a lot of that junk because they usually get to it quickly. My job isn't forum moderation nor is it something I am particularly interested i...]]> Heal Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:07:52 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677861597-recent-3-3-ptr-paladin-changes.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677861597-recent-3-3-ptr-paladin-changes.html Ghostcrawler : As you can see, we are trying some different things with some paladin mechanics. The Aura Mastery change (to 6 sec duration) is one we think is appropriate. If I had to guess, this one will stick. We are trying some things with Sacred Shield to make it more of a Holy tool and less useful for Ret and Prot (without being totally irrelevant). I don'...]]> Heal Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:26:25 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677331317-healers-shud-get-gear-choices.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677331317-healers-shud-get-gear-choices.html Ghostcrawler : Posters should spell correctly and avoid using all CAPS. Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> Heal Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:39:22 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20462449467-the-opinion-of-tree-take-it-or-leaf-it.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20462449467-the-opinion-of-tree-take-it-or-leaf-it.html Ghostcrawler : I'm not sure why so many players who want to disagree with us on class design miss some of those posts where we attempt to clarify our position. To put it all into one place: 1) Rejuv was too good. We nerfed it. The change got labeled as a bug fix, because technically it was a bug. We didn't mean to buff Rejuv's duration but once we did we didn't...]]> Heal Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:19:31 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20566569695-librams-working-as-intended.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20566569695-librams-working-as-intended.html Ghostcrawler : The problem with this item slot is it has now become so spec specific that we can't offer you multiple choices per tier (because we can't make that many items and ship a patch on time). So instead we try and focus on getting you to change up your gameplay, just a little, when a new relic arrives on the scene. This doesn't happen every upgrade, and ...]]> Heal Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:26:18 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20566399403-i-guess-i-m-the-only-one.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20566399403-i-guess-i-m-the-only-one.html Ghostcrawler : Quote: I was looking for some good feedback, maybe even a blue but I know they turned a blind eye to anything that's not a paladin/druid. This guy in a different thread summed it up very nicely so I'll ask my question again but use his wording instead. Not the kind of threads we really want to see here. Ghostcra...]]> Heal Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:45:29 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20122735443-why-are-so-many-healers-so-bad.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20122735443-why-are-so-many-healers-so-bad.html Zarhym : Quote: When I'm healing, I always feel like the tank is taking too much damage and all the environmental issues are trying to trip up my healing. When I'm tanking, I'm always trying to take not so much damage and all the healers seemed to keep getting tripped up. One day I will figure this out. When I'm DPSing, I'm always trying to figure out wh...]]> Heal Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:34:52 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20444817490-shadow-priests-now-best-healers-in-the-game.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20444817490-shadow-priests-now-best-healers-in-the-game.html Ghostcrawler : VE is unlikely to work with Mind Sear. Just sayin. Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> Heal Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:56:49 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20433765805-why-is-reincarnation-still-50-minutes-lolol.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20433765805-why-is-reincarnation-still-50-minutes-lolol.html Ghostcrawler : We might drop Reincarnation to 30 base, talented to 15. That's a slight nerf to the talent, but at the same time taking the cooldown that low might make an unattractive talent more attractive. Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> Heal Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:42:12 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20442617121-ptr-build-10571-more-druid-nerfs.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20442617121-ptr-build-10571-more-druid-nerfs.html Ghostcrawler : Quote: On one hand they tell us they don't like rejuv blanketing. On the other hand they hand us idols and set bonuses that encourage rejuv blanketing. I think our dislike for Rejuv blanketing gets oversold on these forums. We nerfed Rejuv because Rejuv was too good. Druids do have a lot of heals and ideally they would use all of them (and HT prop...]]> Heal Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:23:34 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/eu-forums/11155636411-tier-10-bonuses-feedback.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/eu-forums/11155636411-tier-10-bonuses-feedback.html Ancilorn : The tier-10 set bonuses have recently been released on the PTR and we would like to get your feedback on each of them. The items will soon be available on the PTR for additional testing, but we welcome your initial impressions and theory crafting thoughts as well. To properly organize feedback, please format responses as: [CLASS]:[SPEC] 2 piece &...]]> Heal Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:42:49 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20140813501-tier-10-bonuses-feedback.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20140813501-tier-10-bonuses-feedback.html Nethaera : The tier-10 set bonuses have recently been released on the PTR and we would like to get your feedback on each of them. The items will soon be available on the PTR for additional testing, but we welcome your initial impressions and theory crafting thoughts as well. To properly organize feedback, please format responses as: [CLASS]:[SPEC] 2 piece &...]]> Heal Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:35:44 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20140813488-t10-priest-disc-4p-proc-healing-is-bad.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20140813488-t10-priest-disc-4p-proc-healing-is-bad.html Nethaera : Please use the sticky thread above for feedback in Tier-10 set bonuses. http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=20140813501&postId=203094286136&sid=1#0 "The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand." - Lewis Thomas Community Team Member...]]> Heal Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:36:46 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/eu-forums/11155636136-ghostcrawler-on-dots-hots-and-haste.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/eu-forums/11155636136-ghostcrawler-on-dots-hots-and-haste.html Vaneras : We are trying to make haste a slightly more attractive stat for classes that utilize a lot of damage or healing over time spells, specifically Shadow priests, warlocks (though especially Affliction) and Resto druids. We realize other classes use hots and dots too, but I think we can all agree that it's a bigger problem for the ones I mentioned. I...]]> Heal Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:15:27 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20143783048-dots-hots-and-haste.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20143783048-dots-hots-and-haste.html Ghostcrawler : We are trying to make haste a slightly more attractive stat for classes that utilize a lot of damage or healing over time spells, specifically Shadow priests, warlocks (though especially Affliction) and Resto druids. We realize other classes use hots and dots too, but I think we can all agree that it's a bigger problem for the ones I mentioned. I'...]]> Heal Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:17:40 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20133929146-3-3-ptr-rejuv-change.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20133929146-3-3-ptr-rejuv-change.html Ghostcrawler : We don't want rank 15 to have that extra tick. It is technically a bug in that we didn't intend for it to have that behavior, but obviously we sat on the change for awhile. However since the popular Resto style has now become Rejuv on as many people as possible, we thought the extra tick had become problematic. Frankly we think druids can absorb th...]]> Heal Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:43:07 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20131894882-why-i-quit-the-game-signed-arena-resto.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20131894882-why-i-quit-the-game-signed-arena-resto.html Ghostcrawler : Many of your points would make for interesting discussion, but we don't like what I call "Change my class or I will yell into the ear of this kitten" threats. I think it would have been a fine post without those. [Not tracked] Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> Heal Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:16:03 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/19820551019-the-ezy-healer.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/19820551019-the-ezy-healer.html Nethaera : I don't think there is an "easy" healer. I'm sure some people have their preferences, but overall, the best of the best rise to the top (and I don't mean just the healing chart). A good healer is a good healer no matter their class. I think what you need to consider is what type of healer do you want to be? "Wh...]]> Heal Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:20:18 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/19820641241-how-do-you-separate-yourself.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/19820641241-how-do-you-separate-yourself.html Nethaera : I do sometimes take it personally when I let someone die. But you have to put it into perspective. What was the situation? Were you just not paying attention? Did they take damage too quickly due to their own error or due to some quick crits by the boss? Did your focus get split because of something someone else in the group did? You do ne...]]> Heal Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:17:43 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/19820417541-cleansing-totem-no-longer-pulses-instantly.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/19820417541-cleansing-totem-no-longer-pulses-instantly.html Ghostcrawler : Quote: Blue. Explain, now. Also, explain why I should sub to this retarded game anymore? I want a blue post and nothing else. There's no logic behind this, just because shamans became slightly better, yet still %#!@ing !%!!ty compared to all other healers. Again, GC or some blue- explain this please. Protip: When you get banned, it affects y...]]> Heal Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:47:44 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/19820416510-so-when-is-healing-touch-coming-back.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/19820416510-so-when-is-healing-touch-coming-back.html Ghostcrawler : You can use Healing Touch with NS or glyphed to heal a 5-player run. Not every spell needs to be your go to button in raids. It would be a bigger deal if you only had 3 spells and weren't using one. Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> Heal Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:45:11 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/19820412240-bring-the-player-not-the-class.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/19820412240-bring-the-player-not-the-class.html Ghostcrawler : Quote: That line's overused. You should be cognizant of the buffs and debuffs you have in your group. Luckily, there are multiple classes for most of the buffs. You could get your 5% spell crit from a ele shaman or a moonkin. You could get your 3% damage buff from a ret pally or a bm hunter. You could get an int buff from a mage or a felpup or even...]]> Heal Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:56:58 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/19717544438-why-did-blizz-do-away-with-downranking-heals.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/19717544438-why-did-blizz-do-away-with-downranking-heals.html Ghostcrawler : We were spending more and more of our design time trying to make sure that the lower ranked spells didn't always trump the higher ranked spells since with enough spell power etc. the coefficients start to matter a lot more than the flat value of the heals. We kept nerfing the coefficients over and over and could have kept doing that, but at some po...]]> Heal Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:18:51 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/19675688396-why-not-abandon-high-tank-damage.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/19675688396-why-not-abandon-high-tank-damage.html Ghostcrawler : If we just chilled out tank damage, then healing would be a lot easier. While I know it's popular in this forum to claim that we only want to make life hard for the healers, I think in reality many of you would get bored or risk losing your spot when the raid didn't need as many healers. A better answer, in our opinion, is to increase tank health ...]]> Heal Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:48:09 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/19717682298-question-for-gc-very-important.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/19717682298-question-for-gc-very-important.html Ghostcrawler : Most of the time it feels like "The Diplomat" around here. :) [Not tracked] Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> Heal Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:55:35 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/19717351618-concerns-go-to-dps-forums.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/19717351618-concerns-go-to-dps-forums.html Ghostcrawler : I come by here every day. When there is a thread that I want to address, I post in it. I haven't seen many in healing or tanking lately that qualify. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> Heal Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:40:26 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/19378792832-i-do-not-wan-t-player-stats-simplified.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/19378792832-i-do-not-wan-t-player-stats-simplified.html Ghostcrawler : What we were finding is that in many cases things had just become so complicated that players were not making intelligent decisions based on their knowledge of how various stats benefited them. That sounds like what you wanted to have happened, but it really wasn't. Instead players would pull up a BiS list, or plug the item into a spreadsheet. If t...]]> Heal Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:39:41 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/19377975145-path-of-titans-eq-alternate-advancement.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/19377975145-path-of-titans-eq-alternate-advancement.html Ghostcrawler : They are intended to be gated, not grindy. The idea is more that you have a reason to keep coming back to log in even if say you need a break from raiding or it isn't your team's PvP night. We are trying to contrast them with actual levels, which players can blow through very quickly if they are dedicated. Ghostcr...]]> Heal Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:54:43 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/19377969117-whats-the-next-priest-nerf.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/19377969117-whats-the-next-priest-nerf.html Ghostcrawler : It is interesting too me how many of these "My class has no niche," "My class has nothing special about it," "My class needs to be overhauled" discussions come out after a nerf. I think a lot of players mentally substitute power for fun, and when they're brought into line, the class stops being as fun for them. I understand that a lot of players w...]]> Heal Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:42:53 +0000