http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/ World of Raids Blue Tracker en 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/20677336086-niche-advantages-vs-real-advantages.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677336086-niche-advantages-vs-real-advantages.html Ghostcrawler : Quote: This is why, GC, that differences in EH, Mitigation and Avoidance are so much more profound than if a class has the ability to sunder or to cleanse or to Death grip. When some tanks have 10% advantages in these fields, those advantages persist in EVERY encounter. Assuming I'm understanding you correctly, we don't balance tank survivability...]]> Tank Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:08:28 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20860998894-mocking-blow.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20860998894-mocking-blow.html Ghostcrawler : As several have pointed out, this was just a tooltip clarification. The ability hasn't changed. I agree with the notion that there is less of a use for Mocking Blow in the toolbox these days where tanks generally maintain enough threat, at least relative to the "Wait for five Sunders" days. Ghostcrawler Lead Syst...]]> Tank Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:54:22 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677235952-if-loh-is-gonna-cause-forbearance.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677235952-if-loh-is-gonna-cause-forbearance.html Ghostcrawler : The change we're thinking about now is that LoH only causes Forbearance if you cast it on yourself. A paladin healing a paladin tank wouldn't run into the Forbearance problem. We don't think the paladin tank needs to be able to stack both tools at once. If you know big damage is coming you can use Divine Protection. If you managed to take the big ...]]> Tank Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:50:34 +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/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/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/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/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/20677635586-17-runestrike-is-nice-but.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677635586-17-runestrike-is-nice-but.html Ghostcrawler : The fundamental problem is that DKs are allowed to tank from three trees. (And no, we're not going to change that.) A Feral druid uses different buttons when tanking than when doing dps. The same is true of the paladin and warrior. We want tanks to use different buttons for a couple of different reasons. One is that it's not fair to do as much dam...]]> Tank Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:08:22 +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/20860798257-icecrown-radiance-incompetence-or-arrogance.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20860798257-icecrown-radiance-incompetence-or-arrogance.html Ghostcrawler : It's an MMO. Stuff changes. If you want to play a game where the designers don't continually tinker with things to try and improve them, you might want to pick up a 10-year old game from the bargain bins. I'd be happy to provide my favorite list of classics. :) Blizzard developers are our own greatest critics. We've changed our minds over and over...]]> Tank Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:58:05 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677865422-paladin-vs-warrior-why-even-use-a-warrior.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677865422-paladin-vs-warrior-why-even-use-a-warrior.html Ghostcrawler : We don't delete threads in which players disagree or want to point out problems with the design. If we did, the forums would have about three threads in them. We sometimes lock threads that are generally not contributing, but we leave them there so players can see that they were locked. We generally only delete a thread if it is overly offensive, ...]]> Tank Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:35:53 +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/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/20677864812-don-t-nerf-my-sacred-shield-bro.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677864812-don-t-nerf-my-sacred-shield-bro.html Ghostcrawler : Quote: I disagree. There is way too much effort involved trying to add new tools to every single class, trying to keep them balanced, making sure the ability is useful for every spec, making sure it's useful in PvE on every single fight and making sure it's useful in every type of PvP situation. Where do you draw the line? We agree with Communis...]]> Tank Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:44:22 +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/20677634653-better-watch-what-you-say.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677634653-better-watch-what-you-say.html Ghostcrawler : Quote: If you talk to Ghostcrawler about stamina, he'll just respond with: "hurr if you think avoidance doesn't matter just turn your back lol hurp derp" This is not a good post. If you can't understand why, then this may not be a good forum for you. We also ask that you do not create new threads to discuss locked threads. If we had wanted them...]]> Tank Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:23:11 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677673129-note-to-gc.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677673129-note-to-gc.html Ghostcrawler : Quote: If you talk to Ghostcrawler about stamina, he'll just respond with: "hurr if you think avoidance doesn't matter just turn your back lol hurp derp" If you try to talk to this poster about stamina, he won't be able to respond because he is taking a brief break from the forums. Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Des...]]> Tank Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:18:52 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677232049-tank-eh-being-looked-at-in-3-3-at-all.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677232049-tank-eh-being-looked-at-in-3-3-at-all.html Ghostcrawler : I am going to attempt to explain the disconnect the community and the developers have over effective health. When I first learned to tank, long before I came to Blizzard, I learned that effective health is a measurement of your stamina in relationship to your armor. This is a pretty easy number to generate. It's reasonable to include say shield bl...]]> Tank Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:03:35 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677632379-icewell-radiance-is-in.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677632379-icewell-radiance-is-in.html Ghostcrawler : Our original estimations for tank avoidance would have worked fine had we not decided to add extra tiers of gear to reward heroic boss kills halfway through the expansion. The Cataclysm design will keep tank avoidance at more manageable levels. The loss of defense skill counts for a lot right there. We are also considering giving bosses expertise ...]]> Tank Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:19:33 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677582413-how-random-are-the-random-heroic-dungeons.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677582413-how-random-are-the-random-heroic-dungeons.html Ghostcrawler : It's more fuzzy random than actually random. For example it is less likely to put you in a dungeon that you ran recently. If you dislike Oculus so much that you are willing to spend a couple of hours getting deserter debuffs rather than run a 45 min dungeon, then I'd suggest you give Oculus another try. It's not that bad with the gear scaling on t...]]> PTR Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:27:36 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677352474-don-t-restrict-lfg-channel-to-cities.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677352474-don-t-restrict-lfg-channel-to-cities.html Ghostcrawler : I don't think a world-wide LFG channel would be something you'd really want. It would immediately become the global chat channel for trade, spam and Chuck Norris jokes. On live it's restricted to people using the LFG tool. The new dungeon tool honestly makes matches so quickly under most conditions that that implementation won't work. We feared pe...]]> PTR Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:15:20 +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/20677672386-lfg-tool-and-dual-spec.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677672386-lfg-tool-and-dual-spec.html Ghostcrawler : It uses all the items you own to make that determination, not just what you have equipped. Honestly though, we are really relaxed about how we use this restriction. It's basically in there to prevent newly minted 80s in quest greens from rolling into a heroic dungeon that is likely to kick their butt. Most players sophisticated enough to be on the...]]> PTR Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:13:35 +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/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/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/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 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677231429-pally-tears-and-nerd-rage.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677231429-pally-tears-and-nerd-rage.html Ghostcrawler : Threads like this are why you can't have nice things. Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> Tank Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:55:43 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677631372-if-they-nerf-loh-i-m-done.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677631372-if-they-nerf-loh-i-m-done.html Ghostcrawler : Quote: Over it... seriously think that'll be the final straw for me to /cancel and not bother with the next expansion... I've tried to locate an official notice abotu Lay on Hands, but can't find any, on the official patch notes, so i hope this is all some kind of horrible rumor.. I'd like a response from GC.. asap on this, Lay on Hands is an i...]]> Tank Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:54:01 +0000 http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677351525-blizzards-race-change-scam.html http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/us-forums/20677351525-blizzards-race-change-scam.html Ghostcrawler : Its a bug. We can't possibly reply to every single bug. If you've reported it, rest assured that we've seen it. P.S. Your title isn't terribly useful. Ghostcrawler Lead Systems Designer...]]> DPS Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:41:26 +0000