IYM
8/29/2012 12:31:00 PM
On 8/29/2012 12:50 AM, Lewis wrote:
> Ran a heroic, not too much trouble. Things I noticed, pet died a lot
> because growl was on and that was enough to pull focus off the tank
> every time. Also, pet had a lot lower health (109K, used to 145K
> buffed). No idea on dps as I don't run a meter. Things died quickly.
>
> Oh, and picked up over 2K rep in Shadowfang Keep.
>
> Was surprised we go the new pet and mount today from the collectors edition.
>
Worked on two toons last night...My Mage and druid...
As my mage is my main girl and raider, I spent a lot of time at the test
dummies. I use dual monitors and had Curse open on the other monitor
watching for add-on updates all night, and thankfully they updated
recount pretty quick, so I was able to work my numbers.
After playing an arcane mage since the release of Wrath, this is the
most significant change I can related to. I transitioned into Cata from
Wrath seamlessly and was able to adjust my thinking quickly. This is
going to take some getting used to. I did some reading up and decided
to write a couple of macros that helped. Based on my reading, I decided
to go with the frost bomb, then detonate it with Fire Blast....Does some
nice damage. I got the hang of the new rotation, but it's going to take
some getting used to. I had trouble writing a macro that casts Frost
bomb, then detonates it with Fire blast, but I couldn't get it to
work...seems simple, but it would only cast the frost bomb....Oh well,
have to play with it later. After talking to other mages we seemed all
to be haveing the same issue...It was like play style didn't matter and
"this is what you get" for dps. In cata, if I wanted to get a burst of
dps, I could unload AB and burn my mana, or hang back and do average dps
for a while...Now, it seemed no matter how we changed or tweaked or
tried different things, non of us could get a burst or get our dps to
change...up OR down...it was kinda just...there. I was averaging 34K on
a lvl 80 test dummy....AND the reason BTW, was that I believe they
changed the "Raider" test dummy to lvl 90 or something, because my
"misses" on it was almost comical. My arcane missles looked like they
were going around corners trying to avoid it...lol. It missed so my
times I was getting about 4K on it...lmao. At the time my mage still
was at the 17% hit cap. :)
Now - I changed my OS from Fire to Frost, in anticipation for leveling
to 90 and I wanted to play around with it... I really like it and
having my old Water Elemental buddy with his "wishing" sound around
again was nice. I hit the targets in front and found it was doing only
about 5K less than arcane. Was hitting about 27-29K on the lvl 80
dummy. Should be nice for leveling and fun.
Switched over to my resto /boomer Druid.
1) LOVE the new travel form...
2) LOVE the tree for glyph...I can go my old tree again when healing...
3) LOVE the new Brown tree vs. that ugly purple thing that we had for
cata for the tree of life.
4) HATE the fact that both Healbot and Vuhdo were broken and couldn't
test out heals.
5) HATE that as of now, glyphs seem to be...meh. You can almost run
without them.
6) Boomkin - Holy crap did they up the damage. This particular druid
is one I'm leveling and just dinged 84 last night, but I was doing
dailies the day before and last night and the damage was significantly
higher, without changing anything. In fact, they took away swarm from
the boomer , so I had one less thing to hit.
I know they are going to tweak stuff in the next few weeks with patches
as they find one class is OP and another is sucking....They always do,
but if this is any indication of the patch, I just might be VERY torn on
who my main is goign to be....I very loyal to my main girl - she has
been with me from day one, was my first toon and is always my go-to
girl, but the druid has got me excited. I never considered myself an
elite mage, but felt I was an excellent one (in PvE anyway), and
understood every aspect of her. Now she feels a tad foriegn....Need
lots more practice, practice, practice.....
Outside of toons -
LIKE - the mount button....
MIXED FEELINGS - on the shared mounts...Seems weird and diminished that
a level 68 is flying around on a Twilight Drake from the 3D achieve...Or
that a level 25 is riding around on a Armani Battle Bear from the 85
Troll instance...You wont see people farming mounts or farming reps for
mounts as much as they only have to do it for one toon now...
HATE life without carbonite maps...You realize quickly how bad the basic
WoW minimap is... :(
Anyway - Those are my impressions of day one...Sure there are more, but
this is getting long :)