2 Deathbringer kills (Icecrown 25 player).
Day: April 10, 2010
Has now completed [Gunship Battle victories (Icecrown 25 player)] 2 times.
2 Gunship Battle victories (Icecrown 25 player).
Has now completed [Lady Deathwhisper kills (Icecrown 25 player)] 2 times.
2 Lady Deathwhisper kills (Icecrown 25 player).
Has now completed [Lord Marrowgar kills (Icecrown 25 player)] 2 times.
2 Lord Marrowgar kills (Icecrown 25 player).
World of Warcraft: Изменения Магов в дополнении Cataclysm
На официальных форумах World of Warcraft: Cataclysm появилась информация об изменениях, которые произойдут с классом Магов в грядущем дополнении.
World of Warcraft: Изменения Друидов в дополнении Cataclysm
На официальных форумах World of Warcraft: Cataclysm появилась информация об изменениях, которые произойдут с классом Друидов в грядущем дополнении.
Обзор изменений Мага в дополнении Катаклизм
На официальных русскоязычных форумах MMORPG World Of Warcraft сотрудница Blizzard Entertainment по работе с французским сообществом Thyvene разместила подробную информацию о том, как изменится механика игрового класса Маг в готовящемся к выходу дополнении Катаклизм.
«В дополнении World of Warcraft: Cataclysm будет внесено множество изменений в таланты и способности различных классов. И в данном обзоре вам предстоит ознакомиться с тем, что уготовлено судьбой магам, а именно, новые заклинания, способности, таланты и бонусы от искусности для разных специализаций».
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Новые заклинания магов
В дополнении не только появятся новые способности, но и изменятся некоторые старые. Этот список далеко не полон, но он позволит получить представление о будущей специфике веток талантов.
Тайная магия Лед
Надеемся, вам понравился этот предварительный обзор, и хотим услышать ваши первые впечатления и мысли насчет приведенной информации. Пожалуйста, помните, что эти сведения касаются проекта, находящегося в разработке. По мере приближения бета-тестирования дополнения Cataclysm эта информация будет меняться и дополняться на основе отзывов игроков и тестеров. |
Обзор изменений Друида в дополнении Катаклизм
На официальных русскоязычных форумах MMORPG World Of Warcraft сотрудница Blizzard Entertainment по работе с французским сообществом Thyvene разместила подробную информацию о том, как изменится механика игрового класса Друид в готовящемся к выходу дополнении Катаклизм.
«Дополнение World of Warcraft: Cataclysm внесет множество изменений в таланты и способности различных классов. Предлагаем вашему вниманию краткий обзор нововведений для друидов. Разумеется, это описание не будет исчерпывающим. Наш обзор лишь вкратце рассказывает об интересных изменениях, которые скоро произойдут. Итак, приступим!»
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Новые способности друида
Изменения в способностях и механике В дополнении не только появятся новые способности, но и изменятся некоторые старые. Этот список далеко не полон, но он позволит получить представление о будущей специфике веток талантов.
Искусность: пассивные бонусы специализаций Баланс Сила зверя (кошка) Сила зверя (медведь) Исцеление
Каждый раз, когда по танку наносится урон, «Отмщение» накладывает на него суммирующийся положительный эффект, увеличивающий силу атаки на 5% от полученного урона. Эффект суммируется и может достигать показателя, равного 10% здоровья персонажа, не находящегося под воздействием положительных эффектов. Мы рассчитываем, что во время боев с боссами танки будут постоянно находиться под воздействием эффекта, повышающего силу атаки на 10%. Пяти- и десятипроцентные бонусы даются при вложении 51 очка в ветку «Сила зверя» и накладываются на друида в облике медведя. На низких уровнях эти значения будут меньше. Учтите, что эти бонусы даются только друиду в облике медведя, вложившему большинство очков талантов в ветку «Сила зверя». Друиды, которые специализируются в других ветках или находятся в облике кошки, этого усиления не получат. «Отмщение» позволит нам придерживаться существующего направления в разработке брони для танка: характеристики брони будут в некоторой степени усиливать наносимый урон, но в основном будут влиять на выживаемость танка. Как правило, у друидов даже броня для танкования усилена неплохими характеристиками атаки, так что эффект «Отмщения» может быть не столь заметным. Общая же задача этого пассивного бонуса – уравнять урон, наносимый четырьмя танкующими классами. Надеемся, вам понравился этот предварительный обзор, и хотим услышать ваши первые впечатления и мысли насчет приведенной информации. Пожалуйста, помните, что эти сведения касаются проекта, находящегося в разработке. По мере приближения бета-тестирования дополнения Cataclysm эта информация будет меняться и дополняться в зависимости от результатов тестирования и отзывов. |
Cataclysm Class Preview: Mage
Cataclysm Class Preview: Mage (Mage Forum)
The last class getting a preview this week is the mage! Paladins will have to wait next friday for their preview (see this post for more information).
Keep in mind that this is the only the beginning, things will get pretty wild in the next days and weeks!
New Mage Spells
Flame Orb (available at level 81): Inspired by Prince Taldarams abilities in Ahn'kahet and Icecrown Citadel, this spell allows the mage to cast a flaming orb that travels in front in a straight line, sending beams that cause fire damage to passing targets. Once its cast, the mage is free to begin casting other spells as the Flame Orb travels. While the spell will be useful to any spec, Fire mages will have talents that improve it, possibly causing the Flame Orb to explode when it reaches its destination.
Time Warp (level 83): Grants a passive Haste effect much like Bloodlust or Heroism to party or raid members. It also temporarily increases the mage's own movement speed. Time Warp will be exclusive with Bloodlust and Heroism, meaning you cant benefit from both if youve got the Exhaustion debuff, though the movement-speed increase will still work even when under the effects of Exhaustion.
Wall of Fog (level 85): Creates a line of frost in front of the mage, 30 yards from end to end. Enemies who cross the line are snared and take damage. The mana cost will be designed to make Wall of Fog efficient against groups, not individuals. This spell is intended to give mages a way to help control the battlefield, whether the mage is damaging incoming enemies (Blizzard can be channeled on top of Wall of Fog) or protecting a flag in a Battleground. 10-second duration. 30-second cooldown.
Changes to Abilities and Mechanics
In addition to introducing new spells, we're planning to make changes to some of the other abilities and mechanics you're familiar with. This list and the summary of talent changes below it are by no means comprehensive, but they should give you a good sense of what we intend for each spec.
- Arcane Missiles is being redesigned to become a proc-based spell. Whenever the mage does damage with any spell, there is a chance for Arcane Missiles to become available, similar to how the warriors Overpower works. The damage and mana cost of this spell will be reworked to make it very desirable to use when available. This change should make gameplay more dynamic for the mage, particularly at low levels.
- We are planning to remove spells that don't have a clear purpose. Amplify Magic, Dampen Magic, Fire Ward, and Frost Ward are being removed from the game, and we may remove more.
- The ability to conjure food and water will not become available until higher levels (likely around level 40), as we're making changes to ensure mages generally wont run out of mana at lower levels. Once mages learn how to conjure food and water, the conjured item will restore both health and mana.
- Scorch will provide a damage bonus to the mage's fire spells. Our goal is for Scorch to be part of the mage's rotation and a useful damage-dealing ability, even if someone else is supplying the group with the spell Critical Strike debuff. Scorch will provide the mage with more specific benefits, which can also be improved through talents.
New Talents and Talent Changes
- Arcane Focus will now return mana for each spell that fails to hit your target, including Arcane Missiles that fail to launch. We want Arcane mages to have several talents that play off of how much mana the character has and give the player enough tools to manage mana.
- The talent Playing with Fire will reduce the cooldown of Blast Wave when hit by a melee attack, instead of its current effect.
- Pyromaniac will grant Haste when three or more targets are getting damaged by the effects of your damage-over-time (DoT) fire spells.
- The Burnout talent will allow mages to cast spells using health when they run out of mana.
Mastery Passive Talent Tree Bonuses
Arcane
- Spell damage
- Spell Haste
- Mana Adept
Mana Adept: Arcane will deal damage based how much mana the mage has. For example, Arcane mages will do much more damage at 100% mana than at 50% mana. If they begin to get low on mana, they will likely want to use an ability or mechanic to bring their mana up to increase their damage.
Fire
- Spell damage
- Spell Crit
- Ignite
Ignite: All direct-damage fire spells will add a damage-over-time (DoT) component when cast. The flavor will be similar to how Fireball works; however, the DoT component will be much stronger.
Frost
- Spell damage
- Spell Crit damage
- Deathfrost
Deathfrost: Casting Frostbolt places a buff on the mage that increases the damage for all frost, fire, and arcane spells. The only damage spell that won't be affected by this buff is Frostbolt.
We hope you enjoyed this preview, and were looking forward to hearing your initial thoughts and feedback on these additions and changes. Please keep in mind that this information represents a work in progress and is subject to change as development on Cataclysm continues.
Cataclysm Class Preview: Druid
Cataclysm Class Preview: Druid (Druid Forum)
New Druid Abilities
Thrash (Level 81): Thrash deals damage and causes all targets within 10 yards to bleed every 2 seconds for 6 seconds. The intent here is to give bears another button to hit while tanking. Talents will affect the bleed, such as causing Swipe to deal more damage to bleeding targets. 5-second cooldown. 25 Rage.
Stampeding Roar (Level 83): The druid roars, increasing the movement of all allies within 10 yards by 40% for 8 seconds. Stampeding Roar can be used in cat or bear form, but bears might have a talent to drop the cooldown. The goal of this ability is to give both bears and cats a little more situational group utility. 3-minute cooldown. No cost.
Wild Mushroom (Level 85): Grows a magical mushroom at the target location. After 4 seconds the mushroom becomes invisible. Enemies who cross the mushroom detonate it, causing it to deal area-of-effect damage, though its damage component will remain very effective against single targets. The druid can also choose to detonate the mushroom ahead of time. This is primarily a tool for the Balance druid, and there will be talents that play off of it. No cooldown. 40-yard range. Instant cast.
Changes to Abilities and Mechanics
In addition to the new abilities listed above, we intend to make changes to some of the other abilities and mechanics with which youre already familiar. This list and the summary of talent changes below it are by no means comprehensive, but they should give you a good sense of our goals for each spec.
- All heal-over-time spells (HoTs) will benefit from crit and haste innately in Cataclysm. Hasted HoTs do not reduce their duration, but instead add additional HoT ticks. Haste will also benefit Energy generation while in cat form.
- Unlike the other healers, Restoration druids will not be receiving any new spells. They have plenty to work with already, and our challenge instead is to make sure all of them have a well-defined niche. A druid should be able to tank-heal with stacks of Lifebloom, spot-heal a group with Nourish and Regrowth, and top off lightly wounded targets with Rejuvenation.
- We want to add tools to cat form and depth to bear form. If a Feral cat is going to fill a very similar niche to that of a rogue, warrior or Enhancement shaman, it needs a few more tools — primarily a reliable interrupt. Bears need to be pushing a few more buttons just so the contrast between tanking and damage-dealing is not so steep.
- Barkskin will be innately undispellable.
- We will be buffing the damage of Mangle (cat) significantly so that when cat druids cannot Shred, they are not at such a damage-dealing loss.
- Druids will lose Abolish Poison with the dispel mechanics change, but Restoration druids will gain Dispel Magic (on friendly targets) as a talent. All druids can still remove poisons with Cure Poison and remove curses with Remove Curse.
New Talents and Talent Changes
- Tree of Life is changing from a passive talent to a cooldown-based talent, similar to Metamorphosis. Mechanically, it feels unfair for a druid to have to give up so much offense and utility in order to be just as good at healing as the other classes who are not asked to make that trade. We are exploring the exact benefit the druid gets from Tree of Life. It could strictly be better healing, or it could be that each heal behaves slightly different. You also will not be able to be banished in Tree of Life form (this will probably be true of Metamorphosis as well). Additionally, we would like to update the Tree of Life model so that it feels more exciting when you do decide to go into that form. Our feeling is that druids rarely actually get to show off their armor, so it would be nice to have at least one spec that looked like a night elf or tauren (and soon troll or worgen) for most of the time.
- We want to make the Feral cat damage rotation slightly more forgiving. We do not want to remove what druids like about their gameplay, but we do want to make it less punishing to miss, say, a Savage Roar or Rake. The changes here will be on par with increasing the duration of Mangle like we did for patch 3.3.3.
- Balance druids will have a new talent ability called Natures Torrent, which strikes for either Nature or Arcane damage depending on which will do the most damage (or possibly both), and moves the Eclipse meter more (details below). The improved version of Natures Torrent also reduces the target's movement speed. 10-second cooldown.
- Restoration druids will have a new talent called Efflorescence, which causes a bed of healing flora to sprout beneath targets that are critically healed by Regrowth.
- We plan on giving Feral cats and bears a Kick/Pummel equivalent — an interrupt that is off the global cooldown and does no damage. We feel like they need this utility to be able to fill the melee role in a dungeon or raid group, and to give them more PvP utility.
- We want to make sure Feral and Balance druids feel like good options for an Arena team. They need the tools to where you might consider a Feral druid over an Arms warrior, or a Balance druid over a mage or warlock. Remember that the PvP landscape will probably look pretty different for Cataclysm with a focus on rated, competitive Battlegrounds.
Mastery Passive Talent Tree Bonuses
Balance
- Spell Damage
- Spell Haste
- Eclipse
Eclipse: We are moving Eclipse from a talent into a core mechanic of the class and making it less random. Balance druids will have a new UI element that shows a sun and a moon. Whenever they cast an Arcane spell, it will move the UI closer to the sun, and buff their Nature damage. Whenever they cast a Nature spell, it will move the UI closer to the moon, and buff their Arcane damage. The gameplay intention is to alternate Arcane and Nature spells (largely Starfire and Wrath) to maintain the balance.
Feral (Cat)
- Melee Damage
- Melee Critical Damage
- Bleed Damage
Feral (Bear)
- Damage Reduction
- Vengeance
- Savage Defense
Bleed Damage and Savage Defense: Feral druids will receive two sets of passive bonuses depending on whether the druid is in cat or bear form. Bleed Damage will be improved for cats. Savage Defense is the current bear mechanic for converting crits into damage absorption and will be improved for bears.
Vengeance: This is a mechanic to ensure that tank damage (and therefore threat) doesnt fall behind as damage-dealing classes improve their gear during the course of the expansion. All tanking specs will have Vengeance as their second talent tree passive bonus. Whenever a tank gets hit, Vengeance will give them a stacking attack power buff equal to 5% of the damage done, up to a maximum of 10% of the characters unbuffed health. For boss encounters we expect that tanks will always have the attack power bonus equal to 10% of their health. The 5% and 10% bonuses assume 51 talent points have been put into the Feral tree and the druid is in bear form — these values will be smaller at lower levels. Remember, you only get this bonus if you have spent the most talent points in the Feral tree and are in bear form, so you wont see Balance, Restoration, or Feral druids in cat form running around with it. Vengeance will let us continue to make tank gear more or less the way we do today — there will be some damage-dealing stats, but mostly survival-oriented stats. Druids typically have more damage-dealing stats even on their tanking gear, so the Vengeance benefit may be smaller, but overall the goal is that all four tanks do about the same damage when tanking.
Restoration
- Healing
- Meditation
- HoT Scale Healing
HoT Scale Healing: HoTs will do increased healing on more wounded targets. The mechanic is similar to that of the Restoration shaman, but with HoTs instead of direct heals. In Cataclysm, we anticipate druids using a greater variety of their spells so there is a distinction between healing and HoT healing.
We hope you enjoyed this preview, and ask that you provide your initial thoughts and feedback on what was presented here. Please keep in mind, what youve just reviewed is a work in progress and as we move closer to the Cataclysm beta, youll see these changes as well as others continue to develop in response to testing and feedback.