Comments on: 3.08 Today – Preparedness

By: Kimster

Kimster — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:25:00 +0000

I also think if you have both priests and druids, that having them work out some sort of rotation or groups to heal may also help. Such as Priest 1 get groups X Druid Get Group XX so this way we arent all overwriting each other. Or one get left the right. It take a little more coordination but we know what encounters where these type of heals are needed.

By: Brett

Brett — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:03:00 +0000

I think Blizz said they’re not going to change any boss fights right away, and change them later if needed. Vortex being the one they’ll keep their eye on the most.

By: Blake

Blake — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:00:00 +0000

My guess is that being able to cast Levitate onto other folks is going to be more of a hassle than a help, but it's going to take a week or two for people to realize that:

• It chews up a GCD, of course.
• It'll throw off people's timing on the Thaddius jump, because they won't actually "jump", they'll hit the platform behind everyone else, and they'll be running through the middle as Thaddius activates.
• On Malygos, it'll prevent the fall damage, but it's also going to make it slower for the target to clear out of the middle after a Vortex, which is the last place you want to be if Maly does a quick breath before the MT can move him.

The CoH cooldown, meh, we'll adjust to it. PoM originally didn't have a cooldown, but we still use it. I'd like to see them bump up either the raw healing on CoH by 10% or the crit chance to make up for the new cooldown, so it slots more into the roll of a quicker but less effective PoH.

Also, I can't wait to see if Blizzard really did rebalance some of the boss fights to compensate for the CoH cooldown like they said they were going to do.

By: Paolo

Paolo — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:22:00 +0000

The Broker_PoM addon is an excellent alternative to PoM Tracker. Stick it within its own ButtonBin Frame and you're good to go. It handles the T7 set bonus by the way.

Also, on maly: the new ability to cast levitate on others may very well come in handy here...we'll see if it's worth spending the gcd on it.