Monday, July 12, 2010

Pets, Tooltips,

Thanks to Tya on the MMO-Champion forums I was finally able to post a shot of Command Pet in action. This is basically what players have suggested since approximately vanilla beta: The stay command is replaced with a small targeting circle that gives go-to capability to pet commands. Pet's are still leashed, so send them too far or walk away and they still despawn.

A few other random points of note:

  • The core UI is finally beginning to show scaling for spells, updating your spells' damage and healing figures for your current gear and talents. This is a feature many people have used addons for since way back in vanilla, and is a positive addition to Blizzard's mostly positive program of rolling highly common addons into the core UI.
  • Soulburn fear that was mentioned in previews is gone.
  • The felhunter's buff is now maximum mana and mp5. This may sound odd initially, but it's really no change from live - it prevents the intellect boost from becoming spellpower and spirit is just MP5 now... 
  • Channeled DOTs crit for 150% damage. So drain soul crits are crazy, but not as crazy as they could be. Non-channeled DOTs crit for 200% damage.
  • It seems that mana regen isn't balanced yet with the removal of the 5 second rule. Not only is the cost of a life tap trivial now (the cost still doesn't scale and with much higher health it vanishes into a fel armor tick) but you may not even need it while grinding. Some spells are costing significantly less mana than on live (corruption is barely a third of it's live cost), which is probably also a bug with the level rank scaling, so I doubt it'll be quite so crazy when things go live, but still, warlocks have never had regen while casting before, it's interesting to see what will happen to our mana flow.
  • Health stones restore 60% of the creator's base HP. For a gnome warlock, this is 4427 untalented at level 80, a slight buff.
  • CoW is now a physical vulnerability effect, like Savage Combat and Blood Frenzy instead of a minor armor debuff.

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