Gamebreaker TV interview with Ghostcrawler

WildeHilde, on 05 December 2012 - 11:39 AM, said:

Yeah 2 months of top pvpers telling you damage is too high isn't enough, take your time man, its npnp.

WildeHilde, on 05 December 2012 - 11:39 AM, said:

How do you manage to apply changes and not change anything...

GC actually seems to know what hes talking about regarding PvP tbh.

"It is possible that base resilience could be increased to compensate for the PvP Power increase on Conquest weapons, but they need more than a few days of observation before a decision can be made."

increase it by 10-15% imo so its like pre 5.1

Claynz, on 05 December 2012 - 12:24 PM, said:

He just wants to compensate the weapon upgrades, if he does, we are back at MoP release... I dont get why they dont just make a tournament realm and tweak around there, every week. Increase res by 50%, reduce it by 20% again, see how it works, then reduce healing by 30% etc etc

They seem to be making changes to the game without addressing the consequences, like the item upgrade thing / alts, now they think about it?

Still i am happy for the classes fixes/hotfixes they made.. looking forward to Powershot fix, jk never gonna happen.

they said they may try to fix it in 5.2 ( they said it's kinda a hard bug to fix)

Pawzz, on 05 December 2012 - 11:59 AM, said:

The damage is fine - it is cds that make it too powerful. The solution is simple but hard to implement - just make some cds mutually exclusive (eg avatar, recklessness etc). The other thing would be adding crit reduction to resilience which would affect high critting classes (mages, warriors, destro locks etc) the most, but have a lesser effect on classes that don't crit for ludicrous amounts.

Braindance, on 05 December 2012 - 04:07 PM, said:

Frostmages dont really need cds to crit for 200k in a shatter? dno about desto locks, ferals have insane cds but can still randomly crit you with fb anytime.

Pawzz, on 05 December 2012 - 04:32 PM, said:

Random big crits should be in the game and should happen once in a while (like an 100k crit every 1 min). The problem is that they happen to often for warriors during cds, frost bombs and ferals. The solution for warriors cd as I said before is quite simple, but I'm not  quite sure how frost bomb could be fixed (and lances do a bit more dmg than they should). For me, the current design is more than fine and the problem lies mostly on cd stacking and certain abilities (chaos bolt, frost bomb etc - I'm not including TfB because it's hitting for as much as it should hit, meaning it doesn't oneshot anymore and it does high but not overpowered damage).

tbh tbf still should not be critting for 150k, your defending it due to being a warrior.
Its very rng i agree but very game breaking.

alleaya, on 05 December 2012 - 06:01 PM, said:

I don't defend stuff "because I'm a warrior" and I have never done that. In contrast to 99.99999% percent of this community, I am completely unbiased when it comes to balance (feel free to check all my posts for proof). What I am merely saying, is that high crits once in a while (100k-120k) should be in the game, because otherwise games would never end. One crit for 1/3 of a health pool every minute (something every class should have, assuming you cannot chain such crits) is OK.

Pawzz, on 05 December 2012 - 12:26 PM, said:

We wont be back on MoP release, healing is still reduced, Warriors/Spriest/Frostmage will do less damage compared to survival, Demon Warlocks are nerfed, and it will help discpriest a lot and not to mention stampede nerf and resto shamans being killable.   You forget the class changes that came with 5.1

Honestly, I thought he said a lot of pretty decent stuff regarding PvP. They are just slow to implement things. A tourny realm where they can constantly modify things would be a great idea I think. So they can just throw it out there and see how it goes.

Claynz, on 05 December 2012 - 06:57 PM, said:

Let's hope your right,

May GOPE be with us

Artunias, on 05 December 2012 - 09:09 PM, said:

Ye, like a PTR for PvP, before they implement pvp changes

My favorite part:

GC: People were complaining that damage was too high, so we nerfed the damage a bit and then put pvp power on weapons and allowed the to be upgraded which actually made people do more damage than before.

Yeah...

Braindance, on 05 December 2012 - 04:37 PM, said:

This is going to seem like a flame, only because I'm quite opinionated.

How, in any way are critical strikes good to the game?  RNG is the worst thing to ever be implemented in a game being played competitively.  Why?  Because there is nothing either player does to make it happen.  Player A crits player B for 300k.  Player A did literally nothing but press the same button he was going to press, regardless of the outcome, and player b just gets smack in the face by something that did 2x the damage it normally does, based PURELY on chance.  It literally sucks the skill out of games every time it happens.  There is already TONS of luck involved in games (build orders, lag, slight micro mistakes that could be optimized, .

Lets take some of the biggest, most popular esports in history.  What if in 1.6/css, 1/10 shots just did head shot damage, even if they hit the foot?  What if marines/zerglings/zealots had a 1/20 chance to do double damage?  3/3 cracklings would literally destroy things en mass, chargelots would be both tanky and with their 2 attacks each time would randomly one shot light units, and marines when stimmed would just randomly mow down armies.  What if 10% of the time, your abilities just didn't do anything in world of warcraft?  What if 1/20 spells in dota hit for 2x?  Lina just one shotting people for 1800 at level 16 with a 50 second cd (1/20 tries of course).

Get that shit out of games, and do not advocate it.  It is only cool to the casual that sees someone get one shot.  And thats it.  Nobody wants to see RNG.  Its disgusting.  What if 5% of the passes just didn't count in the NFL, arbitrarily?  Yes, you could minimize their effect, but think about historical problems with WoW, just a few:

1. WotLK frost mage r1 frost bolt- although it was good for chill etc, it was used to get procs.  What did those procs do?  Instant ffbs, deeps and damage, but considerably increases damage.

2. Tfb- randomly overpower for chain stacks to one shot somebody

3. Priest MD spam for bubble dispel- sometimes pally dies instantly or sometimes lives and the rmp is left with no/little cds after going all in.

The list goes on.  Yes, you could dispel the mage procs etc, but they are examples of other rng that was added in, that are still bad for the game.  Get that shit out, please.  No real competitive game has RNG that I can think of.  One exception would be dota, which has crit added in, but its an item (minus PA) and requires farm to pick up, and its not crazy out of control until you slap on an extra 3600.  At which point, I would argue that numerous opportunities have occurred to slow that carry's farm.  Not just some garbage rng tfb one shot shit that randomly occurred.

Pride7, on 06 December 2012 - 01:40 AM, said:

Your response is not a flame. RNG is good up to an extent, because WoW has nothing to do with all these games. At starcraft, warcraft or dota you start from 0 and slowly build up. In WoW you don't. And since you mentioned dota specifically you can outpick the other team so hard that they stand no chance (vs equally good players). If you want an environment where you can predict everything, and all the game is linear, sure then, remove crit. Btw I am mostly referring to crits, not things like failed MD's when dispelling bubbles etc

Artunias, on 05 December 2012 - 09:09 PM, said:

Blizzard has been *saying* "decent stuff regarding PVP" for literally years. They *always* go back to slow/no updates or break the shit out of their own balance 2 patches later.

Hell, they've been *saying* this stuff since Arena launched in TBC! They always fail to deliver.

Don't trust words, look at actions.

What the hell is the point of adding additional PvP power if you're just going to up resil? Yes, let's keep making the gear gap even bigger, it isn't hard enough to start mid season yet.