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Honor Among Thieves

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:18:10 -0600

Honor Among Thieves Chase Christian: What is it about the HAT spec and playstyle that specifically turns you off? For me, it's the shying away from combo point generation and energy regeneration and the focus solely spamming damage spells that keeps me spec'd into Mutilate. Vulajin: A guildmate of mine joked that the reason I hate HAT is that I can't model it in my spreadsheet - which might be at least a little bit true. Really, though, the primary problem I have with HAT is that your DPS is entirely determined by the luck of the draw - do your group members crit their abilities often? If so, great; if not, get owned. It's not even luck you can control, as with Combat Potency, because it depends on your group members' gear, ability usage patterns, and of course, their ability not to die. A HAT cycle can vary to ridiculous extent because you can go for five seconds without anybody in your group critting a single ability, then suddenly gain five combo points in one second because everybody got a crit. It effectively makes playing the spec a constant guessing game. Player feedback vs game design Chase Christian: Do you feel that Blizzard has already figured out all of the key aspects of our class on their own and planned for the specs we are seeing today (HAT, etc) or do you feel that the Rogue community figures out what works and what doesn't and then the developers act on that? How important do you feel your contributions are to Blizzard's development process? Vulajin: As far as my role in that process, I'll be blunt: I'm just some guy on the Internet who punches numbers on a calculator and makes really long-winded posts on the forums occasionally to argue something that I think needs to be argued. Generally I know how to add and subtract and multiply the numbers to arrive at reasonably correct conclusions, but in the end anything I know about the game is second-hand knowledge (provided by in-game tooltips or Wowhead spell data) and reverse-engineered mechanics (in other words, "guessed"). Although the community has done an extraordinary job of figuring out the mechanics of this game, I wouldn't even begin to suggest that I know any more than Blizzard does about their own product. buy wow gold,cheap wow gold,wow gold,cheapest wow gold,warhammer gold,warhammer powerleveling,war gold.war powerleveling,war power leveling,ffxi gil

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WOW Q&A

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:16:11 -0600

Chase Christian: Do you (personally) place any importance or value to playstyle over damage? If there were two specs, one with a very simple rotation (SnD / Rupture), and one with a very complex rotation (think HfB / SnD / Rupture / Envenom / other timed spell / other timed spell / etc), would you prefer the simple rotation or the complex rotation? Would you choose a less powerful talent spec if it meant a more enjoyable playstyle for you (and if so, how much DPS would you sacrifice)? Vulajin: Haha, you're asking the wrong person this question, because my answer is simple: no. If you are raiding with the intent to progress in PvE, then as a rogue, your job is to make things dead. It naturally follows that you should attempt to do the best job of making things dead that you can do. This means that you choose the optimal spec, gear yourself optimally for that spec, and perform the optimal cycle/rotation/whatever. That, to me, is fun, regardless of what spec it is: just knowing that I'm pushing myself to the limit, even such as it is in a computer game. By way of example, I recently specced and played HAT through a Naxx 25 raid. I completely despise this spec and everything it stands for, but currently top DPS is achieved by putting multiple HAT rogues in a group together and exploiting the bug. (For those that are unaware, HAT is supposed to grant the rogue one combo point each time a member of his party crits an ability or spell. Currently, the rogue gains one combo point /per HAT rogue in his group/ each time a member of his party crits an ability or spell - so three HAT rogues means each one gets three combo points per ability crit by the group.) buy wow gold,cheap wow gold,wow gold,cheapest wow gold,warhammer gold,warhammer powerleveling,war gold.war powerleveling,war power leveling,ffxi gil
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BigRedKitty: For Ezra and Make a Wish

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 02:23:07 -0600

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Ask a Beta Tester: More on leveling, Alliance lore, and starting zone RP

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:16:55 -0500

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Beast Mastery: Bats

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:16:20 -0500

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Breakfast Topic: Achievement envy

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:14:45 -0500

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