June 8, 2009
Irresistible force paradox
Chaos Bolt cannot be resisted, and pierces through all absorption effects (Deterrence too).
Deterrence is an unusual ability — it grants spell deflection. Chaos Bolt always hits, so technically it is working correctly by ignoring Deterrence. We don’t see any reason to change this behavior at this time.
And in response to a comment regarding this, and hunters in Arena:
You think the reason hunters are under-represented is because of Chaos Bolt? Or is your strategy more of they’re low, so just buff them a bunch and hope something sticks?
If you missed your window on taming the Carrion Fleshripper in Icecrown by completing those quests and causing them to go out of phase, hope is not lost (as there are identical spiders in Icecrown, just not tameable, currently). The cat in Storm Peaks by Bouldercrag’s Refuge is another story though.
There is no reason those other spiders couldn’t be tamed. Blackmaw and the polar cub are another story.
Guess we’ll see if that comes to fruition in the next patch.
June 2, 2009
Hunter Questions
3.1.3 went in today, with the changes to Hunter’s Mark and Master Marksman now live.
- Hunter’s Mark: The ranged attack power bonus from this ability has been increased from 300 to 500.
- Master Marksman: This talent now also decreases the cost of Aimed Shot and Chimera Shot by 5/10/15/20/25%.
Blizzard has also posted about a class Question and Answer series.
We are looking for community class questions and topics for a class Question & Answer series. Over the next few weeks, we will be posting in each of the class forums and discussing the latest high priority questions and topics the community has. We will then be compiling these questions and topics into a larger Question & Answer post to address as many of questions as possible. While we will be creating one post in each of the class forums to solicit questions and topics of interest, we will also be keeping a close eye on additional posts and discussions.
It is important to keep in mind that we have a schedule of classes we will be addressing and will be getting to each class individually over this period of time. Please note, this list is subject to change.
Correspondingly, on both the US and EU Hunter class boards:
As a part of our class Question & Answer series, we are looking for any questions you may have concerning your class and ask that you post in this thread.
Neither thread are very long at the moment but I imagine they’ll grow a bit over the coming weeks.
May 31, 2009
The wait is over
Maybe.
We think it’s probably time to let pets scale, to some extent, with resilience and spell pen.
The way pets scale from the master’s stats was implemented (on our side) in a slightly clunky way which made it difficult to add additional stats. In BC, it took some effort to kill a pet so it wasn’t a burning problem for us. In LK, we have bumped up pet health a few times, but we are thinking now that the balance will never work right without some crit mitigation. Pets will never scale right with gear as long as the master improves in ways that don’t benefit the pet.
We have a new way to let pets scale, and assuming it works, we should be able to give the pets scale with all relevant stats from the master, from hit to haste to crit. Some things will need to scale at 100%, since it’s silly to have your pet inherit part of your +hit.
No promises until you actually see it live, but that’s what we are thinking at the moment.
And…
We don’t want you to have to stack stats on your character just to benefit your pet. For example, we currently let warlock demons earn melee hit based on the caster’s spell hit.
May 29, 2009
Warlock PvP is not ok...
Can we also agree that Hunters are in the same boat? As it happens, yes.
We want hunter representation in Arena to be higher than it currently is.
May 26, 2009
3.1.3
Looks like Marksmanship is going to get a little mana aid with the upcoming patch (no ETA).
- Hunter’s Mark: The ranged attack power bonus from this ability has been increased from 300 to 500.
- Master Marksman: This talent now also decreases the cost of Aimed Shot and Chimera Shot by 5/10/15/20/25%.