Comments on: How do you like it now?

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:10:17 +0000

I think you hit the nail on the head with the comment about our old max level characters feeling like strangers all of the sudden. I still can’t seem to bring myself to play my druid again, despite the fact that feral DPS isn’t *that* different, though to be fair, he really had been more of a tree than a cat recently, and I just haven’t felt like healing.

It actually took switching my paladin from holy/ret back to prot/ret, gearing up for tanking, and getting used to the prot rotation before things felt normal on my “main”, and that I could then get back into ret (which I did last night after another raid member graciously swapped to a tank for what turned out to be MY FIRST LK KILL EVER YAY!!!!)

For the engineering fire mage I’m leveling, on the other hand, it has only gotten better. Level 44 now and still smokin’ hot. I bought dual spec at 40, looked at the other trees, and then thought: what’s the point?

I can

[i]cast scorch while moving[/i]

I can cast pyroblast! off a hot streak

[i]while moving[/i]

I can [b]die[/b]

…and like a phoenix [url=http://www.wowhead.com/spell=86949]rising from the ashes[/url], mage ward away the side effects, and still

[i]cast scorch while moving[/i]

I AM FIRE MAGE

…and now with 100% more Gnomish Engineering Power.

Fear the Sheep that Says BAHHHHHHH…

By: Laura (soapturtle)

Laura (soapturtle) — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:19:36 +0000

TY sir! :) I haven’t really crafted much this year, but that vest turned out quite nice. :)

By: Tesh

Tesh — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:35:16 +0000

I’ve only ever played to level… 52, I think it was. I got pretty familiar with Cat form, but most of my playing actually has been in a series of ten day free trials. As such, the bulk of what I’ve seen is low level play. I see the new 4.0.whatever changes as really good from my experimentation to date. I’m going to fire up a “real” month of play here after CAT hits, and make another stab at higher levels to see what I can do there, but for now, I’m really liking what they have done to the lower levels. I think the changes I’ve seen for the Druid and Hunter (my favorites) have been very smart, and they play well. The endgame might be busted (I wouldn’t know), but the early game is better than it ever has been as far as I’m concerned. That’s Good Design in an expansion ostensibly designed to get people past the level 10 hump and into the new redesigned world, whether new players or alts.

By: Barbi

Barbi — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:33:53 +0000

TOTALLY can’t wait to make my druid a troll… and not just because I don’t like girlcows (note, my Evie is currently masquerading as a cowboy), but because I’m looking forward to the zany FUN colors that I can be. Despite the fact that I’m resto/boomkin, I fully plan to prance around in cat/bear form as often as possible, and frequent the barber shop for color changes.

Also, to comment on the changes – I’m loving them! I am planning to roll a brand new baby druid and level as a moonkin from day one… I never liked moonkin when I was leveling Evie and only recently decided that I would give it another try… and all I can say is… STAAAAAAAAAAAAARRFAAAALLLLLLLL!

By: Rentodd

Rentodd — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 17:21:24 +0000

This is pretty much how I approach game changing expansions. When BC came out, I leveled classes I was intrested in to max level to get the “new” experiance of the class/spec. I think getting time to hone reactions to situations with new abilities before being overloaded with all abilities, for me, creates a solid base of class/spec play. I don’t like sitting for hours in front of a target dummy. I’d rather be in the field cementing class play.

I’m in the process now of leveling class/spec I’d like to play come cataclysm. The basic changes I think I need on my mains are done. Now it’s fun time re learning the game.

By: KiwiRed

KiwiRed — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 06:21:12 +0000

I’ve been thinning out my herd of 80s as well – I’ve deleted one so far (a pally, which I’ll probably re-roll eventually), and my hunter is temporarily working as a glyph mule until his replace replacement gets to 80 (leveling a new hunter has been fun as well, especially once I remembered to take growl off autocast while LFDing). Sadly I can’t try the classes I really want to try until Cata – draenei and nelfs just don’t appeal, so my dwarven shaman (her two tankards o’ terror are in the bank) and puppydruid will be my early xmas gift to myself.

On a kind of unrelated note, I wish it was possible to ‘retire’ characters (at least temporarily) instead of having to spend a month’s sub to transfer them off-server in order to free up slots – 10 just doesn’t cut it these days.

By: itchi

itchi — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 04:11:56 +0000

ya know bear…i never really was into tree healing…i just couldnt trust myself with hots lol but i am (like soapturtle) upset with the feral health changes…i’ve done the research and we come up with less armor, more avoidance , and soon similiar health pools to other tanks and less buttons to mash. i used to love bear tanking and i still do but i hope blizz will leave our health pool alone and keep the nerf to SD.

oh and i am just as excited to roll a goblin ele shammy as you are about your feral troll druid. gonna name mine Gadgetpron and its gonna be a engineer lol

By: Rowtan

Rowtan — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 01:04:26 +0000

On the whole, I’ve been pleased with the changes. THe priest hasn’t changed too much – but just enough to say “ooooh … cool” (holy/shadow). The bear freaked me out – I got called upon to tank a weekly out of the blue and I nearly lost it completely when I suddenly found the change to swipe just after pulling those litle spider groups in Naxx :P Since then though, I’ve found bear to be much better … it is obviously “tuned” for level 80+ dungeons where there is more CC and less AoE which I’m looking forward to a LOT. The pally tank/healer … not too pleased with pally healing so far (although woot for the AoE healing!), but the pally tanking, once you get used to it, doesn’t seem too bad. Just more brain power required :)

I started a warlock from scratch just to see what the low level experience was like, and I like a lot! Looking forward to cataclysm .. not looking forward to making the choice as to what to do first …

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 23:37:33 +0000

BTW I was reading your blog and I came across your post about getting the new Loom you named cameron and the pictures of that lovely vest you made. I tried to leave a comment, but you’ve got the same thing enabled that I do to prevent spam comments on ancient posts. :)

Just wanted to say, lovely, beautiful vest! I just adore the colors that you combined for the pattern, it’s excellent. :)

By: Laura (soapturtle)

Laura (soapturtle) — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 23:29:08 +0000

You’ve summed up my thoughts on healing very well. Treeform was it! :)

As far as the changes… mind you my entire experience is just 25 man heals… it’s about the same. I miss having LB on more than one person and my timing is still off regarding regrowth, and my not quite as mana efficient, but it wasn’t even a thought before really, so it’s still only rare. I tend to save vates for other healers and just pot if I need it. The fancy green circle is pretty neat for keeping melee topped off though. I just pop rejuv on one and then SM them. As long as they remember not to move out of the green, it’s all good.

(bigbearbutt conjures up an great image too! always make me think of oldschool bear form when tanking)