Ghostcrawler: Starfall has not been nerfed
by Sunfyre on Mar.30, 2010, under General
Ghostcrawler responded to a complaint about a “stealth nerf” for Starfall, saying it has not been nerfed since it went live. He did admit, however, that the final live co-efficients are lower then what he initially posted the would be.
“At some point I posted some numbers for Starfall since there hadn’t been a PTR build in some time and druids were chomping at the bit to figure out just how much damage it was going to do. The numbers we went with for 3.3.3 were slightly lower than that if I recall correctly, but we haven’t made any changes to Starfall since the patch went live. The live Starfall numbers are still much higher than they were in 3.3.
We generally don’t try to execute actual “stealth nerfs.” The community will nearly always figure it out anyway so we don’y gain much by trying to hide anything. Sometimes “stealth nerfs” are just things we didn’t manage to document, but many times they are misunderstandings.
(I’m talking about live anyway. On betas and PTRs numbers are going to change quite a bit — that’s the whole idea.)“
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March 30th, 2010 on 2:53 pm
I dont get it.. So starfall can reveal stealthed chars or?
March 30th, 2010 on 3:15 pm
No.. stealth nerf refers to a nerf being done quietly without announcing it via forum post, patch notes, etc.
March 31st, 2010 on 12:32 am
Ok, lol.. I understand now.. But another question.. Do Starfall reveal charcters in stealh?
March 31st, 2010 on 6:25 am
No. Only Typhoon will do that.