Upcoming Balance Balancing!
by Sunfyre on Dec.27, 2010, under General, PVP Discussion
From the World of Warcraft blog, the following changes are being planned for the next patch (ETA unknown):
- We’re making some additional buffs, such as Pain Suppression and Barkskin, undispellable.
- We’re buffing Wild Mushroom. It’s a cool spell that isn’t getting enough play.
I think both of these are very important changes. I don’t think this is going to fix the PVP issues for balance, but I know Wild Mushroom needed some work in both the PvP and PvE environments.
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Latest on Mon, 08:03 pm: When you hit 0 energy, in 5.1, you'd go to 20 energy. + 40 energy from one cast to 60 energy, + 40 energy from cast #2, that's 100 energy. Now you go from 0 energy to 40 energy. Cast #1 brings you to 80. Cast #2 is still required, and it brings you to 100 energy (which is really 120 but you get nothing for that extra energy). The amount of casts did not change. 2.
: Wait, what you just said doesn't make sense. What makes us go straight to 20 energy? With SotF it takes 2 casts to reach lunar. 2 casts to reach solar. Without SotF it takes 3, correct me if i'm wrong.
: Sorry, I don't understand where your getting the 20 from, 100 80 60 40 20 0 40 80 100 or sotf 100 80 60 40 20 0 (40 sf + 40 sotf) 80 120 ??
: Hi sunfyre, how would you say the 4p t15 will be with SoTF? Does that also maybe make mastery more valuable?
: Hey Sunfyre. I'm trying to wrap my head around what you've been saying about SotF. How exactly does it not reduce Starfire casts by 1?
: Started a Druid....3 days ago or something like that.... Anyways i got to lvl 60 and im not using gear SETS so much as im using the things that look especially helpful such as Int and Spir Stacke, Occasionally with some 14-15 haste involved..... Im not one of those guys who go out and get the best pve/pvp gear But i really need some help..... im a resto balance mix and well my hits are only doing about 5K at lvl 60 :/ what sohuld i do?
: Hi Sunfyre! Have you tried SotF+NV/HoTW vs Inv+NV/HoTW on PTR? If not, will you do this?
December 28th, 2010 on 1:48 am
I hope that their buff will not only be a damage buff. The mushroom range needs to be improved. For the moment, we are horrible in burst AoE situation.
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I like this spell but for the moment it’s not really effective (except on Magmaw) especially when a lot of tanks don’t tank mobs on them
I’d still like to have some aggro reduction cooldown. I am nearly always on top of the aggro list even when I am not on top of the damage. And I really have to care about not getting the aggro from the tank even when I don’t proc a lot.
Apart from that, I really like our non-dps raid utility with innervate, battle rez and tranquillity being very useful at the present time.
December 28th, 2010 on 1:50 am
I agree. I’d like to be able to drop all 3 at once, and I’d like their explosion range to mirror their fungal growth range of 8 yards.
December 28th, 2010 on 5:46 am
Ditto! I have only run a few regular dungeons so far and went to Tol Barad a couple times… I’ve really only found use for Wild Mushrooms in Tol Barad (at the “entrances” to the keeps).
December 28th, 2010 on 7:38 am
My idea for the shrooms.
Place 3 shrooms at the feet of the target that then will explode in 6 seconds automatically.
It could even have a 12 sec CD for all i care. It can even have a 1.5 sec cast, heck even be a placed spell. I just want them to drop all at once and let them explode themselves. There is no logic in have 2 keybinds or a /castsequence macro for just one spell.
December 28th, 2010 on 12:30 pm
I like the fact that I can choose the detonation time.. it allows us to pre-plant the mushrooms and explode them when we’d like. (Great for Magmaw, for example).
December 28th, 2010 on 9:38 am
i am very curious to see what this buff will be, it could go a lot of good ways, but knowing blizzard they’ll probably give us a fourth mushroom to plant and call it a buff.
Nothing to do but wait and see, obviously range increase + drop all 3 at once would be the best thing, make them explode on a timer or triggered by mobs walking over them would be awesomesause
December 29th, 2010 on 9:06 am
I’m hoping for just a damage and/or range buff to the mushrooms. Them being instant-cast might be nice, but wouldn’t make a huge difference, because I still have to stop what I’m doing and target a point on the ground instead of targeting an enemy. Dropping all three at once would be useful in some situations but not others because sometimes you want them spread out. Right now the mechanics of them seem fine, IMO, filling a sort of “safe” AoE niche that’s cheaper than Hurricane but with no risk of pulling adds like Starfall or Typhoon, but they just don’t do enough damage to be worth the time.
December 29th, 2010 on 11:41 am
Buff damage just a bit, increase dmg radius to 6-8 yards and MAYBE have it Instant. If they make it that all 3 drop at same time, keep the cast timer. Triangle pattern w/o a blind spot to maximize placing and dmg radius. But I kinda like em to be cast 1 by 1, just wish it was instant.
September 27th, 2011 on 10:27 am
I think the mushroom should be proximity based instead of detonating. That would allow for an easy CC for druid. They should work like hunter’s traps… well I think hunter’s traps are proximity based. Might be wrong.