Players may not quit, but many will just not play Whitemane anymore. I’m one of them, I enjoyed E build and the fantasy of that. If I want to play a Healer whose power is based around her AA’s I’ll be picking Tyrande, thanks.
Agree, i was a fan of Q build, it is still there, just way worse so for now it is not an option. The AA one on the other hand is just awfull. Tyrande is way more fun for that kind of gameplay
1: Divine Reckoning ult. Restores mana equal to 25% of damage dealt - Basically Whitemane gets full mana upon casting that ult.
2: Lvl 1 talent that increased her mana by 2-3 per target hit with E. Long term, but can result in having signficant mana towards the end of the game.
3: lvl 7 talent that extends the duration of Zeal by .75 seconds with each AA. Basically a mandatory talent. Note that Whitemane has something like a .85 second AA attack anyway, and combined with her powerful AA talents, this allows Whitemane to essentially only cast 5 heals at the start of each teamfight, and then AA her way to victory.
Note that Whitemane is actually stronger then her previous iteration - She has more toughness, more survivability, more damage, AND far more throughput.
However, her talent build is now EXTREMELY limited - You only have 1 choice at lvl 4, 7, 10, 16, and 20. You have 2 choices at 1 and 13. Anything else is so suboptimal it’s not even funny. Compared to her having not only 3 seperate builds, but a number of her talent tiers being interesting flex choices pre-rework.
I think the biggest problem with the rework is people play HoTS for 2 main reasons,
Character Fantasy/Lore
Gameplay Mechanics
Despite her performance metrics/stats that made Blizz decide to rework her she now only fulfills one of those reasons, so its an overall net loss as it stands.
Hopefully they will balance her more to bring back some flavor to her kit or do something interesting with her AA build other than number tweaks.
Have you seen that Noir Showstopper skin though?
OOF!
I disagree
I think it fullfill neither.
Her A.A is clunky and slow, her reach put her in very bad spots all the time, especially with inquisition, her other builds are crap or worse versions of themselves, she has now severe mana problems , VERY severe ones and you will go OOM, before Q build made your 2 stacks good enough and W was Op making mana trivial. Now you have no option besides an Ult (good luck with the quest, when you past over 100 stacks it may matter)
She is just bad. This may be one of the worst reworks they ever made (nothing will surpass what they did to Malthael) I rly will not play her anymore after i get a new level
I gotta agree, I don’t even know what the moral of the story was. Someone died because they made a mistake, and making a mistake in HotS is the same as someone dying?
Basically dont over engineer a solution becuase of unintended/unknowable consequences.
The original story was something along the lines of an organ transplate that went bad and killed both donor and recipient when whatever ailed the recipient could have been treated with noninvasive medication.
Yeah I don’t see that at all. Just saying the doctor’s stupid and purposefully went with the wrong choice doesn’t provide a moral. You need to provide a reason why the doctor made that choice, then contrast why that reason was inferior to the reason of simplicity.
You could simplify the entire story to: “Doctor does dumb thing even though better thing exist.”