Did Blizzard just nerf Healer drinks and stealthies?

PVP Arenas
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“Players now must always cast escape abilities before leaving combat (e.g. Vanish and Shadowmeld).”

This is labeled as a Bug Fix in the official 8.2 patch notes under PVP/Arena: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/23014436/rise-of-azshara-content-update-notes

Idk what this is suppose to mean, but it sounds like only night elf healers are going to be able to drink and stealthies can no longer get free stealths from dropping combat.

Am I wrong? Please tell me I’m wrong.

edit:
Clarity from Blizzard:

This sounds like it targets the ancient Sap Bug by the sounds of it which is great.

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yup good game

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Has to be the wording that’s off.
There’s no way they’re killing the restealthing and/or drinking aspect of the game.
It will dumb down the game way too much than it is.

If blizz is actually that mind bogglingly short sighted:
This will effectively kill Sub rogues entirely.
Nobody will even touch the spec because they cant sap ever.
An entire tool to use completely just gone. Might as well prune it.

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won’t even kill just sub rogues, but it sounds like night elf will be the only viable healer really.

It’ll kill Rshams, Paladins, and the Horde faction really.

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i think its related to the weird combat bugs, they finally fixed it

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This seems insanely dumb and nobody would ever ask for a idiotic fix like that.

So yeah, probably not a case of bad wording, just Blizzard.

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This is what I’m hoping because how could people dropping combat for drinks or restealths be a bug when it’s been a thing since TBC? A decade old strategy doesn’t just become a bug all of a sudden.

edit:
And ya like you said, there have been some combat bugs.

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Unless I’m reading this wrong it might be a way to remove the ability to drink and then press stealth without breaking it? Like how Rdruids currently can do.

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that is obnoxious, i really hope that’s the only change

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i think it means you cant press those abilities if you are out of combat. this is probably to make it so players dont fat finger them out of combat and get no use? thats hopefully what it is at least

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Blizzard: Did somebody say the p word?

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Maybe this is a fix for the sap bug?

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it would be nice if a blue could post clarification for this change but I won’t hold my breath.

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My uncle who works for blizzard confirmed this is intended to keep you in combat at all times in arena.

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whats a “blue”?
edit: adding /s for the individuals missing any chromosomes

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it’s your ball

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This is for the stealth bug, people have been able to stealth in combat constantly. I’ve seen it on a few streams and witnessed it first hand. Mid combat, no CDs used, people just drop combat and stealth for free.

The patch notes make this sound like you need use an ability to drop combat while they’re actively engaged.

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Good news everyone. There’s a new raid trinket that drops combat. LFR version has a 5 min CD, Normal is 4, Heroic is 3, and Mythic is 2! if you want that small extra advantage you know where to get it!

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Whew… good. It’s just for the stealth bug.
Almost got a big scare today.

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I tried to post a Goku Blue gif but blizz forums wont let me :frowning:

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