Is it too late for change

[Nimya-zuljin]

is it too late to receive big gameplay changes, 1 month before the release of the expansion?
Or is it just tuning at this point?

[Vincent-nathrezim-950646]

Likely were at the “Lets just see how she flies” stage and blizzard is hoping it works out.

I would say there is probably going to be minor changes and updates as we move from Prepatch to Shadowlands on the level of coefficients and minor number massaging. That said… I also think Blizzard is focusing almost entirely on their systems upon systems upon systems of borrowed power to balance things now. Covenants and conduits are a shytshow at the moment, and need to be fixed in a month.

They will (in my opinion at least) probably hold off on major changes until a bit after shadowlands launches and people start flocking to the OP covenants, legendaries, builds and conduits and eschewing the failures.

Guardian, at least, doesn’t become VIABLE (I almost typed in good, but stopped myself) until they get a legendary shoved into them:
so they need us to level up and access the borrowed powers for a while before they can alter the other borrowed power to balance the first borrowed power or the other borrowed powers that affects the first borrowed power so that our borrowed powers can be balanced to the borrowed powers of the other classes whose borrowed powers will themselves be altered by different borrowed powers which will themselves need to be altered…

Remember when we just picked talents, earned better gear, and didn’t farm-AP-and-call-it-gameplay?

Alternately they could just completely ignore representation balance and feedback. That would be easier.

[Eclípse-proudmoore]

Its not to late for change and an UNDO like they did with Shamans.

In fact they are still doing crazy changes to classes – example, the recent buff to shadow priest.

The community here needs to ramp up their posting on feedback. Especially the balance druid side, which feels almost dead like if they gave up.

Trust me, they have options at their disposal, but if we allow them to slide away, then nothing will happen.

[Nimya-zuljin]

@Eclípse-proudmoore

Especially the balance druid side, which feels almost dead like if they gave up.

I still dont get it why they put back eclipse since mostly no one liked that mechanic.

[Eclípse-proudmoore]

i love the visuals for sure. I think this is something that should stay.

It think the mechanic is fine in it itself, but not with this current form of wow. its too outdated. Needs to be changed.

I gave ideas on my post. I copy and paste it here…

[Eclípse-proudmoore]

@Eclípse-proudmoore

If I were to change things while keeping eclipse idea:

• Remove the cast Wrath or starfire to enter into Eclipse.
• Allow sunfire to have a chance of procing Solar Eclipse and Moonfire to have a chance to proc Lunar eclipse.
• The same goes for Starfire (lunar) and Wrath(Solar).
  • Also make it so the more you cast starfire or wrath in a row, the higher the chance for its eclipse to proc.
• Allow starsurges to Proc both.
• Allow Starsurges to EXTEND the duration. (have a cap on this if needed)
• Rework one of that bad legendary to work with this system
  • make it so the chance for moon and sun fires proc the eclipses increase. Prob would like to add that the chance for shooting star procs to increase as well.

Shooting Stars: more astral power gained form it, i can’t feel atm. More dmg plz.

Solstice - - needs longer duration.

New moon – make baseline Period.

• replace this talent slot with new talent (don’t be lazy blizzard).

Twin moons - > Lunar rush.

• make it hit everyone in a certain yd radius instead of just one extra.

Make Moonfire and Sunfire generate more astral power

• lol 2 astral power so sad.

Starlord – allow it to refresh the buff or gives us a different talent imo.

Soul of the forest – wrath give it more generation. Starfire give it more burst damage instead of area effect dmg. Maybe allow its critical dmg to hit hard at least – So base dmg isn’t affected but if you land a crit, I’ll hurt like it used to.

Heart of the wild – No.

• Lower to the cd to two min. (question mark)? Or last 20 - 30 sec and cd is 1m.

Return old swiftmend .

i honestly wish solarbeam was a lower cd. 45 sec instead of a min?

Typhoon’s cone shape is weird and clunky at times the closer they are on you. Make it wider imo.

It would be cool if Celestial Guardian Pvp talent enhanced the AFFINITY you picked. Not only bear form
So…

• Bear: while in bear form, you take 10% less damage from spells and receive 20% increased healing.
• ( New) Celestial Affinity – Guardian : you take 10% less damage from all sources and receive 20% increased healing.
• Celestial Affinity - Restoration: Mana pool & mana regen increase and reduced mana cost of healing spells.
• Celestial Affinity - Feral Affinity: Critical strike dmg and haste increases by a flat amount?

So you have ether more Defense, More dmg, or more sustain.

These are some ideas. I can go crazier if i wanted to.

Here is ideas that i gave up.

The mech i made will do as follow:
Eclipse won’t just have a dot proc chance.

They will proc from – Sunfire , moonfire, Wrath, Starfire, Starsurge.

• Sequential cast of ether wrath or starfire can increase chance of causing the eclipse to activate.
• Starsurge can proc both and extend the durations.

You have multiple instances of procing and some level of control. Since dots don’t do dmg anyways, choose which dot you want to focus or rather have a higher chance of procing – Ether lunar or solar .

Starsurge can proc both and extend the durations of your eclipses.

TBH, this systems will allow you to have eclipses up very often and for a long duration.

It would be nice if the Lunar and Solar moon animations begin to phase out visually on the side so you can see when your eclipses are running out.