I don’t think this addresses the concerns I’ve had with your essay here.
In this context why is it not a conspiracy of yours? Blizzard tells us that we’ll get a reward in some power regeneration given a change in regen in systems like mana/energy/rage. We find that this is what we get on live. You claim this is unintended. Clearly you think you know something that neither the playerbase nor Blizzard knows.
Where does this knowledge derive from? Since it seems to be hidden, and since you think knowledge is actually what Blizzard intended, we clearly have some found a conspiracist in you.
Losing any form of regeneration should give you a bump in mana if you’re in caster form and a bump in energy if you’re in cat form. Agreed.
Well, it actually needs. You want to set a precedent but you lack reasons to do so.
It is easier and less impactful to just fix the troll’s blood bug, and completely remove the powershifting aspect of feral gameplay.
Why?
Simple. Makes the game simpler for 99% of feral players, and a bit less fun for the edgy hardcores.
Removing Troll’s Blood workaround does not remove powershifting.
It is a tier 1 talent with an in game item centered around it. Simply removing the Troll’s Blood effect would just force us into weapon swapping while on global cooldown.
It’s crazy that we’re getting mainhand blacksmithing weapons, tinnitus, cross-faction paladin seals, and character boosts then. Even crazier that the patch version on the launcher says 2.5.1.
How is that easier and less impactful? Its a complete rework of the class and you just call it simple and move on. You’re dealing with changing talents, abilities and items then rebalancing an entire spec. That’s less impactful to you compared to reverting a change to energy generation?
Can you argue against yourself for a few, taking the sides of ‘no changes’ and ‘rework ferals to remove powershifting’. Cause thats what you’ve been saying
No, WoTLK reworked the Furor talent and thus killing powershifting. WoTLK also instituted constant energy gain instead of ticks. So by #nochanges you really mean #lotsofchanges.