Few things in one post this time, mostly because I’m awfully late with them, and still thinking how to write a long serious post about other more serious subject.
Cataclysm Class Previews
My paladin is still only level 39, but I have to say there are some very cool things in the preview. Making Crusader Strike a core ability (and available from level 1) is quite awesome when you consider that early leveling is quite a pain here. Holy Shock will help as well, and fusing Blessing of Might and Blessing of Wisdom will remove a lot of annoyance, both while leveling and in the endgame. The rest sounds nice on paper, but I’ll have to level up and see.
Druids got a little note about the Ancients of War look for the Tree of Life form. Now I’m really interested in how it will look – the Ancients are quite big ingame, so I doubt we will be of the same size, but maybe something like half of it would be cool. I think it’s a nice tradeoff for the permanent old tree. ;)
Raid changes
Another nice bit of information. Making the rewards from 10-man raids the same as from the 25-mans and then putting both on one Raid ID is exactly what was needed. Now there’s no pressure to run the same dungeon twice a week (or four times if it was ToC), and if you don’t have enough raiding after one, there are always alts. On the other hand I’m a bit afraid that the single lockout will make PuGs less often as they are in Wrath… well we’ll have to wait and see I guess. ;)
Undergeared Raiding
I’m not the best source for that, but we’re on Yogg+3 and oneshotted Gormok and the other beasts in ToC. That was a nice thing to do, since they’re the most annoying there. Doing 4/5 in ToC this week will be easy, maybe with an exception of Faction Champions, but on normal difficulty they’re pussies anyway. Anub might be a little problem in the third phase, will require creative healing and keeping the raid group quite low.
I was afraid earlier that the Beasts will be more of a problem, but they didn’t pose any threat at all, even when one of the tanks got 4 stacks of Impale at one point by accident.
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