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beepbeepbeep · 03-07-2005, 12:34 PM

I'll have to disagree with you on the combat regen, 10 hp per tick may not seem like much in combat, but over a minute that is a few hundred extra HP, and over the course of a long fight it can add up to thousands of HP. Combined with blood craze on a warrior, you can easily regen a few hundred HP in 20 seconds.

5% damage to beasts is mediocre, but it does add 20 damage to a 400 damage hit on a beast. It could certainly be worse, like....

+5 to throwing axes! What the fuck was Blizzard thinking here? I mean... does the guy that wrote these up have no concept of the game they programmed? I'm all for + to weapon skills. +1 level in the to hit formulas can be very valuable for a warrior. However... +1 level in throwing axes, which you will never be using, and are not even properly itemized, is completely and utterly fucking worthless. I hate them with a passion for putting this in. The horrible itemization of throwing axes could be the subject for an entire discussion though.

Finally, berserking. If you're under 20 % health, you're usually fucking dead anyway. This slopes off later in higher levels when 20 % health translates to a decent amount of life as a warrior, but in earlier levels it hurts more to use it. I've used it maybe 20 times since starting at level 1, and it used to do more harm than good, since it had a 3 or 4 second "LOOK RED RACE I'M BERSERKING" animation, in which time you were not hitting anything and it was beating the shit out of you. I'm still not entirely sure if they have fixed that.
At high levels with a healer, where you are bobbing under 20 % periodically, it might be worth it to jam every two minutes or so for 25 seconds of haste, but 95 % of the time you forget you even have it, and at low levels (sub 50) it is worthless. This is a warrior's view by the way, I'd imagine it being even less useful for other classes.

I'd like to see them change the % life left to use it to 30 % or so, or make it passive at 20 %, and they really need to fix the animation thing if they have not already.

I'm not familiar enough with the pros and cons of the other races traits, other than to say that some of them look really, really shitty, like Blood Craze. Blizzard needs to reevaluate all of them.

03-07-2005, 12:34 PM	#13 (permalink)
beepbeepbeep is an honorable man Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,020 -1 Internets	I'll have to disagree with you on the combat regen, 10 hp per tick may not seem like much in combat, but over a minute that is a few hundred extra HP, and over the course of a long fight it can add up to thousands of HP. Combined with blood craze on a warrior, you can easily regen a few hundred HP in 20 seconds. 5% damage to beasts is mediocre, but it does add 20 damage to a 400 damage hit on a beast. It could certainly be worse, like.... +5 to throwing axes! What the fuck was Blizzard thinking here? I mean... does the guy that wrote these up have no concept of the game they programmed? I'm all for + to weapon skills. +1 level in the to hit formulas can be very valuable for a warrior. However... +1 level in throwing axes, which you will never be using, and are not even properly itemized, is completely and utterly fucking worthless. I hate them with a passion for putting this in. The horrible itemization of throwing axes could be the subject for an entire discussion though. Finally, berserking. If you're under 20 % health, you're usually fucking dead anyway. This slopes off later in higher levels when 20 % health translates to a decent amount of life as a warrior, but in earlier levels it hurts more to use it. I've used it maybe 20 times since starting at level 1, and it used to do more harm than good, since it had a 3 or 4 second "LOOK RED RACE I'M BERSERKING" animation, in which time you were not hitting anything and it was beating the shit out of you. I'm still not entirely sure if they have fixed that. At high levels with a healer, where you are bobbing under 20 % periodically, it might be worth it to jam every two minutes or so for 25 seconds of haste, but 95 % of the time you forget you even have it, and at low levels (sub 50) it is worthless. This is a warrior's view by the way, I'd imagine it being even less useful for other classes. I'd like to see them change the % life left to use it to 30 % or so, or make it passive at 20 %, and they really need to fix the animation thing if they have not already. I'm not familiar enough with the pros and cons of the other races traits, other than to say that some of them look really, really shitty, like Blood Craze. Blizzard needs to reevaluate all of them.