Top 5 3.0.3 Notes

Well, contrary to my last post, I guess I have to pick up and move on, as 3.0.3 is just about here already.

It would appear to mostly be buffs and bug fixes. Personally I regard most nerfs to be buffs for the sake of gameplay, and is similarly how I’m regarding the “big Ret nerf”. Here’s the things I like the most in the notes:

5. Bloodthirst (Warriors): Cooldown reduced to 5 sec. I’m not sure of the reasoning here, but apparenly Fury Warriors were being out-performed. Hopefully they’ve got enough incoming rage to compensate for this.

4. Art of War (Paladins): No longer increases critical strike damage on Judgements, Crusader Strike, and Divine Storm, instead increases all damage done by those abilities by a smaller amount. This isn’t really a nerf at all, and more of a redirection of damage increases. Apparently too bursty, the crit damage has been reduced and is now instead a flat damage increase to the same abilities regardless of them critting or not.

3. Judgements of the Pure (Paladins): Haste increased to 3/6/9/12/15%. Any paladins out there still holy who care? All I’ve seen are S3/T6-shouldered Rets lately.

2. Removed “A Mask for All Occassions” as criteria for the “Hallowed Be thy Name” meta achievement. Woot, this means I get to be “Niemandra the Hallowed” whenever the patch hits. I might go and get all of the stuff done for my paladin too, since there are some people still farming that boss (and, bonus, she’s already got the pet).

1. Titan’s Grip Warriors): Changed to 12% penalty instead of 15%. (This has actually been updated to 5% instead of 12%.) SWEET, I might go back to Fury now. Yaaaaay. Apparently this (and the BT cooldown) was in response to the buff to WLK boss armor recently implemented in that beta. I hear the devs think it’s too much but are letting it play out to see what happens. I hope it’s either not too good to be reverted or they can find something other than a decreased chance to hit to force upon us. How about a 5% miss and 5% attack speed decrease? Something other than a huge +hit hurdle plz!