Aug 29
Changes to Debuffs, Buffs, and Raid Stacking
Posted on August 29, 2008 under Wrath of the Lich King | 1 CommentWorld of Warcraft is an ever-changing game. While reading this post, keep the date it was written in mind—changes may have occurred since then!
It’s all over the WoW blogosphere by now, so I’m sure you’ve heard: there’s been an announcement that a huge change to how raid buffs, debuffs, and buff stacking is going to work. I won’t quote the article here, but you may go read it for yourself.
I really like the spirit of the change. It’ll certainly shuffle some things around at first, but eventually everything will settle down, and the world will continue–raids will down bosses and epics will be distributed and progress will be made and the world (of Warcraft) will be at peace. And stuff.
There was one change that surprised me a bit.
Shadow Weaving: Buffs only self.
Improved Shadow Bolt: Buffs only self.
Expose Weakness: Buffs only self.
Shadow Embrace: Buffs only self.
I was planning on speccing survival on my hunter for the expansion because of the benefit to the raid provided by expose weakness, and with that in addition to hunting party (providing mana/energy/rage/runic power regen to 10 raid members), a survival hunter, while having lower DPS, could provide strong benefits to the raid. It will be interesting to see how expose weakness and similar talents work out in the expansion.
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by wowblogger, on August 29 2008 @ 8:15 pm
This is a huge change that I hope will really make raiding with friends viable again, regardless of class.