tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post8994936602265653821..comments2024-03-29T05:19:30.673-04:00Comments on The Grumpy Elf: When Things Change, and You Can'tTheGrumpyElfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-66483046432232712622014-07-21T09:31:51.145-04:002014-07-21T09:31:51.145-04:00Murder can be murder (excuse the pun) to get enoug...Murder can be murder (excuse the pun) to get enough focus for. But once you get into a grove with managing focus you can prep for it and it becomes no big problem. I am sure that if you play it a little you will get a feel for it. Hunters have the best resource in the game because we can always have it at our disposal because we have an ability that generates it.<br /><br />People say hunters are the easiest class to play and they are easy, to an extent, but just like all other classes they take a little practice to get rolling with them. Try some random content and practice watching your timers and focus level so you can make sure to always have focus for crows and then as soon as you get used to it you will do it without even thinking.<br /><br />I just can not play a rogue and see "needs more energy" or "you can not do that now" 20 times a second. It is just annoying more than I can even say. But you are right, rogues as so well designed and worked out perfect they are probably one of the least changed classes in the game.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-69226470258780833872014-07-19T06:56:06.654-04:002014-07-19T06:56:06.654-04:00I wrote an absolutely monstrous comment here, and ...I wrote an absolutely monstrous comment here, and Blogspot ate it. <br /><br />The short version - Enhance shaman in Wrath were hasty, complicated, noisy and fun. Cataclysm turned the best buttons into the worst (Wolves now suck! Thunderstrike hits like a damp noodle and now sounds like an apologetic zap instead of a thunderstrike! Enjoy your expansion!).<br /><br />Wrath Resto Shamans in ten man were complex creatures that could switch between single target healing, raid sniping or raid healing. They also loved haste because they only had a single instant cast heal with a cooldown.<br />Cataclysm turned healing into a disaster (Heals don't heal! Haste makes you OOM faster without actually healing anything! Enjoy your epansion!)<br /><br />And that's why I'm a rogue now. (Sorry!)<br />Blizzard seems to have accepted that rogues are to game design what crocodiles are to evolution - a basic design so simple and yet so effective that they haven't changed much over the course of time. They're really good at what they do, and they'll always be doing it.<br /><br />If it helps, I recently got my hunter to 90, but I cry when I see the DPS numbers you seem to think are unacceptably low. I may have auto-attack and focus (How are you expected to play ranged without auto-attack???) but my Murder of Crows button laughs at me, unplayed, due to its steep focus cost. I have much to learn, Senpai...Josefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03497283177664622129noreply@blogger.com