11/02/09 03:44:22 PM
Patch 3.2.2a
Ghostcrawler
<Lead Systems Designer> |
Q u o t e:
I disagree. There is way too much effort involved trying to add new
tools to every single class, trying to keep them balanced, making
sure the ability is useful for every spec, making sure it's useful
in PvE on every single fight and making sure it's useful in every
type of PvP situation.
Where do you draw the line?
We agree with Communism. We often give classes situational spells
as base class abilities rather than as talented abilities for the
same reason -- you're really only out a little gold by learning the
ability. This is particularly a problem for hybrids. Nearly every
rogue can find a use for Fan of Knives. Balance and Feral druids
have much less use for Nourish. Heroic Throw is clearly a tanking
tool.
On the one hand, yeah it's cool if a hybrid class can make use of
their ability regardless of role. However some of our balance
problems currently are caused by hybrids being able to do too many
things to well with the same spec. If the tool is good for the role
that's intended to use it, there's a good chance it's going to be
too good for the other roles. That's why we often prop abilities up
with spec-specific talents. One of the problems with the Holy
paladin tree is it doesn't grant enough healing focus for investing
in the tree. At the same time, paladins can heal very well so it's
not as simple as just going into the deep tree and smearing a bunch
of +healing effects on existing talents everywhere.
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