Slow week of news as Blizzard still hammering down all the rough edges of this latest patch. Take a look at the list of known issues that have been reported for the 2.3 patch.

GCD Issues Being Worked On
Most annoying of which is the new GCD. You may have encountered it on abilities without GCD that you spam. It can now get hung up and return false “You are not in range” and “That ability is not ready yet” messages. It took 3195 posts, and Blizzard has finally said they are working on it and want to have it ready for the next update to 2.3.

New Blind > Stoneform
Stoneform doesn’t work on the new blind and it looks like it’s gonna stay that way for now. Bornakk humorously explains the mechanic here:

Bornakk: While there is a chance of just about any spell being changed, which most veteran players can probably attest to, at this point we have no plans to implement this change. At this time we are watching the updates made in patch 2.3 closely and seeing how they play out.

Quote: But Bornakk, if he’s stoneformed how can he be blinded?

Bornakk: The dust just hovers in front of their eyes.

Quote: So….just walk out of the dust?

Bornakk: Wherever you go, it can follow.

Shadowfiends and 2.3
If you’ve been paying careful attention, you may have noticed that shadowfiends have been returning a little more mana since the patch for holy and discipline priests. The buff is suspected to be from the added spell damage from healing gear introduced in 2.3 — which Nethaera now confirms to be true. Player tests have shown that the shadowfiend receives approximately 65% of the spell damage (ie. coefficient) added to each attack. So given 500 spell damage on an average holy or disc priest now, that means the shadowfiend will do 325 more damage (500 x .65) or 32.5 more per attack… which results in 812.5 more mana returned.

For those unfamiliar with shadowfiend mechanics, here are some of the highlights taken from this thread on the EJ forums:

- aforementioned 65% coefficient applied to +damage added to attacks
- 2.5 mana returned per 1 point of damage done
- attacks from the shadowfiend are melee shadow damage, but it still uses a normal melee attack table (ie. damage reduced based on armor of the target)
- 1.5 sec attack speed at 15 second duration = roughly 10 attacks
- damage added from Shadowform, Darkness, Shadow Weaving, Misery, Curse of Shadow, and Improved Shadow Bolt, etc.
- damage added from attack power bonuses, armor reductions on the target, etc.
- Bloodlust/Heroism will buff fiend damage and consequently mana returned
- the shadowfiend has an extremely high dodge rating (around 75%)
- fiend also has high resistances to most/all spell schools

Halbrium’s Shaman’s PVP GUIDE
And finally, it look’s like Breaky has some competition for shaman strats. Take a look at this little gem from the Shaman forums (full thread here):

UPDATED Halbrium’s Shaman’s PVP GUIDE (Quebec)

UPDATE TO THE SKY: Novembre 19th!!! Many of you shaman’s have requested me that I add guide to kill fellow shamans brothers. YOU ARE TRAITORS. You must love your shamans. When you see shamans you use do not fight. use spectral wolf ability and you dance with the other spectral wolves.

UPDATE TO THE SKY: Novembre 16th!!! I AM ADDING GUIDE TO OTHER CLASSES FOR MAXIMUM EFFECTS!

Hello all shamns!

I am Qubec so please excuse my unexcellence typing.

Things may seem stupid but if you fret you will be apologetics because what i bring is smart witty and satisfying to all shaman.

first i say hello and then i say PVP!!!!

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Mage - This fight is for the ones who say “SHAMAN NEED BUFFS” HAHAHA!! because mage is EZ SELECT MODE.

STEP 1: Lay down your main friend totem! The one I spoke of is grounding totem! This highly effect totem is used to vacum spells that your oponent sends to your face!

STEP 2: PURGE PURGE PURGE! Take his powers and make him waste his MANA!

STEP 3: Pray that you receive the excellence of windfury! You will be so sweet and set! When you get 10,000 DMG!

STEP 4: USE EARTHSHOCK CONSERVATIVLEY (like your bush!!) Because when you do that it will be very difficult for them to destory you when you are weaked at the end of the fight. DO NOT BLOW YOUR MANA FOR DMG! HAMMER IS FOR DMG!!! ES IS FOR GETTING OUT OF MEAN SITUATION

Warlock - This fight is for those who say OHHHHH NOOO NOT WARLOCK!!! They are very hard fighters because they use the power of main fire and the Satan!!!

STEP 1: Again lay down the grounding totem!! It will steal his shadowbolts! WASTE HIS MANA!

STEP 2: Purge his devil horse.

STEP 3: Again! Pray that you receive the excellence of windfury! You will be so sweet and set! When you get 10,000 DMG!

DRUID: This fight is for those that say “OH NO WHY IS ANIMALS ON MY FACE?!”

STEP 1: This fight will be very slow and it will be very diffcult. Use WF and whittle him down like a stick

STEP 2: USE Earthshock to hurt him while healing.

STEP 3: PURGE THE REJUV

STEP 4: WHACK THAT BEAR LIKE YOU HAVENT A CARE!!!!!!!

Warrior: This is easy fight because warriors have so many abilities that dont hurt shaman very much. The best way to kill is to use as many spells as possible since they bypass his BIG armor

STEP 1: Shoot him with power!

STEP 2: NO SPELL INTERUPTS SO JUST KILL HIM WITH YOUR MANA!! BUT BE CAREFULL WHEN YOU GO BELOW 20% EXECUCUTE IS MEAN!!!! Run and heal yourself

STEP 3: KILL IT

HUNTER: This is one fight worth remebering because hunters are common! it seems everyone is elf hunter

STEP 1: USE earthbind totem to slow that man and his beast to a crawl. Use frostshock if he gets too far, or for quick slowing. Try and keep his beast seperated from him so his beast does not turn your body into a delicious treat for consumption.

STEP 2: YES YOU HEARD ME. WINDFURRY!

STEP 3: Do now slow down to heal, this is a bad idea. The only time you should heal is if you can do it super quick. It is like if you just sat there licking your blood but have arrows shoot in your eyes causing more blood. you will use your mana to get rid of the blood till you have no more mana and the arrows cover your entire body in a coat of pain.

PALADIN: He will hearth alot so watch out for his bubble.

STEP 1: To stop his heath interup him or just keep hitting him. This is where quick weapons like two knives are valuable. Just keep tapping him with knives and it will defect his escape

STEP 2: Incase he decides to try his luck, he will take a long time to die and its best you manage your mana wiseley. If you keeping shocking earth he will kill you because you will be out of mana and paladin uses power of the immortal god so he can stay alive/awake for hours.

STEP 3: If you get him down low and he still has enough mana to heal, stun that sun of the gun, and do all the dmg power you can. windfurry, earthshock, nature swift!, and stormstrike all in UNISON. make him say “I am going to win” and then bring him the dead screen. He will think he is under the lag.

ROGUE: You will not be able to see this character. The rogue can hide from your eyes, like water or transparent glue.

STEP 1: This character should probably be played with a nintendo wifiii because it would be so fun to shake the wand like a person on very exciting drugs. People will think you are crazy but you will be doing MASSIVE DAMAGE.

STEP 2: Much like Paladin, you must trick the rogue to think you are about to die and your powers will combine for the power of planet.

EARTH!
FIRE!
WIND!
ICE!
SHAMAN!
GOOOOO DAMAGE!

STEP 3: The rogue will not attack you as frequently if you are not in an area with many quests like STV.

PRIEST: This is a fight for people who are not afraid to anger the main god.

Step 1: Priest are a healing class, which makes them vurile foes in one on one, but you need not worry about that in group pvp.

STEP 2: If they turn dark, you have made them angry and your brain may start to smell like burning. Run quickly away. This situation is what spectral wolf talent is made for.

STEP 3: If you see a golden water fountain occur, you make breathe sigh of releif because your opponent is a child.

the angel with the breasts is your sexual image reward for victory

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I will have more later but my mom is taking me for excellent ice!!!!!!!!!!!!! EDIT: 11/16/07 I HAVE ALREADY GOTTEN THE ICE!

EDIT: I HAVE ADDED LINES!
EDIT: I AM BACK FROM ICE!!!!!!!! IT WAS SO GOOD. I put maple syrup on it like always but my sister whom, has amrican boyfriend does not use tree syrup, she uses blue juice that is like fruit, but it does not taste like fruit.

Tags: News

11 Responses to “The GCD Problem, Stoneform and Shadowfiends”

1. Phate Says:
   November 21st, 2007 at 12:13 am

   hahaha……hahahahahaha thats great

2. Breaky Says:
   November 21st, 2007 at 12:46 am

   lawl funny

3. drole Says:
   November 21st, 2007 at 3:16 am

   As disturbing as i may be i found that hysterically funny.

   “I will have more later but my mom is taking me for excellent ice!!!!!!!!!!!!! EDIT: 11/16/07 I HAVE ALREADY GOTTEN THE ICE!

   EDIT: I HAVE ADDED LINES!
   EDIT: I AM BACK FROM ICE!!!!!!!! IT WAS SO GOOD. I put maple syrup on it like always but my sister whom, has amrican boyfriend does not use tree syrup, she uses blue juice that is like fruit, but it does not taste like fruit.”

   just golden!

4. Treisk Says:
   November 21st, 2007 at 3:31 am

   I don’t know what I just read, but I think it might’ve been the best strategic article I’ve ever read. That Shaman just blows me away. Maybe I should quit while I’m ahead.

5. mnemonic Says:
   November 21st, 2007 at 6:20 am

   The rogue can hide from your eyes, like water or transparent glue.

   ahaha

6. NevaEvaStop Says:
   November 21st, 2007 at 8:04 am

   You have to be on drugs to feel like you understood any of that.

7. Sauce Says:
   November 21st, 2007 at 8:35 am

   Kinda useless but at least as good as the sunken and [i]that[i] hunter articles, hell at least this one was funny.

8. POOP MCGEE Says:
   November 21st, 2007 at 9:45 am

   STEP 2: If they turn dark, you have made them angry and your brain may start to smell like burning. Run quickly away. This situation is what spectral wolf talent is made for.

   STEP 3: If you see a golden water fountain occur, you make breathe sigh of releif because your opponent is a child.

   the angel with the breasts is your sexual image reward for victory

   LOL

9. Brutius Says:
   November 22nd, 2007 at 1:34 pm

   Once you have read the teachings of Alamo everything seems to be not as funny

10. Scantly Says:
    February 4th, 2008 at 11:03 pm

    “you make breathe sigh of releif because your opponent is a child.”

    hahahaha

11. subject to definition Says:
    January 4th, 2012 at 1:32 pm

    *This really answered my problem, thank you!

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