Update: Big patch today, so far I notice the energy regeneration smoothed down to 1 increment at a time instead of the 20 per tick! Hopefully more talents are working now, will update tomorrow as I check things out.

Summery of what I have experienced personally so far on beta realm as well as video #2 below:

Vimeo decided that they’re lame(and want to make a profit) and no longer supports ‘game videos’ right after their policy of not supporting porn videos(lol) so check comment 1 to download the normal looking version since filefront un-widescreens it.

General: All the new weapons are either faster or equal speed of TBC weapons, not sure if they plan on making the level 80 end game weapons to be even faster than TBC weapons. Instances are really easy right now, most likely cause everyone got purples from 70.

Mages: Frostfire bolt, slows and DoTs you - not so good if you want to sheep right after… Instant cast Arcane Barrage hits you for 2300 isn’t really fun btw.

Shamans: Thunderstorm’s knock back can be countered by Shadowstepping right after (so Intercept should own it as well), Enhancement Shaman hurts like hell and even their Shocks do significant damage.

Shadow Priest: Dispersion can buy valuable seconds for the next Fear as well as block out big DPS moves such as Shadow Dance. Also unlike other immunity moves, you gain a nice sum of mana and hp back in it’s duration (this actually makes a huge difference).

Warriors: 2 2handers = better than 1? I’m sure most will still go back to Mortal Strike + Bloodthirst as long as the games are still won by mostly healing debuffs at 80.

Death Knights: I think I see more ice in these guys than Mages atm. Imagine the insane amount of synergy they’ll have together when both of them have moves that do triple damage on frozen targets and can freeze for each other with ease. High armor targets are also no sweat for DK since they have a good amount of magic DPS. Only thing missing for DK is some sort of healing debuff. Their reversed Shadowstep will also give them an amazing role in Arenas.

Paladins: Everyone’s ret atm 10k 1 shotting things, not much else to say…

Druids: Things are looking pretty good for them, feral still does boat load of DPS while Resto with 1 second GCD on lifebloom is rocking harder than ever, only toped by the new heal Flourish which solves the multi-target healing problem as well as another burst prevention on top of Swiftmend and NS. Did I mention Tree form armor increase and no movement penalty? Expect a lot of ugly trees which you can’t sap running around in arena coming soon in 2009. The relief is that they won’t be getting Feral Charge with it being a 21 point talent.

Some Shadow Dance feedback: Even though it’s amazing for bursting (and much needed vs just about any non-clothie right now), I have the feeling once people are used to dealing with it, a lot of aoe spam deny will happen. Even now, it’s often that I miss out on 1 or 2 of the vanishes just because random aoe move or vanish being broken like usual. It’s also very weak against classes that have on demand damage reduction or immunity, especially the ones that can be used during stun.

You also want to come in to Wotlk with as much AP and as little crit as possible. level 70’s crit rating is garbage once you’re 72 or higher. Same applies to spell damage vs spell crit rating I would imagine.

Spec used in video: http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?talent=f0ecoZZiMsshhRcxoguVo

Tags: Videos · Rogue

6 Responses to “PvP in WotLK Video part 2”

1. Ziss Says:
   July 29th, 2008 at 12:00 am

   Here it is: http://files.filefront.com/wrath+rogue+preview02wmv/;11271681;/fileinfo.html

2. pandetta Says:
   July 30th, 2008 at 12:08 pm

   Can you post the song from the vid:P

3. Jedus Says:
   August 4th, 2008 at 1:47 pm

   Looks like rogues wont be ashamed to use daggers in Wotlk!

4. Sarq Says:
   August 6th, 2008 at 3:25 pm

   Like Pandetta said: Post the name of the songs you use they are awesome!

   Nice video aswell im all hyped up about Shadow dance and the new Ambush/Backstab talent.

5. shinsoku Says:
   August 11th, 2008 at 11:04 pm

   The song in the video is Red Hot by Vanessa Mae.

6. Deon Ortega Says:
   November 12th, 2008 at 5:15 pm

   ku8ahl0i5xft4epz

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