Yup. Forums are working as intended. ;-)

A MMORPG forum is a lot like a cat litter box that someone *might* have dropped a diamond into. You need someone to sift out all the turd in order to find the diamond. Trouble is, every cat dropping a turd in there thinks they are contributing a diamond.

Thanks Fugmug. I'm ordering groceries online while browsing Insider. I almost forgot the cat litter.

I feel the exact same way about the meetings that I attend here at the office, Fugmug.

Fugmug wins.

If that's not an original quote, you owe it to us to reveal the true genius.

/cast vote "Quote of the week" fugmug!

Seconded that vote!

I know changes without reasons can be frustrating, but they probably arent that hard to work out most of the time and if you think about it...there probably arent enough ours in the day for developers or CM's to spend on the forums justifying every single change they make to the people who want to know (for whatever reason). More than likely, the answer will never be good enough.

I keep hearing about how our mana regen was nerfed because of the change to spirit regen. Seeing as hunters have no abilities to allow spirit regen while casting changes to it should not have affected us at all. Unless of course you are stopping for the 5 second rule to take effect which would ruin your DPS. What am I missing here? I've noticed it feels like I run out of mana faster, but I'm always casting so I don't see how that change could be affecting me.

While DPSing, you should never be within the FSR. However, there are significant portions of time in any instance or while questing where you will not be in the FSR. For example:


Waiting for the tank to make the next pull.
While looting/gathering
Anytime you're incapacitated or otherwise need to stop DPS (when Moroes vanishes, Maiden's Repentence, running to the walls during Aran's Arcane Explosion etc.)


Those are noticeably short periods of time, but they do add up more than people realize.

If, however, you're experiencing heretofore unseen mana problems on fights where DPS is nearly constant, that's something I can't explain.

I think that there is little or no checking of the class forums by blizz employees. A little while back some people did an experiment on the Paladin forums to see how often any blizzard employees checked in. Someone started a thread with an explicit gay "adult" theme (sorry, not going to get more specific then that), and this thread stayed up for two days before it was locked from reaching max post count, which happens automatically. So someone started a second thread with the same name part 2. It was up for at least several hours and still going strong, but I didn't check back so I don't know what happened with it.

So anyways, there were at least 3 days where no forum moderator (let alone a developer) was checking that particular forum.

Now in defense of blizzard, there is so much outright crap on there forums I can see why no one would want to deal with it or even read it, but still, no moderation at all for days at a time is somewhat ridiculous.

I'm confused as to how the man regen change has adversely afftected hunters. If I understand correctly now our intel increase the mana regen per point of spirit. shouldn't we be getting better regen now than before?

p.s. If I could spell I'd be dangerous. you get the idea :P

They could, but people don't read the terms, and there have been successful cases in the past brought against companies sequestering away random clauses in their agreements.

Granted, the situations in question were rather different, but that there's a precedent would embolden some hot shot lawyer to try to earn himself some big bucks.

I haven't checked, but I'm fairly sure there already is such a clause in there somewhere, it would be foolish of them to even *have* a suggestion forum without it. But even with such a clause they would not want to do anything that might encourage someone to think they have a chance at winning in court, merely going to court costs them money as well as brings possibly bad publicity, despite what the EULA and other agreements might say about it.