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[Blizzcon] Defense is Gone

Joanadark
Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:17 am

[Blizzcon] Defense is Gone

All Tanks will receive complete anti-crit from talents.
Elsie
Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:18 am

Re: [Blizzcon] Defense is Gone

Block value is gone, blocking is % of damage based now.
Braundo
Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:25 am

Re: [Blizzcon] Defense is Gone

Thank god.
Teranoid
Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:27 am

Re: [Blizzcon] Defense is Gone

Oh goodie we get to all be sponges..
Worldie
Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:27 am

Re: [Blizzcon] Defense is Gone

It's interesting.

All of them i mean.



They really know how to get people's attention :\
Worldie
Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:27 am

Re: [Blizzcon] Defense is Gone

Teranoid wrote:Oh goodie we get to all be sponges..

He didn't say "avoidance is gone".

He said "Defense is gone".

Parry and Dodge still exist.
Invisusira
Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:28 am

Re: [Blizzcon] Defense is Gone

They are basically completely re-doing the entire game.

I'll be interested to see how it all pans out.
Teranoid
Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:28 am

Re: [Blizzcon] Defense is Gone

"With No Defense, Spell Power, Attack Power = more Stamina for all." Hell the avoidance is going to be the only difference between a dps piece and a tank piece. Kinda sad they put all this effort into ratings and this and that and now they are just flushing most of them away
gmf1
Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:30 am

Re: [Blizzcon] Defense is Gone

I duno if i like this... I hate change especially of this scale.
badgermonkey
Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:35 am

Re: [Blizzcon] Defense is Gone

Reading the full list of tank changes so far sshown on MMO-Champ (my pirate stream died :( )

Changes are interesting. Juggling the crit cap is awkward, but at the same time, surely now we're either going to see stupid low stats on gear, or ridiculous health/avoidance.
Joanadark
Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:39 am

Re: [Blizzcon] Defense is Gone

Teranoid wrote:"With No Defense, Spell Power, Attack Power = more Stamina for all." Hell the avoidance is going to be the only difference between a dps piece and a tank piece. Kinda sad they put all this effort into ratings and this and that and now they are just flushing most of them away


except EVERYONE is going to reforge EVERY item to cut thier stamina in half except for tanks.
fafhrd
Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:40 am

Re: [Blizzcon] Defense is Gone

wait, what? they're getting rid of attack power?
Torquemada
Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:41 am

Re: [Blizzcon] Defense is Gone

More stam for squishy clothies means that the bosses will be hitting for a lot more raid damage most likely. The forging stuff sounds interesting. I'm still wondering how this is going to effect Enchants and JC and things like that. Half the gems/chants won't have a reason to exist.
Braundo
Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:41 am

Re: [Blizzcon] Defense is Gone

fafhrd wrote:wait, what? they're getting rid of attack power?

Each class will use Strength or Agi as appropriate apparently.
Threatco
Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:45 am

Re: [Blizzcon] Defense is Gone

From what I see here, I like.

Anyone able to copy/paste more info for us work impaired?