3.2.2 Probably Coming Soon

anthony September 12 2009 9:53 am 5 Comments

No surprise here, but we’re probably going to see the surprisingly awaited 3.2.2 patch here in the next week or two. The PTR is still hopping with lots of changes, but with Onyxia up for testing and all sorts of small changes being tweaked around, they’re getting close to the final release. We’ll keep a close eye for just how much everyone gets smacked around by Onyxia when she goes back live. We’re rather hoping for some destruction. Onyxia has some revenge to level against all those level 70s who smacked her around a couple years ago. For now, here’s some blue posts:

Death Knight
Heart Strike in 3.2.2
Heart Strike is balanced around its single target damage since its a primary ability for Blood. However, since it can strike a second target for full damage (on live), Blood dps jumps up dramatically just because of the presence of a second target. The ability needs to be either balanced around its single target or dual target dps. If it’s the latter, you’re going to use Blood Strike on a lot of attacks instead and the core strike for the tree becomes more situational, which feels lame.

It will still keep the kit of hitting a second target, and Blood dps will still jump up when you can cleave a second target. Just not as much.

[...] We’ll write a more clear tooltip, something like: Instantly strike a target, causing 50% weapon damage plus 368 and 10% additional damage for each disease. Also strikes a secondary target for half of what it strikes the original.

Spread the DK:

5 Comments »

Woogie said:

Can’t wait for the reforged Obsidian-Edge Blade. That graphic was amazing at 60 when I was a warlock, and I couldn’t use it. I’m pumped to be able to smack people with it now!

Anyone know what Ony’s reset is? Is it still a twice-a-week encounter, or has that been released?

# 13 September 2009 at 8:42 am

Thoraq said:

First of all, it was lvl 60’s who smacked Onyxia around.
Second, Ony will most likely be on a weekly respawn time, just like she was in Vanilla. Ony has never been a twice-a-week encounter.

# 14 September 2009 at 3:18 am

Leharl said:

@Thoraq Actually, lots of level 70s smacked her around for fun, if not profit. A couple of years ago (Sept 2007), only casuals were still 60. ;)

# 14 September 2009 at 9:24 am

zakrain said:

even some (actually alot) 80s soloed her, she acutally droped a fair amount of change on her, but recently they reduce the amount of gold she dropped.

# 18 September 2009 at 11:33 pm