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Joined: Oct 2008 Gender: Male  Posts: 62 Karma: 0 |  | Your classes preception of 1.05? « Result #9 on Nov 10, 2008, 4:43pm » | |
Zealot = BAD.
The overall buzz from the 1.05 pre-patch notes in the zealot world was huge. There was already pre-rejoicing for a much needed damage increase and general game play fixes to an already under rated healing class (in terms of some, not myself)
Generally, I wanted mostly gameplay issues to be resolved and a couple things on a wishlist for a zealot (but wasn't specific to zealot, but to healer classes in general). I was mostly happy with the class, but as with any it could use tweaking. The one thing every zealot was hoping for was an increase to damage to make soloing viable in PvE, and generally make it an actual hybrid class as we are supposed to be.
Now that the patch notes are out and the zealot is not really getting any love apart from the most recent unofficial patch note regarding our 3s heal and it being 50% less fragile as it once was. There is an explosion of cries on the WHA forums.
All our HoTs have been decreased by approx. 35% and to compensate our damage on our DoTs have been increased by ~6%. Wooo? And on top of that one of our defensive abilities Winds of Insanity has recently been nerfed to all hell.
A LOT of zealots are already considering dropping the class, or even quitting the game. Mythic has lost a serious amount of respect from a main sum of zealot players and it could really alienate the class balance system they were looking for.
I for one, still am going to love the zealot has I feel in time we will get what we have been hoping for, I find that I manage fine enough for a healing system that really needs to get it's numbers crunched.
In general though, I am finding that the healers from both sides are really not feeling the love, and are really finding it harder and harder to not roll a DPS class.
Even more important is the general feel of the game. All I hear is survivability of game and will it be able to with stand the test of time against WoW....again, time will tell, but they cannot make hasty patches that need more time, and provide patch notes that people are going to freak out about despite it being test notes.
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