by Normy » Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:48 pm
I understand that they are busy with aspects of the game. I really do. But for a spell that has been broken for 8 months, to get a fix for it that completely negates what the spell was supposed to do to begin with makes me disappointed. Have we been able to survive without it? Sure, but it makes the breastplate focus for our class the only useless focus out of any class, since it focuses a spell that doesn't work.
And their fix is substandard. They turned it into a self only heal with 3 second cast time. My slow heals that are targetable are faster than that. True, its a good amount of healing, but I can't cast it in combat, making it nearly useless for what is supposed to be a tanking class.
As for them listening, maybe or maybe not. One of the comments from fanfair was the code change to target a PC first over an NPC, so you won't target a damn familar that EVERYONE seems to have these days with a /tar playername. They mentioned this was an easy change. Its also been one that has been requested since famiars first became popular. I can't tell you how many times I've been unable to target a tank in raid because he had a familar, eventually having to assist another person in his group to get it.
Its small things like that that drive me nuts. Little tweaks here and there can go a long way to making me feel like the player base is being listened to.
All that said, I have hopes for the next expansion here, I hope it lives up to the hype. But their work on our spell lines have not impressed me at all.