So, the rumour is that Patch 4.0.1 is coming next week, and with it
a lot of changes to prepare for the upcoming cataclysm. For one, my
warrior's DPS is probably going to take a leap on recount from top 1-3 damage with ~19k dps to bottom with <9k dps. Yes,
less than 9,000. Mostly because of the rage nerf (I know, I know: it's for the better come cata... hopefully) combined with armor penetration going away from gear, it's still going to be humiliating! What do?!
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It's nice though that you get to play around with
brand new talents and quite a bit of new abilities. Basically, we're all (except for maybe the hardcore beta-testers and PTR maniacs) going to have to relearn our classes almost from scratch, the dps rotation of every single class is getting thrown around, especially if you have some new damage dealing ability, for example warriors get
Raging Blow instead of Whirlwind which is now AoE only, and it's the same with tanking.
Healing on the other hand is also getting a complete overhaul, you are now encouraged to help the group by DPSing while healing in order to get better mana-reg or stronger heals off, example talent:
Atonement. Kind of feels like the healing role is going to be
harder to fill, which is
fun for most of us, but we all know some really bad healer that is going to have an even harder time keeping people alive.
Anyway, I'm not even sure what to gem seeing as all my ArP gems are getting switched out to crit. I've heard some are going strength but a lot of people insist that haste and hit is going to be all the rage. WTB spreadsheet! What do you think?