Archive for the ‘Blue Posts’ Category

We saw a very interesting blue post last night about the state of hunter DPS and the 10/20% AP buff: Lock and Load not being caused by Arcane Shot is an intentional change. As many players have pointed out, there is just no need for it any longer. We also intend to make sure Black [...]

Blue Post on Scaling

Posted: by Frostheim in Blue Posts

I’m actually a little bit reluctant to post this one, because I know people are going to read into it what they want to see, rather than understand that this is once again Blizzard making a very vague statement that is deliberately not saying anything. However, there is also a very interesting MoP change announcement [...]

Blizzard had their Class Design & Balance Q&A, and there were a whole pile of hunter questions. Most of these were Mists of Pandaria related and most of the answers indicated the best possible answer of the question. But they did slip in a couple of tricksy responses that were clearly designed to get hunters [...]

Developer Chat Notes

Posted: by Frostheim in Blue Posts

Blizzard recently held a moderated developer chat, and among all the pointless chatter about the support classes were a few items of note. Only was was specifically hunter related, and that had to do with the annoying, persistent pet bug where our pets have only their base stats when first summoned, and take a few [...]

Hunter Patch 4.3 Changes

Posted: by Frostheim in Blue Posts

Patch 4.3 was deployed on the PTR last night and Wowhead and MMO-Champion were fast and furious with the datamining. Unfortunately, as happens from time to time, the datamined material has led to some confusion where things weren’t actually changes, but instead were just tooltip updates. In addition Blizzard released the patch 4.3 PTR patch [...]