Poster: Zuggy at 8/8/2006 4:02:48 PM PDT
Subject: Expose Armor, a common ground for change |
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I have seen and read many posts, arguing for and against the changes to expose armor. The initial change, making it much more powerful vs. high armor targets which a rogue can be very weak against, however it reduced it's effectiveness vs. lesser armored targets, priests for example.
1.11 Expose Armor: Exposes targets armor up to 1700, 45% on top of this with talents.
Initial 1.12 Expose Armor: Exposes targets armor 40%, 12% additional with talents.
This past week, 1.12 EA went back to it's original state, the rational being that there were many posts arguing for this, so lower armor targets would still be sufficiently affected.
However, many rogues, myself included, highly favored the new EA, working quite well vs. high armored tanks, and feral druids.
As a common ground, I would propose that Expose Armor be changed to the following, or a slight static variation.
1.12 Expose Armor*NEW*: Exposes targets armor for 1000 in addition to 30%, talents would increase this number by 7/15%.
This allows expose armor to maintain effectiveness vs. all classes, while still scaling with higher armor targets.
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Subject: Re: Expose Armor, a common ground for change |
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The initial change was made to help improve the ability and make what we saw to be a positive change that would help a rogue better counter higher armor targets.
Upon making the change we did not see enough incentive that the change would be positive for the majority of players, and saw enough posts requesting that it remain the same to be better equipped to deal with low armor targets as well.
The change was the extent at which we were willing to take the ability to at this time, and since that did not seem to draw it into a more positive use with most players, we reverted it to ensure those that used it previously were not receiving a change they did not want.
We will be continuing to evaluate all abilities and talents through the life of the game, and if additional opportunities present themselves in which we are able to take Expose Armor in a different or improved direction, we will be sure to jump at it.
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