Glyph of Holy Light hotfix
by Ghostcrawler | 22/01/2009 21:05:19![]() This glyph is vastly overpowered. We are hotfixing the range from 20 yards down to 8 yards. In its current form it has basically become "proc a Circle of Healing" in the same patch that we nerfed Circle of Healing. |
by Ghostcrawler | 22/01/2009 21:31:48![]()
We make a change you don’t like = listening to forum crying. We don’t make a change you want us to make = Why doesn’t blue ever listen to us? :)
We have been improving our tools to be able to turn around changes quickly. We can’t do that for every change (and sometimes we can’t agree on a change to make or if one is needed at all). But in general updating the data more often is better for the game.
Whether it was smart or not, the fact was that it was showing up as a gigantic component of paladin healing to the extent that it was having the impact of adding a whole additional spell to your rotation. That is far beyond the power that we want a glyph to have. Glyphs should be bonuses, about on par with passive talents. It is cool when they change up what you do a little bit, but this one crossed the line, especially at a time when we are trying to make AE damage not be such a trivial challenge for groups to overcome. We think it will still be a helpful glyph.
One of the interesting phenomena about the PTR (at least for this patch, which competed a lot with content in the actual game that was apparently engrossing to many players): many of the numbers players generated were not actually from PTR tests, but from estimating or theorycrafting based on the new numbers. As such, the expert community that you are invoking didn’t have a lot of exposure to the actual HL glyph in say Naxx. Or as Suzushiro says:
Nerfs are never fun for us to make, because someone will be disappointed. Sometimes players QQ and we disagree. Sometimes players have a complaint and there is a valid reason they are complaining. Just because players support a nerf doesn’t make it a bad nerf. (Just because players support a nerf doesn’t make it a good nerf.) |

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