Patch Day

[DjStyles]

So I believe today is a "Patch Day". Anyone know how big the patch is?

And what does it change?

 

[Esea]

hopefully the lag issues

 

[buriedUnderGround]

Anyone know how big the patch is?

I think it's just under 6Mb... I saw a screenshot somewhere. I could be wrong due to memory failure tho

 

[Willeklong]

Some small bug fixes, wont be too big.

 

[Gtx Gaming]

yeah small but dks got nerfed Btw u can check the patch size before it goes live by checking the size of the us patch

 

[Willeklong]

CB for Locks got nerfed as well. Servers down till 1 pm now.

 

[boswald]

7mb, go it from gaming.do.co.za

 

[Corgon]

CB for Locks got nerfed as well. Servers down till 1 pm now.

Say what?? How badly did it get nerfed??

 

[Pornolio]

Hehe ohhhh happy days :

Warlock

* Chaos Bolt: This spell no longer ignores damage reduction effects of the target.


Well its not too big a nerf... but yes, at least hunters got a nice buff, well sort of.

 

[Corgon]

OK maybe im noob, but have us warlocks now been given another shadow bolt now instead of something special? Or is it still unresistable?

 

[lordneon]

as always patch day screwed up misery. Took like 20min stuck on loading screen and if u get in lag is amazing. Pro stuff blizzard

 

[Pornolio]

OK maybe im noob, but have us warlocks now been given another shadow bolt now instead of something special? Or is it still unresistable?

Its a bolt you warlock's spec for... its the final point in the destruction tree.

http://thottbot.com/s59172

 

[Corgon]

Yeah i know that much But what im saying is its basically a shadow bolt now with a 8 odd second cooldown....

 

[Pornolio]

Yeah i know that much But what im saying is its basically a shadow bolt now with a 8 odd second cooldown....

Ahh ok sorry, misunderstood your statement then.
As far as I can tell, they only nerfed it in the sense that other players can at least mitigate the damage to a degree now... where in the past if you were blasted with it, you could do nothing other than heal through it...

More a PVP nerf I would say. They still have to fix those damn pallies though.

EDIT - Ignore the above... just went to the warlock forums. Says the following :

"it was never intended to go through immunity effects. it still affects absorption effects."
"It was not a nerf. It was a fix. And its fine. "

"Damage reduction effects does not equal absorbtion effects. The spell was only intended to be unresistable and able to pierce through absorbtion effects like frost barrier and power word shield. It so happened that chaos bolt would pierce through pain suppression and astral shift which are not absorbtion effects(they are damage reduction effects) and was therefore an unintended programming error on behalf of blizzard. "

 

[dal2000]

Anyone else on US realms getting terrible lag? I'm sitting on 1k+ latency...

 

[Lyerpald]

you guys think 3.2 is gonna be a big patch?
Adding druid forms etc (HELL YEAH)