Version 1.11 killed my Druid


By Theo Valich: Friday 23 June 2006, 12:39

BLIZZARD JUST SEEMS to be unable to get right. Most of the E3 Expo might have been dedicated to the company and its two features for over six million users.
But the recent introduction of the new 1.11 patch just couldn't go without regular crashing of the European servers. Or at least the European home site.

We wonder why Blizzard is saving pocket money on a decent hosting site, when the company is earning dozens of million dollars on a monthly basis.

WoW insiders already know about the added content, but some of the features got broken in the process. There have been reports over some character malfunctions, but a hotfix should solve those.

But, the company's "working as intended" class under the name Druids suffered another defeat, with an important feature getting broken in the process.

While the 1.11 patch brought an important feature as a class treat (the illustrious Innervate), it also broke a major component of gameplay - when your shapeshifting character shifts for several times into the "attacking" form (bear) and back, your character will - die.

Of course, the GM explanation on several occasions was "it's a bug, not a feature". We hope this story will speed up Blizzard's fix of the problem.

All in all, nice game - if you choose the right class for it and have time to wait for the fixes.

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Only happens if you do it while low on hp, and only switching into and out of bear.

It's nowhere near as bad as most people are making out.

And...of course that was the explanation, because it's a bug.

Whoever wrote that is a retard.

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The hawks are circling..the truth is though blizz have set themselves such high standards ANY bug/crash is going to cause the doom and gloom mob much delight

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i heard SOE bought blizzard last week :O

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Nah it was EA!

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In summary, cry more.

Druid as a class has probably had more love from Blizzard since release than half the classes in the game put together.

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Ok. Some people are having issues with Furor being broken. The MOTW talent is causing you to lose health when switching to bear.

Worst of all, when you use claw it makes a fucking DONG! sound everytime, its infuriating.

More love..... lol if it wasnt so fucking broken to start with it wouldnt have got shit would it? Moonkin and feral continue to be dumped on from what i can see.
Dont spout the generic innervate answer please.

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All classes are having revamps Chow, so yes, Druids would have got theirs no matter what.

The thing that amuses me is the fact that a couple bugs are causing people to cry as if Blizzard is purposely nerfing Druids, a bug is a bug.

And yes, Feral gets constantly dumped on, most specifically by AQ and the fact it's rammed full of feral gear.

Damn you Blizzard bastards!!!!!!!!!!!!

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A few simple things they could do to appease the whole druid community, make some druid specific loot available to non raiders. Make some proper hybrid gear and a proper non pvp set for feral and moonkin. I dont believe the bugs are intentional i just think theyre retards. But i do think they just cant be bothered with druid.

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Everywhere you said Druid there, replace the word with hybrid.

And you see the true situation.

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this patch is fine..only prob with it is the stupid "world" LFG chat which has become a 15 year olds chuck norris barrens chat, and the nerfing of AV.

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Druids are overpowered anyway.

Discuss

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fuckin eh...I'm happy bout the druid nerf....have hated druid ever since I saw a lvl 46 solo a lvl 48 elite without losing even half his health yet the same elite (which the druid stole from me the first time around) took my health down to like 10% after it wtfpwned my cat!

Also hate druid in pvp as they are a one man WSG army...can morph, heal, stealth, tank, morph out of stuns and shit....NERF druids more I say!

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/agree strongly. as a mage they are poo because i cannot Pig them! :P

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they borked me rogue
am not critting as much as pre patch and cold blood+ whatever seems to miss 90% of the time
also eviscerate which i can usually count on giving me 1k+ crits is missing more often than not
also, have they borked the ranges? seems i have to be practically stood on the target to hit atm if i step one or two steps back i'm out of range

Yeah the wifes getting driven mad by this

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Can't shift out of stuns.

And any class with armour + heals could probably solo that elite, I've been killing everything I see on my Pally.

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shamans are in the same boat ya.....

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can shifty out of snares is what I mean

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only thing 1.11 broke for me was the drop down box when you right click on a players portrait. but when i get the latest version im sure it will work.