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December 09, 2004, 04:26 PM	#30 (permalink)
Eliesputa	Response from Caydiem on the Infernal / Doomguard debate... I don't know. I do know that on blizzards internal tests they found uses for the Infernal. I'll point out another area where Blizzard is pretty adamant about sticking with their plan. Defensive warriors complained that they didn't tank better than nondefensive warriors. Blizzard took the armor on shields and jacked it way up and reduced the armor on all worn gear. This effectively nerfed the armor of every class that does not use a shield (and hurt bear druids the most). This was apparantly done in this way because they did not want to improve the overall tanking ability of a defensive warrior (they did slightly by changing regen to double block, but that isn't much) but they relatively make them better than warriors not using a shield at tanking. So I really think you can expect that until there are either major PvP issues or until something is found to be broken in the raiding game we will see very few structural changes. I do think we will eventually see some way to make Infernals and Doomguards especially more useable, but I think that may be by allowing them to be summoned more places or something equally unsatisfying to you. Despite the complaints to the contrary I really do think Blizzard has a "vision" for what they want and they are not going to budge on it until it flames out in the raiding game. I really haven't seen them budge on it during closed beta, but others may have points of disagreement there. Another point is that we know that instance creeps do not stop chasing you unless you get too far away. Blizzard obviously didn't want people to be able to escape fights with them like outdoor creeps. Once someone found that ghostwolf could allow you to escape Ghostwolf was nerfed to not work in any indoor area. They didn't just mark it instances it became annoying while running through towns. Blizzard is pretty consistent in this way in that if they are designing something to work a certain way they will protect that concept. EQ never really had such a notion as you can track their changes through expansions and find them constantly flip flopping even though they coined the "Vision"