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October 04, 2009, 05:32 PM	#1 (permalink)
kendro Character Info Tarian 80 Night Elf Druid Uther US PvE PvP Guild: Aurora Aeternum Talent Spec: 58/0/13	Interesting idea about new shard system and aff So let's pretend that soul drain replenishes shards in the new shard system. Let's also pretend that soul drain stays as the main nuke at the last 25% of a bosses hp in cataclysm for aff locks. Anyone else thinking of fun toys with empowered soulfire and a pretty high supply of shards? __________________ What are you willing to sacrifice?

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October 04, 2009, 05:41 PM	#2 (permalink)
Cormanthor Status: Dot, 'Lock and Drop it! Character Info Cormanthor 80 Human Warlock Gnomeregan US PvE Guild: Knights who say Ni Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: Various	Re: Interesting idea about new shard system and aff yep. once per 30 seconds (Soul Burn CD) __________________ Some days it just not worth chewing through the restraints

October 05, 2009, 02:49 PM	#3 (permalink)
miros	Re: Interesting idea about new shard system and aff touché

October 05, 2009, 05:00 PM	#4 (permalink)
Liche Character Info Liche 80 Undead Warlock Sporeggar Euro RP PvP Guild: Blackout Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 0/13/58	Re: Interesting idea about new shard system and aff When they introduce the new shard system you can gaurantee a talent tree revamp, including at least one talent geared around the new shard system.

October 05, 2009, 07:29 PM

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Re: Interesting idea about new shard system and aff

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Originally Posted by kendro

Anyone else thinking of fun toys with empowered soulfire and a pretty high supply of shards?

That would be 3 shards.

I'm looking forward to this new system, but really, if we only get 3 shards per battle (unless using drain soul) they better be pretty heavy hitting shards. Casting Drain Soul in the middle of the fight would suck too given that we wouldn't be able to take advantage of the extra damage. We'd have to save it for the end of the fight, and even then with the Soul Burn cooldown we may not be able to use many of the shards we gain.

Still, I am looking forward to the new play style and seeing what we can do with it.

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Originally Posted by Liche

When they introduce the new shard system you can gaurantee a talent tree revamp, including at least one talent geared around the new shard system.

My guess is that it will be in demonology. A lot of the old Shard driven spells/summons/stones are in that tree.

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October 05, 2009, 08:50 PM	#6 (permalink)
Meankeb Character Info Meankeb 80 Human Warlock Khaz Modan US PvE Guild: Virtue Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 0/13/58	Re: Interesting idea about new shard system and aff I would suspect they will see the incentive to giving each tree the abilitiy to generate soul shards with something other than Drain Soul. Giving us a super ability to use every minute is probably something that Blizzard thinks will make our DPS interesting compared to others. Too bad the current measurement of our class performance is damage per second, not damage per minute. /sigh

October 05, 2009, 08:51 PM	#7 (permalink)
Grandorf	Re: Interesting idea about new shard system and aff If I remember correctly you can still carry more than three shards if you want too

October 05, 2009, 11:22 PM

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Re: Interesting idea about new shard system and aff

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Originally Posted by Grandorf

If I remember correctly you can still carry more than three shards if you want too

How would this be possible if shards are no longer collected in your bags? From what I've read, three icons are placed under your mana bar, similar to how the six runes are placed under a Death Knights Runic Energy bar, and none take up space in your bags. I haven't heard of being able to add more shards to those three, only that once you use one of those shards you can replace it using drain soul. Otherwise you only get three shards per combat session. They regenerate quickly upon leaving combat, and can only be used while in combat.

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October 06, 2009, 01:02 AM	#9 (permalink)
Meankeb Character Info Meankeb 80 Human Warlock Khaz Modan US PvE Guild: Virtue Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 0/13/58	Re: Interesting idea about new shard system and aff Preach on Pernicious. This is exactly what I extracted from the BlizzCon reports as well. As certain spells have some geneartion (Drain Soul, Shadowburn), and others are "freebies" (Decimation trigger), I again surmise that they'll make them more fun to use in the long run than 3 "big booms" per boss fight. Seriously, what's a 40K Conflagrate except an aggro gain and a single rotation spike in DPS during in an 8 minute fight?

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