A Quick Note About New Dispel Mechanics
January 11, 2009 by Matticus
Filed under All Stories, News and Opinion, PvP Practices
Here’s an example:
Silent Resolve now reduces the chance your helpful spells and damage over time effects will be dispelled by 10/20/30%. (Old – Affected all spells)
Great. What’s that mean?
Your Renew and your Shadow Word: Pain will have a chance of getting a resist when an enemy tries to get rid of it. For example, a Shaman would have a 30% chance of getting his Purge resisted when trying to remove your Renew.
Psychic Scream, on the other hand, should be removed immediately. If I blow my Psychic Scream on an enemy player, and his teammate hits the Cleanse button to remove the fear effect, it will fall off immediately.
What does this mean for PvE players? Probably nothing.
It will affect PvP. You’re better off asking Braids how that will work.
I'm Matticus and I play a Dwarf Priest. My home is in Conquest, a raiding Guild that I have founded. Every week, I log 12 hours raiding on Ner'Zhul.
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It’s the mandatory indirect warlock fear nerf. Don’t forget… no patch without a warlock nerf
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