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轉自:http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/13107743/
Dev Watercooler: Pruning the Garden of War
Blizzard Entertainment 2/27/2014 18
Development on World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor is progressing well,
and we'll soon be ready to enter the first phases of public testing. To help
prep you for battle, let’s break down some of the upcoming changes we’re
making to stats, abilities, and crowd control for the expansion.
Stat Squish
Character progression is one of the hallmarks of any role-playing game, and
naturally that means we're always adding more power for players to acquire.
After multiple expansions and content updates, we've reached a point where
the numbers for health, damage, and other stats are so big they’re no longer
easy for players to grasp. What’s more, a lot of power granularity is tied
up in tiers of older content, from Molten Core to Dragon Soul—and while it
was once necessary for your character's power to spike up suddenly when you
hit level 70, that’s not the case anymore.
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In order to bring things down to a more understandable level, we'll be
reducing the scale of stats throughout the game and smoothing out those
obsolete spikes, so that power scales linearly through questing content from
levels 1 to 85. This applies to creatures, spells, abilities, consumables,
gear . . . everything. And while that means your numbers for stats and damage
are being reduced by a huge amount, the same goes for creatures' health and
damage output. For example, a Fireball that previously hit a creature for
450,000 out of his 3,000,000 health (15% of its health) may now hit that same
creature for 30,000 out of its 200,000 health (still 15% of its health).
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It's important to understand that this isn’t a nerf—in effect, you’ll
still be just as powerful, but the numbers that you see will be easier to
comprehend. This also won’t reduce your ability to solo old content. In
fact, to provide some additional peace of mind, we're implementing further
scaling of your power against lower-level targets so that earlier content
will be even more accessible than it is now.
We’re also removing all base damage on player spells and abilities and
adjusting attack power or spell power scaling as needed, making it so that
all specializations will scale at the same rate.
Racial Traits
We want races to have fun and interesting perks, but if some of those traits
are too powerful, players may feel compelled to play a specific race even if
it’s not really the one they want to play. For example, Trolls' Berserking
ability was extremely powerful, and their Beast Slaying passive was either
completely irrelevant or tremendously powerful, based on the situation,
compared to other racial traits. On the other end of the spectrum, many races
had few or no performance-affecting perks. On top of that, a number of
racials that currently grant Hit or Expertise will soon need replacing, since
those stats are being removed in Warlords of Draenor.
To keep racials more in line with one another, we’ve decided to bring down
the couple high outliers, then establish a fair baseline and bring everyone
else up to that. We’re accomplishing this by improving old passives,
replacing obsolete ones, and adding a few new ones where necessary.
Ultimately, our goal is to achieve much better parity among races.
Ability Pruning
Over the years, we've added significantly more new spells and abilities than
we've removed, and the game’s complexity has steadily increased. We’re to
the point now where players are starting to get overwhelmed, sometimes
feeling like they need dozens of keybinds (in a few extreme cases, over a
hundred). While the game is loaded with niche abilities that could
theoretically be useful in some rare scenario, in reality, many of these are
barely used at all—and in some cases, the game would simply be better off
without them.
For Warlords of Draenor, we decided that we needed to pare down the number of
abilities available to each class and spec in order to remove some of that
unnecessary complexity. That means restricting some abilities to certain
specs that really need them instead of being class-wide, and outright
removing some other abilities. It also includes removing some Spellbook
clutter, such as passives that we can merged with other passives or base
abilities.
This doesn’t mean that we want to reduce the depth of gameplay or dumb
things down. We still want players to face interesting decisions during
combat, and we still want skill to matter . . . but we can achieve that
without the needless complexity in the game now, and we can remove some of
the game’s more convoluted mechanics while maintaining depth and skill
variety.
One type of ability that we focused on removing is temporary power buffs (aka
"cooldowns"). Removing these also helps achieve one of our other goals, which
is to reduce the amount of cooldown stacking in the game. In cases where a
class or spec has multiple cooldowns that typically end up getting used
together (often in a single macro), we merged them, or removed some of them
entirely.
The process of determining which spells and abilities to cut or change is a
very complex one—we know that every ability feels vital to someone, and we
don't take this process lightly. Even if we ended up cutting your favorite
ability, we hope you’ll understand why we did so in the context of our
larger goals for the expansion. Ultimately, the point of these changes is to
increase players' ability to understand the game, not to reduce gameplay
depth.
Crowd Control and Diminishing Returns
One other big takeaway from Mists of Pandaria is that there is currently
simply too much crowd control (CC) in the game, especially when it comes to
PvP. To address that, we knew that we needed an across-the-board disarmament.
Here's a summary of the player-cast CC changes:
‧Removed Silence effects from interrupts. Silence effects still exist, but are
never attached to an interrupt.
‧Removed all Disarms.
‧Reduced the number of Diminishing Returns (DR) categories.
‧All Roots now share the same DR category.
‧Exception: Roots on Charge-type abilities have no DR category, but have a
very short duration instead.
‧All Stuns now share the same DR category.
‧All Incapacitate (sometimes called "mesmerize") effects now share the same DR
category and have been merged with the Horror DR category.
‧Removed the ability to make cast-time CC spells instant with a cooldown.
‧Removed many CC spells entirely, and increased the cooldowns and restrictions
on others.
‧Pet-cast CC is more limited, and in many cases has been removed.
‧Cyclone can now be dispelled by immunities and Mass Dispel.
‧PvP trinkets now grant immunity to reapplication of an effect from the same
spell cast when they break abilities with persistent effects, like Solar
Beam.
‧Long fears are now shorter in PvP due to the added benefit of a fear
changing the players position.
Additionally, we've significantly reduced the number of throughput-increasing
cooldowns and procs in order to further reduce burst damage.
Whether your favorite class is losing an ability or taking a hit to its CC
potential, we hope this discussion helped you better understand why we’re
making these changes. It’s important to remember that other classes will be
getting some of their CC removed too. We think this entire package will make
exploring Azeroth and PvPing a more enjoyable experience for everyone, and we
’re looking forward to having you try them out when we open up the expansion
for testing.
In the next Dev Watercooler, we'll explore the changes coming to health and
healing in Warlords of Draenor.
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