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Blizzard tells us to FOK off.
« Thread Started on Aug 14, 2009, 9:16am »

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# Fan of Knives: The damage done by this ability has been reduced by 30%.
# Talents

* Combat

o Throwing Specialization: This talent no longer causes Fan of Knives to interrupt spellcasting.

was fun while it lasted.. hehe. I think throwing specialization was just put back to the horrible talent it was before BC.

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Re: Blizzard tells us to FOK off.
« Reply #1 on Aug 14, 2009, 9:25am »

I find myself agreeing with a guy on the rogue boards (madness, right!) who suggested a better plan would be just leaving the damage alone and target capping it. It's still gonna be insanely powerful on giant pulls, and much less so on 3-4 target pulls which was never the problem.

The loss of AoE interrupt kinda sucks, but eh, it was kinda OP for Yogg+0 - like, you couldn't do it without combat rogues. I just hope they replace Throwing Spec with something useful - it was nice having utility in the tree.

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Re: Blizzard tells us to FOK off.
« Reply #2 on Aug 14, 2009, 9:44am »

Well I agree it was rather overpowered and it did scale way better than any other AoE in the game. I'm going to miss the extra interrupt tho. I think what broke it was, there were a couple of 5v5 arena teams with multiple combat rogues spamming FoK and destroying everything. It's still probably a better ability with 3+ trash mobs around.

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Re: Blizzard tells us to FOK off.
« Reply #3 on Aug 14, 2009, 9:46am »

Yep, gimmicky arena teams. Of course, those teams didn't stand a chance in upper brackets against well-coordinated teams of talented players not relying on one-button gimmicks. So basically we got nerfed to save mediocre PVPers!

(And well, okay, FoK is really fucking good. But I still maintain that the target cap is the issue.)

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