~chron

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s Vindication nerf, Blizz has now hotfixed in a change to stuns that have an interrupt component so that the school lockout only applies to mobs. It’s continuing the path of separate effects for PvE and PvP which I still generally approve of. They should definitely have an easier time balancing both aspects of the game this way.

BUT. This particular change is awful. Before abilities like HoJ worked kind of like a mage’s counterspell – you could stun whenever and that would prevent your target from casting, but it was dispellable or trinketable or even blinkable by a mage. If you were prepared to wait and catch someone while casting you would get a (shorter) full school lockout which is much more devestating. Especially since nobody usually wants to trinket a stun they’re already half-way through.

You can hammer a mage’s arcane school to prevent a blink, his frost school to prevent a block (this never actually happens) or hammer a holy paladin’s heal to prevent divine shield. EDIT: HoJ cyclone = caster form no barkskin.

It was an interesting choice, and now that interesting choice is gone.

chronic Paladin