Cows Loves Cake

I’m pretty sure there are no other documented cases of blizzard backing down over a nerf due to high volume of complaints.

I can’t believe I actually managed to type that without laughing.

Fact is, if enough people complained that gnomes pink hair was too pink they’d change it.  Is this kind of blatant pandering a good or a bad thing though?  Clearly in this particular case it’s a good thing as the relative common sense of the players seems to have outweighed the creeping stupidity of a certain lead game designer.  However I can think of a fair few hundred more times when it’s been total bullshit, like a lot of the over-nerfing of Deathknight tanks being clearly community / pvp community driven and not really thought through by designers.  Which of course led to a few changes being reverted in 3.2 – and yet still DK tank threat is the lowest in the game while their resource mechanic makes them the hardest tank style to play, but that’s another story.

I haven’t tested this on the PTR yet but I assume the tick values remained unchanged – the reason I bring this up is that no one has mentioned if the total base heal of rejuvenation was also reverted back to it’s 15 second version – but I think we can assume it has.   It didn’t really make sense for them to go forward with the duration nerf at the same time as the GotEM nerf, but I wouldn’t be too sure they wont try and push the rejuv nerf back in in 4.0 or something – hide it with the ‘ooh shiny’ in the start of Cataclysm somehow.  But at least for now we’re safe.

Yeah I know it’s the news every druid blog under the sun is going to go for, but it is an important one, and hey after all I’m not really reporting the fact I’m just offering my opinion on it based on the assumption you already know because you read MMO.