r/classicwow • u/erre94 • 15d ago

Forever Beta Feedback When you finally get that sweet rank upgrade

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Technically a dps upgrade.

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u/Seranta 15d ago

You would not change what OP was complaining about though. Like it said 41-46 + 57% spell power rank 4 and then 42-47 + 57% spell power rank 5, do you think people would feel "oh nice, this isn't frustrating at all"? If coefficients scaled with rank, sure, it would be nice. But they stop scaling at lvl 14, it is likely just bloat to the average player. Maybe an advanced tooltip function in the settings would be cool though.

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u/alaysian 15d ago

Why would you even use the new spell that costs 25% more mana then?

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u/Seranta 15d ago

At 40 you start losing 5% coeff per lvl, so 57% * 0.95 = 54%. At 44 you're down to 42%.

Also the ranks start scaling a bit faster at rank 6, rank 7 to 8 is +20 damage for 8 mana. Rank 4 and 5 are particularly bad.

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u/alaysian 15d ago

So rather than making new spells better they make your old spells worse? That is like the opposite of game design theory. Rule 1 is never take power away from the player unless it is meant to be something significant in the story. If you have to nerf something, that is one thing, but to do it by design?

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u/Seranta 15d ago

They did this since vanilla, just then it was limited to spells learned before lvl 20. Now it goes to 40 instead, but scales with your lvl. I'd say vanilla devs would likely have preferred this solution.

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u/Clippton 15d ago

It doesn't have to be bloat. They can make it so holding shift or another key while hovering a spell/item gives more info on scaling.

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u/Seranta 14d ago

I think an advanced tooltips option in settings makes more sense.