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Daze: Defense skill will no longer reduce the chance players have to receive the Daze effect when attacked from behind by enemies.

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I wanna hear from Drysc on this one. Apparently someone changed their mind about this mechanic, and since he was so good at explaining it the first time around how about an encore?

Here's the daze mechanic explained back in June:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=115042266&sid=1

Here's the PTR notes about a month later:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=174505927&sid=1

bullet #6


So, wanna tell us what's going on? Inquiring minds want to know.

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So, you want to crucify Drysc for something he said back in june and is now being changed in the PTR?

Must the CM's be held accountable for every little piece of infor the dare release to the public?

That was the way Dazed used to work, that was the intended mechanic back then. The developers never foresaw the possibility of having players with such a high defense rating that daze would not work on them.

Now they see it can happen, and they want to prevent that form happening because, whether you like it or not, daze is a game mechanic they want to keep working as intended.

So they are changing it in the PTR, and somehow Drysc was meant to know this back in June and be held trial by the forum trolls?

Damn immature kids.

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Shortly after that write up, and due to us going back through the code, the programmers found that a character's defense as a whole was being taken in to account, and not just their base defense as intended. It was definitely our mistake in only looking at what values are taken into account when calculating daze, and not how those values are generated. They're separate bits of code in different locations, so it wasn't easily or immediately apparent.



It wasn't a contradiction, but a left out word could make it seem like there was a discrepancy.

"First an explanation on how the mechanic works. The chance to be dazed is determined by the character’s base defense rating as compared to the mobs level, or technically the base defense of the character versus the attack skill of the mob"

Works a little better for what was being stated. The addition of the word "base" makes all the difference in the world obviously. The intent was just to say that it's technically the attack skill of the mob, and not its level (although it's really just 5 x mob level).

The intention of the mechanic isn't that it punishes some classes or specs more than others, you shouldn't be punished more than someone else because you chose to play a priest instead of a warrior. The complaints that the mechanic was not working correctly and had increased or changed in the expansion is the only reason we investigated the mechanic further, and found an issue that we're now correcting.

It's obviously an unpopular mechanic as it can slow down a player, or can sometimes be the cause for a death. Anything that works to help ensure a player realizes or understands a mistake, unwise choice, and that potentially leads to a death is going to be unpopular. However, it's an important mechanic as it helps encourage caution and awareness. If you're not careful to stay out of aggro range of mobs, not careful to be patient in your pulls, or not aware of your surroundings or pathing mobs, then we want something that helps to ensure simply pulling a 180 and running away (coupled with class abilities) isn't always a guaranteed escape.

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Anything that works to help ensure a player realizes or understands a mistake, unwise choice, and that potentially leads to a death is going to be unpopular. However, it's an important mechanic as it helps encourage caution and awareness.

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They Mechanics of daze right nwo are working as intended High defense negates Daze that is the way they intended it to be

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Apparently tanking is an unwise choice.

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The complaints that the mechanic was not working correctly and had increased or changed in the expansion is the only reason we investigated the mechanic further, and found an issue that we're now correcting.

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Apparently tanking is an unwise choice.

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Wrong, Daze is not meant to be nullified, accept that truth. You are NOT meant to become immune to Daze, EVER, under any circumstance or with any possible gear.

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