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Peterpaul

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Arathor

0. Mastercraft Fishing Pole response? 04/21/2009 11:11:47 AM PDT

Due to the awesomeness of the Forum search features, I can't find all of the Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole nerf threads to see the official Blue response and explanation.

Can someone please direct me to that thread and post?

*Edited the title. Please refrain from posting titles with "blue" other such attention grabbing words. - Nethaera

[ Post edited by Nethaera ]

I want a level 80 upgrade for my Lionheart Executioner!!! And WTF happened to my fishing pole???!!!!!

Peterpaul

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Arathor

1. Re: Mastercraft Fishing Pole Blue response? 04/21/2009 11:39:03 AM PDT

I found the thread and here is a link to it:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=16473617255&sid=1

Now if someone who knows something would please post an explanation, there are several players still posting to that thread who would certainly appreciate it!!!

This was so stupidly done that it just has to be an oversight or bug...

I want a level 80 upgrade for my Lionheart Executioner!!! And WTF happened to my fishing pole???!!!!!

Bromaynard

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Ravenholdt

2. Re: Mastercraft Fishing Pole Blue response? 04/21/2009 11:44:27 AM PDT

They have NOT responded as of yet and I do not think they intend to.

Peterpaul

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Arathor

3. Re: Mastercraft Fishing Pole Blue response? 04/21/2009 11:46:50 AM PDT

Q u o t e:
They have NOT responded as of yet and I do not think they intend to.

Well, then, they are idiots.

What's next...nerf epic mounts, pets, and epic even legendary weapons dropped from raid content? If they can do this, they can certainly do that. The TOS let's them do this, but I think when we pay our monthly fee, we assume they will make such changes with some intelligence and hopefully some openness.

Such seems to in general NOT be the case with patch 3.1 and certainly not with the nerf to the Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole!

I want a level 80 upgrade for my Lionheart Executioner!!! And WTF happened to my fishing pole???!!!!!

Palehoof

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Lightninghoof

4. Re: Mastercraft Fishing Pole Blue response? 04/21/2009 11:47:49 AM PDT

Q u o t e:
Well, then, they are idiots.

What's next...nerf epic mounts, pets, and epic even legendary weapons dropped from raid content? If they can do this, they can certainly do that. The TOS let's them do this, but I think when we pay our monthly fee, we assume they will make such changes with some intelligence and hopefully some openness.

Such seems to in general NOT be the case with patch 3.1 and certainly not with the nerf to the Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole!

I'm not much of a high end player, unfortunately. What other weapons had a similar DPS to the Kalu'ak Fishing Pole, pre-nerf?

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Frazzlewar

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Dalaran

5. Re: Mastercraft Fishing Pole Blue response? 04/21/2009 11:50:49 AM PDT

The fishing pole still works as it was intended - for catching fish.

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Muffins

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Nesingwary

6. Re: Mastercraft Fishing Pole Blue response? 04/21/2009 11:51:30 AM PDT

I guess we should never expect an answer to our question why did they change it to begin with ?

Peterpaul

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Arathor

7. Re: Mastercraft Fishing Pole Blue response? 04/21/2009 11:52:41 AM PDT

Q u o t e:

I'm not much of a high end player, unfortunately. What other weapons had a similar DPS to the Kalu'ak Fishing Pole, pre-nerf?

This sounds like a troll post, Palehoof, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and respond. For example, the Titansteel Destroyer (crafted weapon) has 186.5 dps but better stats. I think we could all agree that perhaps 186.5 dps was excessive (though attractive) for this fishing pole. But to nerf it down to only 9 dps without explanation is just too much. Even with underwater breathing, it no longer deserves the color purple.

And it was indeed fun to be able to fend off trash mobs with this whilst fishing. It made the long Kalu'ak reputation grind seem worthwhile. To have this item destroyed down to the level of grey vendor trash is inexcusable and unforgiveable, especially without a posted blue response to all the threads and posts requesting one. I can no longer trust what Blizzard might do in future patches to be reasonable.

I want a level 80 upgrade for my Lionheart Executioner!!! And WTF happened to my fishing pole???!!!!!

Tèmptress

Steamwheedle Cartel

8. Re: Mastercraft Fishing Pole Blue response? 04/21/2009 11:54:22 AM PDT

There's so much blizzard needs to fix in the game but
they manage to have time to nerf the fishing pole while other bugs still exist.

Fatkid

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Duskwood

9. Re: Mastercraft Fishing Pole Blue response? 04/21/2009 11:57:15 AM PDT

Q u o t e:
The fishing pole still works as it was intended - for catching fish.

Peterpaul

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Arathor

10. Re: Mastercraft Fishing Pole Blue response? 04/21/2009 11:57:26 AM PDT

Q u o t e:
There's so much blizzard needs to fix in the game but
they manage to have time to nerf the fishing pole while other bugs still exist.

Evidently they must be TRYING to fix bugs as they don't have the time for the simple courtesy to respond to all the posts that have asked for an explanation for the nerf to this fishing pole.

I want a level 80 upgrade for my Lionheart Executioner!!! And WTF happened to my fishing pole???!!!!!

Terazul

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Blackrock

11. Re: Mastercraft Fishing Pole Blue response? 04/21/2009 11:58:09 AM PDT

Q u o t e:
The fishing pole still works as it was intended - for catching fish.

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Drenden

12. Re: Mastercraft Fishing Pole Blue response? 04/21/2009 11:58:52 AM PDT

Q u o t e:
The fishing pole still works as it was intended - for catching fish.

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Muriaticus

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Ysera

13. Re: Mastercraft Fishing Pole Blue response? 04/21/2009 11:58:58 AM PDT

Q u o t e:

Evidently they must be TRYING to fix bugs as they don't have the time for the simple courtesy to respond to all the posts that have asked for an explanation for the nerf to this fishing pole.

So, tell us, what were you doing with the pole besides fishing?

Those of us who used it as intended don't know what nerf you're talking about.

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Anvilmar

14. Re: Mastercraft Fishing Pole Blue response? 04/21/2009 12:00:05 PM PDT

Q u o t e:
The fishing pole still works as it was intended - for catching fish.

Limsey

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Feathermoon

15. Re: Mastercraft Fishing Pole Blue response? 04/21/2009 12:00:33 PM PDT

Hi there.

It's a fishing pole. It catches fish.

It was never meant to be your main weapon.

You have lost nothing but the ability to hit things very hard with your fishing pole.

That is not worth whining about.

Palehoof

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Lightninghoof

16. Re: Mastercraft Fishing Pole Blue response? 04/21/2009 12:00:48 PM PDT

Q u o t e:
This sounds like a troll post, Palehoof, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and respond. For example, the Titansteel Destroyer (crafted weapon) has 186.5 dps but better stats. I think we could all agree that perhaps 186.5 dps was excessive (though attractive) for this fishing pole. But to nerf it down to only 9 dps without explanation is just too much. Even with underwater breathing, it no longer deserves the color purple.

And it was indeed fun to be able to fend off trash mobs with this whilst fishing. It made the long Kalu'ak reputation grind seem worthwhile. To have this item destroyed down to the level of grey vendor trash is inexcusable and unforgiveable, especially without a posted blue response to all the threads and posts requesting one. I can no longer trust what Blizzard might do in future patches to be reasonable.

I wasn't trolling, I was really asking, and thank you for answering. I think that was a major role in the change to the Kalu'ak pole, though. It had no level requirement, only reputation and fishing 300. I understand some Feral Druid DPS was based off the weapon they were wielding, which meant all a Feral Druid had to do to get Titansteel Destroyer level DPS was have Fishing at 300 and exalted kalu'ak. Seems a reasonable thing to change.

I do agree they changed it a little hard, and some explanation would have been nice.

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Falrinn

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Turalyon

17. Re: Mastercraft Fishing Pole Blue response? 04/21/2009 12:01:36 PM PDT

Q u o t e:
There's so much blizzard needs to fix in the game but
they manage to have time to nerf the fishing pole while other bugs still exist.

This statement is only true if only a handful of developers worked on WoW, however with well over 100 devs, if they all tried to work on the same thing (such as fixing bugs) they would probably get less work. Since so many devs would be stepping on each others turf due to communication issues and try to fix the same bug multiple ways, resulting in a fatal error.

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Ysera

18. Re: Mastercraft Fishing Pole Blue response? 04/21/2009 12:01:54 PM PDT

Q u o t e:
It was never meant to be your main weapon.

As a matter of fact I love nothing more than beating the living crap out of nagas and murlocs with my Nat Pagle extreme angler 3000.

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We ran to the sounds of thunder.
We danced among the lightning bolts,
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