Walk away Walk away, I will follow… (HoR Nerf?)

There have been a lot of little fixes in the latest patch. Most of them have been to make heroic dungeons much easier and faster. I am a little disappointed in some of the changes, for example I do not see the need to nerf Anomalus, even for geared players that fight is a fun PITA! I do agree with the Svala Sorrowgrave nerf, we would make a game to see if we could kill her in the air before the sword came down.

I guess they are just nurfing the mechanics of the fights more than the fights themselves, the bosses still have the same HP and mana pools, they just made them less annoying to the over geared player. I wish they would make these instances a little harder, but if they did it would put them out of the reach of leveling and fresh level 80 players. I guess we have to be happy with ICC and the new 5 mans as our hard content. Even HoR seems to have gotten easier, last night we had a drunk pally tanking, he did not stand out in the open to get agro and did not put a consecrate down for the mobs to hit before they got to the squishies, agro was all over the place. Despite having to 4 man the first boss we made if thru the 10 waves. As we are getting ready to run with the Lich King, I ask the pally if he wants to get in front or do it from behind (standard or ledge strat). After a min of off color jokes, he decides he wants to do it from behind. Well, what happened next was NOT in the patch notes (that I could find) and had us all laughing and saying WTF at the same time. As the King approached and turned to walk away from us on our “safe” little ledge, purple lightning began forking out at us. All I saw was red, red health bars on my healbot, and soon a group of five on the ground convulsing like Vigo the Carpathian had just reached out from his painting and showed us how he IS better than Tony Danza.

After the WTF factor wore off, we realize that Blz had extended the range of the Lich Kings white cloud and now purple forked lightning if you are behind him. It is not insta-death but you would need a core of 10 healers’ chain healing to even be standing after the first fight.

NOTE TO SELF: Don’t walk behind the man any more, he does not like you following him.

Should Bliz have told us about this change? Were we exploiting a hole in the programming? They tell us about everything else they are changing, why not this (did i miss it?)? Have you noticed anything else “weird” in the world since the patch?

PS if you want to have some fun, tell your group to walk behind him and enjoy the ensuing slaughter and pretty purple lights.