Ghostcrawler Warns Totem-Stomping Macro Players

Posted 17th May 2009 08:59 PM by Medievaldragon

The Ghostcrawler is on aggro-mode folks, be very careful not to ever use your Totem-Stomping Macro.  There is no telling what a GM might do if you are caught. Blizzard is going to nerf the ability to auto-target totems to destroy them in a future patch.—source

Blizzard Quote:
Ghostcrawler

Blizzard does not like the gameplay of totem-stopping macros and we intend to stop it. Destroying a totem should be a viable strategy but it should be a choice and require some effort on the part of the destroyer. Making a macro to have your pet attack the totem without having to target the totem first does not in our minds constitute enough effort.

This will require a technical change that we don’t have in place yet. We will announce when we are making that change when we know for sure that the change is going live.




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Shnissigah
Posted 18, May 2009 06:58 AM
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sigh… i hate how much blizzard’s been caving to qq’ers lately…

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langlang
Posted 18, May 2009 08:10 AM
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SPAM

medievaldragon

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Agrimax
Posted 18, May 2009 10:01 AM
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A class’s entire buff mechanics and a large part of their defensive capabilities being completely negated by something as simple as an opponent spinning their mousewheel is pretty justified thing to complain about tbh.

I’m glad blizz are finally getting around to dealing with this, they’ve been talking about it for long enough.

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HiceRION
Posted 18, May 2009 10:17 AM
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Blizzard has a history of over nerfing things or removing a whole mechanic instead of simply modifying it. They also often forget that they can just nerf something for pvp and have it only as a pve mechanic (like they did with Exorcism).

So in their quest to save the totems they’ll probably break all pet related macros or they’ll remove the /target command completely. Oh, or they may make totems pet immune all together.

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SSH83
Posted 18, May 2009 10:12 PM
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Wooo. pet-immune totem.  That sounds quite interesting.
Pee v Pee is borked anyways. Who cares?!

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