Wondering how the new Inscription tradeskill will affect Druids in Wrath of the Lich King? View the full list of currently available and datamined Glyphs for Balance, Feral, and Restoration Druids here!
Natural Perfection No Longer Triggers from Crits while Sitting
Published on January 9, 2008 by Phaelia 
Blue, PvP, Spells and Talents 
5 Comments
Community Manager Hortus points out:
Abilities should not trigger from crits on sitting players; this is in the 2.3.2 patch notes but doesn’t seem to be very clearly explained.
Technically, it isn’t explained at all as the patch notes read:
Effects triggered from being critically hit: Many abilities and talents were changed in 2.3.0 to allow them to trigger from critical strikes that occurred while the player benefitting from them was sitting.
What’s the significance? Prior to patch 2.3.2, a Restoration Druid with the Natural Perfection talents could go behind a pillar and sit three times while a low melee DPS assailant (such as a Warlock’s Felhunter) was beating on them to guarantee a 3-stacked proc and 15% damage reduction for 8 seconds. I’m not surprised that this was changed as it definitely does seem exploitive. Keep in mind that this does not mean that you will not be critted while sitting (for instance, when you drink); it just means that these crits will not activate abilities that normally activate upon being crit.
Among the known issues with Patch 2.3.2 is that:
Shapeshifting does not remove the movement impairing debuff Frost Breath.
Since I don’t recognize this ability from the Mage retinue, I’m guessing this is an effect from one or more NPCs.
Related Posts
5 Comments
Trackbacks
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
I’m guessing that the Frost Breath belongs to the Frost Wyrms you fight at Mount Hyjal.
Remember Azugeros and Sapphiron ? They both were doing Frost Breath for instance.
Now, I don’t see what they did nerf this abilities.
Nice to see they finally have corrected the /sit abuse.
@Shalkis: Thanks for the confirmation that this isn’t going to adversely affect us in PvP!
@Dajay: I just wonder if they’ve corrected the abuse of /sit to allow you to continue drinking until crowd controlled. One would think they would look at both items simultaneously.
I really hope they fix the /sit abuse with drinking. I personally refuse to do it, and it’s led to quite a few losses (that we should have won) against teams that DO abuse it.
/agree – I can’t think of anything that makes me more angry than seeing people exploit in Arenas. I fought a Priest/Hunter pair a while back that pulled this crap with us. I ended up having to use Cyclone just to keep the Priest from drinking.