Anyway, spending 1.5 seconds to keep someone locked down for 3 or even 1.5 doesn’t really look like a bargain to me..

The problem, if there were any, would be about cyclone being balanced or not. It lasts 6 seconds (way less than any other crowd control ability) while, yeah, target can’t be healed, but can’t be harmed either.

Now, if you’re telling me cyclone is bugged and you need less than 15 seconds to do that, that’s a whole different thing

@Kaymoo: Brian has a bit of truth there.. I don’t know exactly about rejuvenation, but lifebloom sure has a high chance of keeping you in combat. I’ve found myself waiting for more than usual to get out of combat only to hear a lifebloom explode. Maybe it doesn’t always happen, I haven’t tested it, but it does sometimes.

@everyone: Druids only became so powerful in arena after water was made available. Nerfing water will nerf everybody, but druids have greater ease to drink. Sure, they’ll be able to drink where no one else will, but they’ll get less from it. The tricky part is elves can shadowmeld anyway, so maybe it’ll hurt tauren druids more.

I think it’ll hurt druids more, as drinking is part of many of their teams’ strategy. Other classes just happen to drink when they can, but can’t count on it. I’m just guessing though

EDIT: I just saw Zenn’s post at the same time as mine. I only want to add the 15 seconds counter begins as soon as the effect ends, not begins. So you have to wait 15 seconds after cyclone wears off (unless it’s not working propperly). Rogues know this well as they can’t use kidney shot (6 seconds, 20 seconds cooldown) immediately after the previous one, they have to wait 1 second or they waste their combo points in a 3-second stun

So, you can in theory cyclone a target (and only one target) for perhaps 9 every so often, we just have to wait about a dozen seconds in between. So, we cannot keep someone cycloned infinitely, but if the fight lasts long enough, we can restart that _cycle_ again and again, yes.

Other crowd control works the same way. For example, in PvP, a mage can keep someone polymorphed for a sliver longer during that same period, with just one cast. So, if you feel that cyclone is ‘bullshit’, then you might want to read up on the crowd control options of other classes

Are you serious? That would be totally lol, because it would also put, say, a priest in combat whenever his shield was hit or his renew ticked. Paladins already don’t drink that often, as well as Shamans (who plays a restoshaman in highrated arena anyways?)
In other news, I just hit lvl 68 with my drood and now roam the skies over shattrath, looking for a prey… TO BEAR BOMB UPON :O

Kit: You’re mistaken, I’m afraid. Cyclone is affected by (afflicted with? ) Diminishing Returns. This means that it lasts its full duration (six seconds) on a target the first time it is cast. If you cast it again on the same target within fifteen seconds of the spell ending, it lasts half the original duration (3 seconds). If you cast it /again/ within fifteen seconds of that ending, it lasts 1.5 seconds… and until you let fifteen seconds go by after the end of that third cast, that target becomes immune to Cyclone.

So, yeah, we can really mess someone up if the timing’s right, but we can hardly lock someone down ‘infinitely’ (the best we can do, if we dropped chain-casts perfectly, is to lock them out of a fight for the first 10.5 out of 25.5 seconds).

And no i didnt miss-see or anything. I know what im talking about, ive tested it and thats a damn OP bullshit.