4.0 on Live & Beta 13183

Well, patch 4.0.1 of Cataclysm is finally live on servers. Everyone is either freaking out over the changes or drooling over their new tools.

Me, I started leveling my Shaman, Thundastruck, while I wait for Cataclysm release to draw closer, which is when I roll my Mage and that will become my new main.

Leveling in the old world, with specializations at level 10 and enchanted heirlooms, is quite honestly ridiculous. I’m having a hard time trying to decide between Enhancement or Elemental, but I’m thinking Elemental at least until 30 just because Thunderstorm is so much goddamn fun.

I’m honestly kind of surprised at the amount of people that had no idea what patch 4.0 was bringing. You sit in trade for just a few minutes and there are all sorts of comments, like “wtf you can’t gem spellpower anymore?” and such. Common sense tells me these people are probably the ones you don’t want to get stuck with in a group. People may accuse me of having an elitist attitude because of that, but honestly, if you spent just 2 minutes looking at a site like MMO-Champion over the past month, they’d know all they would need to know about what was coming.

On the beta side of things, there’s this:

Arcane

* Polymorph now has a 1.7 sec cast time, down from 2 sec.

Frost

* Ring of Frost now has a 2 min cooldown, down from 3 min.
* Shatter now also increases the damage done by Frostbolt against frozen targets by 10/20%.

Fire

* Combustion reworded to clarify its effect – Consumes all your damaging periodic Fire effects on an enemy target, instantly dealing 954.57 to 1131.92 Fire damage and creating a new periodic effect that lasts 10 sec and deals damage per time equal to the sum of the consumed effects. / 40 yd range, Instant, 2 min cooldown

The Shatter change I’m actually pretty surprised about, simply because there’s quite a large amount of QQ on the beta forums right now over Frost and it’s current state.

There’s one particular post on the beta forums that I found greatly amusing. Ring of Frost was a hot topic in this thread. The post in question is this one. This druid is qq’ing over the fact that the current freeze from Ring of Frost is classified as physical, not magical, and is thus undispellable. He claims in this post that *every* caster CC is dispellable, and so should this.

Now, please, correct me if I’m wrong here… but isn’t Cyclone undispellable as well? That’s a caster CC (even if wielded by ferals) and it’s undispellable. Unfortunately, no one pointed this out to the clearly misinformed Druid. Hey, at least Cyclone doesn’t require your target to actually WALK INTO the freakin’ tornado in order to get CC’d.