Increasing Feral Druid's Energy Regen Using Weak Troll's Blood Potion in Burning Crusade Classic

TBC Pubblicato 25/05/2021 alle 16:57 da NerdEgghead

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Image from Classicwow RedditHow Energy Regeneration Changed in Patch 2.2How did Energy regen work in vanilla WoW?

All player resources (Mana, Energy, Health, and Rage) regenerate discretely on a fixed 2 second "tick".

On every tick, each resource is increased by the current regeneration rate times 2 seconds. So for example, Energy regenerates at a baseline rate of 10 Energy per second, so 20 Energy (10 x 2) is awarded on each Energy tick. Likewise, Mana is returned by taking the player's current total mp5, including both Spirit-based regen and raw mp5, and multiplying it by 0.4 (2 divided by 5) in order to determine how much Mana to refund on each tick.

The timing of these regeneration ticks is fixed, and never changes, even when moving in and out of combat, or when casting abilities like Innervate.

Since the current regen rate is used when calculating how much Mana or Energy to refund on each tick, the timing of abilities like Innervate, Evocation, and Adrenaline Rush relative to the tick timer impacts how these abilities work! For example, if a rogue times an Adrenaline Rush cast to happen just before the next Energy tick, they will immediately get a large burst of Energy as if the buff was up for the entire tick.

For druids, this system causes Mana and Energy regeneration to proceed exactly the same regardless of what form the Druid is in or on when they shapeshifted. When shifting into Cat Form, for example, the druid's Energy is zeroed out but then 20 Energy is restored whenever the next Energy tick occurs after the shift. So similar to rogues, druids could time their shapeshifts before an Energy tick to sync with the fixed timer of when Energy batches will arrive.

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Each player maintains a personal tick timer for their resources that can be reset, rather than the fixed server tick timer used in vanilla.

Any change to the rate of Mana/Energy/Health regeneration triggers a full reset of the tick timer, as well as an instantaneous refund of Mana/Energy equal to the previous regen rate integrated over the time since the last tick. Subsequent ticks then return energy at the new regen rate.

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Time in seconds

Action/Event

Final Energy

Powershift

Energy Tick

1.5

GCD ends, cast Shred

2.5

GCD ends, wait

Energy Tick

Cast Shred

GCD ends, powershift

Time in seconds

Action/Event

Final Energy

GCD ends, wait

Energy Tick

Cast Shred

GCD ends, wait

Energy Tick

Cast Shred

GCD ends, wait

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Time in seconds

Action/Event

Final Energy

Powershift, tick reset

1.5

GCD ends, cast Shred

Energy Tick

2.5

GCD ends, wait

Energy Tick

Cast Shred

GCD ends, powershift

20% nerf to yellow damage~14% nerf to overall DPSMuch more importantly, the playstyle caused by the new Energy system is much slower and clunkier than the original rotation, as you are now waiting idly for 2.5 seconds each cycle with nothing to do.Sodapoppin showing how Weak Troll's Blood Potion impacts energy ticks.Saving the Old Rotation: Trollsblood to the Rescue

Power Regeneration: Any effect which triggers a change in your rate of power regeneration (Mana, Rage, Energy, Focus) will now cause an immediate reward of some power at the old rate of increase, and then begin new “ticks” of power at the new rate approximately 2 seconds later. This was done to improve functionality of abilities such as Evocation and Innervate so that they did not have wasted “ticks”.

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Time in seconds

Action/Event

Final Energy

Powershift and use Weak Troll's Blood Potion

0.4

Cancel Regeneration buff, triggering Energy refund and tick reset

1.5

GCD ends, cast Shred

2.4

Energy Tick

2.5

GCD ends, cast Shred

3.5

GCD ends, powershift and use Weak Troll's Blood Potion

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Simply do not treat shapeshifting as a change in any regeneration rates (because none of them actually change), and therefore don't reset any ticks. This would lead to original 2.0-2.1 powershifting.

Alternatively, if the ticks need to be reset upon a shapeshift, then provide the instant Energy refund to the druid immediately after the shapeshift. Currently the "refund" that is given upon a shapeshift is 0, which is unlike how any other class gets their resources refunded. This implementation would lead to a cycle similar to the "Troll's Blood rotation" but without the need for such ridiculous consumable usage.

Will feral druids be stuck using a level 8 potion for all of Burning Crusade Classic in order to abuse a broken mechanic that was implemented for the final two raids of TBC?

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