is Howl broken?

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is Howl broken?

Post by Ocelot2000 » January 9th, 2019, 10:13 pm

Yesterday and today it has only been working on the first attack, not on two.

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Re: is Howl broken?

Post by Quintessence » January 9th, 2019, 10:36 pm

Howl was changed to affect only the first attack that lands after Howl is applied. (I can't remember when/which patch this change happened - someone please refresh my memory :lol: ) Once an attack hits, it "consumes" the debuff and Howl is cleared.
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Re: is Howl broken?

Post by Gráinne » January 9th, 2019, 10:38 pm

Ir was at the start of Legion, 7.0, that Howl was changed, as part of the removal of the Howlbomb tactic, which had become overused.

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Re: is Howl broken?

Post by FuxieDK » January 10th, 2019, 6:35 am

Gráinne wrote:
January 9th, 2019, 10:38 pm
Ir was at the start of Legion, 7.0, that Howl was changed, as part of the removal of the Howlbomb tactic, which had become overused.
Pretty sure, it was during WoD that Howl Bomb was nerfed..

But as you say, the nerf was in effect all of Legion, but probably before.

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Re: is Howl broken?

Post by Dalandius » January 10th, 2019, 10:58 am

Quintessence wrote:
January 9th, 2019, 10:36 pm
Howl was changed to affect only the first attack that lands after Howl is applied. (I can't remember when/which patch this change happened - someone please refresh my memory :lol: ) Once an attack hits, it "consumes" the debuff and Howl is cleared.
You posted about it back in April 2016 (https://www.warcraftpets.com/news/addit ... in-legion/)
So yes it was a Legion change.

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Re: is Howl broken?

Post by Ocelot2000 » January 11th, 2019, 4:21 am

I can't be that blonde!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Really? It's not April is it? Holy Hell! #embarrassed

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Re: is Howl broken?

Post by Gráinne » January 11th, 2019, 5:21 am

Fuxie, it was Legion pre-patch, but with a forum discussion in advance, during WoD, which is probably why you remember it then:

Legion Pet Battle Tuning
21 Apr 2016
an update to the original proposals from February
https://eu.battle.net/forums/en/wow/top ... =3#post-48

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