Crushing blows (mostly) removed in Wrath as raiding changes

 

 

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Crushing blows (mostly) removed in Wrath as raiding changes

via WOW Insider by Daniel Whitcomb on 7/31/08

Filed under: Druid, Paladin, Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, Instances, Expansions, Raiding, Bosses, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King

We've known for a while that the developers have wanted to remove crushing blows, but now it looks like they're starting the process for good: Ghostcrawler has confirmed that crushing blows will now occur only when a mob is 4 levels above you, rather than 3. Since "Boss" mobs are automatically 3 levels above the max level, that means that if you're running level appropriate content, you should no longer have to worry about crushing blows at all.

As Ghostcrawler explains it, crushing blows were originally meant to discourage you from attacking high level mobs and to make bosses more challenging. Now, they serve only the latter purpose, and Blizzard is working on other ways to make bosses challenging without making them so random.

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