Don’t feel the need to. Roughly 15 of your entire 32 posts have done so already.
Thank you, alt/second account of a regular. Your input is valued.
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Blizzard can only copy and paste game design, they can’t handle copy/pasting text in forums.
Beast Mastery
- Pet melee damage reduced by 10%.
- Laceration damage reduced to 8% (was 15%).
- Kill Command damage reduced by 20%.
- Huntmaster’s Call Hati and Fenryr attack damage reduced by 33%.
- Dire Beast damage reduced by 10%.
- Smack damage reduced by 10%.
- Stomp damage reduced by 10%.
- Barbed Shot damage reduced by 25%.
What the hell Blizz!?!?!?!?!?
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Maybe they’re getting ready to add in hero talents and that’s why so many nerfs?
Idk, just guessing here.
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I’ve read a lot of patch notes over the past 17 years, but the constant huge percentage changes to abilities in the last 12 months are jaw-dropping. Of course, true class balance is impossible, and even impractical, as each has it’s pros and cons. Tweaking abilities is one thing but this regular ‘sweep through like a tsunami’ methodology makes me worry. It turns the usual class ‘flavour’ of the xpac into something that changes on a far too regular basis. Players invest a lot of time into getting to know their main class and spec. Can we please at least see an end to almost complete rebuilds, and 100% buffs or nerfs once the TWW dust settles?
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Its not live yet
“Could use another rogue or two”
Nerfing only to have to buff back later 
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Just guessing this is in prep for Hero Talents. Since BM Hunter had been nutty in pre-patch.
This just confirms were all just beta testers on live servers.
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Hero talents better be a base game addition, then. I’m gonna be po’d if my hunter is being neutered for not opening my wallet.
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Why would I waste my time with mythic+, They are the worse thing to happen to wow Since Greg Street left the Dev team. Second, so what if I have only killed heroic fyraak once. Nerfs are still nerfs. Power downs are still power downs.
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Haha! I predict a repeat of launch Cataclysm for TWW. Within the first couple months they will end up reverting most of these nerfs, especially to tanks, and heals, or will end up having to nerf instanced content just like they had to do back then
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You get hero talents from 71 - 80 from what I understand.
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I kind of feel like some of these changes are geared towards gaining hero talents given they’ll be a significant source of power once we ding level 71.
I also feel like this could be another case of some mystery dev making sweeping changes or poorly thought out ideas again. Similar to a lot of what we’ve seen with MoP releasing in the state that it was in for a month, the cost of weapon upgrades for season 4, and more recently the amount of currency and frequency of the pre-patch event. All of these were released in a bad state, and it took them a few days to a full month to pretty much nerf every single grind by half or more due to the pitiful amounts of currency being dropped.
IDK what’s going on with blizzard honestly but they keep setting the tuning knobs either too low or too high, and they just can’t seem to find that happy middle ground on launch recently.
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Happy to see progress towards balance being made, but a couple things stand out to me (on the specs I’ve spent more time on during prepatch so far).
BM Hunter does need a nerf in single target, but it needs a significant buff in aoe. Some of your nerfs also nerf the aoe damage; unacceptable.
The current Living Bomb is just random passive damage; boring unless it does big numbers (which you’re massively nerfing). Bring back manual cast Living Bomb (with ~10s cooldown). But more importantly, Flamestrike has needed a big damage buff for years, like you finally did recently on Earthquake and are now doing on Blizzard.
Holy Light costs 16k mana and heals for 69k. Flash of Light costs 4.5k mana and heals for 45k. Healing per cast time is roughly equal, but healing per mana cost is massively in favor of Flash of Light. You are nerfing Holy Light 28% and Flash of Light 5%. When am I supposed to use Holy Light?
You’ve done nothing to fix the rotational / ramp problems Affliction has in typical aoe dungeon situations.
About time we got the big Chaos Bolts back.
Tank survivability nerfs good, would prefer to see only the single target damage buffed.
Ummm. TWW isn’t out yet. Blizz… calm down.
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I sure hope so… having no locks join raids has been quite annoying since everyone just afks in val completely blind to the fact there are NO LOCKS IN THE GROUP!!!
And yet again, Ret is hot garbage what a surprise
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What in the F is with these BM nerfs… Seriously?! Did you look at people’s rankings on youtube and decide someone needs to be in the F tier?
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