The across the board Cloth armor buffs are essentially a passive nerf to DH damage. THough, that is obviously countered by the plater armor nerf… which balances everything out.
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It already was.
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Am I fried or does DH basically do zero physical damage?
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Ignore Pain and extra HP buff tho 
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The rat needs to be tanking my keys and not worrying about Prot PvP.
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They have auto attack and a small portion of blade dance dam iirc
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Sucio post your details log after a shuffle as evidence of DH’s doing more than 5% of their total damage as physical.
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Blade Dance/Death Sweep IS a physical damage ability.
Both abilities are listed as “Physical” under “School”
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I was happy to see the 4% SV buff… then I saw rets.
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So those 2 things are gonna be doing 3-5% less dam to Mages, cool. Big nerfs.
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Those buffs are big enough that I feel like Blizz forgot to put in the DOES NOT WORK IN PVP disclaimer
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They probably thought early DF rets were fun.
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First blood turns blade dance into chaos damage on the initial target.
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Predicted chain of events:
Shadow play becomes grossly dominant.
Most teams will spend their time trying to kill warlock / Stop their insane damage.
Shadow priest will pump while this is happening. Because they are about to be more tanky than guardian.
Shadow priest will catch the damage nerf.
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That 5% will add up over the course of a match… Considering how many Blade Dances/Death Sweeps a decent DH will get off. And since BD/DS damage is boosted by Essence Break… Means it is technically a passive nerf to that as well.
Sure, it isn’t huge… But its a start.
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I just checked in game and the tooltip clearly states the ability is chaos damage to the primary target. Only the cleave to additional targets is physical.
I then hit the target dummy and every hit from blade dance and death sweep was chaos.
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I thought simply added x amount Chaos damage, not converted it.
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Forreal that was the first thing I realized…so warlocks are literally going to be immortal between stamina and armor increase? Like what?
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Apparently. Woo.
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