Classes and Item Tuning Incoming - May 3

Community General Discussion
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With our next scheduled weekly maintenance (May 3 in this region), we intend to make some tuning adjustments to several classes and one item.

Classes
Death Knight

  • Blood
    • The First Eidolon’s Soulsteel (2-piece) set bonus: maximum Strength stack cap is now 40 (was 75).

Hunter

  • Beast Mastery
    • All damage abilities increased by 4%.
      • This change does not apply to PvP combat.

Monk

  • Windwalker
    • All damage abilities increased by 4%.
      • This change does not apply to PvP combat.

Rogue

  • Outlaw
    • All damage abilities increased by 4%.

Warrior

  • Arms
    • All damage abilities increased by 4%.

Warlock

  • Affliction
    • All damage abilities increased by 4%.

Items

  • Gladiator’s Echoing Resolve now increases the duration of crowd control by 25% (was 20%), now lasts 12 seconds (was 15 seconds), no longer increases the duration of root effects, and no longer causes the target to become immune to root effects.

We’ll include the final adjustments in our hotfixes update next week after the tuning goes live.

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:thinking:

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How marvelous.

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Well, rip blood being an actually good and fun tank spec.

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Sweet. I just switched mine to BM out of laziness.

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you are applying the same exact buff to WW monk and BM hunter yet WW monk does so much more dps already than BM

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No nerfs for Survival or Destro. Affliction and Windwalker both doing better than Fury and it’s not getting buffed. Got it.

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Another week, no fixes for Shadow Priest… could you fix Shadow please. It should be fun to play!

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Really? that .17 seconds was the one thing making BloodDK enjoyable?

shrugs

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Great instead of nerfing resolve we made it so you can’t root it off anymore aka buffing it. Sick

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  • Blood
    • The First Eidolon’s Soulsteel (2-piece) set bonus: Heart Strike now increases the duration of Dancing Rune Weapon by 0.33 seconds (was 0.5 seconds).
      • The tooltip will display 0.3 seconds. This will be updated in a later patch.

What was the reasoning for this? Could we get the reasoning please?

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Outlaw and affy buffs in pvp is bad… dont think the resolve changes is enough but we shall see.

I’m confused about this. Doesn’t seem like a real nerf…

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Nothing for Boomies… really… and MORE buffs on WW?

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NO PLEASE NO, I JUST CANT HANDLE ONE MORE PATCH PLAYING ARMS

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How has destro 4 set, surv 4 set (in pvp), fury ms, enhance healing not been looked at?

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These are just band-aid hotfixes and don’t change gameplay at all. They’re just mindless damage tier changers for specs. When are we getting legitimate class changes?

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Along with the welcome Outlaw buffs, has the bug with the Tier Set and Quickdraw talent been addressed?

Where the tier set bonus consumes the damage increase from the talent with no bonus applied.

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how is outlaw, arms and lock dmg buffs going into pvp yet there are no additional healing buffs (even minor) for specs that are lacking. More and more healers are deciding this patch isnt for them for pvp. It’s getting annoying

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There wont be anything because of dev class bias. 3% buff for Outlaw is a joke and Windwalker getting aura buffed is hilarious. Meanwhile Destro and Survival are still somehow getting away without getting their aoe nerfed by at least 20%+.

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