You’re off meta but the majority of your high keys had destro and survival in them, as well as a blood DK and Rsham/Hpriest. It’s much harder to do the same keys with a completely off meta comp - that’s the difference people are talking about with these posts.
Pushing beyond a certain point you NEED these specs, and even at slightly lower key levels they make it so much easier. The specs should never have lasted anywhere near this long in the state they’re in and that’s a huge failing on Blizzards part - especially when they nerfed other specs with 0 compensation and communication afterward that are now incredibly low representation in higher m+ content. (Ele sham for eg.)
Nothing wrong with playing meta, I took a break from raiding this tier so I play a Hpriest in m+. It’s just the fact that there should never be such a disgustingly large gap in performance between specs to the point where it’s mandatory to bring them.
The amount of copium on this guy is palpable.
Kalamazi, THD, and other high profile locks all agreeing that destro needs a fat nerf
Stop crying at what is deserved
Dark Pact is still at 250%, not the correct new 300%.
All other PVP changes for lock went through including Soul Leech 12% for affliction (though the tooltip doesn’t reflect this, in testing it is working correctly).
It’s not special treatment, the community complained because of the timing with MDI coming up. Imagine having a team put together, ready for the competition just to find out your strategies won’t work because Blizzard nerfed it right beforehand. Blizzard made a good call about this and is listening to what people are saying. Yes these nerfs are needed, along with the survival nerfs, but waiting til season 4 is wise so it makes it even for MDI and those trying to get in the top percentile for the unique title reward since Season 3 is most likely coming to an end soon. It just makes sense.
Really scratching my head why this seems to be such a hard concept for people in this thread to grasp. The nerfs aren’t going away, they’re just being kicked down the road to avoid disrupting the damage it’s already done.
Nobody, nobody is arguing for these nerfs to not go through - Someone name dropped Kalamazi and THD earlier, both of them agree the nerfs are warranted but avoiding them hitting until after MDI/S4 is absolutely the play.
I would argue that nerfing anything is bad and makes people feel bad. They should be buffing classes to bring them up to where their contemporaries are - however in the situation with warlock their power it should have never left the PTR, thats the place these kinds of numbers should have been exposed and thats the place this should have been nipped in the bud before pushing it to live.
They’d need to buff classes by like 300% to get even remotely close to where Warlock is. Maybe that guy talking is a PvPer where Rogue/mage has been the absolute highest S Tier choice (RMP) for what feels like every single season since the game released.
I don’t know if it’s sarcasm or not… but well, I’ll take it as if it weren’t. Is it really necessary for the Hpriest to dominate in all the Competitive areas of Wow? (PvP: Arenas, bgs/rbgs and PvE: M+ and Raid/the latter is the 2nd but is still part of the first)