Blizzard, why stealth nerf ferals with a 5% damage nerf? I get that a slight nerf may have been warranted for PvE due to the recent buff, but 5% nerf for PvP as well is actually really noticable.
Also this is a 5% nerf to bears as well. Surely you could’ve came up with something else to nerf, than nerfing feral across all aspects.
Yeah this is exactly the kind of thing I didn’t want to see happen and why I made a post that’s been buried a little bit about alternative ways to tune the change.
They need to take a more tactful approach if this is really how they decided to go about it…
Very unfortunate, and has implications of Bear Tanks, PvPers ect now in what was supposed to otherwise be a strict PvE adjustment.
This is pretty messed up honestly. I haven’t even really been posting about class changes.
Blizzard is clearly treating the game like a kid playing with toys.
Hopefully, they will just revert this and call it “an accident” or whatever and figure out something that doesn’t matter for PVP and bear tanks if that’s really what they want to do.
I mean… 5% isn’t “massive,” lets be serious… But it was unnecessary and it doesn’t make sense that they should get caught in the crossfire of what was clearly an attempt to walk-back the buffs they made last week, which they very specifically targeted to PVE/dps.
Why be so careful about who you target with your buff, but then just kinda scattershot a nerf intended to mitigate the buff.
This is a knee jerk nerf if ever i’ve seen one. Feral justifiably needed a nerf at some point in the future, but not a nerf like this. Back to the drawing board blizzard because nerfing pvp and bear is not the way to do it. Especially not a bear nerf.
Funny thing is - we could see this coming a mile off. They’re flicking changes in untested and then doing panicky changes when it doesn’t go the way they thought it would.
The speed of it just doesn’t make any sense. Clearly they had absolutely zero chance to test this. At best they simmed it, but it still feels super rushed for no reason at all. It’s not like this is early in a content phase where you might be worried about people stacking ferals to clear content faster or something. They could have easily taken a few weeks to work this out instead of slamming in a hotfix as soon as they got back from the weekend with no warning whatsoever… Makes zero sense…
Why even walk it back though? Whatever someone thought about whether class buffs should be happening or not, they did, and the as-is buffs didn’t make ferals the top DPS, so why did they need to get nerfed again? The lock/rogue domination was safe, so past that, who cares?