8.1 class changes

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I haven’t played the PTR and haven’t paid that much attention to patch notes but… did they fix/improve your spec with this patch?

BFA has been rough for me so far and I’ve had a hard time enjoying it, a big reason why is class design compared to legion, Most all my toons are significantly less enjoyable to play. Does 8.1 address your concerns around class design?

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It’s going to take some playing to see really. For PvP at least.

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I mean its not like MM could get any worse… right?

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All I know is, Everyone talks about how OP fire mage is at the moment in PvP and when I looked at the patch notes they got 0 changes that would decrease their performance.

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MW Monk plays really well, better than Legion, and we didn’t really get nerfed so I’m happy right now.

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Well we are talking about class balance. Let just say it never gotten better.

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MW is the only class that I think got changed for the better

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warriors got a lot of love. prot is amazing and fury has interesting traits now

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No. They did not. They applied some changes but they do not fix or improve the spec. I am sure that no one on the development team plays feral or guardian druids.

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They should have left character builds to the players. I miss vanilla where we had talent trees and were able to build our toons the way we wanted them. I took a long break before legion even hit and came back for BFA and even though the game is visually appealing the fact that they are slowly taking more control away from the players is concerning.

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Shaman are finally getting a much needed buff.

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If they’ve sped up prot warriors, there’s a start. However, that GCD nerf to EVERYONE still needs to be looked at hard or just reverted.

Semper Fi! :us:

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I’m still stuck playing Affliction with Deathbolt and Haunt.

So no, I’m not happy with these changes, because there were no changes.

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My MM hunter will enjoy the upgraded DPS, I am not sure about all of the Shadow Priest changes, haven’t had time to digest them. I am glad they did not change Fire Mage, having tons of fun on my mage.

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How did MW get better? Unless you meant the non dispellable soothing mist?

EvM got a 13% nerf, though we did get a cpl decent as trait changes

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I played Affliction. I got my character up there early on and finished heroic raid early on. Then I just said f it and went demonology and now I have fun. Enough people have caught up to our affliction damage that we don’t have to carry the raids anymore and demo is fun. Play it, you’ll like it.

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Monks and DHs still powerhouse classes.

Will continue to play my Druid - Resto and Balance.

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Well, we got damage transfers, talent moves, a new talent or two, the few talents that made us good in one aspect of the game removed/nerfed, a blanket buff, and nothing like we were told. So without playing yet, I’m going to say equal in pve (hopefully without a new, convoluted rotation), and yet another nerf in pvp.

My biggest fear is they did just enough to really make the rotation horrible. I can say they didn’t do enough to make 1/3 of our mastery useful.

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no shamans will still be garbage and sat for raids and m+ like they are now.

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* Explosive Shot redesigned. Now fires an explosive shot at your target. After 3 seconds, the shot will explode, dealing Fire damage to all enemies within 8 yards.

^That I don’t like at all. I’ve waited a solid 7 seconds to explode that shot to get something a fair bit away from me, and I’ve set it off 1 second after firing to deal with crap that swarmed me. So I see no reason to use that ability at all anymore since I CAN’T CONTROL IT NOW.

Stop dumbing down the classes!!!

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