Wasn’t it 10% not too long ago (yea, yea, back in BfA)? Now it’s 3%??? Lmao. Is it even worth pressing this ability anymore? Seems like an unnecessary GCD trigger at this point lol.
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Thought it was 5% same with Battle Shout.
Not anymore!
seems like the Butcher took a cleaver to a few things.
I was ok til I saw the way they TRASHED Burning Rush. Literally a waste of time now.
IF I use it a healer will flay me alive, lol
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So it’s like what, a baby nerf to maybe encourage some less pure caster runs?
Pure caster runs? Who was doing that???
More likely it was a nerf due to the existence of aug. Blizz seriously needs to delete aug. It’s messing up so many other specs in the game it isn’t even funny anymore.
And considering it used to be 10%. I’d say a nerf from 10% not too long ago (ok it was a while ago back in BfA, reduced to 5% in SL, but still!), down to 3% isn’t exactly a “baby nerf”.
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Isn’t the meta for 3 straight seasons of Dragonflight Mage, Shadow, Aug, Vengeance, and resto druid?
We already cleared up, and you even posted the source it was 5%.
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News to me. So let me get this straight. Because there’s some sort of top 1% “meta” meme comp going on that 99% of the playerbase doesn’t partake in, we gotta nerf an entire class?
Reminds me of when every class in the game got hit with the AoE nerf due to the degeneracy happening in m+. Yet another case of the tail wagging the dog over at Blizz HQ.
It wasn’t. It was originally 10%. It was nerfed down to 5% not too long ago. Now it’s at 3%. So over the course of a few years? it went down from 10% to now 3%.
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- Developers’ notes: To make our raid buffs more equal across varied group compositions, we’re reducing the effectiveness of Arcane Intellect and Chaos Brand from 5% to 3%. We feel this will help to improve the balance of caster heavy versus melee heavy groups when participating in non-raid content. * - The hotfix
So maybe, possibly?
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I’m aware of what they “said”. Doesn’t make it any less silly. I mean, we have a hell of a lot more melee playing the game than ranged but well, ok!
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That’s how they always operate. Prot Paladins still paying the price because some group ran a healer less comp in MDI that one time.
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The healer to go with it has changed, but Fire/Aug/Shadow/VDH just synergize with each other to the point where if all 4 are balanced to be ok independently of each other, they will be the best Combo of 4 you can make (healer’s interchangeable, depends on what’s best).
Nerfing AI/Chaos brand will do something to change that, but it’s much harder to come up with a pure physical comp.
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Pure casters are more common than pure physical damage.
5% damage to everyone doing magic damage covered a lot. More than attack power/physical damage buffs.
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Wait. Intellect also affected non-magic classes?
Healers.
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Who is a non magic class? Thats my point.
The amount of specs/classes that use absolutely no magic is really small.
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So the buff to intellect would also benefit DK for example? Or hunter?
More nerfs to caster compositions are welcomed.
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Yes, actually.
That 1% meta creates a fundamental problem in M+. If you’re an LFG andy, you’ll struggle to really get high keys if you aren’t apart of the meta comp because the meta comp was just so much better than everything else.
You had to rely on friends and networking to not play the meta.
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uh the meta in M+ is pure caster / magic damage and has been for a while its why they nerfed both mage and DH
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