Celestial alignment no longer grants AP, bonus grants haste now instead of crit chance.
Incarnation now has crit chance instead, but they decided to nerf it by 5% for literally no reason.
Convoke the spirits changed from 16 spells down to 12.
Baby moonfire buff, just lmao.
What are you doing to my spec, Blizzard? This is painful.
They removed the AP from CA because it is no longer on the gcd. Similar things happened to many other abilities taken off the gcd
I like the swap for crit/haste on incarn and CA. It feels better to get haste rather than crit as crit doesnt actually impact your gameplay
Incarn nerf was probably just tuning, so I wouldn’t say no reason
Convoke was by far the best convent ability so it makes sense it was nerfed. I think it might have been to big of a nerf though.
I dont really see why these changes are such a big deal though. It is just standard tuning and boomies will be very strong in SL
citation needed
The class is below mid tier on current dps rankings. There are no reasons to nerf them even lower.
Convoke was the best because the others were bad, not because it was overpowered. Venthyr was close but was also a very unfun spell to press which punished you pretty heavily if you didnt chain pull or (God forbid) you killed something too quickly. Kyrian had the potential to be good but heavily depended on the person you put it on, they had to perform well. Also didnt feel good.
We do not speak of Necro lord.
this is an example of why its important to look at profiles of those say things like this. Top mythic raiders and pvpers are voicing red flags and issues from pvp to mythic + and raiding and listing things that are working and things that are not but then we have people stating a class is going to very strong before even all the tuning has been completed.
WTF was that Convoke the Spirits killing?
All druids wanted to be Nightfae. Not only because the RP, but it was such an iconic skill, wich now is dead.
Druid were already doing BAD enough without this nerf.
Many advices on the class discord to re-roll already, all because RESTORATION druids were too op? Making it more sensitive to form-spec would result in better results.
Luckly, we’ll hit more than tanks on overall in high M+ now.
Please revert it and/or fix it on another way.
I would hardly call Convoke dead lol
This an ongoing problem with Druid unfortunately…one spec needs a nerf and another spec gets memed because of it. They nerfed this because of Resto and now Balance gets crapped on. I read that Convoke is guaranteed 2 healing spells as a moonkin. That needs to be fixed. No one is hitting this button to cast healing spells as a boomkin
Unless Boomies have garbage damage (which I do not think they will), they will be strong just because of their utility. The main reason boomies were not good in BFA was because their aoe was garbage, and they did not have super scaling with corruptions like other specs did (Fire mage, BM hunter, DHs, ect…). However their utility was top notch, and they are getting so much more in SL (baseline typhoon, Heart of the Wild, Cyclone, ect…). Now that corruption is gone and their aoe is fixed, I think they will be very strong, especially when you do not play with an rdruid. This view is also mirrored by most of the streamers I follow (Dratnos and TIttles mostly)
We currently dont deal damage outside cds. So, once every 3 minutes.
Again you are assuming AOE is fixed and their damage wont be bad, all I’m saying is even the streamers cant predict the tuning of classes they may have an idea what needs tuning but all it takes is the over nerfing of starfall like at start of BFA and you end up in the same situation that we are in. and wont have streaking star to help
And even with top notch utility if youre not pulling weight dps wise then gonna have to keep fingers crossed another spec of druids is performing well.