Blizzard has preyed on a minority (feral)

[Snipy-faerlina]

@Zoumz-zuljin

If you really want to know the math about it you can go on the druid discord.

I’m on the druid discord. I’m in the #wotlk-feral-dps channel. What info, precisely are you referring to?

@Zoumz-zuljin

The issue is feral does scale way more than intended with the buff they gave it.

Can you provide any details here? If I question this, can you provide me a way to verify it?

@Zoumz-zuljin

I’m not a dev if you want a dev answer feel free to communicate with one.

No kidding.

EDIT: Here’s a video with a bit of a breakdown of the change:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y60alJTLDHQ

Summary of Video

Glyph of Omen of Clarity was changed. Still procs Omen of Clarity with Faerie Fire, but now also decreases all phys dmg by 5%

They originally nerfed the Naturalist Talent from 10% to 5%, but had to walk it back, because it additionally affected PvP and Tanks.

He notes that the original post addressing this mentions threat being an issue from bearweaving:

@Aggrend-1483

This change is intended to smooth out Feral DPS gameplay for most players and resolve many of the social and gameplay challenges that were created by the so-called “Bearweaving” combat strategy. In many situations, Bearweaving not only increases the mechanical complexity of the class to a degree far above what was intended in original Wrath of the Lich King it also places a strain on the raid to keep up with the Druid’s added threat generation, with said impact continually increasing as the Druid becomes more adept at optimizing the rotation.

And questions why they choose Faerie Fire (with a 6 second cd) to proc OoC, and not something like say Cower which is already a threat reduction, and has a 10 second cd…

He further notes that the change wasn’t intended as a buff to feral, but rather the get rid of bearweaving, because the mechanical complexity was higher than they thought it should be, and the threat generation was too high, and notes that while the change removes bearweaving, ferals still generate a lot of threat so he calls this change an overall failure.

He also notes that it should not be a surprise that this nerf was coming.

And here is a link to a spreadsheet with links to all the sims:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQTLPd3Wkmeb-GEjMBAOXmxX5bcnAw6aKYDnpfXFvYTI7Ni-lEjKxm52mYujPR-AeiOGEv0xaJfPukq/pubhtml

Conclusion

It’s an unnecessary change and it isn’t fun.