Hey Blizzard,
Any chance you could buff windwalker a bit? They seem kinda beans in keys atm
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Nope. Its amazing on two fights in raid so it looks better on avg than it is so no buffs there. WW being bad in M+ seems to be a design feature.
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Windwalker is basically an Enhancement Shaman in monk disguise. The design philosophy of knocking them down to mediocre the moment they get close to top tier performance seems to apply just the same.
A shame, really, because windwalker is a ridiculously fun spec, and from a gameplay perspective pretty well designed.
The hero trees are pretty stellar and visually fulfilling as well.
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Its actually a Shaman and Monk thing in general. No spec is allowed to be ahead to the point if godcomp/meta. If they are its hard nefs within 2 weeks.
For some reason VDH, Disc and Mage gets to be great more often than not
Disc priest has been S-tier for 3 straight seasons and over the course of m+'s entire existence a priest spec, especially healer, has almost always been meta. Second to that is rdruid followed by rshaman. Which is exactly what we’ve ended up with at this point in season 3. All that tuning and effort they did for nothing. It was priest>druid>=rshaman…and it still is.
I’m not even sure how they could balance VDH conceptually. It’s the most mobile tank, has easy no brainer mitigations, has a group mitigation through darkness (long cd is a draw back,) brings magic dmg amp raid buff for the plentiful caster meta, ideal for meld skips, sigil of chains + silence is so powerful with the removal of abomination limb as the only competition and the changes to casters, etc.
I think for WW monk they need to move the cap from 5 to 7 maybe to make them do more dmg in mplus maybe 8 targets with the lower dmg after that , and or maybe drop the lightning procs from 20 stack to like 12 so we can get more burst aoe/ or give ww a mana focus tea thing like mistweaver where we can prob jade lightning at the 20 stack for burst
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How could anyone have guessed?
The stupid Storm thunder and fire literally deceases the damage sometimes, especially when the mobs are not stacked together, when the fist of fury from the elements is only facing one target.
Blizzard could just take off one of the two AoE reductions on FoF. It’s currently double reduced. It does full damage to the primary target, I think something like 50% or 60% to secondary targets, then even more reduced past 5. Just let FoF full cleave the first 5 (or 8) targets then half damage for anything past 5 (or 8).
Keep the lightning stacks at 20. Let it be built based on Chi spent instead of Chi spenders. That way FoF contributes 3 stacks instead of 1. If you wanna go the extra mile or two, let the stacks persist through deaths because people plant a lot of oopsie daisies in M+ and take the 20% damage reduction off of Power of the Thunder King.
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Please blizzard hear are battle cries! We don’t have list we don t have b rez and our raid buff sucks because almost no specs in the game have much physical damage anymore. Buff our aoe damage please.
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Amen.
its Sad they cant look deeper right now we need a Decend St buff. Aoe were good.
we might not burst 40-50M dps but dps avg at end key is decend
Both could use work. Though, I’d say AoE needs a little more love. Not primarily for output reasons though.
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