for the love of god give an update on balance
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No nerfs for destro. Tiny buffs for arcane and BM. NO BUFFS FOR BALANCE OR AFFLICTION?
Blizzard, why? What is your reason for leaving stunningly OP specs alone and either not touching or barely touching struggling specs?
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I don’t understand why they are being so stupid about this.
The thing that made outlaw aoe OP in BFA is a trait that doesn’t exist anymore, like what are they doing?
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You nerf Destro and Survival and you make everything across the board harder by this point.
The time to nerf those specs significantly was the week before Mythic. Now it’s basically what happened with BFA S4 Fire Mage: the specs are clearly broken as hell, but if you nerf them now you’re just gonna give the finger to anyone who actually geared them up to push keys or raid this season.
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BM should stay at current place for the sake of hunter class. SV and MM can shine in high end content now, because BM sucks.
At the very moment Blizzard gives a big buff to BM, every hunter will go BM(like it was in BFA) , and SV and MM will be the forgotten hunter spec once again(like it was in BFA).
Every hunter will go BM, because it’s the easiest spec to play. Yeah, SV and MM rotation are also simple with tier sets, but they have their disadvantages to deal with. SV is melee and MM has a casting time to their main skill. While BM, all of their abilities are instant and ranged. So yes, BM is the easiest hunter spec to play, and if Blizz buff them too much, it will kill the spec diversity.
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Exactly, they can’t nerf them now otherwise they might as well give the R1 m+ title out next Tuesday since no one else will ever get close to those key levels.
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Great changes so far, concerned about bm buffs in pvp, indirect fury buff with bug hotfix and no changes to rogues though
Also hoping to see more disc buffs
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After these buffs I can tell you MM will be a dead spec, SV for keys and SV for Anduin/Dreadlords and BM will be the main pick for every fight in the raid.
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I absolutely agree. But they should be addressed by season 4 as that is supposed to be a new season despite it being reused content.
I’m not really sure that the game should pander and protect FotM chasers though. That was their decision to swap to those classes because they were OP, there should be an inherent knowledge that there is the potential for them to be nerfed and it shouldn’t be a surprise.
9.2.5 is basically the setup for season 4 though which I know releases after. It would just be good to get some acknowledgement that they have changes in line for season 4 release or something.
As upto now it has just been completely ignored despite it being the abnormally large rainbow elephant in the room.
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I’m all for these Arms buffs.
Still feel like their ST will be trash but we’ll see, I’m no expert.
lmao.
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If you’re trying to buff WW’s ST weakness -Why is feral not getting AoE buffs? The two specs mirror each other in that regard.
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Yeah I agree, protecting FOTM re-rollers is literally the worst excuse possible to not change something. If anything it should be considered an unintended benefit if you make things worse for people who only play whatever is the most powerful spec, knowing that it will remain the most powerful for many months on end because Blizzard doesn’t even attempt to keep things balanced.
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Was the “this change does not apply to PvP.” forgotten for this one?
Otherwise super cool changes, and I like hearing the Devs thoughts on why they made them.
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This is great. Since Arcane got a buff, does this mean Feral also gets a buff? Can’t have one meme outshine the other.
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Fury warriors in shambles.
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BM easy to play ? Not easy to master. You don’t know the spec well enough
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these are actually very good buffs for outlaw, ty for giving us these instead of uncapping bf. mind you which wouldnt do anything for outlaw. at all.
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Can we talk about this??? FINALLY
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As a BM specialist who don’t play other specs, that’s not fair to us. Specs need to be all viable for all end game content
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Also I’m ashamed there aren’t any disc priest PvE buffs. Why PvP only
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