Class Tuning in Progress -- July 13 -- Updated

We’ve added some PvP offsets to tomorrow’s update.

Hunter

  • Beast Mastery
    • Kill Command, Cobra Shot, Barbed Shot, Multi-Shot, and Kill Shot damage increased by 15%.
  • Marksmanship
    • Aimed Shot, Arcane Shot, Multi-Shot, and Rapid Fire damage increased by 10%.
    • Kill Shot damage increased by 15%.
  • Survival
    • Serpent Sting, Wildfire Bomb, Raptor Strike, Mongoose Bite, Flanking Strike, and Kill Shot damage increased by 10%.

Mage

  • Fire
    • Fireball damage increased by 20%.
    • Fire Blast damage increased by 15%.
    • Pyroblast damage increased by 5%.

Priest

  • Shadow
    • Devouring Plague damage reduced by 8%.
    • Dissonant Echoes’ (Conduit) Void Bolt damage reduced by 5%.

Warlock

  • Affliction
    • Damage of all spells increased by 5%.

Player versus Player

Hunter

  • Beast Mastery
    • Kill Command damage decreased by 15% in PvP situations, to offset the change above.

Mage

  • Fire
    • Fire Blast damage decreased by 15% in PvP situations, to offset the change above.
    • Pyroblast damage decreased by 5% in PvP situations, to offset the change above.
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The quickness with which you address fire mage issues is almost funny. I mean, there are multiple specs that are borderline unplayable for entire (and multiple) expansions and this is where the focus goes.

I’m not even surprised or mad anymore. I’m just disappointed.

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Is this adjustment a joke?

How is BM/ Survival in ANY needs of buffs in PvP?

THIS should have been a revert and then an added NERF to these classes

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You forgot

right?

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So affliction, which is over 20 standard deviations behind gets a meaningless 5% buff, and Rogue which is literally 2 standard deviations ahead of the next class doesn’t get nerfed?

If Blizzard will open a position for someone to read charts and interpret data, I’ll happily apply.

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Nice, showing Blizzard’s VERY obvious bias here. Other classes like Warrior “Your spec is bad? here a 10% attack damage increase on Mortal strike and a 5% increase to your Mastery damage which is still low, you’re welcome”

Mage: 20% 15% and 5% to their main spells

can’t have their most beloved class being below average at anything even if one of their specs is still super strong. ffs…

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Don’t worry, Affliction and Fury might be absolutely terrible, but they’re buffing Fire Mage Abilities by 20%, 15%, and 5% to their main 3 when Mages have a spec that is above both Fury and Affliction. It’s their favorite class after all. Oh and Assassin rogues doing massively better than everyone else? Meh no issue here obviously.

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Venthyr is the main thing allowing BM and SV to be so strong in pvp. You guys should look into that considering you didn’t bother including kill shot to the pvp nerfs.

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Fireball being a filler and Fire Blast a trigger, while the damage dealer gets 5%. It’s only about a 6-7% DPS increase, it’ll still be among the bottom raid specs.

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Cool so kill shot is still being buffed by 15% in pvp for bm and by 10% for survival. Nice.

They’re not. Frost DK is doing okay numbers in PvE.

That doesn’t make RP feel any less terrible to spend.

Why you tryin to get the other hunter specs put under the microscope eh?

Lol buffing two overperforming specs in PVP.

You guys really going hard on the sauce at the office.

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I’ll admit I do not like bm at all and never will but I main survival, and I mentioned survival? I’m not trying to get anything “put under the microscope” I’m mentioning the obvious thing that makes these specs very strong.

I didn’t mention MM because it’s just a mess from what I’ve seen, They’re usually kyrian so it’s like “i either one shot you through this pillar while im max range or i lose the game” i have no idea what to do about that spec

Real talk though it’s so funny how quickly mages get attention while so many other classes/specs get ignored for entire tiers lmao

still waiting blizz where’s the buffs to specs that need them you can’t justify after 17 yrs only working on 3 or 4 specs and forget the rest. get better or just delete the rest of the specs you never feel like giving time to already. you done know seen all the testing dps meters all that what’s the problem?

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What, you think I’m lying? They are literally THE bottom spec in SoD right now, this buff won’t bring them much higher.

Don’t worry, you’ll never convince anyone otherwise. The Fire Mage buffs are maybe 5% on ST, which isn’t a whole lot. It doesn’t affect they’re AOE at all.

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MM is significantly ahead of BM in 252 ST sims…

Regardless of where they sit, they were one of the most dominant specs in 9.0. They’ve gone for less than 2 weeks into 9.1 to get an immediate buff.

I laugh, because many other classes don’t get this attention.

Also, fire is still bonkers for m+, so it’s just all a bit funny

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