Class Tuning Incoming – August 12

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Over the first few days of Ghosts of K’aresh content, we’ve been closely monitoring class balance and identifying specializations that are beginning to over- or under-perform in group content and in PvP. With scheduled weekly maintenance in each region, we’ll make the following changes.

Classes

Demon Hunter

  • Havoc
    • All ability damage increased by 5%. Does not apply to PvP combat.

Death Knight

  • Frost
    • Obliterate damage reduced by 5%.
    • Rider of the Apocalypse: Mawsworn Menace now increases the damage of Obliterate by 5% (was 10%).
    • Rider of the Apocalypse: Hollow Sentinel’s Wake 2-piece now increases Trollbane’s Obliterate damage by 15% (was 35%).
    • Deathbringer: Exterminate first scythe damage increased by 10%.

Druid

  • Balance
    • All ability damage increased by 8%.
    • Keeper of the Grove: Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 4-piece now accumulates 3% of damage done (was 2%) and Dryad’s Favor is now capped at 10x spellpower (was 6x) and splashes 15% (was 20%) of its damage onto nearby enemies.
    • Elune’s Chosen: Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 2-piece Starfire damage increase changed to 20% (was 25%), and has a 40% chance (was 50%) to launch a Starsurge at 45% effectiveness (was 50%).
    • Elune’s Chosen: Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 4-piece Split Starsurges deal damage at 40% effectiveness (was 80%).
  • Feral
    • Ferocious Bite and Ravage primary target damage increased by 6%.
    • Shred damage increased by 5%.
    • Sabertooth causes Ferocious Bite to increase damage taken from your bleeds and other periodic effects by 6% per combo point (was 5%).
    • Wildstalker: Bloodseeker Vines damage increased by 5%.
  • Restoration
    • Wildstalker: Fixed a bug causing the Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 4-piece bonus to generate extra Symbiotic Blooms for Regrowths cast by Rampant Growth.
    • Wildstalker: Fixed a bug preventing Twin Sprouts from generating extra Bloodseeker Vines or Symbiotic Blooms from the ones created by the Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 4-piece set bonus.
    • Wildstalker: Symbiotic Bloom and Bursting Growth healing increased by 15%.
    • Wildstalker: Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 2-piece bonus increases the rate of Symbiotic Bloom growth by 45% (was 30%).
    • Wildstalker: Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 4-piece now causes Symbiotic Bloom healing to have a 35% (was 20%) chance to trigger Bursting Growth at 100% effectiveness (was 80%).
    • Developers’ notes: The bug involving Rampant Growth was generating a large number of unintended Symbiotic Blooms, which consolidated a lot of Wildstalker’s healing power into the 4-piece and Clearcasting procs. We’ve added healing power to counteract the healing loss from the bug fix.

Hunter

  • Beast Mastery
    • Tireless Collector’s Bounties - 2-piece chance to fire a free Barbed Shot reduced by 50%.

Mage

  • Frost
    • All damage dealt reduced by 3%. Does not apply to PvP combat.

Monk

  • Brewmaster
    • Shado-Pan: Crash of Fallen Storms 2-piece bonus Flurry Strikes deal 10% increased damage (was 20%).
    • Shado-Pan: Crash of Fallen Storms 4-piece bonus Flurry Charge generation increased by 30% (was 50%).
    • Shado-Pan: Damage dealt by Flurry Strikes from Wisdom of the Wall reduced by 20%.

Shaman

  • Enhancement
    • Lava Lash damage increased by 15%.
    • Windstrike damage increased by 20%.
    • Totemic: Surging Bolt damage increased by 25%.
    • Totemic: Searing Bolt damage increased by 35%.
    • Stormbringer: Awakening Storm damage increased by 35%.
    • Stormstrike damage increased by 10%. Does not affect Windstrike.
    • Elemental Blast damage increased by 8%.
    • Stormbringer: Tempest single target damage increased by 8%.

Warlock

  • Threatening Presence now increases the threat generation of your Voidwalker and Felguard by 950% (was 400%).
  • Affliction
    • Spliced Fiendtrader’s Influence 2-piece set bonus adjusted - Jackpot! chance reduced by 30%.
  • Demonology
    • Wild Imp damage reduced by 20%.
    • Immutable Hatred damage reduced by 30%.
  • Destruction
    • Diabolist: Inquisitor’s Feast of Madness 2-piece has been adjusted – Eye Blast damage reduced by 45%.

Warrior

  • Protection
    • Mountain Thane: Damage dealt by Ionizing Strikes reduced by 30%.

Player versus Player

Death Knight

  • Frost
    • Frost Strike damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
  • Unholy
    • Festering Wound damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.

Druid

  • Feral
    • All damage reduced by 8% in PvP combat.

Mage

  • Arcane
    • Nether Flux now increases the damage an enemy receives from the next targeted spell by 40% (was 100%).
  • Fire
    • Meteor direct damage reduced by 40% in PvP combat.
  • Frost
    • All damage reduced by 10% in PvP.

Paladin

  • Holy
    • All healing reduced by 12% in PvP combat.
    • Divine Plea (PvP talent) duration increased to 30 seconds (was 20 seconds).

Priest

  • Shadow
    • Void Volley damage reduced by 30% in PvP combat.

Rogue

  • Assassination
    • Garrote damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.

Warlock

  • Demonology
    • All damage reduced by 5% in PvP combat.
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Ok, alright, maybe I’ll try it!

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Well this patch helps BDK in mythics big time

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All right, who is feeling the first face slap?

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This will be great for my Enh Shaman I’m getting ready to take into K’aresh! XD

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Where’s FDK and Warlock nerfs?

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Now, I usually defend y’all and give you the benefit of the doubt. But we JUST got Class Tuning which you have had months to test. How is it difficult to grab the same formula for the classes that always perform well, cough Paladin cough and paste it over the damage and healing of other classes? It’s been 21 years. How have you not figured out how to balance ALL of the classes by now. Copy and Paste should be the jumping off point.

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valid i fear

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I would really like to use Frostbane but I love my 2h esthetic too much.
Can we finally just make 2H a DW virtualy identical by changing Might of the Frozen Waste to give Rune of Razorice and extra attack speed instead of the buff to Obliterate.

That being said, I’m really enjoying Frost right now.

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neat i guess :slight_smile: hard to be engaged into this i havent been able to “gauge” my char well at all in this pre-content.

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Everything ive seen has Windwalker underperforming quite a bit. I really hope this is something that hasnt gone unnoticed. Maybe we get better with the tier set but as we sit right now ww monk is definitely bottom tier.

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Sad to see brewmaster nerfs. Good dps players were still doing twice as much damage as brew. Isn’t it time to admit that gutting tank dps was a bad decision?

Not too sad to see the resto Druid bug fix, but that should have come in a month ago. That’s not a cool change to make the day the season starts.

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Lame - O
Always nerf us

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Brother it’s m0s and delves. There is absolutely 0 accurate data you can ascertain from this.

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Ouch, hopefully the buffs make up for this since high HPS was all resto druids had going for them to put them in “s-tier.” Their damage is low (and requires a lot more effort to do less damage than something like pres), they’re not a damage mitigation spec like disc and their utility is alright but not at the top.

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So Prot warrior and Brewmaster had a chance at being better in M+ than VDH and Prot paladin but we couldn’t have that happening?

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Good to see Arms Warrior got something to help it’s lacking ST.

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:rage:

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?

why tho?

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Come on…. Resto Druid utility is S tier. Battle rez, roots, soothe, interrupt, speed boost, knock back, and the best raid buff in the game. Maybe resto shaman has more depending on the comp, but all of the other healers are behind Druid for utility.

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