As I said above, the fact that they’re still nerfing tanks and healers instead of buffing other tanks and healers is mind blowing. It’s like they don’t actually play the game.
They always talk about things “not being where they’d like”. How about the ratio of DPS players to tank / healer players? Is that sitting where you’d like?
It’s dumb as hell to nerf healer and tank specs when the game already suffers from a severe lack of healers and tanks.
They took the easy way to just nerf prot. Expected, but unfortunate.
I’m counting my lucky stars they didn’t break anything though.
Hi reminder hpal mana is still nerfed by 35% on top of having spells costing quadruple base mana cost to other healers
I am glad to see Blizz keep moving away from mandatory ramping as Disc.
The idea that you need to start healing all the damage 15 seconds before it happens in order to play your class well needs to be taken out back to the closest shed and shot.
Ramping worked when it created shields (via Spirit Shell), not HPS.
The entire class design team needs to be fired.
NOW.
Not only do they suck at class balance, they also haven’t even finished design on many specs, and the expansion shipped 2 months ago.
They kicked the can down the road to 10.0.5, and now that’s launching on Tuesday AND THEY’RE STILL NOT DONE WITH THEIR WORK.
If Blizzard won’t fire them, then lock them in a room until they finish their jobs.
This is RIDICULOUSLY unprofessional, if not grossly incompetent.
Every other design team at Blizzard (content, questing, music, art, the tech guys, etc.) do fantastic work, and then time after time the systems design team (which includes class design) ruins the expansion through their ineptitude. Enough.
It was, but it’s just dumb. They seem to be going out of their way to make tanking suck. Which makes no sense whatsoever as the hardcore tanks are going to continue to play but the fair weathers will fall away and healers will be forced to pick up our dead bodies because Dark Claws still sucks.
Man, you know that the dev team doesn’t want resto shamans to heal so badly that they just give them damage instead.
First they nerfed DH. Then they nerfed Shadow Priest. Then they nerfed DH again. Now they nerf Feral and Unholy.
I guess we won’t be happy until every class is dumpster diving trash.
Just because you don’t agree with the design choice doesn’t make them who you say they are. Also, you’re just one voice out of many voices and they have to make neutral design decisions with feedback into consideration.
And feedback goes both ways.
Yes, let’s promote people losing their jobs and livelihood in this time of inflation and economic nightmares because you’re mad with a class balance in a video game.
What a compassionate not-disconnected human being you are!
When it comes to class balance, blizz will never win because everyone wants different things for the classes they play.
“Fire them now”
sit down Karen.
Not really. Bringing every tank or healer up to prot war or resto druid level would trivialize content…
As a resto sham who mostly PVPs, I think these changes are an overall net positive.
As much as I enjoyed hitting 150k stormkeeper bolts, it’s obviously too much damage from a healer and buffing both flame shock and lava burst makes it much more desirable to use those spells and take some different talents.
Evening out and buffing where our healing comes from is good, as well.
Overall the healing meta should definitely even out with a lot more even representation across the board for all classes and specs. 
Yeah, you’re right. Let’s nerf all the healers and tanks until every spec is boring and crappy. We can all sit around for 2 hours waiting for tanks & healers to do our adequately difficult content. It’ll be swell.
Fortunately that isn’t what happened here. Its weird that there is a middle ground between “supreme gods” and “boring and crappy”.
The only way that people will play healers or tanks is if they can roll their faces across their keyboards to free 2400io? Yikes.
Most of them are already boring and crappy.
If they want to buff tanks to Prot Warrior level, fine. But they’re not doing that because “that would be overpowered”.
But they also think it’s fine for Prot Warriors to remain S-Tier.
Worst of Both Worlds
Blizzard is trying to make the game MORE FAIR and not cater to either side of the spectrum.
Then where are the buffs to other tanks to bring them to the level that Prot Warriors are at?
Because I sure as hell don’t see them.
Again: Guardian Druids get NERFED on Tuesday.
RSHAM will be too op now and everybody will play it , i hate that
Bonegrinder bug still not acknowledged.