Class Tuning Incoming – January 24

[Näglfär-tichondrius (Näglfär)]

Mages have gotten 15% flat buffs (In total) since launch excluding individual skill changes, must be nice.

Feels bad being a hunter main.

[Buttercleave-moon-guard]

What’s worse is that it’s been around since DF Pre patch was in PTR and it’s not happening to just rogues. I know Blizzard doesn’t really care but jfc…

[Ganni-stormrage]

Actually i can, but blizzard prefer to hire puple haired something instead of highly professional people.
As a result forums are screaming about balance being broken every single day for past like 8 years and still 0 progress. Everything is just broken class wise in pve and pvp all the time

[Tmolly-stormrage]

I said the purpose. I’m fully aware it’s full of trolls and opinions.

[Asomngold-kelthuzad]

Hope the Fury changes have a decent impact on our DPS.

But our Tier Set is still an issue, the +25% chance to crit Execute is largely wasted on Fury.

[Chases-agamaggan]

They have college degree in game design and you don’t. And also, to say that you do with no clear evidence to back it up it’s evidently is a lie.

[Bowhawk-bleeding-hollow]

Tactics sure, and the 20% magic damage reduction please.
NO to more buttons…
QoL adding a bleed or poison effect to multishot would be nice.
WOD ranged survival applied serpent sting to all targets with multi shot.
But that would be pretty overpowered with BM 15% leach, I think.
Easiest aoe buff for bm would just be increasing beast cleave, kill cleave.

[Daarrk-stormrage-415498]

@Näglfär-tichondrius

Feels bad being a hunter main.

Nah. It’s fun being mediocre.

@Bowhawk-bleeding-hollow

NO to more buttons…

If it was a button, we wouldn’t be so locked out of aoe in our st build.

[Raiimir-stormrage]

@Kaivax

Fury

• Raging Blow damage increased by 10%.
• Execute damage increased by 15%.
• Rampage damage increased by 10%.
• Annihilator damage increased by 15%.
• Bloodthirst damage increased by 10%.
• Bloodbath damage increased by 5%.

You list Bloodbath but not Crushing Blow ?

Honestly this feels like not really enough to bring up Fury performance on either single targets or AoE.

[Furrylover-ragnaros]

That’s true. Still, they have a lot of issues they still need to fix, because it’s not just adding changes and having 0 player interactions (or at least trying to).
Since being so silent, it only remains to wait to see what kind of
They are going to put “balance” in the game and many times they don’t hit the nail on the head when it comes to fixing a class in some area where it is low… like Rshammy who has problems with his healing for example.
I hope that in the future, blizzard will take more into account the players or try to interact a little more with them in their respective forums to get an idea.

[Ganni-stormrage]

LoL, funboy, open LinkedIn and take a look at their employees education

[Daarrk-stormrage-415498]

@Raiimir-stormrage

but not Crushing Blow

They probably trying to address how CB dominates priority.

[Pyri-shadowsong]

@Ganni-stormrage

blizzard prefer to hire puple haired something instead of highly professional people.

so in your mind people who dye their hair uncommon colors can’t be professionals? that’s super weird

[Furrylover-ragnaros]

@Kaivax

• Restoration
• Verdancy healing reduced by 10%.
• Adaptive Swarm now increases the effectiveness of periodic effects by 20% (was 25%) for Restoration druids.
• Adaptive Swarm healing and damage reduced by 10%.
• Dreamstate now reduces cooldowns by up to 20 sec while channeling Tranquility (was 15).
• Developer’s notes: We are making targeted adjustments primarily aimed at Restoration Druid’s Mythic Plus performance. Our goal is to also avoid much impact to their raid performance.

They’re going to fix the prevoker, right?
they have nerfed the healing and dps of the Rdruid… but the impact will be more noticeable in the dps… and it must be taken into account that a very good Rdruid will be able to do 30k+ dps overall in a high M+… and a prevoker 40k+ on a tall M+…
And that practically the Rdruid (which uses 10-12 buttons to do dps) competes against Prevoker (with its 2-4 buttons to do dps).
If you want to find a temporary balance… just nerf the prevoker and buff the evoker dps

[Chases-agamaggan]

You think they will hire high school graduates with zero understanding in game design yeah no. Also, I am not wasting my time looking up on 700 plus people.

[Chawana-altar-of-storms (Chawana)]

@Kaivax

Healing Surge healing increased by 15%.

Ok this alone is amazing. Thank you.

@Kaivax

Mana Spring now restores 400 Mana at level 70 (was 200).

Never taken the talent, but combined with “casts” rather than LvB/Riptide I may actually look into this. It’ll also make suge spamming less horrible. Both of these together have potential to be great.

@Kaivax

Totemic Surge reduces the cooldown of Totems by 3 seconds/6 seconds (was 2 seconds/4 seconds).

As a HST enjoyer, thank you. 24 seconds for 3 swirling current charges will be nice.

@Kaivax

Healing Wave healing increased by 6%.

With other changes in mind: nice.
On its own: 6% seems kinda low?

@Kaivax

Acid Rain damage increased by 120%.

I’d prefer it put a DoT on enemies, but this is definitely welcome either way.

@Kaivax

Master of the Elements increases the effectiveness of the Shaman’s next Nature, Physical, or Frost spell by 20% (was 10%).

Already struggling with points trying to get stormkeeper, but at least this is worth looking at now.

@Kaivax

We feel Restoration is lacking in reactive healing as well as damage contribution, so we’re increasing single target heals and a few damage abilities and talents. We’re also increasing the effectiveness of Master of the Elements, which is intended to encourage weaving in damage spells while healing.

Well whoever’s in charge of Rshams knows what they’re doing. It took awhile to get these notes together, but I’m glad they’re here.

Gonna need to figure out how to fit it into my spec though…which will be the hard part. I can prolly sacrifice Earthern Wall Totem now that my healing has been buffed.

(Side note: may I ask why frost DKs aren’t getting some buffs? 2H especially.)

[Ghaghzull-malganis]

@Kaivax

Demonology

• Reign of Tyranny causes Demonic Tyrant to deal 7% additional damage for each stack of Demonic Servitude active at the time of his summon (was 5%).

um…That buff is laughable, no Demo locks is going play that talent.

@Kaivax

• Protection
• Brace for Impact now increases block value by 3% (was 5% per stack).
• Brutal Vitality now causes 10% of the damage you deal to add to your Ignore Pain (was 15%).
• Shield Specialization now increases block value by 12% per rank (was 15%).
• Developers’ notes: Protection Warriors are currently dominating tank populations. While we do want all tanks to feel powerful, our data and overall perceptions of tanks put Protection Warriors ahead of the pack. We’re making some small talent adjustments that are overbudget to help address this.

And here we finally have warrior tank that actually good for once…Nope because fun detected -_-.

[Raiimir-stormrage]

@Daarrk-stormrage-415498

They probably trying to address how CB dominates priority.

Ok, but that makes the buffs much less of a buff.

Even if you go Annihilator with CSHB (which they also didn’t buff even though it’s gutted from BfA’s iteration), it was already behind and these buffs aren’t bringing it much farther than the CB build was in the first place.

There is also no fix to the poor set performance.

We’ll see Tuesday, but I think more and more people will hard swap Arms at this point. Especially with the boost to hybrid builds these buffs and the talent changes are bringing.

[Lorkhan-draktharon]

@Åalíyah-jubeithos

its quite sad.
do they even go outside and look up?
i know a blue would be too lazy to reply. or scared.
I say scared.

careful there bud, you might cut yourself on that edge there.

[Rainbow-kelthuzad]

So crazy idea but instead of nerfing prot maybe buff the other classes you know instead of nerfing the role that the most people refuse to play.