This is saying that on live, Earth Shield healing in PvP is reduced by 70%. After Tuesday, it will only be reduced by 60%. So it is still going to heal for far less than in PvE but more than it does now in PvP (by 10%).
I don’t know why you would want to read what I said as how you restated it. It’s not about what can and can’t be done. It’s about how miserable the game can be when you aren’t playing it a certain way. Just take the OP paladin blowup thing after ret was reworked. The game was an absolute unplayable dumpster fire for weeks because everyone jumped to ret to ride the free wins hype train.
It is a function of the poor reward structure, not imbalance. Problems like this persist across all levels of WoW. It is the hangup that has kept WoW on the down hill slide. WoW markets itself as the fun for everyone game, but runs the dirtiest most restrictive loot structure in the industry. It is intentional, it is the engine that drives Susan.
I believe Warlocks as a class are meant to be tanky: that has been so for many, many years. Possibly since Vanilla, though I started playing in BC. That aside, the Mortal Coil nerf is unnecessary for sure, as that certainly impacts all Warlock specs. As for Destro and Aff, it is now essentially required to play GoSac. There were some comps where GoSac was already required (melee lobbies/teams as things like Ret and War cleave just melt Felhunters) but against caster comps one of the strenghts/benefits of Warlocks was that they can CC while in CC themselves. Again, this has been true since Vanilla. It has pros and cons, being able to CC while in CC via a pet, but now for Aff and Destro that’s really not an option anymore while Demo can still /lolAxeToss every 30sec.
They are already targeting damage next patch, reducing control is for sure a step that is needed but it cant happen until the games meta fall more inline with allowing classes to just lose cc. Meaning there is a lot of cc across all the classes that need to be pruned, its apart of the reason healers hate the game so much. You sit full ccs into 3 micro ccs into multiple kicks just to sit more cc. I dont envy healers right now. One solution could be giving some healers more ways to immune cc maybe?
Still nothing for Ret ST for raids? I was really hoping maybe at least a % increase on holy power generators? not sure how this is being neglected. We were right there with Havoc/WW/Feral; and they all were buffed but nothing for Ret? This is going to put us well below every other class.