Class Tuning Incoming – September 24

Community General Discussion
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We’ve followed recent data and feedback on class performance and are preparing to make adjustments to many classes with scheduled weekly maintenance in each region.

Classes

  • Death Knight
    • Rider of the Apocalypse: Trollbane’s Icy Fury slows targets by 40% (was 70%).
  • Druid
    • Feral
      • Rampant Ferocity now damages enemies within 8 yards of the Druid when using Ferocious Bite, instead of enemies within 8 yards of the target.
      • Developers’ note: This change is intended to give Feral Druids more control over which enemies Rampant Ferocity’s AOE hits and avoid cases where hitting a large boss with Ferocious Bite wouldn’t hit other nearby enemies.
    • Restoration
      • All healing increased by 4%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Hunter
    • Beast Mastery
      • Beast Cleave damage increased to 90% (was 80%).
      • Kill Cleave damage increased to 90% (was 80%).
  • Mage
    • Fire
      • Flamestrike damage increased by 15%.
      • Phoenix Flames damage increased by 20%.
      • Living Bomb damage increased by 10%.
    • Frost
      • Glacial Spike damage increased by 20%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
      • Ray of Frost damage increased by 15%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Priest
    • Shadow
      • All damage increased by 4%.

Player versus Player

  • Death Knight
    • Unholy
      • Doomburst causes Death Coil to burst 2 Festering Wounds (was 3).
  • Demon Hunter
    • Havoc
      • Demon’s Bite damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.
      • Demon Blades damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.
      • Chaos Strike/Annihilation damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.
      • Blade Dance/Death Sweep damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.
  • Druid
    • Feral
      • Sabertooth now increases the damage of Ferocious Bite by 10% (was 15%) and increases the damage of Ferocious Bite per periodic effect by 2% (was 3%) in PvP combat.
      • Taste for Blood now increases the damage of Ferocious Bite by 6% (was 12%) in PvP combat.
      • Rip damage increased by 25% in PvP combat (was 15%).
      • Rake initial damage increased by 25% (was 15%) and its periodic damage increased by 10% (was -6%) in PvP combat.
  • Evoker
    • Devastation
      • Eternity Surge damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
  • Mage
    • Frostfire: Frostfire Bolt damage increased by 100% in PvP combat (was 75%).
    • Frostfire: Frostfire Empowerment increases Frostfire Bolt damage by 30% in PvP combat (was 50%).
    • Arcane
      • Arcane Blast damage increased by 45% in PvP combat (was 15%).
      • Arcane Missiles damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.
      • Arcane Barrage damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
      • Magi’s Spark is now 50% effective in PvP combat.
    • Fire
      • Fireball damage increased by 100% in PvP combat (was 35%).
      • Greater Pyroblast cast time reduced to 4 seconds (was 4.5 seconds) but it now deals 30% of its target’s maximum health in damage (was 35%).
    • Frost
      • Ice Lance damage increased by 25% in PvP combat (was 45%).
      • Frostbolt damage increased by 150% in PvP combat (was 118%).
      • Ray of Frost damage increased by 5% in PvP combat.
      • Ice Barrier absorb amount is now decreased by 40% in PvP combat (was 25%).
  • Monk
    • Mistweaver
      • Enveloping Mist healing increased by 20% in PvP combat.
      • Vivify primary healing increased by 20% in PvP combat.
  • Paladin
    • Holy
      • Mana regeneration reduced by 20% in PvP combat (was 35%).
      • Holy Shock healing increased by 15% in PvP combat.
      • Word of Glory healing increased by 15% in PvP combat.
      • Holy Light healing increased by 20% in PvP combat.
  • Priest
    • Discipline
      • Weal and Woe’s bonus to Power Word: Shield is now 50% effective in PvP combat.
    • Holy
      • Holy Word: Serenity healing increased by 40% in PvP combat.
      • Holy Word: Sanctify healing increased by 40% in PvP combat.
    • Shadow
      • Perfected Form now increases damage dealt during Voidform by 10% in PvP combat (was 20%).
  • Rogue
    • Subtlety
      • Reverberation now increases Echoing Reprimand damage by 50% in PvP combat (was 70%).
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Can Rogue get some buffs

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lmao more buffs to havoc in pvp :skull:

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Just need another 3 rounds of these 4% rdruid buffs and maybe we’ll finally be on the same level as the rest healers
Also ctrl+f pres 0 found LOL

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Wheres the pres evoker pvp changes?

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Nothing for Prot Pal? Again?

Man…

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What about nerfs for warrior tanks?

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why do u hate paladins?

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Holy pal got giga buffed, they will be insane with these changes on top of last weeks.

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Nah, they’re fine. Pinkie Promise.

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Thanks for nerfing our ST to nerf our burst AOE and leaving us with a 1.8% DPS increase 4 set!

We are fine losing AOE, give us some ST man, jesus christ.

Godcomp was out for 2 whole weeks, gotta focus there 1st, eh?

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This is good! They looked at the current feedback on the forums and responded accordingly. All of these issues are very pressing and hot right now /s

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is drac war gonna be avail???

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Well our single target is getting better. We’re approaching average.

On the aoe side, living bomb is still something like 75%-100% away from being picked lol. We’re giving up something like 20% single target damage to gain 5% aoe damage. It’s not good enough. The aoe damage you do with the tradeoff isn’t even close to average. You will, and i say this lightly, NEVER choose living bomb over ignite cleave if the difference is only 5% and the st cost is 20%.

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Single Target is fine for sure but it’s a struggle bus to keep up on AoE…which is making M+ rough. Rogues only have AoE damage every 2 minutes and even then its all cds to keep up with a fury warrior pressing whirlwind :skull::skull::skull:

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Outlaw does 2.5-3m sustained, fury bursts for 5mil every 1.5m then does 1m, do you people even play the game? It’s very close.

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i think you forgot the rest of the shadow buffs… right blizz…? right…?

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Rest shaman get o healing buff in pvp and priest get crazy damages in heal came play rest shaman in solo let me know how that go

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No, were not allowed to be included buffs

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But have you seen Outlaw single target?

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