Class Tuning Incoming -- March 17

[Felix-1058565 (Felix)]

@Kaivax

Discipline

• Penance damage and healing increased by 20%.

I lol’d. I mean… Uhm… It was a buff? It does help but lol

The shadow changes seem pretty good I think?

[Pyri-shadowsong]

okay, we get it, you’d rather we not play hellcaller demo

[Ghaghzull-1780769 (Ghaghzull)]

@Kaivax

• Destruction
• Hellcaller: Xalan’s Cruelty now increases Shadow damage dealt by 5% (was 8%).
• Hellcaller: Xalan’s Ferocity now increases Fire damage dealt by 5% (was 8%).
• Hellcaller: Blackened Soul damage reduced by 50%.
• Hellcaller: Through the Felvine now increases Rain of Fire damage by 6% (was 8%).
• Hellcaller: Through the Felvine now increases Chaos Bolt damage by 35% (was 10%). This change does not affect PvP.

I think that’s high five drowning meme right there.

@Kaivax

Demonology

• Dominion of Argus Antoran Inquisitor damage reduced by 5%, Antoran Jailer damage reduced by 45%, Lady Sacrolash damage increased by 35%, and Grand Warlock Alythess damage increased by 35%.
  • Developers’ notes: The intention with these adjustments is to ensure that all demons summoned by Dominion of Argus are competitive with one another, avoiding random chance having a large effect on damage output.
• Soul Harvester: Demonic Soul damage reduced by 55%.
• Soul Harvester: Manifested Demonic Soul damage reduced by 50%.
• Soul Harvester: Soul Anathema damage reduced by 35%.
• Soul Harvester: Wicked Reaping damage increased by 50%.
• Soul Harvester: Demoniac’s Fervor now increases damage dealt by Demonic Soul by 200% to the main target of Hand of Gul’dan.

Well off to Diabolist then.

@Kaivax

Warrior

• Piercing Howl’s cooldown increased to 90 seconds (was 30 seconds), and ally speed buff radius reduced to 6 yards (12 with Battlefield Commander).
  • Developers’ notes: Piercing Howl has been available more frequently than intended and does not align with other similar effects, so we’re making changes to bring this ability in line while keeping it distinct among similar effects.
• Arms
  • Master of Warfare’s final rank Heroic Strike now increases the damage you deal to enemies affected by your next Colossus Smash by an additional 3%. Stacks up to 5 times.
  • All damage dealt increased by 15%.
• Fury
  • All damage dealt increased by 10%.
  • Slayer: chance for Reap the Storm to trigger changed to 20% (was 30%).
• Protection
  • Phalanx rank 1: Thunder Clap now causes your next Shield Slam deal 10% additional damage and unleash a wave of force, dealing Physical damage to all enemies in front of you.
  • Phalanx rank 4: In addition to existing effects, enemies damaged by Phalanx’s wave of force deal 5% reduced damage to you for 8 seconds.
  • All damage dealt increased by 10%.
  • Developers’ notes: These changes are aimed at redistributing the power of Protection Warrior’s Apex talents to better align with our design goals for Apex talents.

That’s it?

[Omnivus-2819435 (Omnivus)]

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[Canuhealme-28139921a6254371c5a8a33ebf7f04e3e7aa928 (Canuhealme)]

terrible changes

worst of the worst

[Tek-grizzly-hills]

so you boost everything but forget WW. sheesh

[CommandoCat-236781 (CommandoCat)]

Lol, I though Ret was doing pretty well. Apparently I was mistaken. New golden age for Ret starts on Tuesday.

[ZakThrash-3076530 (ZakThrash)]

……Not a single buff for assassination???

[Xenocider-17330 (Xenocider)]

Won’t be missed

[SwordThree-2375972 (SwordThree)]

Pfffft all those Guardian Druid rerolls are probably kicking themselves.

On the plus side Outlaw hasn’t been nerfed yet.

[Hasoon-3171253 (Hasoon)]

Holy Priest needs more. But this is only a tuning pass. Please consider giving back a low mana fill for the run between mobs. Tired of Nova flickering.

[Galabris-20949 (Galabris)]

Good.

Vampy DK is worst DK. Stay dead in the coffin and never again challenge Dalek mode.

[Borg-15950 (Borg)]

@Kaivax

Restoration

• All healing reduced by 6%.

Unnecessary IMO. The damage some healers are doing now may already shift the meta people had predicted from beta. Regrowth outside of cooldowns already feels meh after resto druids were already nerfed during beta.

Kittyweaving is also annoying and unrewarding compared to the easier higher damage some healers do.

Keeper is considered weaker in M+ and I don’t think caster druids do a lot of damage either.

Using convoke as a damage cooldown can up druid damage, but that sacrifices a healing cooldown, which some higher damage healers don’t have to do.

[Kreeg-14968 (Kreeg)]

@Kaivax

Dominion of Argus Antoran Inquisitor damage reduced by 5%, Antoran Jailer damage reduced by 45%, Lady Sacrolash damage increased by 35%, and Grand Warlock Alythess damage increased by 35%.

I get the feeling this still won’t make the others competitive with Jailer.
They all really, really sucked compared to him.

[CommandoCat-236781 (CommandoCat)]

Everyone saw the Demo nerfs coming. When my 232 Demo lock is doing 46k on a 5-man boss, it’s just busted.

[Yhvh-2368865 (Yhvh)]

@Kaivax

Psychic Link now causes direct damage spells to inflict 20% of their damage to all other targets afflicted by Vampiric Touch (was 60%).

WHAT?

So, the price Spriests pay for decent single target damage is having their only source of AoE nerfed to the ground?

Who’s approving this?

[Blythe90-3363923 (Blythe90)]

Can you explain your reasoning for nerfing Shadow after it being consistantly the absolute bottom of every tier list and every DPS list, while also being a ramp damage class which is already considered useless in m+?

[terry70-162376 (terry70)]

Oh I see that the paladins shine’s

brightly in bilzz’s eyes’s cool

[Duskmourne-3059249 (Duskmourne)]

I guess Warriors have to close their Discord in protest? Since it seems to be working pretty well for Ret Paladins. 15% isn’t going to change anything for Arms.

[Pyri-shadowsong]

@Allendor-hyjal

Lol, I though Ret was doing pretty well

ret is never doing well enough for ret players. they could be 50% ahead of everything else and a single 1% nerf to one ability would fill these forums with rage.