The most underrated comment of the balance tuning patch right here. Thanks for the laugh, I hadn’t noticed this… 
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As an Enhancement main, we absolutely needed a nerf.
Now, a 25% nerf with no information on why when there are still other classes that do a lot of damage comparatively? That doesn’t make any sense.
I’m not dooming as hard as everyone else, because I expect a correction, but you do need to correct it at some point in the near future.
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100%? Because we were doing more dmg??? Warlock and hunter were doing 30% more dmg than everyone for 2 damn seasons, they didn’t get a nerf bat for 25% across the board.
And if what you said holds true, then why does EVERY ability have to get nerfed? My chain lightning and fire nova are essential to my aoe, why does that have to get straight cut instead of individual tuning like monk got? People like you are the reason why this game remains unbalanced, because you see a class pulling ahead that doesn’t normally and think “nope, that’s outta line”.
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Welp, I guess I won’t be playing Shaman in DF. With that nerf I wouldn’t be able to scratch a level 1 butterfly.
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These nerfs are based off of what we have in Beta and going into DF, they’re not worried about the time between now and DF launch and they shouldn’t be.
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Understandable concern, but try to have some faith, we’re only 1 week into pre-patch. More tuning will certainly come about ^^;
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Thank God we get some real change around here with this round of tuning!!!
I was getting worried that some players would start looking into enhancement due to their fun play style, but thankfully they’ve been put back into their place at the bottom of the dps charts where they belong.
While 25% damage reduction is good start, I don’t believe it’s enough. I got one shot in PVP earlier today by an enhancement shaman and I’m still pretty mad about it, they should have their damage reduced by an additional 25%, they’re too strong. Maybe in the next round of tuning we work on reducing the other 75% of their damage by forcing them to use 2h weapons. /s
Seriously, can we get some developer notes around this decision? A flat 25% damage reduction without saying anything about it is insane. Why not reduce damage from outlier spells/abilities similar to all the other classes/specs?
To be honest this feels like it was done to take a dump on the enhancement community and I think it’s fair to ask why
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The tier in dragonflight for enhance is gonna be butt tho
The Enh nerfs are the most insane out of touch change I have ever seen in a videogame, please provide clarification on this massive overshoot.
Enh provides no relevant raid utility outside of damage. It wasn’t even the strongest spec damage wise on beta. There is absolutely no reason why it shouldn’t be doing top tier levels of damage if you refuse to give it any relevant raid utility for what has been 5 expansions now. Stop nerfing this spec into the ground literally any time it is relevant for the love of god.
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2nd worst spec in the game and it needs to be nerfed because of pvp. When are you guys going to understand you CAN NOT balance both pve and pvp in a single tree you need to completely separate the trees entirely with completely different spells and tools. Until then you will keep doing this nerf buff dance every expansion until you finally learn.
Nerfing pve because of pvp is just cancer solution and extremely lazy.
yeah small indie company
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Enhance might be fun to play for sure but trying to convince people to let you in their raid/M+ or even pvp as a dps (over a rogue or warrior? HA!) is not. 25% overall nerf, my a**.
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The way this indie company corrects things, expect changes around 11.0
I just laughed so hard for like 5 min straight. All dam by 25%? xD
I play monk, so i feel the pain but man was this hilarious. Biggest nerf in wow history?
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It feels much worse than 25% blanket nerf on Enhancement after trying it out this morning.
Unplayable mess. I don’t care what the reasoning is, shelving Enhance for sure.
Why would I want to play it in this state for the next month? Should have waited for the release to drop atomic tuning like that.
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I will just repeat what they said to warlock in WOD
We don’t want you to play enhancement
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No holy pally buff? I’ll admit I’m not entirely sure they needed one, I’m a casual player. But I main a holy pally and was going to raid with it for DF. But I was told yesterday by an elitist that holy paladin isn’t even being discussed for their raids because it’s so useless. Just a bit surprised to hear that from a hardcore raider then see no buff for them. Were they being snobby or is it true?
I guess I shall retire my enh shaman. Most of the time nerfs don’t bother me, but I am getting strange vibes coming from a patch notes that just says. 25 percent less damage. Oi that is all you got to say?
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Easy uninstall. Dragonflight will be more of the same if not worse from Blizzard.
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In other words, Play Warlock.
lock buffs arent even live ya babies.