What makes the 25% Enhancement nerfs even worse is that it removes all choice from enhancement. You HAVE to use the talent spec that got the class nerfed into the ground because any other talent spec is even worse than that. Basically, Blizzard just nerfed talents/abilities that weren’t great and are now terrible because they were too lazy or incompetent to do targeted nerfs.
The point of the talent trees was to give more choice, but here Blizzard is taking it away. The mere fact that we are 2 weeks away from the “finalized” release candidate and are seeing 25% blanket nerfs is the color guard marching down the field waving red flags levels of bad. All data used to balance M+/Raids is now wrong because such huge nerfs completely changes that balance. The first month will just be bug-fixing, so we probably won’t see any rebalancing until ~3 months after launch since Blizzard is incredibly slow at balancing. Enhancement of course won’t be “fixed” until 1year or more and even then will maybe pull into the lower middle of the pack.
I think DF is going to be worse than SL, maybe not narrative wise cause that’s really hard to do, but Content, bugs, and balance wise it will be worse.
It’s not that we are overturned necessarily, but some people have found a workaround that currently lets us do INSANE damage.
25% is ABSOLUTELY heavy-handed because there are very few of us that even know HOW to do that insane damage. I only JUST found out about it this weekend myself.
Considering the end of an expansion is normally the time they let us go hog-wild, there’s no real reason to do this sort of nerf yet either. This is also premature since we don’t know how this will play out once we get the rest of our points in DF.
Ok, I have done a few 20+ keys today, enhancement is absolutely gutted. These nerfs need to be reversed and have more than two seconds of thought put into them. I was so excited to play enhancement because the talent tree had such a great design, and then they go and make the class do negative damage and give 0 insight on patch notes. If these changes aren’t reversed and redone in a better matter I’m definitely letting my sub expire and not purchasing df.
Only opinion i respect here cause you’re actually a shaman who has content done at a higher level.
However, like you said, 25% with no explanation is the nail in the coffin for me, quitting as of this moment if i don’t see any changes. Tired of being put away from groups as a mostly solo player because the class i enjoy is middle-bottom of the pack.
Now this time, it’s not by design, but by clear disdain for the class. A BIG flat nerf to our damage without reason.
Blizzard has a track record of picking and choosing which classes can be meta and which ones can’t. Destro locks? Get months, no changes. Enhance? Made it 1 week
I get nerfs and such. However, for Enh Shaman, I think an explanation sort of along the lines of the last line of WW nerfs would have been appropriate. Your game, your rules, I get that, but sometimes, a little reasoning of why an action was taken helps to understand why the action to nerf was taken.
