Class tuning September 17th

Or apparitions

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Gotta math this one out.

Current: 100% * .30 = 30% dmg
New: 106% * .25 = 26.5% dmg

26.5/30 = 0.883 = 11.7% reduction

It’s a 6% buff to single target and 11.7% nerf to Psychic Link dmg.

PL will get the nerf reverted come next big patch

This literally looks like someone at Blizzard said:

“If we buff all their damage by 6% and nerf their Psychic Link by 5% - They’ll get a 6% Single Target Buff and a 1% AoE Buff”

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Yeah, a lot of times I think the devs don’t actually know how math works!

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The mastery is actually terrible. Does any other Dps spec have such stringent qualifiers to benefit from a stat they’re expected to stack? It’s weighted way lower so it takes way more slots on gear to get a decent amount and reads like a lucky hit effect from D4.

Affliction Warlock mastery increases the damage done by your DOT and other Affliction based effects by %. I’d like Spriest Mastery ^ = Dot and shadow based Damage ^ please. Or have it increase the speed and dmg of SWP & VT to make it interesting and make dots matter.

Would also like a void seed of corruption tyvm

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Our mastery is op, it is actually much larger than it says it is. We have a truly multiplicative stacking thing. This aoe need sucks tho.

It’s good on a single target and a liability in AoE this mastery is anything but OP.

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i really love Shadow’s Mastery in concept and in Single target, but it definitely is a liability in AoE considering both it and our spells are balanced around it’s existance and AoE absolutely does not allow it to be applied consistently on bigger pulls

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Which would be great if shadow crash wasn’t both target capped and on a moderate CD (seed of corruption has neither). Most of the time you will not have SWP VT on all targets, at least that’s what I’ve noticed so far with all of the low health spider adds this Xpac.

Can’t imagine that makes the class any easier to balance.

Buff psychic link and soft cap it at 8, uncap crash and take away the CD so the class and its mastery can be balanced around all targets having dots. Ez job done.

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I still think Psychic link should be soft capped at 8 targets (reduced damage after 8) and Shadow crash should apply to infinite targets, this would both allow our mastery to shine in AoE and make our aoe profile much more similar to pretty much all other specs, who instead of actively getting worse the more targets there are, they simply gain less efficacy per target added afterwards

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They would have to square root dots as well if they did this. I know they hit for peanuts but uncapped they will be very strong.

Would the dots themselves be though? they tick for like, 15k on enemies with several million HP, you’d have to pull an embarrassingly large amount of enemies for that to actually become an issue, but i’d also accept them dealing less after a certain amount are out as well

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I would too if they did full damage at 12-15 target and scaled after that. Right now your not getting dots on more than 12 targets without some serious effort and next to no payoff.

The best part of this is that trivial mobs don’t eat applications and you will spend less time casting dots on priority targets.

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Full dot scaling would be broken since we’re always top on aoe when enemies are spread. Honestly if holy nova got a 10x damage increase that would really really help on trivial mobs.

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Holy Nova buff would be sweet. They should roll the SWP VT application node for Shadow crash into the inherent talent and replace that node with one that makes Holy Nova Shadow Nova and do damage comparable to mage’s arcane explosion. It’ll naturally be a lil stronger due to mastery effects. Bonus points if they add inherent leech to it.

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And here I was thinking that Voidweaver couldn’t get any lower damage in Mythic+.
If they nerf us more we’re going to go into the negatives.
Which could be a good thing. Because then we’ll loop back around into the positives to infinite damage.
:dracthyr_cry_animated:

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At the very least, entropic/collapse wouldn’t get reduced, they’d get an increase. Same with Halo - though Archon Halo probably would benefit more from this. It’s just specifically psychic link that is going to see a decent drop.

All they gotta do is buff hilt nova. I can live with shadow crash as is, or worse the legion version. I can imagine another insanity spender that makes it void and does a lot more damage.

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This would be awful.
Having to do aoe dmg as caster clothy at melee range feels horrible.
Already having to do AoE dmg as holy via Holy nova is disgusting. And Arcane mages are actually happy they no longer need to be 99% of the time being melee to do AoE.

Makes you vulnerable to melee mechanics and visually it looks ugly compared to cast spells from range