Controlled Destruction is bugged FIX PLEASE!

Classes Mage
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As of this morning a critical bug is affecting the Controlled Destruction talent for Fire mages, making the spec obscenely weak in single/low target scenarios.

It was previously bugged and provided 50% amp to Ignite, which was scheduled for a fix in the anniversary patch down to 25% (but we’d get compensations elsewhere for single target),
HOWEVER AS OF THIS MORNING IT IS PROVIDING ONLY A 5% AMP, and this was not stated in any hotfix, it can’t even be seen in spelldata!

This is literally making fire unplayable in raid.

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Yeah this is causing 8-10% less raid damage. Thought I was going crazy Tuesday night until I read this. This is pretty nuts and needs to be fixed asap

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It’s also kind of wild that (1) this talent contributes so much damage (we really need a direct pyro buff…) and (2) this is getting set to 25% (down from the bugged 50%) on top of a 3% nerf to overall damage. The only real buffs I’m seeing come the patch are to Frostfury and Living Bomb, so I’m failing to see the offsetting ST buffs here…

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They really need to fix this already

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Is this for real??? It’s a freaking huge loss… when did this problem start?

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As of Tuesday (10/08/24). Yeah it’s ~35% hit to Ignite damage which with 25-30% of our damage previously being Ignite is about a 10% overall nerf. What’s worse is that, from what I understand, even though the wording does not suggest it, the Ignites spread off the target with Controlled Destruction retain the boosted damage. So, this is a huge nerf to Ignite spread AoE as well.

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Seems like a very simple coding error that should be easy enough to fix. Question is whether or not it’s a priority for them and whether they even know about it.

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They do know about it because they acknowledged it on their European forum.