Druid Tuning - April 10

[Microbes-ashkandi]

This is garbage ferals still werent anywhere near top dps in terms of equal skill. Make up your dam minds blizzard.

[Danakin-benediction]

Would rather you revert everything and go back to bearwaeving then have w/e this is. Also thanks for nerfing my cat in arenas with this well thought out change

[Bearhands-faerlina]

So it would have been what, Thursday at the earliest before you would have realized you overshot the mark on the feral buffs? So you fully tested a nerf and two other changes over a holiday weekend in a day or two before deploying them?

Then communicated the changes AFTER deploying them?

Surely yall can see the problem here right? Right guys??

[Mythàl-grobbulus]

Blizzard, this April fools joke has missed the mark. It’s the 10th, not the 1st.

[Lastcares-pagle]

Thanks for the revert on GoTW. We are going to need all of the help we can get in ICC.

Also, revert all changes.

[Deunan-atiesh]

@Aggrend-1483

we are very leery to shift the meta in PvP while chasing a buff to PvE.

Guess this aged poorly…

[Howdyboy-benediction]

Hi Blizzard. I would love for there to be more consideration to pvp changes with things like this. The PVP community are begging and pleading for balance changes to make the currently oppressive meta more enjoyable, none of which would alter anything of current feral druids. This will now nerf an already underrepresented spec.

This also proves you are capable of making changes that do impact pvp, so please consider a nerf to Unrelenting Assault from Warriors as well as a bug where Warriors can currently maintain Shield Wall with a 2-hander and continue to deal damage. Change sacred cleansing to feel less like we are in a TBC-era of pvp with RNG on magic debuffs vs holy paladins (who are also miles ahead the best healer in both pve and pvp content through all of wrath). Finally take a look at elemental shamans tool kit as currently earthbind roots do not DR with itself and has a 10 second CD on the totems.

There are many other changes that could be considered, but regardless either revert this change or start making more frequent changes to overtuned specs and abilities that impact pvp.

Thanks <3

[Issacat-benediction]

this is golden

[Karizikat-benediction]

I am extremely disappointed these unnecessary changes lead to feral being nerfed in PvP (What about Warriors and Paladins!!!) in the middle of an arena season…

[Holyecstasy-eranikus]

This change seems very shortsighted. Is there truly no other way to bring pve cat in line without nerfing PvP? Please consider reverting the naturalist and engage with Druid discord theorycrafters to come to a better conclusion than this. This showing has left me considering cancelling my sub because of your heavy handed changes.

[Howdyboy-benediction]

Hey its me again, please view blizzard and save pvp!!!

[Bearhands-faerlina]

@Sanq-11813

I’m just the messenger but the truth is we have absolutely no idea what we’re doing and are just kinda winging it. Taylor in receiving actually plays the game and he suggested nerfing naturalist so we just kinda ran with it. If the change is bad blame Taylor. We clearly have no idea what we’re doing and can’t be held accountable as such

Well… I appreciate your honesty.

#ScrewTaylor

[Frosto-faerlina]

@Sanq-11813

so we are making an additional change to lower this output by about 4.5%.

I hope this is reverted today.

[Kargz-arugal]

Adress the pvp nerf, you specifically said you were not trying to impact pvp by all these feral changes yet you have gone ahead and done just that.

[Rake-moon-guard]

Hilarious. They better give us an official response on this to sign-off on their change of stance, unless it truly is ignorance which I’m just going to assume, it is.

[Bait-kargath (Bait)]

“Slightly”

5% damage loss and not enough threat to notice.

Thanks for killing bears.

Really wish we could report blues for trolling.

[Leplep-faerlina]

@sanq - Last week you had a bullet point EXPLICITLY stating you did not want this to effect PVP. Can you please comment on why your team did a complete 180 on that?

[Rake-moon-guard]

Would love a response as well. Thanks.

[Diplomat-atiesh]

If the purpose of the OOC buff was to generally increase feral damage and streamline PvE cat rotations, this second wave of changes further convolutes the rotation while punishing all other feral players. Somehow, this is the worst of both worlds.

[Thandorr-pagle]

This nerf is completely unnecessary. I question the companies reasoning as to how this buff was enough to warrant a nerf. Feral was not overpowered as a result. Feral damage was respectable but still upper middle of the pack while having a higher skill ceiling than most specs. Somehow blizzard is under the delusion that feral despite its limiting pure single target and niche damage profile must not be competitive with other higher performing specs. Any fight with target switching or with significant cleave, feral falls behind.

You would never see feral stacking like we are now with warlocks and rogues or with warriors later on and yet blizzard felt the need to nerf.

Questionable at best and quite disappointing a week after changes. Do better!