Well, thanks for keeping up with the thread, Sanq, and thanks for getting the concerns disproportionately nerfing bears and feral PVPers relayed and addressed. I still think the major issue with all of this was the very sudden nature of both the buff and the nerf. Why not test these sorts of things on PTRs?
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Yeah, but the buffs also werenât.
Ferals shouldnât have gotten such a large boost up the damage meters like that, which impacts the viability of other melee specs for the rest of the expansion, without being thoroughly tested on a PTR.
Ret went from worst to worst.
Feral went from ok to âfury with Shadowmourne wonât catch themâ
Thatâs really not ok.
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I wrote up a four paragraph post before sighing and realizing that the same thing weâve been saying for years doesnât need any explanation because it should be obvious to you by now. Iâll just summarize it with this:
Improve communication with the playerbase and you avoid situations like this.
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I am honestly down for them to nerf ferals as long as they nerf rets more.
alert feral druid has officially secured the top dps spot in P3, 4 & 5
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I assume you were concerned with feral viability before the buff? And equally upset about stacking dk/lock/rogue?
Feral is swimming a full tier above those by the end game now, and fury sims are in the range of those 3 with smourne leaving the rest of the melee pretty comparable.
The end game full BiS setup of the classes was in the right ballpark until blizz buffed feral.
Feral had no need of a DPS buff for viability.
What does end game have to do with anything? We are nowhere near the end of the game. Also sims are hardly definitive. The sims all said feral was going to scale hard in Ulduar and it certainly didnât.
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I think most of us would have accepted a nerf, but hopefully if itâs revisited, itâs done with a little more tact and carefulness involved.
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Theyâve been becoming more accurate since the launch of WotLK and they get dialed in with real world results.
So youâre agreeing the sims for future phases donât mean jack until the patch is live and we see actual real numbers.
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I still wish they just fully reverted back to bearweaving, but getting some extra dmg as a trade of to playing simple cat is better then getting nerfed and rotation destroyed.
No, Iâm saying that theyâve gotten better since the start of wrath, and this their predictive value has improved.
Retâs has been pretty spot on this whole time.
Warriors rn
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But hey we got flower weaving back, so thatâs an extra button to push right?
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Lol mmhmmm yup
Just release world of browns, yellows, and light blues again. WOTLK without progressive patches is boring AF.
As a feral druid main if Feral dps need a nerf you canâŚ
Reduce the omen proc chance of Faerie Fire (Feral) to a lower percent but still high like 75% (can be tuned).
or Add in a glyph that is needed to get the omen proc on Faerie Fire (Feral), this would force us to drop the roar glyph to get it resulting in a 3% nerf.
These suggestions are good because they nerf Feral PvE dps but do not effect Feral PvP or Feral Tanks.
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