Druid Tuning - April 10

[Leoniden-benediction]

I was so happy for them and now I’m sad. All I wanted was for people to be happy for my class, too with an elmination of the Titan’s Grip penalty.

[Rezlack-mankrik]

Blizzard I know pvp is something you really don’t care about, but come now. This change is shallow and lazy. Go back to the drawing board.

[Druidvhs-whitemane]

Just look at warcraftlogs, even if you have the same skill level ferals don’t even beat dks/rogues/warlocks on average performance or even top performance. Why would you nerf a middle-high dps for the first time in classics lifetime. If feral scales later on then implement the change later. You can’t be so certain about how well they scaled from back in 2009, it isn’t the same game.

It has to be talked about as well, why mention you don’t want to touch feral pvp in the first blue post then go back on your word and make a change that nerfs feral pvp.

[Hoofers-grobbulus]

Revert all changes. You are a complete joke of a company . No shot I’m doing this monkey brained monocat rotation to do the same amount of damage as lacerate weaving. You took the one fun thing about feral Druid and murdered it and then you nerf the class on top of it. I’m gonna cancelweave my subscription

[Schmeag-area-52]

thats real nice mr gm but you should just revert the naturalist change
you completely contradict yourself when you nerf feral’s overall physical dmg

[Mennarch-grobbulus]

Why are you nerfing cat in pvp?

[Catrickswayz-atiesh]

Trash changes. Trash “balance”.
#NoChanges

[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.