A 6% overall damage nerf is diabolical!!! Why???
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They were simming way higher than just about every other class.
It’s a 4% nerf overall. We’re literally fine. We got brought more in line with other specs and a number of other top performers got nerfs as well…and they also murdered Arcane mage’s playstyle.
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They nerfed overall dmg but increased mastery dmg bonus by 35% so it’s not a full 6% nerf. I’m okay with this bc my tempest and LB casts were murdering people 
. Oh and CL
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false 6% ele 4% enh learn to read
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Elemental got a 6% aura Nerf and roughly a 2% Buff from the 35% increase to our bonus damage portion in our Mastery. 6 - 2 = 4. Learn to do math and how specs work, you LFR rat, instead of automatically dooming about stuff like a lemming not thinking critically and going into fight or flight upon reading the word nerf.
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please never change yeasty
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We fight a tough battle my friend <3
Let’s math it out!
Let’s assume your spells hit for 100 dmg and you have 10% bonus dmg from mastery. This means your spells hit for 110 dmg.
Going forward, it will now be 94 dmg and 13.5% bonus dmg. So 94 x 1.135 = 106.69
So a nerf, yes - but not a crazy nerf.
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You need to go do this for all the Frost DK’s losing their mind over a 2% single target nerf and a 5% AoE nerf.
The bigger “nerf” is the tempest on uncapped pulls. Fortunately though, pulls are a mix of capped and uncapped and ultimately I believe the damage increase for 5 < pulls will even out the uncapped ones in a dungeon scenario. Also, to clarify in the mastery buff, we are still probably trying to avoid it as it is the worst stat still, just closer in line making gearing less punishing . TLDR these are good changes, ele damage is in a great place still
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I thought Mastery was bad, look for anything with no mastery on it? so now we want Mastery?
You still will prefer Haste > Crit = Vers > Mastery. At most, it will just make getting ilvl upgrades with Mastery on them not feel as bad which is good.
It went from meh? to ehh?
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Which is roughly about 3% with current stats.
I just did for you.
1.5% with base mastery to 3% if you’re around 3k. But basically yeah. Kinda moot now with the double pet nerf 
Ok so you just agree to agree.
That is what one can infer from the phrase “basically yeah”.
But more so bugging about the double aura nerf at this point which was either not intended or not fully disclosed to us in the patch notes which is some huge garbage if it was the latter. Willing to lean on the former given they tend to detail specific changes to pet damage and what not but it is Blizzard so who knows.
Hidden patch notes ain’t new.