The changes in the patch notes equate to an 8% - 9% nerf in Single target and a 3% nerf in AOE.
The spec was definitely overperforming but this nerf is very heavy handed and disproportionately lowers enhancement’s damage relative to the other overperformers like arcane mage and fury warrior (arcane loses less than 2% from it’s nerfs). This now brings them from one of the strongest specs to right into the middle of the pack.
What is more concerning is that it also seems like an anti-fun nerf as well, removing a lot of the nuance you could play around with overlapping wolves.
I’m fairly disappointed to see such a large swing in balance right before mythic starts. Blizzard also has stated they do not want to touch balance much once mythic starts, so it is likely we will not receive any compensation for a while.
Just hoping they walk back the nerf slightly before Tuesday.
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Does this include the class tuning on Sept 17th?
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Enhancement
- All ability damage increased by 4%.
- Witch Doctor’s Ancestry now reduces the cooldown of Feral Spirit by 1 second whenever you gain a Maelstrom Weapon stack (was 2 seconds).
- The War Within Season 1 2-set bonus now increases the damage of Stormstrike, Lava Lash, Ice Strike, and Crash Lightning 10% (was 6%).
This is specifically the tuning causing the 8.22% nerf. The 8.22% nerf is after the 4% aura buff and tier set buff.
is a massive nerf, more than doubling the cooldown of feral spirits, which is a large nerf overall and additionally a direct nerf to the tier set.
It’s a ~3% single target nerf for enhancement prior to acquiring 4p (what essentially all of the warcraftlogs statistics are currently showing). It’s less of a nerf than that for AOE (and it might even be dps-positive pre-4p). The rest of the “nerf” is just damage that you’ll no longer be gaining relative to everyone else next week when most peoples’ 4p bonuses go online.
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I’m not sure. My aoe dps on the dummies has gone up on ptr. Obviously this is purely just me doing my testing. But oh my, it is a blast. Having dre tied to more than one spell is fantastic. It is whackamole on steroids but still somehow fluid, it just works and is fun. Unless something changed in the last 24 hours that im unaware of (been at beach all day) and haven’t looked, its looking great.