Gushing Wound Corruption Effect Reduction

[Mafic-emerald-dream (Mafic)]

I agree.

It feels like there is no point to a subscription model anymore as WoW is a full blown freemium game now.

[Spartacas-atiesh]

Yes, Good job, it is OP both in pve and pvp.

[Hamstar-draktharon (Hamstar)]

I’m surprised that you are surprised that anyone is surprised by this. I am also surprised that nobody else has said this yet.

[Xyrtran-medivh]

they hate melee or at least only certain melee specs

fire mages get easy scale while melee corruptions such as GW gets nerfed asap.

joke of balancing

[Screwzluse-sargeras]

Some feedback in regards to this nerf from a PVE perspective at high-end content. I 100% understand the impact that Gushing Wound in it’s current state could have in PVP, especially Arena. A balance should occur their but maybe current code doesn’t allow it.

At this time in the expansion, classes/specs that scale well with stats typically and should be top of the meters across most fight styles. Corruption that are flat % stat increases inflates this even more. Lets use BM Hunter vs Rogue in this current time as an example. Running ST sims with Hunters BiS stat corruptions vs a Rogue running all Gushing a 30k+ gap still exists pre-nerf. I’ve personally simmed BiS stats on my rogue and the best I can get to is 98k on ST. BM Hunters can roughly get up to 135k staying under 60 corruption. That is over a 30k gap even with Gushing Wound pre-nerf.

This highlights a huge imbalance currently in the game in general. Take a look at all the public logs, specifically Mythic, and you can’t tell me those top 10 specs aren’t going to take an even larger lead, this was pre-nerf. The larger issue is now you have 10 class/spec combos that are really benefiting from obtaining pure BiS with stat base % corruptions vs the rest that don’t scale well with gear. The nerf to Gushing Wound just highlights the issue even more to the point you are seeing an outrage.

If you are going to nerf gushing wound and play the balance card on corruption, how about you look at the state of classes currently and fix the imbalance that exists. Ion even recently said in Slootbags interview that Twilight Devastation is OP but why nerf it at this point. You should just remove Echoing Void and Gushing Wound off the corruption table since you’ve gutted it to unusable.

[anon15627919]

Just a heads up, still going to stack Gushing.

Before as it was a 445 piece of GW was already decent damage for what it’s worth. Now being able to apply GW to 460-475 full sets of pieces is going to be huge bleeds.

But by all means those saying it’s going to be ‘useless as Echoing Void’ by all means cleanse yours.

P.S; go to blood mallet and even if you multiple your gushing wounds dps/corruption rating by .65 it’s a really good one.

[Rouxgarou-emerald-dream]

They literally have no idea or are completely unable, mentally, to make SMALL changes. This is true Blizzard fashion, hit it with a sledge hammer rather than use a scalpel. I mean you should know something is wrong or has been wrong for a long time if you have to nerf with numbers like that. You are doing something seriously wrong.

[Viøle-tichondrius]

Please, just get up and take all your fellow devs with you and leave blizz hq. How is it that a group of people can be so incompetent for so long? I’d say you’re borderline just as bad as Riot at this point.

[Chairmanjeff-malganis]

It’s really weird how GW gets instantly slapped down once it becomes widely available but you’ve done 0 class balancing this entire raid

[Batracio-bleeding-hollow]

lol more rng -_- just take it off already.

[Melisity-lightbringer (Melisity)]

@Flooìd-stormrage

How about you dont tank the damage, but you bump its corruption cost. so that its still worth using in terms of damage.

What difference would that make? What makes GW so desirable is its low corruption cost. Increasing that corruption cost would tank its dps/corruption in exactly the same way as reducing its damage output.

[Coggali-eredar (Coggali)]

@Endoz-emerald-dream

If you have to nerf it by 35% that because you never tested it to begin with. Second, Why now? Now that people can by it? If that’s what you needed to nerf it to the ground then blizzard just showed how little they understand balancing. Now I’m worried for shadowlands.

I don’t feel like this comment got enough attention.

The fact that an rng based corruption could output this much damage to the point where giving everyone access to it would be considered too much highlights one of the many things ridiculous about the whole corrupted gear system.

If the devs currently maintaining BfA are in any way involved in Shadowlands then I’m also nervous. Every creative decision that is made is just facepalm after facepalm.

[Levaetain-saurfang]

Yeah not surprised, consider their team might not even try communicate with each other to know what is the best for the game.
One guy makes the decision, the rest just been a Yes man and follow the flow.

[Sothê-sargeras]

I am hearing only good things here? Let people do it. Stop nurfing things.

[Xyrtran-medivh]

I wonder why people here not realizing something

How they have the “time” to balance corruptions but they can’t balance classes?

[Biral-bloodscalp]

Patience… patience… Shadowlands cometh and with it: All Corruptions shall be destroyed.

[Cutiemode-moon-guard]

@Yonbi-illidan

@Kaivax

We’re working on a hotfix that will reduce the damage done by the Gushing Wound Corruption Effect by 35%. We expect to make this change with maintenance in each region next week, starting on May 26.

This is precisely why I horded all of my corruption pieces and cleansed nothing.

Good luck with those covenant abilities. That’s going to be fantastic.

35% nerf to your selected covenant. Now go grind for 3 weeks to join a new one. Oof.

Let us all have a moment of silence for what they did to Outlaw rogues when Mythic EN released.

Blizzard likes to punish you after you are locked into a choice.

[Sukiesdojo-stormrage]

I hate you blizzard

[Argorwal-ysera (Argorwal)]

@Lilîth-spirestone

90 corruption worth of gushing was just about equal to 100 corruption of twilight dev in some or most dungeon situations.
This nerf will turn GW into the next echoing void and will become useless.
Gj on that balancing

You left out how GW is also simultaneously by far the best ST for almost every spec corruption.

Basically have the best ST and second best MT combined in one and it’s confusing on why it was nerfed…

[Argorwal-ysera (Argorwal)]

@Jâckz-area-52-999567

So now that it’s finally equal opportunity you nerf it?

This is hands down the worst nerf I have seen in the last 2 years of this game. Yes, it needed a massive nerf in PvP. In PvE however it’s doing just fine. It’s the only single-target corruption that isn’t utterly miserable to use.

Infinite Stars and Twisted Appendage both have completely unreliable proc rates. They minimize skill. Gushing Wounds is stable.

IF you’re going to nerf it, make the nerf PvP only… or make it a SLIGHT nerf so that the dps per corruption is still on par with IS.

I don’t know who you have making these decisions, but I can do a better job and you can pay me less than you pay them. I, at least, actually passed the math classes I took.

Edit: Oh, and as far as this game goes; I’m not the best, but I’d like to think my armory and rio shows that I have at least a modicum of experience with high-end content.

Seriously, don’t go through with this nerf. This is a terrible decision.

You really thing that GW should have equal ST damage per corruption to IS when IS has the MASSIVE downside of being completely useless if a second target shows up and your stacks reset???

And the stack is dispellable in PvP.