Bears struggling, feedback is that they’re way too squishy, especially against magic damage. Blizzard’s solution is to give them some DPS talent for ironfur, lunar meme, and a buggy cleave talent for maul. Which, whatever, in a vacuum, weird choices, but seemed interesting at least.
Except in the same patch, they nerfed berserk to be a 50% cdr on thrash, instead of 100%. Undocumented, not in patch notes. And another great undocumented nerf, was gutting a capstone talent’s interaction with dream of cenarius. Not a 10% nerf, but a straight up nuke it from orbit deletion.
Bears now have zero capstones of any worth in the druid tree. And the bottom of the guardian tree is one gigantic bloated mess. Tooth and claw remains bugged, and not working against magic damage. Raze not being counted as a guardian ability, and the list goes on.
Meanwhile, warrior continues to dominate every level of mythic plus. No communication on whether guardian is going to get any of this fixed, or if it’s going to be scuffed for the entirety of dragonflight.
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They also nuked the warlock capstones that were already horrible, so I’m not really sure where they’re going with this patch lol
It was already doing a pretty beast .6% DPS but post nerf it now does more like .2% and also lost its primary purpose of proccing eranog ring.
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No idea about druids… but I only got a 5% buff and needed 20%.
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Answer: New Position: Deader Last.
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Blizzard is doing a really, really bad job at class/spec balance and general QA this expansion. They’re dropping the ball on an expansion with lots of potential.
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This just means that all classes should have a tank spec.
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Maybe Blizz wanted to show people what happens when you complain non-stop about Prot Warriors?
They nerfed the dead last tank to show the others what will happen if they keep complaining maybe?
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The lack of communication is the biggest issue. The only time they say anything is long after they change something. If the intention is for guardian to be dead last dumpster tier, then it would be nice if they’d just come out and say that.
Definitely feels that way. Doing mythic plus was rough before the patch, I don’t even want to run them at all now. Feels like I wasted 7 weeks on progressing my guardian druid under apparently, the lie that they were going to address their issues in 10.0.5, when I should have been focusing on a warrior.
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I don’t do Twitter, but I believe that’s where most of the communications are.
Druid gameplay is boring as well…
But on another note I don’t take any prot warrior warrior capstone either. There’s one or two good ones for specific stuff but in general i like other talents. I was dealing with what you’re dealing with all throughout SL, at least druids can still get in groups. I would get declined all the time as prot warrior back then so much I stopped playing him.
They like kicking the weakest down… Gotta make Warrior more enticing, eh?
Blood Death Knights deserves buffs too. All tanks did. Warrior is just too dominate.
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Wonder if I should just do my civic duty and switch to Prot so I can be the OP tank for folks until they nerf us clear into the ground.
That’s tragic. I agree buff deathstrike
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If they haven’t been nerfed into the ground, seems unlikely that it will ever happen.
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Class balance is a train wreck this expac. I think this is the worst I’ve seen so far. They’ve just resorted to tweaking %s vs balancing around class identity and play style.
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Class Balance is an ever shifting pendulum. Just because Warriors are op this expac doesn’t mean they will be in the next.
Probably because they are annoying. Charging ahead and aoe pulling is what folks want tanks to stop doing yet that is what most bears do. Go figure.
Yet when I don’t do that I get yelled at for wasting people’s time.
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There not a nice way to put this. But the content where people are whining about tanks “going too fast” is not relevant at all.
Heroic dungeons are only done by fresh characters, and tanks/healers that want the goodie bag. Mythic 0s are of dubious values when you could just as easily run a mythic 2 or 3 for better gear.
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In this case it’s like actions speak louder than words, the writing is on the wall. They want you to re-roll to Prot Warrior.