I want to have faith that things will change and stuff will get tuned, but holy hell. This is pretty insane.
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Theres a lot of stuff that is crazy. Its to be expected though, they will definitely do tuning but probably not this week.
Arms war is insane, Frost dk is insane, Overpowered barrier on fire mage is broken (OP), Slicing Winds on Windwalker monk is broken (OP), MM hunter is insane, etc. All of those specs I listed are 1 shotting or hitting for 3-4m+ in a single global. Lots of stuff is very overtuned but again patch is fresh off the stove.
Fire mage barrier is reflecting damage, up to a 2.1m threshold, back at the original person.
It lasts for 5 seconds and is purgable.
If you’re getting one shot by your own damage and then screaming there’s an issue with you.
That said arms is NUTS. Just melting people from connecting, if this goes live I think it’s the strongest melee and to boot it’s fun to play.
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You wanna try prot, the burst is insane, bigger than arms I think
Lugoborious (spelled that wrong probably) said he nailed someone with a 7m mortal strike earlier.
Highest I’ve gotten is 2.5m, but that’s with a 2.1m overpower and a 2.3m execute so.
If Prot is overshadowing that, that’s disgusting.
I just gouge or blind the barrier with rogue, or scatter shot it on hunter. If scatter is used up I try to tranq it.
I don’t know how you’re hitting that low. My friend is hitting 3.6 million
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Even more funny, I’ll see if I can get something higher tomorrow because my god just watching someone disappear with a button press is cathartic.
This was in a BG though. Couldn’t tell you exactly what combination of modifiers were active. I just checked details after the game and it said my highest MS crit was like 6.9mil
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He was hitting a shaman and took him from 50% to 0 in one global. I checked the combat logs and he had a couple other 1 million hits right before he did that. I think Rampage was hitting for slightly over 1 million
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I’m trying to think of what group buffs people could have that would also enable this… or maybe debuffs?
It’s going to make killing EFC’s great though if I can just warbreaker and delete someone.
I wonder if we had Berserker and if he ever used any saltwater potions.
I am aware of its “drawbacks” but barrier is a 25 second cooldown lol. Every 25 seconds you just have to stop hitting the mage unless you have a purge and then you have to get lucky and purge it off. I dont think its good for the game overall to be honest, you just stop hitting the mage every 25s again unless you actually purge it off, but it lasts 5 seconds so im not sure how worthwhile the global (or multiple) even is. I think a lot of people will just swap off the mage, and I dont think any class should be able to consistently get people to swap away from them during CDs like that.
There are also quite a few buttons that are channeled or do damage over x seconds like Demolish, prim storm, fists of fury that you cant exactly stop and can just be reflected if barrier is popped during them. Then we have aoe damage as well, its just up too often to be as good as it is. It will get nerfed though im sure of it.
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DH is doing some pretty insane ST right now too, Friday will be interesting.
It could have easily been all my class cooldowns + berserk buff + saltwater + hitting EFC or any combination of these things.
Hsmmer of light for ret is doing negative damage. Idk whats going on anymore
Prot is pretty stupid.
Currently is doing damage as if it was a DPS or downright close to it. Granted this is prepatch which always has abilities doing non sense.
Or you pre cover your go with CC on the mage to stop them from barriering during your cooldowns, or if there’s multiple of you, you just hit in like karma and trade a defensive. It also requires the mage to see there’s a setup and not eat incidental damage before hand, it’s only firemage getting this as well btw which isn’t super popular.
Dunno about the others but you can legit turn away.
I do think the cooldown is a little too short for this, but I think proactive short duration “oh sht” buttons like this are good for the game and add depth, and considering mage alter got nerfed, they lost ring of fire, and blazing barrier (legit was hitting for 300-400k against people with that).
If again split amongst people with aoe, your shield shredding 1m back at 2 people just feels like half a second of warrior sweeping strikes or FOF (another short cooldown defensive with offensive power, we love turbofists parry), it kinda just doesn’t matter.
It’s annoying but it’s not the be all/end all due to the amount absorb.
arms still loses to the same stuff, bad players just get punished harder
weee
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Nice.
But dude was probably in greens.
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