We’re like 3 months into TWW now, and balance feels like it hasn’t improved at all since beta? We still have the same outliers since launch. Usually the 0.5 patch would bring things in a somewhat right direction, but if anything it made things worse.
For their upcoming patch, blizzard is significantly nerfing resto druid (worst healer currently) and buffing disc/pres for example. It’s actually concerning how clueless they are about what’s strong and weak right now. It’s like they closed both eyes to what’s happening in their game and just collect that sweet money from mounts and epic legendary deluxe editions with early access and faster leveling.
Worst expansion launch I’ve ever played balancing and activity wise. Luckily this season only yields garbage rewards, fitting with their garbage balancing and mmr system.
No increase on anything, just this significant focused growth nerf and nothing else. That’s the appalling part. They actually thing resto druid is overperforming and disc is underperforming. It’s madness.
I know it’s not announced that they are baking it in. It’s crazy to me they aren’t, only way to make sense of this is they’re changing the design of the talent so it is not necessary anymore.
Hopefully they’ll fix this and we can have more healer diversity
This is kind of an insane comment.
When the game started you healed as evoker or didnt play the game. Every patch has made the healer and dps balance better and better.
Yeah, resto druid, boomy, dh, and arcane/fire mage are still undertuned but everything else has been made so much closer AND all the underperforming specs have received buffs and overperforming specs have gotten nerfs.
Anyone who says some fried “Is this the worst balancing ever” has never actually played when balance is bad, this is so unreal.
Did we forget assa rogues last season of DF? Prenerf DH? 10.0.7 ret? Or even the first two months of DF with DH, ASsa rogue, feral, ret, demo lock & SP all doing ILLEGAL things. Or really the entirety of DF where you played FW, pres, or Rdruid (depending on the patch) or were 2x more likely to lose?!
Out of all of these, none are really undertuned, it’s just counterparts are overtund (except maybe fire). Rdruid can’t play vs evokers obv, but relatively speaking to damage it actually really doesn’t just flatline vs most DPS until heavy burst windows come into play. It’s throughput obv isn’t amazing. Boomy & DH are both independantly REALLY strong right now, but the counterpart flavours (Spri, locks, hunters, rogues, wws) are just stronger. Arcane is insane rn, but you just simply can’t play any mage spec rn vs a hunter.
So what meta spec has fallen out of favour? Because hte healing meta is still disc/pres, with hpals cropping up and rshams still being brutal to play if you don’t q into double wizard (and even then you still would rather the other 3). We’re still dealing with the hunter/dev/spri/lock/rogue/feral. Only thing’s that have really cropped up are mw/enh/demo, and none of those were bad to begin with.
The meta rn is one of the single worst in history.
Boomy is absolutely undertuned defensively, DH lacks kill pressure (so does DK) and arcane AND fire are both undertuned damage-wise.
Huh? Rdruid throughput and burst healing are still fine. Struggle vs evoker ya, but they just oom. Flop and nogard are keeping peeople alive to 80% damp in shuff consistently, even vs evokers.
Boomy damage sleeper good, but dies super easy, DH is not really strong; it’s one of the worst specs.
Arcane is not insane, dude. Kubzy quit after losing to 1800 ferals XD
Aff, fury, DK, sub, frost mage, mm, WW, ele all had periods of being overtuned and all got nerfed to no longer be in that status. SP/Feral are still overtuned despite receiving nerfs and BM WAS nerfed to be more reasonable prior to this recent rework.
It went from JUST pres to disc + pres to disc+pres+hpal and MW and rsham got buffs and other 3 were nerfed and are all pretty close atm.
There’s just no way. I Q and fight 40 different comps in 50 games and you see the same things for streamers at the top end during primetime. There’s more comp diversity now than there was all of dragonflight post 10.0.7.
Er, one. Maybe four.