https://beta.wowdb.com/spells/137013-balance-druid#35360-35432
Thanks Blizzard. Can’t wait to be a meme again.
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Just cancelled my subscription.
lol great as if eclipse for pvp wasnt gonna be bad enough already getting dmg nerfs XDDDDD
This is expected.
Auras were cleared to reset any balance touches applied with azerite abilities.
Guardian Druids had their moonfire aura stripped as well, since PotM azerite trait doesn’t exist
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well thats discouraging
It seems so and resto is getting a 43% buff to nearly every single ability. Which seems ridiculous since they were already doing fine.
I don’t have beta, but a friend and his entire guild got it, and based on what they said in testing balance was behind the pack dps wise before this 18% nerf. I have absolutely no first hand experience with this, so just word of mouth from them. But if this is the case, how is a massive nerf warranted?
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I abandoned my Shadow Priest for Balance last month. It’s going to be one embarrassing walk of shame back to the chapel after the changes they just got. 
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People unsubbing due to beta tuning changes that they don’t even understand.
Never change, WoW forums.
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Blizzard’s apparent philosophy: if it ain’t broke, nerf the hell out of it. If it is broke nerf the hell out of it
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so the same thing happened to a bunch of other specs also?
Why would it?
Other classes aren’t druids, and this is a fairly unique druid situation. These aura buffs/nerfs aren’t just for the class, its a spec thing as well.
For instance, bear druids have had a -37% damage aura removed, which means their moonfire is going to hit that much harder on initial hit. This puts it in line with base moonfire ala balance levels.
These are specific knobs that were implemented during BFA to balance Druids as a they interact with BFA, and since Druid has some fairly janky spec and azerite crossovers (Like PotM earlier in the expansion), there are differing modifiers for each spec that need to be stripped back.
Taking those out is not a nerf. It’s setting it back to default sans Azerite
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idk i just assumed that other specs in the game must have had some of these auras applied to deal with azerite interaction. at least thats how i am understanding what you are saying
IIRC, not really. Like, there for a while, Guardian druids would switch to balance spec to be able to pick up balance druid azerite traits, and swap back to guardian with the balance trait equipped for high DPS.
It’s a fairly unique problem that comes from the druid kit being one that stretches across a 4 spec class and the interactions that come with that. There might be some other aura tuning (Feral had it’s damage buffed up via aura’s IIRC) that follows, but it wasn’t really as pivotal as Moonfire/sunfire, which is a lot of what was hit.
Blizzard used those spells as tuning points quite a bit in BFA, as a way to heavily nerf AoE DPS for various encounters.
Good. Balance can rot in…the shadowlands for all I care.
You need way more than an 18% nerf, you need to be gutted so that other healers can be valued.
Balance druid healing is pretty bad already…maybe you are thinking about restoration druids?
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The spec aura changes are usually the last things updated. They’re likely undoing the general aura so they can re-tune balance DoTs (which are almost not even worth casting atm) then they’ll re-apply the spec aura as needed.
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+1 i think the same
So that other healers can be valued innnnn what? Mythics?
R Druids are very meh in Raids compared to others, and arguably the worst Arena healers atm. I literally don’t understand what you’re even talking about lol.
In mythics? Yes them and holy paladins are best. But let’s stop pretending that being on top in one form of the game means they are on top in them all.
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Auras mean nothing at this point. Ignore it.
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