Mongoose Bite hitting less since last patch?

Classes Hunter
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Since this Tuesday I’ve ran a few keys on my Survival hunter alt, and the first dungeon I entered I instantly felt even more undertuned than usual. Without remembering specific numbers, I finished with ~4m DPS on the first boss of ToP, where I normally remembered finishing slightly better than that on previous runs. Again specifics might be off but I finished the dungeon at 2.6m overall instead of my usual 2.8m or whatever for that dungeon. No biggie, maybe I just had some rust or i was just off that dungeon.

Long story short, I’ve been noticing a lot less BIG hits from Mongoose bite, specifically during our 4 set procs, even with full stacks of mongoose fury.

I looked at an old +12 Priory log of mine from roughly 12 days ago, when I was 665ilvl (now 669) and decided to run another +12 Priory today just to compare the damage breakdown of the logs.

Comparing Mongoose Bite specifically, I noticed I did almost the identical amount of total damage from Mongoose Bite, despite casting it 33 times more in this recent run.

According to logs, the average hit of my Mongoose Bite in the run 12 days ago was nearly 4 million. In this most recent run, despite being 4 item levels higher, the average damage of Mongoose Bite fell to about 3 million, 1 million less damage per cast. My highest hit in the run 12 days ago was 11.3 million, my highest hit in the run today? 10.7 million.

Admittedly enough I was maybe hyper-focusing on using Mongoose Bite in this recent run, so I’ll assume I had the odd suboptimal Mongoose Bite cast in there, though I very rarely have misused it in the past. But roughly 1 million damage less on average per hit even with better gear seems wrong, not to mention my highest hit out of nearly 200 uses was less despite being a higher item level leads me to believe something isn’t right here.

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Can you link logs of both ?

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Can’t post links for some reason, maybe not active enough on here but I will explain the logs below and if u want to manually find them, the name is Bigdooker on Illidan realm (Female Orc). Comparing the +12 Priory logs from April 26th and April 14th

What’s interesting that I just noticed now a few days after posting this is if you click the Mongoose Bite damage specifically, the old run a couple weeks ago the damage spread was 76% damage of Mongoose Bite’s damage was the actual hit, then 24% of the damage was the DoT effect from Serpent Sting

Then in my recent run, Mongoose Bite damage lowers all the way to 65% of the initial hit (again roughly 1m damage less per hit according to logs) but Serpent Sting damage is way up, 100 million more damage from Serpent Sting DoT effect for the entire dungeon

The damage graph above when you’re looking at Mongoose Bite damage is interesting too. In the older run, there’s big spikes on the graph from Mongoose Bite, yet Serpent Sting on the graph in the red is pretty consistently low the entire time. Whereas in the recent run, the graph is a lot less peaks and valleys, it never goes up as high from Mongoose Bite, but Serpent Sting sort of mirrors the Mongoose Bite on the graph just less damage of course

It’s almost like there was a unrecorded change to the damage distribution of Mongoose Bite, because in terms of overall damage, the newer run did 45m more overall damage from Mongoose Bite + Serpent Sting which makes sense with the 3-4 higher item levels.

Unless there’s a mechanic with Serpent Sting I’m unaware of, but to my knowledge it’s just a DoT that’s applied when using Mongoose Bite.

Just seems like they stealth nerfed the initial MB damage but buffed Serpent Sting DoT damage, or it’s just a strange bug going on