Nerf Spinning Crane Kick?

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Blizz - you gonna nerf SCK?

Somebody correct me if I’m wrong, but seems like the changes on PTR are mostly a wash?

Buffs:

Max stacks at 5 instead of 6 makes it easier to max out.
Keefers gives crit benefit.

Nerfs:

DoCJ 150% extra damage instead of 200% (so 250% total damage instead of 300%)
Bonedust brew 1/3 nerf

If these together constitute a nerf, isn’t it a pretty minor one and won’t SCK still do completely bonkers damage?

There may be more arms than WW on the ladder at high ratings, but if you adjust for popularity of warrior vs ww, ww is running away with it, no?

If SCK isn’t the most OP broken mechanic in the game, what is?

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Why would they nerf something that isn’t broken??

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I noticed your comment in the UHDK thread. Since I have you all alone = where do you see unholy in this next patch?

My concerns are survivability and burst damage in comparison with our overlords (War/WW/Feral). I am asking since I am a LFG scrub and want to be able to get into games - so unfortunately “play what you like” is only fun when you can actually … play.

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Unholy will still be the weakest melee but has an anti caster niche. The burst damage is good but the sustain will be very high. Unholy tsg will be more than viable in 3s and unholy/rdru and unholy/priest will be more than viable in 2s

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Do you have any thoughts on WW and LFG? (asking for a friend)

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I don’t understand the question but ww is broken

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:face_with_monocle: :face_with_monocle:

do you think blood dk is Duelist viable?

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SCK isn’t the problem, don’t get me wrong it’s overtuned and does bonkers damage but so do all the other abilities, I think WW just needs a flat dam nerf to dps during images.

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Why can’t Blizz just delete DoCJ?

Hell, they could just go middle-ground and not delete the talent wholesale, keep the (admittedly pretty sweet) free SCK proc, but can the damage. Then buff FoF or base MotC % to compensate for the loss in AoE.

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log off forever lvl 10 dh

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Yeah, the people acting like WW won’t still 100-0 them through wall are delusional. This “nerf” also comes with a buff, with this change:

  • Spinning Crane Kick (Rank 2) now increases Spinning Crane Kick’s damage by 18% (was 15%) for each unique target struck with Blackout Kick, Tiger Palm and Rising Sun Kick in the last 20 seconds. Stacks up to 5 times (was 6).

So that’s a 9% buff to spinning crane kick in 3s.

Brilliant.

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this. monks will still be the most broken class even with SCK nerfed lol

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Warriors left the chat

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Just press CD’s when they press CD’s, and you will live!

It is actually very easy to do!

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there is no way of knowing when they use CDs.

Given how powerful monk is, Bliz should implement something crazy like a glowing tiger when monks use CDs…that way we could react.

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What do you mean? They become 3 different versions of themself, all of them are different colors, with a giant tiger?

I think visually it is very easy to tell when they are bursting.

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Really surprised you fell for this…it is obvious

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What is?

Do you mind elaborating?

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Oi! Timmy lad fetch me a bao of wao. The Americans ackin up again innit bruv

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Bonedust isn’t being nerfed in 9.1.5. They fix the crit bug so it can crit now, then lower its dmg to offset. So you’ll still get one shot by SCK it’ll just be a little less worrisome.