fair enough. I’m just glad changes are targeted and not overreactions.
Shadow priest was gutted, while every SP counter was buffed. Yea, I’m going to disagree here.
I was referring to Boomy, sorry if in the 2nd comment that was unclear.
Sounds like correctly targetted balancing, guv.
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WW is coming out ahead which is a bit concerning, overall damage should be a good bit higher, top end RSK crits with serenity lower than current but higher than current if playing SEF.
May see a return of SEF, in some matchups at least. Serenity has a ton of usefulness outside of the damage amp. WDP getting a 40% buff will have it hitting harder than RSK.
All they had to do was remove mind trauma, its a stupid talent that changes the playstyle completely into sucking haste and keep stacks up making other globals less relevant.
DesP CDR was the only reason SP could be considered “tanky” , now they have turned them into a free kill. 25% effective in PvP? LOL. Yea, gg buddy.
Talking all this non sense about hybrids to feel better for offhealing, then destroy our only strong heal by 50% acting like its was available 24/7.
You can say anything you want but someone on that dev team hates shadow priest and they have made it clear all expansion.
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Still not Ret levels of healing nerf. You can have more healing when Shadow loses access to Mass Dispel.
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Can I get a new toy that turns me into a target dummy during pvp, I want people to get the PVE rotation feeling, since I have no mobility.
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Probably the only legitimate spriest complaint.
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Amatox, nobody cares about ret paladin. You can globe people in a hoj STILL, thenhorsey around and use dub freedom anytime you’re in any troub.
Shadow priest was able to do that for 2 weeks at the start of the DF. You can still do this well into ssn 2.
Wonder how bladestorm will feel. Will take getting used to not running unhinged, maybe blademasters will come back. 5.5-6 seconds is a long time to try to kill someone in pvp though. 10% ms buff is nice 
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waiting for the “does not apply to pvp combat” message
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Seethe.
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Yeah that -20% SCK dam is going to be a HUGE nerf to aoe damage.
Also dunno why they buffed War damage, their damage was fine. Problem with Wars is they are being manhandled by casters like SPs/Boomies/Mages, if they could actually connect and do dam to those classes, they’d destroy them
I feel like I need a kickbot to cope with the amount of juking from ranged players, hopefully the nerf to owlkin adept makes a tiny difference
Is Blood damage low? I made a Prot Pal to farm Augment Runes from Tank bonus, but my DK in similar gear does like double the damage already.
How come no one mentions this? Isn’t that gonna be insane damage?
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Still more changes coming Monday, we eatin good
WDP with SEF could go hard in a few matchups. every class has like aoe cc’s now which sucks
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My thoughts exactly. Aug got obliterated with nerfs, Boomy a small slap on the wrist damage wise when they are clearly the most overpowered spec in PvP.
Not a Sub Rogue or Feral Druid change, despite them being the next most overpowered Specs in PvP after Boomy.
Shadow Priest practically left unchanged — they will remain immortal in pvp and still won’t have to do much other than survive to create win conditions.
No warlock changes despite their reign on the ladder as well.
No Devastation Evoker changes despite the spec being 100% extinct and unviable in pvp due to damage nerf from 10.1.5 and self healing nerf (mana pool shrinks, self healing was all Dev had defensively, it certainly wasn’t passive damage mitigation).
Devastation remains by far the worst performing spec in PvP, and our escape spec of Aug got large defensive nerfs (Molten Blood shield by 30%, Black Attunement stamina nerf), very large off healing nerfs (10% overall with an additional 25% to dream projection will dry up the “support” of our off heals nicely), and a decent personal damage nerf with tectonic focus nerf, close as clutch mates nerf, and less burnout procs from Born in Flame.
All in all Boomy nerfs we’re a step in the right direction, but Boomy is still the most overpowered spec in the entire game and got light nerfs, where Augmentation was dismantled in all aspects. Sub Rogue and Feral Druid way overpowered and left to dominate the ladder
Think we are back to no viable DPS Evoker spec