Blizz just nerfed rdruids into the ground.
Basically our most important talent choice is useless now. If you do the math its about a 25% nerf to Cenarion Ward healing which is HUUUGE.
I get that rdruids are SLIGHTLY overtuned right now BUT we deserve a small nerf at the very most. Meanwhile sub rogues get ~5% nerf to 2 abilities? And MW gets a buff to Soothing Mist??? and Hpal untouched?? Where is the logic in the healing balancing. The only logical thing was buffing Disc priest dam which makes healing more fun which is what they should do to all Healing specs. Rdruid dam is literally at 0%.
This does not add up. Especially when there is a healer shortage and you are basically slashing the most popular spec into ground. Rdruids were perfectly fine where they were at, with maybe a slight nerf needed to our passive HPS…
This really makes no sense at all. Have never seen such a massive nerf to rdruids when we are not an S tier spec as of now.
I’m hoping it’s not too bad, I understand Druid needed a nerf maybe yes it’s strong s tier but I don’t think Druid is OP.
I can’t figure why of all things they nerfed verdant. Look how fast we got nerfed too, they let other healers run wild broken which we are not for an entire season. When it comes to Druid if we smell s tier it’s insta nerf.
Tried playing a few games without verdant, you can still heal but you go oom extremely fast and it’s so awkward not having germ while swiftmend eats a hot. Druid is already global starved and not using verdant is a horrible experience. You have to get drinks 3x more than you do now.
Yea, this is the sort of nerf that feels really bad with the active effect of your core modifier to throughput being cut off.
Seems very heavyhanded to not even compensate it.
ya the Dev team just seems daft looking at this nerf. Every single solo its me against a disc priest. They are way over represented in 3’s. So what does Blizzard do? Nerf my biggest heal and buff shape shifter? RDruid is already a C or B tier healer in Shuffle not to mention I have to be super careful to even do a CC or one of my guys dies in a global how in the hell am I supposed to work up 5 combo points in a shuffle match? An thats to help address the mana situation which has to be the dumbest way to lose a match ever. Mana starved to classes who can free cast and never run out (looking at you MW).
Rdruid is one of my favorite healers and I haven’t touched it all xpack. Dunno what Blizz is doing with the spec this time around. Feels doodoo to play
Rdruid has the same problem rogue does. Even if it’s only “good,” people hate playing against it and won’t be satisfied until it’s not viable/garbage.
It’ll need fundamental changes to how it does healing in order for that not to be the case.
Hpal is getting massive buffs and a rework in a week. Holy, Disc, and mw got buffs when they were spightly underrepresented.
Rsham got buffs and nerfs that make it healthier for gameplay overall. Rdruid got nerfs because it’s performing exceptionally well.
The only problem with healer balance is that evoker damage didnt get touched.
If this makes verdant not viable and I have to heal without it, then this game just lost another healer because I only like rdruid and I’m not going to reroll. I tried a bunch of builds without verdant and it just doesn’t feel good. Swiftmend eating hots in this meta where we already don’t have enough globals sucks and makes us go oom and have to drink way more often.
MW doesn’t have damage for 3s so they have insane HPS and got buffed.
Rdruid doesn’t have damage for 3s but we get nerfed and can’t contribute any meaningful damage like disc and now holy priest, like evoker etc. My undergeared rsham buddy in blue and some purples hits 55-66k free lava burst procs. Starsurge for rdruid if we get lucky and crit hits for like 35-45k which is rare with 6% crit or it’s only around 20-25k.
Prevokers can literally do 1-2m damage in an arena match and heal like a rdruid.
Rsham got buffs and nerfs that make it healthier for gameplay overall. Rdruid got nerfs because it’s performing exceptionally well.
No it isn’t? The only bracket where rdru is outperforming other healers is 2s (which is kind of irrelevant for tuning).
Losing record in AWC, 3rd most represented healer above 1.8 in 3s, 4th most represented above 1.8 in shuffle. That isn’t “exceptional” performance lol, it’s slightly above bang average.
He thinks rep charts shows spec strength when he’s not accounting for the multitude of variables that skew the numbers. It’s a basic “i don’t know charts” strat.