Its now been almost two weeks since the Starsurge nerfs were implemented and it is evident that Druids are in a bad place in both PVP and PVE.
In PVE, we have fallen to 3rd from last - even with the recent buff to Starfire damage.
In PVP, we have completely lost our ability to kite and do damage. Sure, we can proc one root once per minute (that can easily be removed by nearly every class) but once that root is done we get absolutely destroyed. Our only option is to try and kite in travel form but with SS in the state it currently is we are forced to spam Moonfire - making us to go oom as we die to dots, pets and melee that we just cannot get away from.
What is the answer? It’s simple. The Starsurge nerf was needed but the amount it was nerfed by is excessive. What was originally supposed to be a flat 30% nerf, soon became 35% and with the discovered spell power coefficient bug it soon became closer to a 60% nerf. Not to mention the crit nerf making the spell even worse. No one is asking for a “one-shot button” but returning 20% damage would help us in both PVP and PVE.
In PVE - Fully buffed crits are hitting for 1k. Seeing as how we spam this button every 6 seconds, we could expect our position in DPS ranking to increase with this simple change.
In PVP, Starsurge is critting for 600-700. This would increase damage to 800-900 which given health pools in PVP (BG and STV) is reasonable and we would at least have a chance to fend off other classes.
Also, before people start spreading fake news about Boomy DPS… go to warcraft logs, click statistics and filter by 99 percentile in the last week and last day. Its obvious we are way behind other casters that are outperforming in an armor-heavy Gnomer.
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Agree with everything you said… and i don’t even play balance druid. I have zero faith in these devs to get any of the druid specs right.
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starsurge should be nerfed by another 20% 
stop relying on an instant cast, FREE spell with a 6 second cooldown.
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Yah lets rely on a 3.5 second cast while we have 2 melee hitting us! Sounds fun!
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boomies want to be casters, well, learn how to cast a spell during pvp. mages and locks do it. figure it out.
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No.
Ya’ll went literally unchecked your entirety of P1, and it was getting disgusting in P2. Ya’ll flew too close to the sun and now that youve been dialed back, here you are.
An insatnt, no cast, no mana, spell that hit for 1k plus, harder than most 3+s cast time spells, is ridiculous. If you wanna play a casting class, L2Position, and cast.
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Sounds like you need to learn to position and kite like the rest of us casters. Its a bit harder when you can’t just instant cast isn’t it LOL.
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Wow! Thanks random dude on the forums for giving your full support on a class you dont play!
Wouldnt even bother blizz are too stupid to get things right.
And the only repsonse from other players is l2p
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You have no idea how to balance ur own life. Learn to life.
For a free instant cast? Should be half that. Nerf it again.
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Lolol coming from a mage. Like i said earlier… I don’t play boomkin. I just know they are a joke to heal through. Im sure other healers would agree, they are by far the least threatening dps to deal with in pvp. You can also add that they are third last in pve as well.
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Level one and play it or just dont talk about what you dont know.
Outrage and complaints for the sake of a parasocial connection does nothing for the post.
You can instant one shot people. The big complaint about starsurge was “no counter play”.
What’s the counter play to that?
No.
Starsurge is never getting un-nerfed. Make peace with it.
All i’m saying is Id rather have 3 balance druids hitting me than one Rogue or shadow priest. Starsurge was OP, but buffing starfire was not the right move IMO, Id rather it go to something else that isn’t useless in pvp.
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Druids are fine in both. It is fine to be midpack.
Well time to get everyone else nerfed too then.
Bring down the rest of the damage in the game
Druid is in a decent place now. Bring melee hunter, mage, rogue and spriest down
You showed an analysis in another thread that wasn’t damage, but some kind of tier list based on scores.
It’s not midpack… It’s like 3rd or 4th from last.