Season of Discovery Class Tuning Incoming - December 12

[Barvinsty-aegwynn]

Good changes, sounds good!

Still got Kelris resist nerfs on the xmas wishlist so it wasn’t basically a phys only fight. Also wouldn’t mind if the Rogue runes were less co-dependent on one another (e.g. Poison Brew / Envenom or Blade Dance / Flesh Wound useless without the other), and if Saber Slash was somehow woven into the rotation along Sinister Strike rather than completely supplanting it (just so rotations felt more like vanilla PLUS new stuff rather than ONLY new stuff)

[Ginzø-dalaran]

@Kaivax

Boon of Blackfathom world buff adjusted. It now provides 3% spell hit and 25 spell power buff addition to the other physical damage and movement speed effects (was spell crit).

• Developers notes: Spellcasters in general are struggling a bit in BFD, mostly due to poor scaling without spellpower and a higher requirement of spell hit to reliably hit creatures 2+ levels above the caster. Keep those Chronoboons handy and don’t stand in the fire and lose your buff!

This should be adjusted to allow people to persist through death and just limit it to BFD. I know chronoboon will help avoid griefing by players getting camped going in to BFD, but nothing will stop a random mechanic from killing someone and destroying their effectiveness before they get to Kelris.

Might not be a well received opinion, but the moment a caster dies or doesn’t have this buff, they become far less desirable.

[Clise-lone-wolf]

What about spellpower not being applied to spells in battlegrounds?

[Rheiner-faerlina]

can you pls open up alliance faction on crusader strike so I can play with my friends pls

[Deathsbounty-area-52]

My lavaburst was already disgusting on alliance faces

Now they are doomed. MWHAHAHAHAHAH

[Calenor-westfall]

I don’t think boss-specific resistances should be done away with, but if it’s simply casters (or physical if it were reversed) getting screwed without having anything to do in the encounter then it’s lazy as opposed to Twin Emperors which does it right.

[Throwinhands-whitemane]

@Kaivax

Tomorrow, with scheduled weekly maintenance in each region, we’re going to implement some adjustments based on class performance and feedback.

Season of Discovery

• Druid
  • Starsurge rune ability damage increased 182%.
  • Starsurge cooldown reduced to 6 seconds (was 10 seconds).
  • Starsurge mana cost reduced to 1% of base mana (was 3% of base mana).
• Hunter
  • Flanking Strike now gains the benefit of weapon enhancements like sharpening stones, is now on global cooldown, and is now properly treated as a melee attack, letting it benefit from attack power and combat modifiers to dodge, parry, block, crit, hit, etc.
  • Flanking Strike is now prevented by Pacify.
  • Flanking Strike now requires a weapon equipped.
  • Flanking Strike pet damage is now properly treated as a melee attack, with same benefits as listed above for the hunter’s damage.
  • Additional changes to normalize Hunter pet performance are still to be determined.
• Priest
  • Priest Homunculi damage increased by 100%.
  • Void Plague damage increased by 200%.
  • Twisted Faith now increases damage done by Mind Blast and Mind Flay by 50% (was 20%) on targets afflicted with Shadow Word: Pain.
• Rogue
  • Saber Slash, Shiv, and Main Gauche will now properly consume Remorseless Attacks.
  • Saber Slash’s tooltip fixed; damage not reduced.
  • Saber Slash damage is now properly considered a Bleed and benefits from the Mangle debuff. Note: Bleed-immune creatures will no longer be affected by it.
• Shaman
  • Lava Lash damage increased to 150% weapon damage (was 100% weapon damage).
  • Lava Lash mana cost reduced to 1% of base mana (was 4%).
  • Overload now has a 50% chance to trigger (was 33%).
  • Dual Wield Specialization now grants 10% increased chance to hit while dual-wielding.
• Boon of Blackfathom world buff adjusted. It now provides 3% spell hit and 25 spell power buff addition to the other physical damage and movement speed effects (was spell crit).
  • Developers notes: Spellcasters in general are struggling a bit in BFD, mostly due to poor scaling without spellpower and a higher requirement of spell hit to reliably hit creatures 2+ levels above the caster. Keep those Chronoboons handy and don’t stand in the fire and lose your buff!

Regarding the Hunter pet performance note above, we will let you know as soon as we’ve finalized this hotfix. We really like hunter pets being able to occasionally do some raid or dungeon tanking, but it was never intended for them to be the best tanks in the game.

If you do ANYTHING to change hunter pets even the slightest YOU HAVE TO BUFF SOMETHING ELSE.

[Deathsbounty-area-52]

@Ginzø-dalaran

Might not be a well received opinion

Personally I disagree with this. Buff should never persist through death. Ever. They are a mini “hardcore” version of the game.

And i like the MS being available in the open world… makes some of these long runs without mounts doable when rune hunting.

For me this is an L take

[Purplelime-frostmourne (Purplelime)]

I rerolled to hunter a few days ago because mage just felt so bad in PvP, seen balancing changes and was excited that maybe changed up mages or made their healing better.

Nope.

Back to playing my scorpid class. No mana issues, great damage, no spell pushback. Why would I want to play a mage over this.

[Tankspank-skyfury]

Zero scorpion nerfs. There’s no reason you should have to focus the hunter pet all the while the hunter, who does less damage than his pet, just stands still and spams attacks with no chance of you ignoring his pet to focus him. Hunter pets are supposed to be annoying, not deadly.

Thanks for fixing everything but the ONE THING we wanted you to.

[Horace-remulos]

@Kaivax

• Starsurge rune ability damage increased 182%.
• Flanking Strike now properly treated as a melee attack, letting it benefit from attack power and combat modifiers
• Priest Homunculi damage increased by 100%.
• Void Plague damage increased by 200%.
• Overload now has a 50% chance to trigger (was 33%).
• Dual Wield Specialization now grants 10% increased chance to hit while dual-wielding.

Yeah boy.mp4

[Qlipse-faerlina]

@Gewdpal-lone-wolf

Blizz will fix Mage/Warlock in a year

Mage and lock both above shaman… the only class worse than shaman for dps is dps priest… which also got a buff… quit crying.

[Sentenzå-sargeras]

@Rotationn-illidan

Why is the solution players should take time out of playing to get a world buff and not to fix said classes?

Because they don’t want to make casters too strong in PvP or cause problems in the next phase. This is an easy fix that basically only effects the raid.

[Ginzø-dalaran]

@Deathsbounty-area-52

Personally I disagree with this. Buff should never persist through death.

This is a special situation that puts casters at a significant disadvantage. You can conform to norms all you want, but this isn’t a normal situation.

Try to assess the situation and come to conclusions that aren’t based on ‘what they usually do’. This iteration of the game isn’t exactly ‘the norm’.

[Rotationn-illidan]

So the three worst classes and only one got buffed. That is terrible work

[Rotationn-illidan]

There is no excuse for that. They knew the cap was 25 and with spell ranks they can tweak them next phase of needed.

[Tripi-barthilas]

No lone wolf change? Mage change? Surprised a bit. Good changes to balance and enchance and shadow priests but seem lighton changes

[Teutorigos-wild-growth]

@Kaivax

Druid

• Starsurge rune ability damage increased 182%.
• Starsurge cooldown reduced to 6 seconds (was 10 seconds).
• Starsurge mana cost reduced to 1% of base mana (was 3% of base mana).

This is excellent to see.

[Zenetta-proudmoore (Zenetta)]

@Kaivax

Developers notes: Spellcasters in general are struggling a bit in BFD, mostly due to poor scaling without spellpower and a higher requirement of spell hit to reliably hit creatures 2+ levels above the caster. Keep those Chronoboons handy and don’t stand in the fire and lose your buff!

It’s actually more the entire running OOM halfway through the fight thing while energy and rage users don’t have the same level of resource limitations.

[Res-wild-growth]

any word on seal of martyrdom not being a valid seal to twist with command?