was Equipoise one of them does it say that or was it generalized? If so that is dumb just to cover up them trying to switch stuff up.
You are going to have to read through it sadly. I didn’t notice anything that grabbed my attention on that particular talent.
No mention in there of any changes to Equipoise. Basically, they stealth-nerfed it to 1/3 of its previous effectiveness.
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Gear should never be nerfed or buffed. That is, with proper testing!
Sometimes it feels like Blizzard throws nerfs/buffs against the wall to see what might stick.
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If it was overperforming they merely tuned it. And it somehow missed making the official notes… what a shock!
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Yeah you gotta watch out for that.
They nerfed Barrage by 75% last patch, and it never made it to patch notes.
We had to dig up an old ptr change they did, that they decided to just keep in the game and not tell anyone about.
*update
Found my old post on it
That was the last reference to it, the change went into live and was never on any official patch notes.
Similar thing happened to reckless flurry for fury warriors last patch and the change got reverted I think less than a week later. It’s hopefully just an unintended change.
i checked it all it said was this * Fixed a bug that caused some Azerite powers to not function correctly following a gear swap.
They didn’t just “tune” it… they killed it. They reduced the damage the trait grants by 2/3. It essentially went from the best simming trait to the worst.
This is one thing I really hate about BfA.
In prior expansions you had tier armor. When Blizzard nerfed your tier set, it sucked and you complained. But you still wore it because it still had a set bonus and was better than any alternatives. At least you didn’t have to toss it and find alternate gear.
In BfA when Blizzard nerfs your azerite gear you have to throw it all out and gather different azerite gear. This leads to a sense that your efforts as a player to build up your character don’t matter. Blizzard will change the rules on you in the next patch.
And this isn’t helped by how heavy-handed Blizzard has been with nerfs this expansion. They could have nerfed Equipoise by 15% to put it in line with other top arcane mage traits. But instead they nerfed it by 66% making absolutely sure it is the worst arcane trait in the game.
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So it was a “Snucked” Nerf and btw i didnt know Arcane barrage was nerfed 75% wtf
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What’d they do to Arcane Barrage??? This is the first I’ve heard!
You can often find me snucking around.
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if u scroll up a bit someone just mentioned it
No not arcane barrage, just barrage, for hunters. Not mages. Chill Chill lol
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ahhhh ok so silly of me I been arcane since day one i refuse to go frost or fire thats just me so with that being said i may be a lil over protecting my spec
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The last time Blizzard snucked in a nerf, I was decked out in 7/9 Tier 3 and couldn’t get my Chest from Four Horsemen for the life of me.
Not arguing their heavy hand in nerfing. Just saying it’s possible they felt it was over performing and decided to tune it.
Also this is probably best posted in the BFA items and classes forum, since it pertains to azerite traits and will be less likely to be buried behind posts like here in GD
He didn’t know whether to use sneaked or snuck so he just combined the two! Adapt, overcome, survive.
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yea just like they didnt have the balls to tell us this was on the whim hence “Snucked”
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Not changing from Arcane for anything - that’s the whole thing about class fantasy right? Play the class and spec that suits you for that character’s role (RPG)
Will be a pain to figure out the next series of best traits, and then if they revert the change, will we get a free reforge?
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