Is the sunlight nerf intended? I understand shockadin was probably too powerful pre-bis, but it was barely competitive in BiS and now it will be completely unviable. Shock not being viable is whatever, but kinda cruel to get our hopes up and then just nerf it into the ground right after. Maybe add something in SE that makes it viable again once we have more gear?
Edit: for anyone that didn’t notice, shock and awe now says sunlight does 60% of your spell power instead of 100%
Edit 2: I didn’t look around enough, they did add an SE set to fix the nerf, so exactly what I asked for, thanks Blizzard 
what sunlight nerf. how dare you.
We talking a new nerf to Sunlight (the buff I assume)?
Because Shockadin is currently (as of 11 days ago) capable of pulling 9.9k DPS with pre-bis.
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yeah the pre-Bis dmg was too much, but the BiS dmg was only like 11k, so it would have been one of the worst specs in BiS already, and now it took a 40% dmg nerf
theres an entirely new tier set for sunlight that came with the nerf
Sure glad they posted any news about this before implementing it. How can they be so incompetent at the communication part of their jobs?
Literally, just have someone make a post on the forums saying, “Hey we’re looking at Sunlight, as well as adding a new variant of the Scarlet Enclave tier set for Shock.”
Then, when they implement it, actually post the notes of the changes they made.
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40% seems excessive when you’re balancing a spec around an end-game tier set.
Hunters got hit with a massive nerf before p8 dropped. Welcome to incompetent devs.
Apparently there’s a new tier 3.5 shockadin set to compensate the nerf.
Ya but I really really really will be mad if they don’t let us exchange other tier 3.5 for it.
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WCL has the top DPS at 10.9k…pretty sure they are BiS with their Ashbringer and 6/8 T3.5 (intentionally missing 2 pieces to pick up 2pc T3).
Also, where are you getting this info on the nerf? It’s not up on WoWHead, and because of the nerf to the sword by the same name. I’m not certain if the ‘nerf to Sunlight’ is new news or old news.
((This is why I have repeatedly said they need to announce the changes on the PTR forum. STOP ANNOUNCING IN A DISCORD.))
It does, but it also is a further sign these devs are blissfully ignorant of how horizontal progression, a cornerstone of the game SoD is built upon, is handled. They keep nerfing older gear devaluing older raids further. This is bad for the game’s health.
They only balance around optimal sims run by members of the community, ignoring all percentiles under the 99th. It’s asinine.
don’t you just love paying $15/mo for a beta test where we get sweeping changes in hotfixes with no announcement
It’s especially insulting because they see that we’re happier as a community when they communicate, but they see that and still refuse.
Thank you! I didn’t see this, this is great news
Sorry guys, I think this one’s on me. I started playing SoD last night and got really excited about shockadin, so of course it’s stealth hotfix nerfed the very literal next day. 
It happened in the hotfix this morning. Sunlight went from 100% to 60%. I get it probably doesn’t matter if you’re in full tier but waking up to my level 40 butt suddenly doing almost half as much damage was sure rude. 
Since sunlight is nerf, any chance to make it work in PvP ? 
At least you didn’t log on today for Naxx and got kicked for low DPS.
I can’t even get the sunlight buff to show up on my toon this morning.
Hit 60 yesterday, respec’d hit a few things and was impressed with horrible gear.
Woke up this morning and can’t get sunlight buff - can still see the animation for a good few seconds after holy shock but nothing in dps meter or in blizzard combat log.
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