This is the PvP update?

According to a previous blue post:

Now new post:

  • Player versus Player
    • The (up to) 50% health increase in Battlegrounds has been removed.
    • The global Damage Reduction to spells in PvP has been increased to 50% Physical/60% Magic reductions (was 25% Physical/40% Magic reductions).
      • Developers’ notes: Players should now have 50% more effective health in PvP against both Physical and Magical damage in the open world, and PvP in Battlegrounds should feel unchanged.

The physical damage reduction was 30%, not 25%. So either the old blue post is wrong, or you have to redo your math. Can you guys please put a little bit more effort on PvP?No new pvp events and no pvp gears for phases and yet you have some pvp update like this?
Aren’t you aware resto druid and resto shaman (espeically shaman) are already unkillable in BG. Instead of balance the healing classes (nerf shaman and druid or buff holy pally, mage and priest), you just buff all the healing classes by cutting all damages, which is rediculous and lazy.
Please, give us pvpers a little bit of love.

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Looks like healers are borderline immortal now

Just the worst most lazy change ever. And the BUMs love it.

“Hey babe, get me another beer IM OWNING! Look how long it’s taking these NOOBs to kill me LMAO I’m so sick.” - Average Shaman/tank/healer.

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oddly enough i agree with ya.

hybrids of all sorts and especialy tank hybrids are just gonna own everything now with nothing to check them.

gotta reduce healing by quite a bit too if the goal is to make time to kill go up or youll have immortal healers.

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I hardly see healers in bgs anyways. Maybe this will bring them back.

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You guys complain about the burst meta. So they dial it back, you then complain. WTF DO YOU GUYS ACTUALLY WANT???

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still got hit with a starfire for 3.1k. Damage is fine. LOL

lmao mad he has to do more than spam kill shot now.

Players that are upset that PVP is more than two-shotting opponents are genuinely bad at PVP.

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somewhere inbetween would be my answer.

but ya . i gotta do some testing before i say what i think.

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Except for a boomkin hitting me for 3.1k crit. I’m liking it so far.

Shaman is most certainly benefitting more than everyone else from this change. You would have to be delusional to think otherwise.

You don’t need to do any reducing of anything. Damage was fine at 30/40% all we needed was some better food. Some better PvP gear, and some buffs to underperforming classes. And ta da BALANCE. but nah TANKY hybrid LOL DO 0 DAM meta is clearly the way.

How so? Please explain.

Found the paladin.

Blizz did something that affected my class so I better get on the forums and complain about shamans!

Maybe I’ll give PvP another shot. I gave up mainly (on horde) because of how OP Paladins are. Hopefully this fixes things a little bit.

Yeah kill shot is still being spammed bud and BUMs are still dying. Taking less damage doesn’t make you better at the game…

If all you got was 2 shot before the update you were prolly never good at pvp to begin with.

Shaman is already one of the most tanky classes in the game. Now you take even less damage. Your healing has not been affected at all. You can now heal through damage more easily as you are taking 20% less of that damage. You also don’t go oom since you are a shaman. Effectively giving you the best sustain in the game… What is so hard to understand? How do people not understand this?

How did this change benefit underperforming classes? Let’s see ENH still does 0 dam still worthless. Fire/arc mage doing even less dam than before, still going oom. Destro lock still doing no dam still no where to be seen…

Meanwhile skeying BUM tanks and healers think they are good because it takes forever to kill them… boaring.

You are so dumb its not even funny. You need to stay “Tank Shamans” when you say Shamans will be tankier… how the hell are we getting heals off? are the other players not playing?

No I don’t Because every non ENH dps shaman is TANKY. Resto sham? tanky AF. Ele sham tanky AF.

Can you not cast riptide? does earth shield not work? Does NS not exist? Are you never in a situation where you can cast a heal? You don’t have grenades? You can’t stun people with wolves? And you want to say I am dumb? lmao

LMAO…

LMAO…

LMAO…

In some specs.

Not every spec/build.

Yes, very much so. But please keep talking… you are doing fine all by yourself.

You are delusional.