Thoughts on upcoming WW buffs?

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Any high level WW players want to chime in on the upcoming buffs? Does this make us a top tier melee dps spec? Currently I feel like we are so behind many other melee classes in the game… Buffs listed below

  • Windwalker
    • Conduit of the Celestials: Strength of the Black Ox damage increased by 100%.
    • Conduit of the Celestials: Flight of the Red Crane damage increased by 100%.
    • Conduit of the Celestials: Courage of the White Tiger damage increased by 35%.
    • Fists of Fury damage increased by 20%.
    • Blackout Kick damage increased by 8%.
    • Flurry of Xuen damage increased by 40%.
    • Courageous Impulse now increases the damage of your next Blackout Kick by 200% (was 125%).
    • Shadowboxing Treads now increases the damage of Blackout Kick by 20% (was 10%) and causes additional Blackout Kicks at 80% effectiveness (was 70%).
    • Developers’ notes: We’re looking to increase Windwalker’s overall performance in AoE and single target through targeted adjustments to a few baseline spells, as well as to push some underrepresented talents for increased build diversity.
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The 20% on FoF is big. Does lock in TTP though. Conduit of the Celestials buffs are nice to reduce the gap with Shado-Pan, but afaik Conduit can still channel cancel. Flurry change is cool considering the last 40% was kinda cancelled out by a bug fix they rolled out with it. We probably pick it up for AoE. The rest are ok.

Personally, I’d rather Blizz make WW stronger by reverting nerfs they did to our talent tree, as well as just optimizing and improving the talent trees. And in a way I think they started with SBT because iirc that was one of the talents that got nerfed on like day 2 or 3 of the DF pre-patch.

Feels like Blizz is taking baby steps with these changes.

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