Thunderfury Nerf

WoW Classic Season of Discovery
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Hey there Blizzard and friends,

I’m sure there have been plenty of posts / discussions about this topic already but wanted to voice my concerns.

Legendary weapons are supposed to be LEGENDARY right? We found that when Phase 4 was released and we saw hand of rag get a buff and new visual effect; however, Blizzard’s stance has been they do not want to change Thunderfury because it is “too iconic” of a weapon and it feels like it does the weapon dirty.

By not buffing Thunderfury you are actually nerfing Thunderfury HARD into the ground.

Thunderfury in classic is something to strive for and use through-out the entire “version” of the game. People used to run MC every week just for bindings… You could literally use this into the next expansion for some things. However, the current state of Thunderfury means that it will more than likely be easily replaced before it’s even relevant.

Current Thunderfury stats as of now:

44-115 Dmg
+16-30 Nature Dmg
1.9 Speed
53.95 DPS
5 Agi, 8 Sta, 8 FR, 9 NR
Everyone knows the effect. Yes, good threat gen.

Implacable Blackguard
50-94 Dmg
1.4 Speed
51.4 DPS
9 Sta
13 Def

This alone without the proc is ALMOST as good as Thunderfury’s base stats. Not to mention the power creep of items coming in BWL / AQ / Naxx. TF will easily be replaced in AQ if not already in BWL.

In fact curreny running warrior sims, Thunderfury is already simming 30 DPS less than Brutality blade for warrior tanks. That just shouldn’t be the case. Is it more threat? Yes due to the proc, but why do this to Thunderfury.

Don’t regard my topic as fan boying for Thunderfury. I hate Thunderfury. It has done nothing but hurt me the last 5 years, but I would hate to see this weapon get trash canned in SoD / Classic + moving forward.

Please be gentle.

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If they do keep it as it is, they should definitely reduce the cost of this thing. By the time we can even make elementium, there’s gonna be better weapons to get…

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Yeah, get rid of the elementium requirement, reduce bars, and increase drop rate of bindings if they kept it the same in my opinion. Make it like a “Eye of Divinity” Ancient Petrified Leaf" at this point.

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Yeah, people are already talking about how its cool but doesn’t have “legendary strength” especially by the time bwl comes out it wont be much to scoff at.

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it will be buffed. aggrend trippin

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Do we understand how TF threat per second stacks up against other options in SoD?

If Thunderfury has the highest TPS with it’s proc then DPS stats are not nearly as important.

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good maybe we wont have to see ppl linking it all the time

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Maybe, just maybe, they want to keep news about p5 things in p5 and not announce it with p4?

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TPS doesnt matter if it doesnt make me parse

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The less ppl want it, the more I will gladly have it.

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Why buff TF ? Shamans can’t use swords and we all know which class aggrend and devs are playing.

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They are supposed to be “discovering” what works and what doesn’t with this seasonal game…you’d think they’d quickly discover that their own power creep of buffing almost all of this Tier .5/Tier 1 gear is going to make Thunderfury lackluster.

Of course it needs buffed, this isn’t retail, where every kid on the team get’s an orange just for participating. Legendary should be legendary…

It either needs to be itemized many ilvl higher than it is, slowed down, base stats increased, new ability proc, etc etc.
Otherwise you’re going to have a bunch of people making it just because :Legendary, but then swapping it out on boss fights, which is boring and stupid design

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3 pallys and aggrends boomie alt yes :+1:

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Agreed. Buff thunderfury in SoD. Its a joke in current state

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You vastly underestimate the amount of threat it’s on-hit effect does.

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You vastly overestimate the on-hit purpose now that target cap has been uncapped for tanks. And also Def rating translation to damage.

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Thunderfury is already outclassed this phase and it isn’t even out yet. I am incredibly disappointed that they refuse to buff it. Aggrend’s defense that some random dads will be happy to get it because ORANGE is terrible.

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im impressed for the fact that you guys THINK a weapon that is not ATTAINABLE atm would be updated… she will have different stats when BWL release…what kinda people is playing sod right now… some of this comments make me worry… maybe MC is too hard for some people…remember Tibia is still online

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Did you just assume Thunderfury’s Gender???

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yes buffing the stats bare minimum is obviously what they should do :expressionless:
they started the power creep, they gotta finish it…