Unholy DK nerf is unexpected considering they weren’t doing a ton of damage on the PTR.
Frost changes are just ok. Any more nerfs and it will butcher them.
5% to warriors brings them in line with tanks so that’s something.
Buffing VDH damage. Wat.
Aff lock buffs are nice but that is the least enjoyable spec I have ever played thanks to rapture.
Ele shaman Single target buffs are actually very exciting. May consider maining Ele now. Thank you for listening to what the shaman community has begged for since release of TWW.
EDIT: Nah they still have crap single target.
You still need to tune Ret, still underperforming.
VDH damage was actually on the low side, and too much of their damage is shoved into their hero talent, but yea, it is weird to see them getting a buff without a corresponding nerf somewhere to make them less a shoe in for M+ again.
Ironically, if they keep Balance where its at and keep buffing spriest, the meta could stay the same but just have the druid and priest switch spots.
As someone that has to main Havoc for raid, and offspec tanks keys… this change to make mastery an even worse stat for VDH is sad to see. It feels like a change that has little-to-no affect on VDH mains and mostly punishes havoc players who have a bunch of mastery on their gear. VDH mains already avoided mastery.
Soooooo is this a hint that Blizz doens’t want Boomkins played this next season? Ya’ll slaughtered/plucked then roasted us birbs to the point it’s reroll time…
yeah the vdh is weird, even if they werent doing the most dmg. theyre still the most popular mythic plus tank for the 2nd season in a row. this is just insanity
Yea… So we are doing pre buff damage of most classes as Boomkins. These nerfs were so bad they put us back so hard that they don’t know what to do to fix it.
You should keep in mind that on PTR they were already doing decent damage, they were significantly higher in damage than blood DK/ Guardian, from what I saw only prot warrior could outdps them in AoE.
legit nerfed vdh worst stat and buffed their damage…
I imagine a blizzard’s dev’s talk: - Hey, Bob, I know you wanna continue playing your vDH next season, but players are angry at their dominance for 4 seasons and demand some nerfs to bring them in line. - Then appease the plebs and make fake nerfs to vDH without actually nerfing them. And by the way I also wanna do higher damage, you got it?
I am 100% not intending to add any kind of drama, but I am legitimately confused at they’re logic as well. I know it’s not a perfect system, but honestly wtf…