Tuning pass

[Boltinqt-defias-pillager]

Class Tuning Incoming – November 26

We regularly make class balance adjustments based on gameplay data and feedback from players on class performance. With scheduled weekly maintenance in each region (November 26 in this region), we’ll make the following changes to classes that are over- and under-performing in various areas: Classes Death Knight Blood Developers’ notes: The tuning updates done to the Deathbringer hero talent tree at the beginning of the patch have notably affected Blood’s output more than Frost. The damage ef…

@Kaivax

Player versus Player

• Death Knight
  • Blood
    • Death Strike damage reduced by 35% in PvP combat.
  • Unholy
    • Festering Wound damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
    • Festermight is now 65% effective in PvP combat (was 50%).
• Demon Hunter
  • Developers’ notes: Havoc’s sustained damage outside of cooldowns has been notably low, so a few related skills are getting damage increases.
  • Havoc
    • Immolation Aura damage increased by 20%
    • Demon’s Bite damage increased by 18%
    • Demon Blades damage increased by 18%
    • Felblade damage increased by 20%
• Druid
  • Restoration
    • Wildstalker: Symbiotic Blooms healing increased by 25% in PvP combat.
• Hunter
  • Marksmanship
    • Developers’ notes: Marksmanship damage has been lower than we’d like in general, and in particular their effectiveness against casters has not been shining, so we’re putting more power into their physical based abilities.
    • Dark Ranger: Black Arrow damage increased by 12% in PvP combat.
    • Aimed Shot damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
    • Rapid Fire damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
• Mage
  • Arcane
    • Developers’ notes: We’re shifting Arcane’s damage profile a bit away from burst damage and into their consistent damage and increasing the effectiveness of Sunfury to increase hero talent diversity.
    • Sunfury: Spellfire Spheres grant 2% increased spell damage in PvP combat (was 1%).
    • Sunfury: Lingering Embers grant 2% increased spell damage in PvP combat (was 1%).
    • Sunfury: All Arcane Phoenix damage increased by 20% in PvP combat (Greater Pyroblast and Arcane Surge are not increased).
    • Arcanosphere damage increased by 40%.
    • Arcane Surge now increases damage by 20% in PvP combat (was 25%).
    • Arcane Missiles damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.
    • Arcane Blast damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.
    • Arcane Barrage damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
    • Arcane Bombardment now increases Arcane Barrage’s damage by 20% (was 40%) in PvP combat.
  • Fire
    • Sunfury: Spellfire Spheres grant 2% increased spell damage in PvP combat (was 1%).
    • Sunfury: Lingering Embers grant 2% increased spell damage in PvP combat (was 1%).
    • Sunfury: All Arcane Pheonix damage increased by 20% in PvP combat besides Greater Pyroblast and Arcane Surge.
• Monk
  • Windwalker
    • Dance of the Wind now increases dodge chance by 2% per stack in PvP combat (was 10%).
    • Developers’ notes: This change moves Dance of the Wind below the base hit chance threshold even at max stacks.
• Paladin
  • Retribution
    • Eye for an Eye damage increased by 50% in PvP combat.
• Priest
  • Mindgames damage and healing reversal increased by 40%.
  • Holy
    • Flash Heal healing increased by 10% in PvP combat.
    • Heal healing increased by 10% in PvP combat.
    • Power Word: Life healing increased by 10% in PvP combat.
• Shaman
  • Elemental
    • Additional Lava Bursts from Primordial Wave now deal 25% of normal damage in PvP combat (was 50%).
    • Chain Lightning damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.
    • Lightning Bolt damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.
    • Earth Shock damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
    • Lava Burst damage increased b 15% in PvP combat.
    • Charged Conduit now increases the damage bonus of Lightning Rod by 50% in PvP combat (was 25%).
    • Storm Elemental’s haste bonus is now 50% more effective in PvP combat.
  • Restoration
    • Lava Burst damage increased by 30% in PvP combat.
    • Flame Shock damage increased by 30% in PvP combat.
• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • Hellcaller: Blackened Soul damage increased by 15%.
    • Hellcaller: Mark of Peroth’arn now increases the critical strike damage of Wither by 25% in PvP combat (was 10%).
    • Hellcaller: Zevrim’s Resilience is now 60% more effective in PvP combat.
  • Destruction
    • Hellcaller: Zevrim’s Resilience is now 60% more effective in PvP combat.
• Warrior
  • Fury
    • Mountain Thane: Lightning Strike damage increased by 50% in PvP combat.

Rsham getting lava burst buffs we’re so back bro. Move over other healers, this is what we needed.

Zero adjustments to Destro damage profile, boring.

[Kennie-malganis]

@Kaivax

Death Strike damage reduced by 35% in PvP combat.

[Dicromick-illidan]

frost dk already better than unholy and frost got even better buffs.

15% festering wound is a joke, 65% festermight is even more of a joke lol

enjoy getting one shot and then chasing around fdk

[Setback-illidan]

Me scanning notes with a glimmer of hope for fire buffs only to see

@Kaivax

Fire

• Sunfury: Spellfire Spheres grant 2% increased spell damage in PvP combat (was 1%).
• Sunfury: Lingering Embers grant 2% increased spell damage in PvP combat (was 1%).
• Sunfury: All Arcane Pheonix damage increased by 20% in PvP combat besides Greater Pyroblast and Arcane Surge.

[Slumwizard-illidan]

Theres a bunch of class tuning changes not in the PvP section that don’t have the “Does not apply to PvP combat” attached to them- Fire got some in there for sure, though no idea how good they are.

[Slumwizard-illidan]

Monk

• 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.

[Cocainthief-illidan]

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Restoration

• Lava Burst damage increased by 30% in PvP combat.
• Flame Shock damage increased by 30% in PvP combat.

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[Christopher-grobbulus]

Yeah what are they thinking with these monk changes not adding a “Does Not Apply in PvP combat” to them?

[Loulock-malganis]

How did destro get nothing.

[Setback-illidan]

Even worse

@Class Tuning Incoming – November 26

• Pyroblast damage increased by 8%.
• Meteor direct damage increased by 25%.

[Dabdaddy-dawnbringer]

YOU WILL DIE BY PETS AND YOU WILL LOVE IT

10lemons

Zero bm nerfs ahahahhahah

Bro im literally going insane like the joker rn hahahahahahahahhahaha

Zero nerfs

Hahaha

Bm hahahhahahah

[Slumwizard-illidan]

Yeah when I saw like 8 things being changed under the fire section I actually got excited for you. Then I read them. actual blizz evil. that pyro change is like “why even bother” dook trick

[Christopher-grobbulus]

This tuning seems bad.

Seems more like a “let’s buff some of the unused hero talents” pass.

[Setback-illidan]

The sunfury changes are giga trolling.

No amount of buffs to that spec would make it viable. Frostfire fire only squeaks by because of instant FFB with 5x severe and its comet storm. Everything else in its kit hits for pennies.

Sunfury removes the only 2 things that makes fire even able to play. It just throws pennies at people and fireballs you for 500k lol

[Dwarfmonk-tichondrius]

No 40%+ RSK buff, No care.

Honestly ignoring pve changes and looking only at pvp changes, these seem extremely uninspired.

This game mode desperately needs a dedicated dev team so we aren’t stuck relying on the occasional sole developer who has an interest in pvp stumbling through every once in awhile.

[Swolé-emerald-dream]

Overall good changes. Nothing got over buffed, few nerfs here and there. A good start.

[Nishvi-tichondrius]

Imagine complaining about windwalker. The class ONLY does damage, it has the lowest utility and lowest CC in the game, it should be doing the most damage of any melee. DH and DK buffs are not enough. No nerfs to BM is disgusting.

[Slumwizard-illidan]

i dunno only linked em cuz they werent shown in Bolts OP, that was just highlighting the PvP only Tuning changes section

[Dabdaddy-dawnbringer]

@Nishvi-tichondrius

it has the lowest utility and lowest CC in the game

Uhhuh sure

[Dwarfmonk-tichondrius]

@Dabdaddy-dawnbringer

Uhhuh sure

He aint wrong, just because it’s a livelord spec with broken defensive cooldown/passives doesn’t mean it doesn’t have worthless utility and mediocre damage.