Why did you nerf punch cards?!

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It seems like they nerfed Yellow Cards and buffed Red cards.

My Yellow card has half as much stat, but my red card is giving 4x as much haste.

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Yeah but they nerfed the cyclotronic blast red card
“The effect has since been nerfed, and using any abilities while the Punchard effect is being channeled now instantly interrupts the effect and activates the Punchcard’s 2-minute cooldown. The on-use effect now also shares cooldowns with other trinkets that have on-use effects.”

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What the goblin said, reduced yellow punch card stats but higher proc from overclock. All my yellows are ~ 165, 54.

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I just wish we could have some patch notes when there are changes like this. Where is the transparency?

Trying to gear a character who’s stats are moving around at the whim of the devs is like building a house on a swamp.

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So looking at the dungeon the 415 yellows that drop there are not nerfed just the ones outside the dungeon

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I’m not going to trust that they updated the Dungeon Journal in this hotfix, if i see them drop from OM unnerfed, then I’ll believe it.

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It does show the updated red cards so ill believe it

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Ya, pretty big hit. My trinket WAS 415 ilvl, back down to 400.

You know what Blizz

Like what is the point of doing ANYTHING in this game anymore.
I mean you COULD bust your butt to get the best gear, but why even bother cause it seems like more and more they dangle sweet stuff in front of you then just nerf it to hell after you get it.

Hell with this, going to watch some movies today on Vudu, better time spent.

Battle angel, pet cemetery, and something else ( I forget) are out today.
Atlest they won’t nerf the hell outta those while i’m watching them.

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Go figure. Blizz, the company on the record for saying they will communicate better, hasn’t communicated a nerf. Ion just wants to kill WoW because he also works for another MMO somewhere…

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anyone noticed any changed to the benthic gear while we’re at it?

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I really wish I would have known about this before i replaced my red card for cyclotronic blast.

R.I.P. my trinket slot I guess.

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The yellow punchcard stats, as written on the card, are only true if the overall item level of your trinket is the same as the punchcard. Otherwise they scale to the ilvl of the trinket.

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One down, Benethic to go. I did tell people these catch-up mechanics weren’t designed to replace organized group content.

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what? The stats are nerfed on the punch cards themselves, not even inserted in to the trinket.

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There was a blue post about benthic being reduced to ilvl 370 next week.

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Link please. If true, that’s hilarious. I’m going to rub this in my hunter friend’s face who grinded out 4 pieces despite my advice against it.

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Expecting outdoor content to be on-par with group content that hasn’t even been released yet, is naive at best. Yes, Blizzard should have come out and said it was going to nerf Mechagon trinkets prior to the release of the dungeon. But to be completely shocked by this is a bit extreme.

If you could get 415 trinkets outside of Operation: Mechagon, why would you bother going in? They’re not going to trivialize their new content before it’s even released.

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I lol’d IRL at that, still waiting on coffee to kick in.

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I mean you can craft 420 rings and trinkets since you’ve hit revered in mechagon, what are you talking about?

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Careful, before that gets ‘adjusted’ as well.

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