Why did you nerf punch cards?!

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Wow, I just checked my armor, and my Crit/Mastery gem in the trinket dropped all the way to frigging 40 crit / 13 mastery.

Like… ow? It was like 294 crit before, and 90ish mastery.

This isn’t even a PTR to live change, this is literally live to live, one day to the next.

Also, there was no warning, no announcement they were doing this?

There’s no patch notes, nothing.

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Buffing the red doesn’t make it that valuable to me anymore. You know why I don’t play Outlaw? Because I hate RNG. The red now requires me to either play Outlaw or Sin since haste sucks for Sub. AND the only value to the trinket is now the proc. More freakin RNG.

As a result, I have to item restore a lower ilvl trinket to counter this stupid change.

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Strange I still have that card and it’s unchanged 165 mastery and 54 haste .op yours looks like a bug.

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They were double that before you first looked then. The stats were in the high 200’s before the nerf.

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I think these nerfs were made so that the raids trinkets will actually be used. These trinkets were quite strong to begin with; especially the beam thing that did like 100k in 2.5 seconds :stuck_out_tongue:

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If you’re an early adopter, you run the risk of patching. It’s just the risk you take with all software. Maybe take this as a learning experience? Seriously, if you run sims and a 415 you got through WQs is outperforming 455 raid items have some degree of expectation it will be nerfed and don’t overcommit yourself to something probably not working as intended.

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No… Those were my stats, and it is what is still listed on wowhead for a 415 yellow card. My stats are 165 haste now…

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So players were “asking for it”?

This change wasn’t communicated in any fashion.

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Would a patch note an hour before it happened make you feel any better? I’m not saying its right or wrong, I just don’t understand the mindset of “this was clearly too good to be true, but I’ll continue clutching my pearls and not learn anything.” Will we see you back here when you Benethics get nerfed too? Same attitude, nothing learned?

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I’m not paid to Beta test and do Q and A for Blizzard. If they want to match my current salary and let me work from home I’ll be more than happy to do so though.

Blizzard is the ones who designed all the trinkets, rings, and gear from all sources. It’s not our fault that they can’t be bothered to check their own numbers prior to Live launched content.

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Pretty sure the trinket I had set up, outperformed zero Mythic raiding trinkets…

Honestly, it was just crit and mastery, and once in a while my haste and verse got turned into crit and mastery.

So broken. :roll_eyes:

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Considering it had no main stat, it’s no way outperforming a 455 unless they fumbled on that trinket.

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…and the Oscar for best dramatic performance on a video game message board goes to … rips envelope Rengar!!! :trophy:

Rengar is unavailable to accept the award due to a busy afternoon of Vudu.

:laughing: J/K bro. Sick rant!

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Do you have the same mindset when balance patches are launched two weeks after release for every other title in your game library? If so you must spend a lot of time in a perpetual state of outrage. Maybe learn from the burned hand instead of keeping it on the stove?

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I’m gonna be sitting on my pearls for a week for sure. Shenanigans have begun, but are probably far from over.

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Why should players ever assume that something intentionally put into the game, left untouched for two weeks, and is not the result of an exploit or obvious game bug, is “too good to be true”?

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Because you’re an intelligent ape that can use inductive reasoning coupled with past experience I would assume.

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Yeah, I just checked mine as well. Did the same. I was all excited about getting a warforged yellow as a drop yesterday too, and now it’s meaningless.

This is just more ineptitude from Blizzard. Doesn’t even surprise me anymore. They had months to make this change. All of a sudden, knowing all this time what the dungeon and raid ilvls would be, they nerf it.

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My red card got nearly doubled, my yellow card got halved. Not really seeing the panic mode.

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Just like a gem.