Why do blizzard does this to a spec on the game?

Fury is unviable on all contents, we need more people talking about this, ok arms is strong at pvp, but i dont understand the logic.

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This happened because the devs have no idea about the class, they have never play the spec and the result it the actual state of the fury warrior.

Shame!

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All content? No way I crush WQs like they’re nothing on my fury warrior!

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They literally haven 't done a balance patch in weeks. I don’t know why, everyone’s on vacation maybe.

They released a tiny hotfix yesterday, that’s about it. I doubt it’s intentional so much as they’re taking a holiday break after cramming release.

It really does shove down any idea that they were planning on doing all the balancing in the weeks before mythic dropped. The pre-mythic balance patch was relatively tepid and fixed virtually nothing. Outliers still on the fringes. Unholy still best in slot mDPS even after being looked at. Frost is still garbage tier.

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You literally answered your own question. Its not uncommon for Americans to take the last two weeks of December off.

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It’s not like this was some surprise development. Easily should have been fixable before they all disappeared for the holiday.

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So developers should just be ready to have an place system to just analyze mythic encounters, high rated M+, and PVP. Have multiple discussions with various combat and encounter designers of all three. Have a QA team do a pass on the change, and have an engineer push the change to all regions.

All of those people would have to sign off on these hot fixes or changes before it went out. The number of people that would have to be contacted would be more than just one guy changing a few numbers.

Developers are allowed to have breaks and spend time with family.

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Fury was terrible on beta ever since they gutted condemn and the conduit along with it. Plenty of time before any holidays ever came into play.

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Everything in the game is viable.

What does playing the spec have to do with tuning.

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You’ll need to know how to tune something after experiencing it out in the field. You don’t tune the racecar without listen to feedback from the driver

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This is not a racecar.

No. You don’t.

Simply evaluating the data available is all that is necessary.

There’s a massive difference between designing and tuning. One should require and understanding of the subject in question.

The other does not.

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Which was met with a hotfix change on mythic week. While not enough of a buff, Blizzard has had a history of waiting for world first race, and inital progression before making additional non-bug changes. I don’t agree with this method of balancing (IMO outside of publicity WF race does a lot of harm to the game) its nothing new, and should be expected.

I’m not arguing that Fury doesn’t need buffs. I am arguing that the developers are allowed to make changes based in what they feel is best. I’m also arguing that developers, like literally every other person, should be allowed to take a break.

Yeah I get that.

I just don’t think it should be ok to miss the tuning bat so hard. Like maybe if Fury was at least good in PvP or something. Kinda goes back to the Preach interview too where he was absolutely railing on them for failing at balance in all kinds of aspects of the game.

I suppose I think they should be held to a higher standard than what we got would be my main point.

I understand that sometimes things get blown out of proportion by the community when it comes to balance, but there are just as many legitimate balance issues that remain unaddressed for far too long (and sometimes forever)

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Not sure how true that is for pvp. For PVE it’s true. Just makes me wonder if Blizzard actually collects the relevant data you would need to do that in PVP. In order for Blizzard to balance classes via only data, in arenas they would need to collect just about everything. That being said, often there are mountains of clear data that a spec is crap and yet blizzard will leave it broken for months or years. It’s likely that focus/giving a crap is more often the problem rather than a lack of information. Fury warrior PVP being a good example, Blizzard historically hasn’t put forth much effort in balancing them with PVP in mind. I guess due to some silly stigma that Fury isn’t the “PVP spec”.

Fwiw, dont think this is asking a lot

a game of this age, of this size should have something in place that robust.

instead we get a long time developer leaving and describing the place as confused at best in a youtube video along with their departure.

not even touching upon the time of year things came out; of course people deserve time with their family.

what im saying is they shouldn’t be caught flat footed like this. not after all this time and money.

edit: the most healthy thing that could happen to a lot of specs would be to simply merge them imo. maybe it’s time to reevaluate if we really need 36 specs; spec relevance has been a constant pain point of WoW. Maybe if we simply had 1 dps warrior/rogue/whatever spec and it was made unique by subclass-esque abilities similar to covenants, things might be a bit more manageable.

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Undestanding is about design philosophy. That’s done. We need it tuned on how it actually performs and not around design now. Obviously I’m not a racecar. I don’t have wheels

Every now and then Blizzard will tune a spec so bad that it’s under even Survival Hunter.

So that they can pretend to Survival Hunters that they actually care about their spec. Like… “See you’re not the bottom of the list anymore.”

I’m telling you! This is the truth of it. It’s all about making Survival Hunters be quiet for a minute. All three of them…

Yes. Which does not require one to actually play it, or understand it intricately.

Just someone who can adjust the aura.

Survival has consistently been good to strong since it’s redesign.