what a waste of dev time and money
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Because they were grossly overpowered to the point of being game breaking? Seems fairly reasonable to me.
Could be worse, you could be a warlock.
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Right now battlegrounds are flooded with Ret Paladins. The ones who have always been Ret Paladins are destroying everything. However the ones who just jumped on the bandwagon expecting to have an easy time of it and don’t know how to play one are just easy honour kills. I’ve killed three today with an undergeared Holy Priest. I’m wearing out my /laugh key. 
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Do they even test crap before pushing it to live?
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They just wanted to see your cheeks get rosey.
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That’s my question. Rets are clearly OP. But they had months of internal and ptr testing. Why is Blizz so bad at balance? They can’t balance anything on any of their games ever. The closest was MoP, when they just decided every class would be OP (and it was awesome).
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The nerf is already live if you read the blue post, they pushed it as a hotfix because of how bad the situation was in PvP; and it actually apparently wasn’t enough. Too little, too late.
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Pvp nerfs are deserved and anyone that disagrees is an actual clown that should just stop talking about anything in general.
i honestly cant tell what was even nerfed.
Apparently, the extensive testing that’s done on the PTR wasn’t enough or didn’t have a high enough turnout of players to test all the changes made. Because it did not take them long to revert/nerf/adjust by large margins on abilities in PVP.
Fingers crossed a new post isn’t being crafted alerting players to the “oops ret is performing above average in PVE content so we made some adjustments” headed down the pipeline.
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Because blizz doesnt give us the direct copy of live build as far as keys and affixes and raids… No one raids on PTR…
I guess to answer your question and my own, the PTR is only capable of testing so much. The rest has to be tested by the player base on the live server. All the players who are super happy about the changes can then feel sad when a few days later they get those adjustments handed out.
Not enough, clearly.
They were already powerful in the aplha and the beta and then they got nerfed from there and then got buffed and then nerfed again and now they are buffed because they got overnerfed. So they are going to get nerfed again soon.
take off your clown shoes if you think locks, hunters, and warrs aren’t as broken as rets right now.
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They’re not, but locks, ele shams, wars, DHs, rogues, etc are an issue too. Maybe not rogues as much atm I can’t tell, haven’t been playing since the patch ruined the season and Blizz didn’t take it seriously.
Rubbish, there were so many bugs and issues continually reported on the PTR and in videos that were completely ignored the entire cycle. (ie all the bugs affecting warlocks boosting damage massively).
I guess it’s a good thing that warlocks were gutted far worse than ret’s were then.
Anyone who thinks Ret’s don’t need further nerfs after these latest hotfixes are crazy.
rets are no longer SS tier. they die very easily now thanks to the defensive nerfs.
I was looking at the latest dps rankings and the highest rogue spec (outlaw) is sitting in 18th place, I know it’s not pvp but considering pvp crits and damage and stuns have been neutered to hell and back I assume Rogues aren’t in a great spot ATM.
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Rubbish, there were so many bugs and issues continually reported on the PTR and in videos that were completely ignored the entire cycle. (ie all the bugs affecting warlocks boosting damage massively).
I guess it’s a good thing that warlocks were gutted far worse than ret’s were then.
Anyone who thinks Ret’s don’t need further nerfs after these latest hotfixes are crazy.
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Yeah, it may be “rubbish” I don’t know I didn’t test anything on the PTR this go around. Maybe things have to be tested on a live server by more players to see how it all pans out, haven’t a clue. I was more so trying to give an explanation as to why things like this happen.
Which apparently, I’m wrong about. Oh well.