So I’ve been doing the math. 5% is not enough. I don’t know how Blizzard came to the conclusion that this is enough of an increase. This is just extremely poor decision making and bad development.
I quite honestly could do a better job myself. So here let me do that for you right now to PROVE how much of a complete slap in the face this is after nerfing leech, blade dance dodge and ripping 2min meta cd away from us AS WELL as making DH Venthyr mediocre and boring. The absolute least you could do is make my parses and ilvl IE my skill as a player and dedication to gearing actually be represented somewhat accurately in raid. This is 1.0 SL a FULL RELEASE AND IT FEELS LIKE A GOD DAMN BETA AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO UNTIL THE NEXT BALANCE PATCH AS 5% IS NOT ENOUGH!
Here are my raid logs for shriekwing.
ht…tps://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/GPdVy69LfnMFADJ1/#fight=4&type=damage-done
I parsed 84% the druid above me parsed 63% and is 4 ilvls below me. Yet beats me on damage. The hunter above me parsed 64%, same ilvl, yet despite being 22% lower in skill at playing their class still performs better than me on dmg.
Now, lets add 5% to my damage. 2133 becomes 2239. So my damage is now just above the druid. I moved up one place. ONE. I’m barely better than the druid at 63% parses and stil under the mage with 4 ilvls below me and still below the hunter who performed 64% parses.
Who at Blizzard did the math? Who at Blizzard did the internal testing on this? Who at Blizzard thinks this will change the attitude of players towards inviting DH to raid and PVP because I can tell you now this will not make ONE IOTA OF DIFFERENCE and I am here to say I think whoever has made this decision is an absolute imbicile who can’t even pick up a calculator and look at some god damn raid logs!
Lets repeat this experiment with some other raid logs I found with some of the best performing DH on rankings.
Here is another example of a raid log ht…tps://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/mhPWjyDZYvgxnM6R#fight=last&type=damage-done
The DH performed 97% parses. Their Ilvl is higher than every class above them on dps meter and they have the highest parses. The SP above them is 7 ilvls below, performed 67% parses.
A 5% increase to the DH dmg will put 2478 to 2601. Despite being the highest ilvl of everyone above them and managing to perform at the top 97th percentile of players, they will still be 4th place on dmg.
Excuse me Blizzard but WTF.
Whoever is balancing this needs to take a good look at these raid logs, get a damn calculator out, an tell me realistically if you really think 5% is actually making up for all the damage that has been done to DH and actually reresents a players time and skill put into this class. Because I can tell you right now DEMONSTRABLY THAT IT DOES NOT AND SCREW YOU BLIZZARD FOR FORCING US TO CONTINUE TO PLAY IN THIS STATE.