Class Tuning Incoming – 9 October

Linxy…

Please tell me when Blizzard decided hunters will be the least favourite class again? You say 3 weeks and you nerf Hunter defensives? I’ve been able to survive for 3 weeks and you think, that’s it. Hunters are no longer going to live. 50% reduction for Sentinal? Are you stupid? Yet you will buff a Dh damage that already slap everyone? And… you don’t even touch MW monks 9 rolls consistently in pvp? I would highly suggest you hire new people to develop pvp in this game. Clearly someone has no idea what they’re doing. Or they just have a biased opinion and refuse to accept it.

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Why are you be so bad at math?
Why do you keep nerfing BM hunters?
Where are the mage nerfs?
Where are the frost DK nerfs?
Why do you HATE BM hunters so much?
Looks like I will not be login in to wow on Wednesday or EVERY AGAIN!!!

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I dont know how you did the math with bm hunter changes, but you legit just killed the spec. It feels like you dont even know whats going on about the class/spec. Is this a late deadline that needed to get rushed on a friday 16 o clock?. If you truely believe this is the solution then expect a lot of people resigning from world of warcraft.

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The entire Hunter class had ONE spec that was doing anything well and you just nerfed that into mediocrity. Thank you for making sure the class is absolutely dead in all aspects of the game until November.

It amazes me that you people still have a job.

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Be quiet, you have been OP way to long before and DH does good dmg now. You just play it wrong.

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Why just shuffle? Fix normal 2v2 and 3v3 MMR first. I wanna get gladiator mate.

don’t BM have like really good single target already ?

This is going to make BM hunter the worst spec in the game they are the worst at aoe but “good” at ST but now they are going to be the worst at both ST and Aoe.
Its call class balancing NO class KILLING.

DO YOUR JOB.

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great attitude

“you play it wrong” ahahahaha

i guess everybody is playing it wrong for it to be less played than every other spec in the entire game

ur not getting anything with that attitude

Developers have to speak what they want to achieve? What is our strength as fury warrior? Burst AoE?, Burst ST?, sustain 5 targets AoE?, sustain ST?, etc… ? What are we?

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I think the healing side updates are so ridiculous that they comment on themselves.

Having to nerf a skill by 50% shows the equal to 0 effort put into tuning healers, left like that for ONE MONTH while paying players had a completely unbalanced and unfun version of the game.

Nerf of hpala by 5% when it represents a huge portion of the player base of healers and has been benched repeatedly in the race, buff to the druid completely useless since it has a useless healing pattern in competitive context.

You guys are ridiculous

Resto Shaman dominating M+? Nerf H Palas!!!
Evoker only doing that raid healing? Nerf H Palas!!!
Disc 90% of the PVP healers? Nerf H Palas!!!

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I was thinking exactly the same. I will quit their game if they keep buffing or not touching the dominant to punish the low spec when they “balance”… I thought I was finaly in peace with 2-3 nerfs in a row but still they want to delete paladin from the game…

What’s going on lately with these seemingly mindless tunings? I’d really love to see a developers note on the BM tuning.

You obviously have an idea that BM hunter has a huge issue with Basilisk Collar, why else push an almost complete rework of BM in a .5 patch? And now your data is really telling you that BM is overperforming that much to justify these nerfs?

BM entered this expansion in an absolute terrible state but it had a niche in ST which is especially useful for raid. Now you’re taking that away from BM without providing proper compensation?

The most disappointing part is, that you know what compensation it needs. It shows in the PTR patch notes.

Lately a ton of tunings seem to be applied without proper testing or even spending a single thought. Most significantly there were these absolutely horrible changes to Delves where you almost apologized by telling us it “has the highest priority” to fix that.

And the most recent and most out of touch tuning was the buff to this weeks affix that got reverted again merely a couple of hours after it went live.

How about starting to test stuff before pushing stuff live. IMO that’s the least we can expect from a game that we’re all paying for.

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The Holy Paladin healing nerf looks very strange in M+. Looking at stats for mid-high keys, it is bottom for hps (although Resto Druid is close). Shaman account for 45% of healers in these keys and can pump out a lot more healing in a dungeon environment.

Stats taken from Archon.gg

Holy Priest must be the worst healer with buffs too shaman and Druid

No problem if you tune down Disc if you buff Holy, way cooler heal specc

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Mage nerfs? F.e. fire mage in pvp is between tank specs with 0.1% popularity, arcane is close, nerf them for sure…

I think devs play DC, that’s the only reason why they are still almost untouched with that pickrate and winrate

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I am extremely confused about this right here. What is the objective with this ?

  • RShamans lack an external. The 5% DR of earth shield is a really nice mechanic where you are swapping the shield from person to person depending on incoming damage.

If your intentions are to address the power of RShaman in M+, this is not it. Its not what makes it so powerful. Here you just remove a really nice gameplay for no real value.

  • The damage of RShaman in M+ is not incredible. Why Acid Rain ?

And unlike Disc that has damage built into its rotation, or PEvokers who’s damage is 1 button at the start of the pull… RShamans dont have enough free globals to execute that damage to begin with. The consequence is that we are “middle pack” when it comes to damage.

So overall, RShaman HPS is in line with other healers. RShaman damage is inline with other healers. However, its meta is too oppressive in M+ and needs to be addressed. And these 2 changes are not it.

They do nothing to change the meta. And remove gameplay from RShaman. So I would like a small note on WHY these changes.

Time to call it for this season, as a holy pal.