Here are some changes that are in the Shadowlands alpha right now.
Good stuff (basically 2 Azerite Powers):
- Demonic Appetite talent consume soul fragments reduce cooldown of Eye Beam
- Metamorphosis resets cooldown of Eye Beam and Blade Dance
Pretty bad stuff:
- Blur 20% damage reduction (was 35%)
- Metamorphosis no longer gives extra leech (was 25%)
- Soul Rending talent 5% leech + 25% meta (was 10% + 10%)
- Demonic talent meta 6 sec (was 8)
- Immolation Aura talent 50 fury over 6 sec (was 80 over 10)
EDIT: removed those which were “nerfed” due to being split into ranks.
Another general change is that AoE will now be limited to 5 targets. This hits DH especially hard imho.
If these changes are correct and remain in the Shadowlands release I suspect a lot of people will quit or change class.
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I mean, of all the things they changed I would have done maybe this first instead:
- Remove Mana Rift from the game
- Blur no longer dodges from behind
Remember BFA alpha?
Yeah, not much changed then either.
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It changed from an AoE cap to no-AoE cap. A significant adjustment. Or was that Legion?
I don’t remember there being an aoe cap in bfa alpha or anyone talking about it at least.
Btw after a closer look these changes are all mostly wrong and are leveling changes (new low level ranks of the skills).
Can’t be more happy about blade dance and meta nerfs. This joke class can actually die now , feels better than having a birthday.
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Ye, this seems right, this changes have to be leveling changes, cause if they go live , they can just delete the class.
Well if you would have read what I posted you would have known these are the low level variant of the skills…
You go girl, i really hope they make a new skill, just for you and you alone to use in Shadowlands and skill would be:
BetterThanBday - “You unleash a swirl of viruses that will penetrate our servers that has a 99% chance of dcing the first dh you see and 50% chance to spread to a different dh in a 150y radius around the target. Also you get a 5% chance to delete that char permanently.”
Think youd enjoy that so fingers crossed. xo xo from a dh
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Indeed these changes have been added since DHs will start at level 10, they’re artificial and are meant to give you the illusion of progression as you level up, in such a way that they make you feel you receive something each time you level up.
So they are low level skills, as for example:
Low level Blade Dance has 15 seconds cooldown, but as you level up it’s cooldown is reduced by 6 seconds going to it’s baseline 9s CD.
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Good nerfs, but could be more!
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Fantastic news. DHs were so far ahead of other classes. You DH mains must have seen heavy nerfs incoming
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Yes, you are probably right.
But I don’t think the nerfs to damage reduction and leech are leveling related?
Dh will get buffed when they realize how much they nerfade demon hunters while giving other classes back a lot of their abilities.
And ofc as usual they will overdo it.
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Your information is wrong. Many of your listed things are leveling abilities and improve later on to match the current abilities.
Edit: Can you trolls from other classes not pollute this topic with your casual brain telling you DH is too op and needs more “nerfs” while on high level content other classes such as Mages, Unholy Dks and Rogues are equally good?
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The following nerfs still remain:
- Meta uptime from Demonic
- Leech
- Blur
- Fury from Immolation Aura
Apparently AoE is being nerfed over all classes and no ability in the game can damage more than 8 targets at once.
