Balance druid got nerfed. Priests are about to get nerfed.
And after that, it will probably be melee hunters, rogues and 1shot shamans. The list goes on.
I really hope they don’t nerf any more classes. Nerfing kills people’s enthusiasm for their characters. It creates a witch hunt mentality in the player base, and it creates more fotm rerollers.
Instead of nerfing I wish they could take an approach that is more in line with Season of Discovery. Maybe some melee class can get a rune that gives them an absorb shield after they get hit with a critical strike spell for X% of the amount they are hit for. Warriors already have spell reflect in other versions of wow. There are many things that can be done to create counter play opportunities and a more balance. It’s SoD. They have told us its experimental. So please experiment.
No, it doesn’t. Nerfing brings classes that are overtuned back in line with everyone else.
If your character being the same strength as other people makes you want to play a different class, then that’s a you problem and you never wanted to play that class to begin with.
If, as it feels at the moment, 5/9 classes were overtuned, then why not buff up the other 4 (instead of nerfing 5) and make changes to pvp damage/health specifically like they did in phase 1 with WSG?
Balance Druid and SPriest absolutely deserve the nerfs they received - their abilities were instant, ranged, required no setup and had zero counterplay.
As for Shaman Lava Burst requires set-up, move into 20 yard range to Apply Flame Shock, dip out, followed by a two second hard-cast (try getting that off when a Melee is laying into you) and even then it hits hard af but it’s not one shot. The 5% instant proc barely ever procs it’s garbage. Stop perpetuating myths.
Ye seems to me the whiners want the strong specs to be punished for being strong. Think I’ll need to go out and farm these noobs with my nerfed balance druid this weekend.
Boomkins and SPs are some of the best dps specs to bring for gnomeregan due to their utility, just saying. Raw dps is only useful if you are speedrunning, melee hunters for example have no utility or cs.
Btw the void plague buff is kinda wild, the ability is already crazy busted and will do more dmg than what max lvl food can heal over 30s.
That’s just complete bunkum, I have no idea what you mean when you say boomkin ‘best dps specs’ and ‘utility’.
In reality, according to latest gnomeregan stats, you will not find a single boomkin in the top 1200 DPS classes and they make up just 0.07% of the whole DPS class population.