Upcoming Class Tuning Changes – 30 March

We’ll be making the following changes to increase the performance of select specializations in next week’s realm maintenance.

As always, these are subject to further change before they go live, and we’ll have the final adjustments in our hotfixes update next week.

Additionally, we’re not planning on nerfing any over-performing specializations with this week’s pass, as we want to gather more data and provide more advance notice.

Classes

Death Knight

  • Unholy
    • All damage increased by 5%.

Druid

  • Feral
    • All damage increased by 3%.
    • Primal Wrath damage increased by 10%.
    • Brutal Slash damage increased by 20%.
    • Swipe damage increased by 15%.
    • Thrash damage increased by 20%.

Hunter

  • Beast Mastery
    • Beast Cleave now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets (was 5).
    • All damage increased by 3%.

Monk

  • Mistweaver
    • Spinning Crane Kick damage increased by 30%.

Rogue

  • Outlaw
    • Blade Flurry now strikes nearby enemies for 50% of normal damage (was 40%).

Shaman

  • Elemental
    • All damage increased by 5%.

Warlock

  • Destruction
    • All damage increased by 5%.

Warrior

  • Ignore Pain now ignores 55% of the damage (was 50%).
  • Protection
    • Demoralizing Shout now reduces the damage enemies deal to you by 25% (was 20%).
    • Ignore Pain now reduces the cost of Ignore Pain to 35 Rage (was 40 Rage).
    • Spell Reflection cooldown reduced to 20 seconds (was 25 seconds).
    • Vanguard reduces all damage taken by 15% (was 10%).
9 Likes

Not april 1st yet I’m afraid :joy_cat:

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Beast Mastery

  • Beast Cleave now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets (was 5).
  • All damage increased by 3%.

It is like kicking someone who already is on the ground. Multiply that number with 10 and we might get up to middle place.

6 Likes

Buffing destro while affliction is a dead spec.

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On raid logs destro seems even lower. But funnily enough, the buff might actually break them in PvP even more. And BM hunters too.

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Feels Good MWs Buff.

Getting closer to rShaman damage.

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I hope you take the direction of “making all classes equal in efficiency” instead of “having good (sub)classes and bad ones”.

Each spec of a class should have its place where it performs as efficient as the other specs of other classes in its own way. Only that way you can prevent “class XY is bad choice for the Raid, we won’t take you with us” and such at a better rate than before.

5 Likes

I’ll take it!

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Do you even look at Shadow AoE, the devs? Come on!

10 Likes

No damage increase for Blood? Why? :frowning:

Also, please remove the internal cooldown from Blood’s 4-piece set bonus.

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Deffinetly BM needed a buff.

4 Likes

Thank you for tuning shadow priest after nerfing it to the ground for no F reason before 9.2…oh wait.

Why the F is elemental getting buffed?..where are they getting their “data” from omfg…nighthold patch or what.

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Nice to see some pvp changes finally. Oh wait…

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Thank you, hopefully, these will help :hugs:

3k here I come! :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

Convoke insurance policy strikes again

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If you’re going to nerf some of the overperforming specs at some point, then please take PI into account and see if you can do something to nerf the interaction with PI before nerfing the specs. I would hate to see certain specs become less viable in M+ purely based on them overperforming in Raids because of PI.

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This has literally NEVER happened in all of WoW’s existence.
So don’t count on it ever happening, tbh.

Ret buffs when?!?!?!? (PvE)

Are you guys blind?

Oh i forgot the class devs are

I N C O M P E T E N T

Edit: congrats, at least some feral buffs!

Happy for those guys, took only 2 major patches…

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Very happy with the Feral buffs.

This is coming Wednesday’s reset right? Or the week after?

While Shadow Priests cry in a corner. Again.

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