Shadow word: death

Nothing in comparison lol. 67% damage nerf transferred to ability that is completely useless outside of DPS check fights where you can just stand and hard cast. The lose of 30% crit on the main damaging ability that never got transferred to starfire, which in turn reduce Druids casting speed and mana regeneration even more so a DPS loss.

Hunter got nerfed, but went on to be one of the most oppressive classes for the rest of phase one with premade groups exclusively stacking Hunters and Priests whenever they could. Even now they haven’t been touched due to the other specs being more OP.

Honestly even comparing Hunter nerf to Druid and then claiming it was nothing in comparison is completely ridiculous.

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ive sen 7 boomy 3 priest setups :person_shrugging:

currently there arent any mini tournys but i guess we would see like atmeast 4 shadowpriests. 2 pick a target, 3. 2. 1. death :smiley:

doesnt matter if its 12 sec cd if it one shots

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dont you understand? if the cooldown is big enough it should oneshot!

Give killshot, 30 minute cd → instantly kills your target

Blackout 240h cooldown → Shutdown your current server

blizzard better do something quick, Shadow word death, raptor strike and whatever that dagger rogue ability is called, killing soul link warlock like I’m still level 25 not 40
life pool is low asf and dmg in general completely overturned, if this is still going on one week from now than priests, hunters and rouges can ef eachother without me

That’s why I specified MM? Hunter gloves runes were pretty much deleted except for BM, starsurge is still a good ability as far as I know.
And yes it’s true that teams stacked BM hunters (because the rune wasn’t gutted), but that was until starsurge got buffed and the whole premade meta was 7+ boomkins (if available) and fill the rest with priests. MM hunters after the chimaera buff were in a very good state as second hand boomkins indeed.

All of this to say you shouldn’t mix entire classes with specific specs/playstyles. I don’t think anybody would say “druids are still doing OK you can respec feral” if boomkins are gutted, while for some reason applying that logic to hunters is perfectly fine.

Anyway, back on topic. WS: death will probably be nerfed with the next batch of balance changes. Sorry that starsurge was hit first but it was needed.

SP is fine, boomie wasnt.

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The hunter glove rune, or specificly Chimerashot actually is a good spell and actually balanced compared to other stuff :smiley:

Well except that the disarm is useless since weaponchains make ppl immune to disarms^^

No SWD is doing 2k, im sorry but thats a lie, that would be a self nuke of 1k dmg. :joy::joy::joy: itd kill the priest if theh were hitting this hard lmfao.

The reason SS dmg dont add up is because the number given to begin wjtb was BS to begin with.

Highest SWD i seen anyone post was almost 900 dmg. Its just the fact it can be insta cast after a mind blast thats making it insane.

How would you kill them you would be dead already?

I’m not the the one claiming I’ve seen 2k SWD crits. I have seen videos of it hitting 1400 crits with 2 dots ticking for 200/125 per tick on the target. Given the fact the priest was unbuffed it’s entirely possible that he could easily be doing close to 2k crits in BG with just zerk buff and power infusion from another priest. In theory they could easily hit a 2.2k crit if they had every buff available to them.

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mby he got soulstone on him who knows

Because many spriests lead with it on opener and it hits the priest for 50% of the dmg if you dont die.

A 1K Self nuke would be like 80% of the priests hp bar.

Regardless to which, no one said SWD doesnt need nerfing, its kinda weird to have a executr that can be just used at any % of hp bar anyway.

It will be nerfed anyway

Shadow word death is overpowered.

You dont say?

People crying about SW: D are absoluty clueless.
2k is a complete lie

Ive seen a video with a highend priest criting for 1,5k and that was with berserker buff in a BG and only, ONLY if u have 5 stacks of shadow weave up before, if it happens to crit. If u are unlucky and the target survives you get slapped in the face by the backdraw dmg.
Theres no single button SW:D insta kill
 just NO.
U need a build up 5 stacks of weaving, 10second cd and to use it as an execute.
Shadowpriest was the weakest in phase 1
 the one time it gets some advantage people start to cry.
Rogues are still > all in pvp and we are okay with it. Stop crying and enjoy a new WoW experience for once

All the priests crying here lmao! Mindblast + SWD insta kill from 80% hp makes sense I bet. I cannot wait until they nerf SWD so instead of 900 base damage it has 300.

Highend gear 1 week into the new phase, sure buddy.

I got crit for 1951 damage so that’s what I know from first hand experience.

No u didn’t :joy::man_facepalming:

Yea it’s kinda nuts. I’m a priest main so being OP is nice but it’s silly. Damage needs to be distributed better.