Hi.
So I’ve seen from the feedback concerning dam reduction peoples were pretty much in majority to think this is a good idea.
I was really concerned and disapointed about this decision and especially for one reason:
The dam reduce punishes specific classes, and those classes are especially casters that rely on direct/bursty damage.
-Destrolock
-Frostmage
-Elemental
You get the idea.
Why does it punish them?
They rely on hard casting to deal big direct damages.
With this dam reduce you’ll hard cast a spell but with the dam reduce it won’t even be worth it to hard cast, making those classes listed above quite irrelevant.
Ok, so I’m a main warlock, mostly played Aff PvP on classic era, and once I played SoD I felt like Aff was super boring and went destro (meta also to me is boring).
So here I am playing a rune called Chaos Bolt that just hit like a cat paw.
The point here is that destro by essence is a bursty spec, relying on hard casting direct spells to deal BIG direct dam.
Thing is hard casting is not that ez+if Chaos Bolt don’t crit this doesn’t hit that much and is not so dangerous (Soul Fire in era, yeah it was crazy when it crited and I can understand it’s frustrating taking seduction into one shot, kek).
Plus, destro is so oriented on this playstile that in destro build there’s the “Ruin” talent increasing crit by 100%, that’s why for me this spec is fun, you try to hard cast (hard casting Chaos Bolt is not that ez, and you are quite exposed when you do), and then if you get the luck of a crit, yeah this hit quite hard, but not OS, and if it OS just nerf CB.
But don’t punish all classes that are hard casting/burst oriented, because hard cast is called hard for a reason.
Conclusion: bursty casters relying on hard cast will be penalized by the dam reduce, if it becomes permanent, it might also just deleting all the fun of ppls who like to play this type of gameplay, like me, I don’t like Aff it’s boring, on SoD I like playing destro so much, because I see my big damage, and if Ruin crit, well this is ruin.
Note: when I say that Chaos Bolt hit like cat paw, it’s not exagerated, with dam reduce some classes don’t even take 5% of their life, and if it crit well it’s just really low.