Ret was buffed due to it’s lack of performance in raid. All the classes that were buffed last time were suffering from low performance in the raid, including DKs.
Now if you look at the standing in raid before the buffs for those classes, I quoted Mythic but the effect is the same across all the difficulties:=
All percentiles
95th percentiles
You can clearly see the bulk of the classes that received a buffs were at the bottom. Windwalker had already received a rework buff which seems to be working well for them, before that they were also part of the low performance in raid gang.
I find it hilarious how people can’t accept that there is more than one game mode and that the buffs were needed. Some may need more tweaks ofc.
As a Ret main I find it amusing, rets have consistently underperformed in many expansions, there is a long running meme that Blizzard always fix rets so that they can’t do damage. Our rework this expansion (most of the way through S2) was really nice, although we were nerfed several times after due to issues in PvP and then returned back to the bottom of the raid chart, it remained fun to play.
I will never understand why some can’t just express the desire for a rework without bashing another class.