Reactions to the Tank and Destruction Warlock Class Tuning - The Community Asks "Why Now?"

Live Posted 2022/06/28 at 3:35 AM by Squishei

Tank ChangesDevelopers’ note: Vengeance Demon Hunter and Guardian Druid have fallen behind in damage, particularly in single target. Our intent with these changes is to improve their performance in single-target without unduly impacting AOE environments.

Druid
Guardian
Mangle and auto attack damage increased by 10%.

Demon Hunter

Vengeance
All damage and healing abilities increased by 3%.
Fracture and Shear damage increased by 20%.
Auto attack damage increased by 10%.

Impact of the Buffs

The Guardian Druid buff seems to be around 2% on Rygelon (190 dps), one of the best Mangle encounters.

The Vengeance DH buff seems to be 4-5% at best (300-350 dps), depending on Trinkets.

RygelonSkolex

Rygelon at 95th Percentile

Skolex at 95th Percentile

Why Now?a compilation of all Class Tuning

Guardian Druid had its tier set nerfed on April 4th and nothing since then.

Vengeance Demon Hunter has received zero individual tuning over the entire season.

Destruction Warlock Changes

(4) Set Bonus: Blasphemy no longer grants Rain of Chaos.
Chaos Bolt damage increased by 5% in PvE combat.
Incinerate damage increased by 20%.
Immolate damage increased by 20%.
Conflagrate damage increased by 10% in PvE combat.

Previous Changes

March 28th: All damage increased by 5%.
April 18th: Inferno (Talent) now has a reduced chance for Rain of Fire to generate Soul Shard Fragments when it deals damage beyond 5 targets.

Why NowRaider.io

Class Breakdown at +20s or Higher

Class Breakdown at +25s or Higher

Should it be nerfed right before the MDI?

Should it be nerfed this far into a Season?

Should it just be done anyways for a Healthier Meta?

Right Before the MDIBefore the End of Season TitleCryptic Hero: Shadowlands Season 3Just Do It Anyways

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Comment by PeesneezeJust stop doing MDI. Pushing Esports onto WoW was a bad idea in the first place. Honestly anything that pisses off MDI players amuses me.Comment by AeaeaeNLDelete Warlocks.Comment by freakerinoI like this kind of article, very informative of what went on and can serve as an example to "what happened".Comment by pawpurrGross. Blizzard should never cave to stupid competitions and delay updates the game needs. Those loser ESPORTS players aren't the ones paying the bills. We are, and we're tired of waiting for appropriate balance changes, and especially tired of waiting for some special 1% snowflake group that needs the game updates to be built around their schedule for some reason.Comment by mathenihilicianIt's funny how you give credits to naguura for nothing. She literally said whst entire community is saying or was saying up to that moment. But again, I respect Naguura as content creator and good wow player but this here is not her fault but Wowhead, like many other staff that are going in wrong direction. Think that wowhead is going off the rails atm
:sadge:Comment by RekkisI'd love to see buffs to AOE for at least one spec of every other class rather than nerfs to a couple of classes this late in the expansion.Comment by mataharaStill tons of specs are underperforming by a huge margin. I don't care about mdi if it needs to be balanced just do it already. I don't play this game professionally i just want to enjoy my spec. I do understand why professional players are pissed tho. This huge imbalance isn't something new and it should have been done months ago and still some of the specs are waiting at least %20 overall buffs to finally start being visible on damage meter.

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