OMG shadow last minute CHANGE FRoM GC !!

[Granyala]

As for the SWP change.. ok 25% may have been too high, but we already knew not having that buff left SPriests too low... why not give it a 15% increase?

Because, as far as they are concerned, Shadow multi-dot was fine where it was in 5.1. Why they buff SW:P in the first place is a mystery to .. well probably anybody with a functioning brain.

Maybe Devs were drunk from "pre patch release celebration" and one of them fell onto a keyboard, hence the 25% buff?

[BaP]

LOL

March 12 Class Hotfixes

•Warlock: Corruption damage -25%.
•Warlock: Doom damage -25%.
•Priest: Shadow Word: Pain damage -25%.

Nice buff hahahah

[Deleted]

Blanket buffs and debuffs, last minute changes. Clearly a sign of blizzard not knowing what the hell they are doing with the class and they have no clue how to tune us properly.

[Deleted]

100 * 1,25 = 125

125*0,75 = 93,75

So basically a 6,25% SW:P dmg reduction from the pre 5.2 levels. Pretty pathetic to be honest. Well I don't play this game anymore, but as a 7 year old shadow priest I still this is absolutely pathetic that they don't have the tools to do proper class balance adjustments instead of making these last minute changes.

[Granyala]

We don't know that yet. It may be just a rollback and imprecise wording.

[Meaks]

100 * 1,25 = 125

125*0,75 = 93,75

So basically a 6,25% SW:P dmg reduction from the pre 5.2 levels. Pretty pathetic to be honest. Well I don't play this game anymore, but as a 7 year old shadow priest I still this is absolutely pathetic that they don't have the tools to do proper class balance adjustments instead of making these last minute changes.

Even including shadowform buff it's still a nerf vs 5.1 SWP

[Drye]

100 * 1,25 = 125

125*0,75 = 93,75

So basically a 6,25% SW:P dmg reduction from the pre 5.2 levels. Pretty pathetic to be honest. Well I don't play this game anymore, but as a 7 year old shadow priest I still this is absolutely pathetic that they don't have the tools to do proper class balance adjustments instead of making these last minute changes.

You are 100% correct. sw is doing less dmg than it was doing in 5.1

[Aica]

You are 100% correct. sw is doing less dmg than it was doing in 5.1

You've tested this?

Edit: Here's my proof:

testing Spellpower: 14112 (no staff, no trinkets, no inner fire, no shadowform)
tested tick damage: 4758


Formula for SW:P from before 5.2:

623.3+0.293*SP

= 4758

If SW:P had been hit with an actual 25% nerf, it should be doing 4758*1.25*0.75 = 4460

[Granyala]

You are 100% correct. sw:P is doing less dmg than it was doing in 5.1

Since I'm probably not allowed to post it as an image:

Headdesk

You've tested this?

It is Drye. He wouldn't state it if he hadn't tested it.

[Aica]

Unless SW:P's damage formula changed sometime between 5.0 and 5.2 and I missed it, I'm pretty sure I'm correct.

[Deleted]

Well this isnt half the ass pull they did to pvp by buffing mage bombs by 40% (but it's still such an amateur move). I am glad I cancelled my subscription a few months ago.

[Meaks]

Unless SW:P's damage formula changed sometime between 5.0 and 5.2 and I missed it, I'm pretty sure I'm correct.

What you are suggesting is a 20% nerf, not a 25%. (1.25 * .8 = 1)

Though I'm not sure that GC understands the difference between the two, so yeah...

[Drye]

You've tested this?

Edit: Here's my proof:

testing Spellpower: 14112 (no staff, no trinkets, no inner fire, no shadowform)
tested tick damage: 4758


Formula for SW:P from before 5.2:

623.3+0.293*SP

= 4758

If SW:P had been hit with an actual 25% nerf, it should be doing 4758*1.25*0.75 = 4460

Actually, you;re right. I forgot to take into the amount of int I've lost gemming for haste. I need to do more stuff after progression, but, this should be right.

[Deleted]

I read it as reverting the previous hotfix. Did think my SW:P wasn't doing that much damage...

Well this isnt half the ass pull they did to pvp by buffing mage bombs by 40% (but it's still such an amateur move). I am glad I cancelled my subscription a few months ago.

Why do you feel the need to tell us you've quit every post?

Actually shadow is not in a bad place right now. There's only a week's worth of data, but currently we're top 3 on raidbots which is not exactly being benched territory. I don't think losing a bit of SW:P is going to plunge us down to the bottom of the table as it's just not that much of our damage.

[Deleted]

This is the main reason why they are reverting the buff, spriest was destroying the meters in highend gear (mind you this is a killshot of the world first heroic horridon, especially take note of the fact that the spriest died a good while before the kill and still topped the meter by a good margin):

http://manaflask.com/images/gallerie...1a7%5B1%5D.jpg

[Deleted]

Why do you feel the need to tell us you've quit every post?

Feel free to ignore me, seeing as I hardly ever post on class specific forums anymore.

[Yvaelle]

This is the main reason why they are reverting the buff, spriest was destroying the meters in highend gear (mind you this is a killshot of the world first heroic horridon, especially take note of the fact that the spriest died a good while before the kill and still topped the meter by a good margin):

http://manaflask.com/images/gallerie...1a7%5B1%5D.jpg

Had nothing to do with Shadow Word: Pain though. Horridon gives us permanent Twist of Fate uptime, so we do +15% more damage compared to everyone else. Combined with that we're one of the strongest execute specs, and the fight has us cycling through near-endless execute phases - and we Should be topping the meter on a fight like Horridon.

If the problem is Twist of Fate, the solution shouldn't be to nerf Shadow Word: Pain. Twist of Fate only benefits us on fights like Horridon, Shadow Word: Pain nerfs us everywhere.

[Vantricular]

baaaaaaaaaahahaha hotfixed. DMG + REVERTED trollololollol

[Deleted]

well, this buff took long to revert. Oh wait, 1 week and bbye. At least i hope that they reverted to 5.1 values, from what is written there it seems its even more nerfed. Thx GC you rock.

[DeiVias]

The way it's written basically says we reverted the buff we gave you last week so i'm 99.9% sure it's like it was in 5.1.