Sneaky Mistweaver Rsk nerf.

[Sickjen]

I just realized.

Rising Sun Kick (Windwalker, Mistweaver) now deals 5% less damage.

I can understand windwalker (sort of)
but mistweaver? Mistweaver i know it's only 5% pretty useless to really debate over but is RsK to strong for mistweavers why nerf it?

[Fakie]

It should be quite clear at this point that Blizzard has no intentions of fistweaving being remotely viable for anything other than stacking mana tea.

[TrollShaman]

Probably as an unfortunate side effect, as I don't think Blizz is bothered to create separate coefficients for different specs.
5% nerf to fistweaving skills is not like it'll kill fistweaving for the 'dps utility' anyway.

[Osmodius]

Probably as an unfortunate side effect, as I don't think Blizz is bothered to create separate coefficients for different specs.
5% nerf to fistweaving skills is not like it'll kill fistweaving for the 'dps utility' anyway.

They clearly do, with some spells/abilities, though.

[Sickjen]

Probably as an unfortunate side effect, as I don't think Blizz is bothered to create separate coefficients for different specs.
5% nerf to fistweaving skills is not like it'll kill fistweaving for the 'dps utility' anyway.

Isn't that like saying i'm to lazy to separate them so you have to deal with it? Why even have rsk and not another ability if it effects both specs with the same ability. Mistweaver shouldn't have to suffer because of blizzards asphyxiation on nerfing windwalkers and that should be said if it was ever vice-versa.

[Emerya]

I think it's also partly they want mistweaver dps to be based on some percent of windwalker dps. If they reduce WW damage by tuning abilities but don't apply the same to MW, that difference will shift a bit. It sucks, but the other nerfs to WW did the same thing I believe (where applicable - things like the stance nerf didn't carry over.)

[vulena]

How is "clearly stated in the patch notes" sneaky?

[Supliftz]

This is not as big of a nerf as you might think.

Fistweaving will stay a powerful dps utility, and be strong outside of building mana tea.

[Sickjen]

This is not as big of a nerf as you might think.

Fistweaving will stay a powerful dps utility, and be strong outside of building mana tea.

Oh absolutely i don't think anyone is willing to not agree with you there. However on the developers end it seems lazy not separating and just nerfing windwalker rsk.From a mistweaver perspective it's completely unnecessary.

How is "clearly stated in the patch notes" sneaky?

It didn't come out with the intial notes and no changes effected mistweavers but all of the sudden we got a "general" rsk. It's not super sneaky but still never the less a sneak attack at us mistweavers >:]

[Geodew]

Oh absolutely i don't think anyone is willing to not agree with you there. However on the developers end it seems lazy not separating and just nerfing windwalker rsk.From a mistweaver perspective it's completely unnecessary.

I think as long as changing Crane/WW will not break the other entirely, they want to keep the same attack power/weapon dps coefficients, and I guess tune each spec around other things. I wouldn't be surprised if they eventually added a damage mod to Crane Stance (like the 20% healing mod on Serpent Stance) to tune Crane separately if it ever turned out that WW needed to be nerfed but Crane was already too weak, or something of that nature.