Class Tuning Incoming with Embers of Neltharion Patch
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
To address several points of overperformance and underperformance, we will deploy tuning and balance adjustments to many classes along with the Embers of Neltharion patch maintenance next week. We’re also deploying these changes to the Embers of Neltharion PTR today for testing.

Please note that these adjustments are being made to abilities as they have been designed/tuned in the Embers of Neltharion patch, and some may not apply to how spells are tuned in the live game (10.0.7). Some of the adjustments below are to the PTR tuning of tier items coming with the Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible raid.

Demon Hunter

Havoc
  • Demon’s Bite damage increased by 8%.
  • Demon Blades damage increased by 8%.
  • Felblade damage increased by 8%.
  • Chaos Strike/Annihilation Damage increased by 8%.
  • Serrated Glaive (Talent) debuff duration increased to 15 seconds, and now retains up to 30% additional duration when refreshed (was 10 seconds).
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Chaos Theory’s (Talent) bonus to crit chance from affecting off-hand hits of Chaos Strike/Annihilation.


Druid

Feral
  • All ability damage increased by 5%.

Restoration
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: 2-Set bonus now increases Lifebloom and Rejuvenation healing by 10% (was 12%).


Evoker

Preservation
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: 4-Set bonus will now grant Essence Rush after 4 Empower spell casts (was 3).


Hunter

Survival
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: 4-Set bonus now reduces the cooldown of Wildfire Bomb by 1 seconds per 30 Focus spent (was 25 Focus) and Kill Command increases the damage of your next Wildfire Bomb by 40% (was 75%)


Mage

Fire
  • Ignite damage reduced by 6%.
  • Developers’ notes: The most recent buffs to Fire were slightly more than intended. We are going to reduce the damage of Ignite to keep a relatively similar gain in ST while reducing the effectiveness of the buffs in AoE.


Monk

Windwalker
  • Tiger Palm damage increased by 15%.
  • Rising Sun Kick damage increased by 15%.
  • Blackout Kick damage increased by 8%.


Paladin

Holy
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: 2-Set bonus now increases the critical healing of Holy Shock by 60% (was 15%).
  • Light’s Hammer healing increased by 60%.
  • Holy Prism healing increased by 150%.
  • Holy Prism damage increased by 100%.

Protection
  • Aegis of Light (specialization passive) stamina bonus reduced to 30% (was 35%) and armor bonus reduced to 10% (was 15%).
  • Righteous Protector’s cooldown reduction is now 2 seconds (was 3 seconds).
  • Sentinel’s health increase per stack is now 1% (was 2%).


Rogue

  • Fixed an issue that prevented Nightstalker’s damage bonus from applying in its intended circumstances.

Assassination
  • All ability damage increased by 5%. These changes do not affect PvP Combat.
  • Mutilate damage increased by 5%. These changes do not affect PvP Combat.
  • Envenom damage increased by 5%. These changes do not affect PvP Combat.
  • Shiv damage increased by 20%. These changes do not affect PvP Combat.
  • Kingsbane damage increased by 12%. These changes do not affect PvP Combat.

Outlaw
  • Dispatch damage increased by 5%
  • Between the Eyes damage increased by 20%
  • Summarily Dispatched (Talent) now increases Dispatch damage by 6% per stack, to a maximum of 30% (was 5% per stack, max 25%).
  • Developers’ notes: While the buff will provide the correctly updated bonus, the tooltip for the base talent will be changed in a future update.

Subtlety
  • Shadowstrike damage increased by 10%.
  • Eviscerate damage increased by 6%.


Shaman

Elemental
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: 2-Set bonus now grants 1 stack of Stormkeeper (was 2 stacks).
  • Developers’ notes: The tooltip for the 2-set bonus will be updated to reflect this change in a future update.
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: 4-Set bonus now only grants 50% increased Maelstrom, down from 75%.

Restoration
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: 2-Set bonus Tidewaters healing increased by 30%.


Warlock

Demonology
  • Developers’ notes: Demonology received some powerful single-target additions to their talent tree in 10.0.7. We’re making these adjustments after observing that their throughput is a bit higher than what was originally intended and that these talents have overshadowed other talent choices. We’ll continue to monitor Demonology, along with Affliction and Destruction, and appreciate the community’s continued feedback.
  • Reign of Tyranny now increases the damage of Demonic Tyrant by 40% (was 50%).
  • Immutable Hatred now increases the damage of Legion Strike by 100% (was 120%). Does not affect PvP combat.


Warrior

Arms
  • All ability damage increased by 4%. These changes do not affect PvP Combat.
  • Auto-attack damage increased by 12%. These changes do not affect PvP Combat.

Fury
  • All ability damage increased by 4%.
  • Auto-attack damage increased by 4%.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Class Tuning Incoming with Embers of Neltharion Patch started by Lumy View original post
Comments 26 Comments
  1. Aggressive's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by rrayy View Post
    Link proviing this.

    Link proving that they will keep all the buffs to class and never ever nerf them for the rest of the expansion.
  1. Uniteria's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Loveliest View Post
    Really? Over warriors? Or are we just looking at end of season 1 like it means something. How about buffing the underperforming ones instead.
    Well, as you could see it was "S" tier in every affix week, also once it was S tier and in A tier there was no tanks at all. Big gap then in B you could see DK + Warr + Monk and in C Guardian and Dh. Ikr that subcreation is just to show us how much tanks did high keys in time, but when you check raider.io, there's only pink from top to bottom.
  1. Mardux's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Hellfrog View Post
    I have no desire to re-sub at all after seeing consistent nerfes to warlock. Demo warlock is already trash F tier and they are reducing damage even further. They have no clue what's going on. At the same time, DH gets another buff while being S tier since the expansion launch. Again devs are completely clueless.
    Cool story.
  1. Jorel88's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Hellfrog View Post
    I have no desire to re-sub at all after seeing consistent nerfes to warlock. Demo warlock is already trash F tier and they are reducing damage even further. They have no clue what's going on. At the same time, DH gets another buff while being S tier since the expansion launch. Again devs are completely clueless.
    Maybe you arent doing something right cause demo hasn’t been trash since shadowlands, that’s like the only spec they didn’t nerf. This is the first real nerf I’ve seen for demo.
  1. rrayy's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Aggressive View Post
    Link proving that they will keep all the buffs to class and never ever nerf them for the rest of the expansion.
    I'm not the one who made a baseless claim.
  1. Aggressive's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by rrayy View Post
    I'm not the one who made a baseless claim.

    I am not the one who made a baseless claim either. Almost everyone in these forums wants to be right, or at least make themselves out to be right. Sometimes you gotta read crap on here and take it with a grain of salt and just move along.

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