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Azerite Trait Tuning September 17
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
As mentioned in the Reddit AMA last Friday, we’re working on balance tuning for Azerite Armor traits. We’re planning to make the following changes during this week’s maintenance period. Note that there are more changes already in the works; this is just a first pass, focused on bringing some of the biggest outliers up (or down) to more acceptable levels.

General

Death Knight (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)

Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)

Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  • (Beast Mastery) Feeding Frenzy: Damage increased by 400%
  • (Marksmanship) Arcane Flurry: Duration increased to 10 seconds, damage reduced by 45%

Mage (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  • (Arcane) Brain Storm: Duration increased to 30 seconds, Intellect bonus reduced by 75%
  • (Fire) Firemind: Intellect bonus increased by 30%

Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)

Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)

Shaman (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  • (Elemental/Enhancement) Natural Harmony: Secondary stat bonuses increased by 40%

Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  • (Affliction) Sudden Onset: Damage bonus reduced by 30%
  • (Demonology) Demonic Meteor: Damage increased by 200%
  • (Destruction) Flashpoint: Duration increased to 10 seconds, Haste bonus increased by 25%

Warrior (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
This article was originally published in forum thread: Azerite Trait Tuning September 17 started by Stoy View original post
Comments 133 Comments
  1. GreenJesus's Avatar
    I just want secondary stats on my gear again. Get rid of these shit traits that are literally just filler.
  1. Tradu's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by quizzlemanizzle View Post
    rolleyes

    stacking means getting a benefit from using only the same trait.

    What you are saying is simply choosing to use good traits which is no different from stacking items with good secondary stats.
    No, stacking means using multiple of the same trait. It doesn't say anything about what that does to the value of each additional trait. You're also wrong about TB/DitB losing value for each additional trait, they have constant value.
  1. Strakha's Avatar
    this is less than appealing
  1. Inuyaki's Avatar
    You all do realize that the BM trait is NOT buffed by 400%, but only the DoT part of it?

    Seriously, if you have no clue, you should not make fun of something...
  1. mmoc09cc9e1bf6's Avatar
    this is fcking joke, how warlock supposed to be competitive in pvp if they take everything from this class, too squishy and now even lower dmg
  1. Voidwielder's Avatar
    Eh.

    This is... underwhelming. The system needs a minor redesign.
  1. Lasting Journey's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by GreenJesus View Post
    I just want secondary stats on my gear again. Get rid of these shit traits that are literally just filler.
    We left sensible gearing behind a long time ago.
  1. Kaver's Avatar
    1) Balancing Classes and Specs is difficult
    2) Balancing Azerite Traits is difficult

    1) + 2) = very difficult and time consuming

    Gj Blizz..
  1. Cavox's Avatar
    Can we please scrap the azerite armor idea and instead get 110 and 120 level talents? Pretty please?
  1. lockybalboa's Avatar
    They had the whole of beta to balance things out and still can't balance shit by now, and have the cheek to tell us to wait til 8.1? Fucking incompetent clowns.
  1. mmoc4ec7d51a68's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by gibborim View Post
    I guess we are back to "Dagger in the Back or bust!" territory.
    The next one getting nerfed... probably next week.
  1. mmoc09edee0669's Avatar
    FFS stop nerfing warlocks
  1. LordKain's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Barrages View Post
    Why do you people even still play this game? Lol
    Cause it’s fun. If I listened to people whining for every change, I would’ve quit WoW years ago.
  1. Hexaholic's Avatar
    So every class, except DH? Ok.
  1. huldu's Avatar
    It's so typical of blizzard. They mega nerf something and later on slightly buff it to look like "hey we're the good guys and we listened".
  1. funf's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Hexaholic View Post
    So every class, except DH? Ok.
    I'm also wondering... Are DH azerite traits fine ? Is DH DPS / tanking ok ?
  1. mmoc5b673ff418's Avatar
    well what i know ion hazzikostas is playing shaman ..goodluck with that .
    his armory :https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/ch...anis/gurgthock
  1. mmoc9466677cbd's Avatar
    Alright, from mid to low tier as frost mage. Finally I can go afk during boss fights.
  1. mmoc41eddcf18f's Avatar
    Lol fun is this shit dont need to be nerfed or buffed this traits need to disspear to void... Give us somethi cool like ranged divine storm in legion or somethim gamechangin lol bliizard people dont need proc traits where you proc haste etc etc who give a fuvk about that i love legion just cause of that my spec completely change after i lvl traits in my weapon this azerite shit is shit
  1. cartmanzan's Avatar
    Blizz loves rogue! Nerf SUB > Nerf Outlaw > Nerf Sin... gratz!

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