Upcoming Class Balance Changes - November 10, 2020

Upcoming Class Balance Changes - November 10, 2020
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Classes

  • General
    • [With regional restarts] All tank specializations passive threat generation has increased.

  • Druid
    • Feral
      • [With regional restarts] Damage of all abilities increased by 8%.
    • Restoration
      • [With regional restarts] Damage of all abilities reduced by 5%.

  • Hunter
    • Beast Mastery
      • [With regional restarts] The damage of all abilities except Cobra Shot and Barbed Shot have been reduced by 5%.
    • Marksmanship
      • [With regional restarts] Volley (Talent) damage reduced by 30%.

  • Mage
    • General
      • [With regional restarts] Arcane Explosion damage reduced by 8%.
    • Frost
      • [With regional restarts] Splitting Ice’s Ice Lance damage to secondary targets reduced to 65% (was 80%).
      • [With regional restarts] Ice Lance damage reduced by 10%.
      • [With regional restarts] Freezing Rain’s Blizzard damage increased to 60% (was 50%).
      • [With regional restarts] Comet Storm damage increased by 5%.

  • Monk
    • Windwalker
      • [With regional restarts] Damage of all abilities increased by 5%.

  • Paladin
    • General
      • [With regional restarts] Crusader Strike mana cost reduced to 9% base mana (was 14%).
      • [With regional restarts] Shield of the Righteous damage reduced by 15%.
    • Holy
      • [With regional restarts] Holy Shock healing increased by 10%.
      • [With regional restarts] Word of Glory healing increased by 9%.
      • [With regional restarts] Glimmer of Light (Talent) healing reduced by 10%.
    • Protection
      • [With regional restarts] Protection Paladin passive Armor bonus reduced to 10% (was 20%).
      • [With regional restarts] Word of Glory healing increased by 9% and healing when casting Word of Glory (Rank 2) on yourself reduced to 250% based on your missing health (was 300%).
    • Retribution
      • [With regional restarts] Damage of all abilities increased by 4%.
      • [With regional restarts] Execution Sentence (Talent) no longer has a chance to critically strike and initial damage reduced by 25%.
      • [With regional restarts] Final Reckoning (Talent) increased damage taken reduced to 35% (was 50%).
      • [With regional restarts] Sanctified Wrath (Talent) damage increased by 50%.

  • Priest
    • Discipline
      • [With regional restarts] Power Word: Shield absorb reduced by 8%.
      • [With regional restarts] Shadow Word: Pain damage reduced by 10%.
      • [With regional restarts] Purge the Wicked (Talent) damage reduced by 10%.

  • Rogue
    • Subtlety
      • Resolved an issue that allowed Subtlety Rogue’s Eviscerate to deal additional damage to targets that have another Rogue's Find Weakness active.

  • Shaman
    • General
      • [With regional restarts] Chain Heal healing reduced by 7%.
    • Restoration
      • [With regional restarts] The bonus damage for choosing the Restoration Shaman specialization has been lowered to 15% (was 40%). At level 37, this value increases back to 40%.

  • Warrior
    • Arms
      • [With regional restarts] Damage of all abilities increased by 6%.
      • [With regional restarts] Cleave (Talent) no longer replaces Sweeping Strikes.
    • Fury
      • [With regional restarts] Damage of all abilities increased by 10%.
      • [With regional restarts] Whirlwind additional target damage reduced to 45% (was 50%).
      • [With regional restarts] Bladestorm (Talent) damage increased by 8%.
      • [With regional restarts] Frenzy (Talent) Haste reduced to 2% (was 3%) and max stacks increased to 4 (was 3).
This article was originally published in forum thread: Upcoming Class Balance Changes - November 10, 2020 started by Lumy View original post
Published on 2020-11-10 03:01 AM
79 Comments
Comments 79 Comments
  1. Omedon's Avatar
    Yeesh, love the threat changes, but those damage nerfs to disc just reaffirm that priests are rolled for the guild, and do not own their time in content that other classes just... do on their own. They are the only class without a relevant, functioning "by myself" spec. Enhancement's squishyness kinda puts them right behind priests in that line, but enhancement does exist so that class isn't totally helpless as a class pursuing soloable goals.

    Glad for the tank change though... but my priest is no closer to the front of the line of my 30+ alts, and that's sad. My priest was born to be venthyr, but that transmog will be unlocked by my warlock because, well... warlocks have a "me time" game and priests don't.
  1. hulkgor's Avatar
    "but those damage nerfs to disc just reaffirm that priests are rolled for the guild, and do not own their time in content that other classes just... do on their own"

    What does this even mean?
  1. Gryzvwald's Avatar
    when they start going with the "increased all damage abilities by x%" it usually means they have no clue how to fix a class in a timely fashion and this is what you'll get for the next 4 to 6 months and like it.
  1. Prag's Avatar
    Dang, back-to-back 9k WoG crits felt good.
  1. Aegisblade's Avatar
    Wth with the prot pally nerfs literally two weeks before new expac =.= Why nerf prot when brm and vdh and even bdk are arguably better.
  1. Prag's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Gryzvwald View Post
    when they start going with the "increased all damage abilities by x%" it usually means they have no clue how to fix a class in a timely fashion and this is what you'll get for the next 4 to 6 months and like it.
    I can say that the Fury and Arms buffs feel right. The specs feel pretty good but the numbers sucked.

    Priest (Disc) nerfs though, not sure what’s going on with that.
  1. GnomeEU's Avatar
    Disc Priest: We give you 3 more buttons to press (Mind Blast, SWD etc), then nerf your overall dmg to compensate.
    In the end you will do the same dmg as before with more keybindings.
    Way to go blizzard
  1. Varolyn's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by GnomeEU View Post
    Disc Priest: We give you 3 more buttons to press (Mind Blast, SWD etc), then nerf your overall dmg to compensate.
    In the end you will do the same dmg as before with more keybindings.
    Way to go blizzard
    People did ask for more class complexity in wow....
  1. Saltysquidoon's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by hulkgor View Post
    What does this even mean?
    He means people only play priests for group content because [he believes] they don't have any good solo spec.
  1. GnomeEU's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Varolyn View Post
    People did ask for more class complexity in wow....
    Disc Priest is the only healer that can either
    heal the group ( via dmg )
    OR
    the tank ( with flash heals etc)

    He can't do both.

    So hes already at an disadvantage and pretty much crap without 200% haste.
    More buttons dont really help him, cuz hes global cd capped anyway.

    Plus, PWD: Radiance costs 7% mana and when you have to flash heal PWD R is 100% wasted, because it relies on you doing dmg CASTS afterwards.
    IMHO disc priest should get Circle of Healing or Prayer of Healing for 5 man content, so he's not totally reliant on atonements.
  1. vm2092's Avatar
    Damn Frost got the nerf bat
  1. HCLM's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Gryzvwald View Post
    when they start going with the "increased all damage abilities by x%" it usually means they have no clue how to fix a class in a timely fashion and this is what you'll get for the next 4 to 6 months and like it.
    You're so smart... Not. Aura tuning means that the spec play-wise is in the spot where they want it to be. Now they only tune numbers, if they think that spec is under or over performing in some areas.
  1. SirReal's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Gryzvwald View Post
    when they start going with the "increased all damage abilities by x%" it usually means they have no clue how to fix a class in a timely fashion and this is what you'll get for the next 4 to 6 months and like it.
    I always thought it meant the class is actually in a pretty good spot and those are the macro dials they're final tuning....
  1. Pawpurr's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Aegisblade View Post
    Wth with the prot pally nerfs literally two weeks before new expac =.= Why nerf prot when brm and vdh and even bdk are arguably better.

    I don't get the armor nerf at all, but the damage changes feels justified. My Prot was doing like 70-75% of the damage of my Ret in PvE, and I'm talking single target. SOTR is very spammable now with holy power, 100% uptime is very obtainable now, so that might be why the ability has to be weaker since it's effectively an always-on maintenance buff now.
  1. Justintime328's Avatar
    lol yes they did brethren.
  1. SinR's Avatar
    And in other news, Pre-Patch unbalanced. More at 11
  1. Swnem's Avatar
    Ok. I'm just hoping these changes were aimed at shadowlands balance and not pre-patch.
  1. Khallid's Avatar
    Balance changes in prepatch? It's kinda late based on prepatch launch, but also pointless given Shadowlands is coming out so soon.
  1. SinR's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Swnem View Post
    Ok. I'm just hoping these changes were aimed at shadowlands balance and not pre-patch.
    Search your feelings. You know the truth.


    just look at previous pre-patches
  1. Wreckington's Avatar
    Lmao, on my bm hunter most of my damage was coming from cobra spam.
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