So, after that 20% nerf Blizzard just land on us, what is the best DPS spec to go? Is gladiator still on top even after the nerf or it will go down to fury and arms level?
So, after that 20% nerf Blizzard just land on us, what is the best DPS spec to go? Is gladiator still on top even after the nerf or it will go down to fury and arms level?
Nerf just happened, probably going to need some more time testing to see.
I'm still Fury, so doesn't even effect me.
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How you like fury? Is it some what viable?
It's not a 20% nerf, it's actually only a 5-8 % nerf to overall DPS, Revenge and Shield Slam aren't Gladiator's only damage abilities.
Gladiator is still in the top 5 DPS specs
Arms and Fury (both 1H and 2H) are so far behind gladiator that this wont change anything.
As everybody loves sims, SS+revenge amount to 35% of the dps using US with 695ilvl and a bit less on 630ilvl where most of us currenly are.
35% of total damage nerfed by 20% means they deal 80% of what they used to. 0.35*0.8 = 0.28 The total DPS decrease due to this nerf is 7% and as gladiator was more than 7% ahead of any other warrior spec, gladiator will still be the go-to spec for PvE dps.
If anything this is a pvp burst nerf for gladiator warriors because the burst now is effectively 20% nerfed and SS+revenge amount to more % in PvP.
This nerf was directed at PvP and PvE while hitting PvP waaay harder and actually being quite reasonable in PvE
But what about Protection for tanking?
Will anyone actually use a Protection Warrior for CMs now, a 20% dps nerf on Revenge and Shield Slam should hurt tanks the most.
I tested Arms vs Gladiator and it's still clearly Gladiator that does the most dps on pure single target, but Arms was already ahead on cleave/aoe. As for tanking CM's it just pushes people further towards DK's for their already far superior cleave/aoe dps. Single target dps wise Prot Warriors are still very competitive.
Probably running on a Pentium 4
Tooltip for Glad might as well now say "Increases physical damage dealt by 0%".
Going to be interesting to see how Execute sims now. Two of the biggest reasons it was hardly ever worth using were because the GCD's were better spent on Shield Slam and Revenge. With that now gone, I imagine our Execute phase looks a little more standard now.
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I want my shield slam damage back blizzard, i earned playing a nerfed class for years!!!!
Not really worried about the nerf, sky isn't falling and all that. However, lets talk about how I did not get a single Shield Slam crit in 28 hits thanks to all this mastery/haste/versatility gear.
Doing 10k dps on Skylord Tovra hits me right in the feels but at least I got pants out of it that have crit on them.
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