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    Shadowlands Beta - Covenant Abilities Tuning and Class Changes

    Shadowlands Beta - Covenant Abilities Tuning
    Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
    In today’s updated build of the Shadowlands Beta, testers will see a snapshot of the the process of tuning several Shadowlands systems, which is underway. We’re in the midst of recalibrating the throughput of several Covenant abilities, and while in some cases the magnitude of the change may feel large, it’s necessary to bring outlier abilities in-line with our targets, so that players can make more accurate comparisons between abilities.

    Thank you for all of your help as we iterate on these abilities based on your feedback.

    Shadowlands Beta - Death Knight Class Changes
    Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
    In this week’s new build of the Shadowlands Beta, we’ve updated two covenant abilities, Abomination Limb and Shackle the Unworthy.

    Abomination Limb has been target capped at 5, and its damage has increased by 15%. The grip has also been updated so it may only pull the same target every 4 seconds. This change was made to prevent it from encouraging the Death Knight to repeatedly walk out of range and then pull the same target.

    We’ve also added a new functionality to the ability that grants Bone Shield charges, Rime, or Runic Corruption (based on spec) the first time the Limb pulls an enemy (this only occurs once). We hope this change will broaden the usage of the ability outside of PvP.

    Shackle the Unworthy has had its damage increased by 15%, but no longer has its cooldown reduced when spending runes. Instead of the cooldown reduction, it now works as follows: “While Shackle the Unworthy is active on an enemy, your direct-damage attacks that spend runes have a 50% chance to spread Shackle the Unworthy to a nearby enemy”.

    We hope this change gives the ability a more active playstyle and creates more situations where it might be more useful than its previous iteration.

    Thanks for the continued feedback, and we look forward to your thoughts on these recent changes.

    Shadowlands Beta - Rogue Class Changes
    Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
    In this week’s build of the Shadowlands Beta, we have some notable changes for Outlaw Rogues.

    Since both Assassination and Subtlety can apply poisons in AoE relatively easily, we want Outlaw to have access to similar utility. As such, Blade Flurry hits can now apply poisons to any enemies hit.

    We’ve also changed the Between the Eyes debuff. It no longer gives you increased Critical Hit Damage against the target; it now gives you increased Critical Strike Chance against the target. This allows Blade Flurry to spread the damage bonus of this debuff to secondary target.

    Thanks again for your testing and feedback!

    Shadowlands Beta - Warrior Class Changes
    Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
    Hello.

    In this week’s build of the Shadowlands Beta, the Misshapen Mirror legendary has been changed. It now increases Spell Reflect duration by 60% and only affects your nearest ally.

    Previously, this legendary was proving to be stronger than intended.

    Thank you very much for your feedback.

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    Great job Blizzard!

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    massive beat down on the Warrior legendary .... i guess it needed it though, it was op as f.

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    oh wow,the rogue buffs there are awesome, well done guys, really.

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    Quote Originally Posted by VIsHuD View Post
    massive beat down on the Warrior legendary .... i guess it needed it though, it was op as f.
    Yea its a fair nurf, still a powerful legendary in certain situations just not stupidly op on any boss that casts raid wide magic damage like it was.

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    I am excited for the Shackle the Unworthy changes, might actually contend now.

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