dom shards nerfed by 50%

[arandomuser]

no official notes, just came in a hotfix about 30minutes- 1 hour ago
people are reporting that the shard bonuses have been nerfed massively

https://twitter.com/Naguura/status/1420124642556190721

what are your guys thoughts? kind of sucks for guilds getting a nerf mid prog when the raid has already been cleared in the current state

personally hoping it was an intern, but its likely they are buffing the raid tier after its been cleared( top raiders said raid seemed undertuned)? wish they would elaborate on their philosophy here

update: atm it appears the change has been reverted, unknown if original change was intended or a fluke
another update: https://twitter.com/JeffAHamilton/st...32378291306498 senior game designer says it was supposed to be nerfed with reset but wasnt done properly...will probably be nerfed next reset properly enjoy it now

[Gaidax]

Unholy was pretty busted really.

I guess they realized that with full raid having full unholy upgraded in 2 weeks from now max would result in this tier being very very short in addition to weak bosses aside from Pain and Sylv.

[Morgaith]

This should've been done before the release of mythic since it would have been easy to gather data of the performance of them. If anything if they felt they had to balance stuff they should have buffed the underperforming shard sets instead since getting buffed always feels better than getting nerfed and it's not like it's going to make or break the game balance of the current mythic raid with such a minor change.

[Hyrja]

they just reverted it, lol.

[netherflame]

Honestly they should've just nerf'd unholy and left the rest alone since nobody seems to be using blood or frost....

[muto]

They shouldn’t have had added yet another system to begin with.

[RayenDark]

https://twitter.com/LimitXyronic/sta...41716687015937

It has been reverted

[arandomuser]

https://twitter.com/LimitXyronic/sta...41716687015937

big if true lol looks like it either was wrong button pressed or the pushback made them change immediately

[Palapop]

Ofc lol... Just as corruptions in 8.3.

They nerf it after fav guild gets world 1st.

Remember falling star? Mind flays? Twisted appendages? Using just 1 rank 3 of any would give you 30-40% overall dmg. Once their fav guilds got world 1st/2/3.... they nerfed corruptions by 50% and then 1 more time by extra 50%.

[Mightytasty]

I’m wondering if they will nerf unholy with respect to frost & blood. Or if they will keep the power ranking the same since players are already invested.

[KaPe]

I’m wondering if they will nerf unholy with respect to frost & blood. Or if they will keep the power ranking the same since players are already invested.

Only unholy got 50% nerf, the other two were hit for less. I assume that once they re-implement this hotfix, they will keep this theme.

[huth]

https://twitter.com/LimitXyronic/sta...41716687015937

big if true lol looks like it either was wrong button pressed or the pushback made them change immediately

More likely it was unintended. Not enough time to discuss the matter for a deliberate change and rollback.