Upcoming Class Tuning Changes - April 5, 2022

[Lumy]

Upcoming Class Tuning Changes - April 5, 2022

Classes

Druid

• Guardian
  
  • (4) Set Bonus: Architect’s Aligner damage and healing reduced by 35%.
  • Developer note: The performance of Architect’s Aligner has become an outlier amongst other tank tier set bonuses in both single- and multi-target situations. Due to this, with weekly maintenance we will be adjusting Architect’s Aligner to bring its performance closer to other bonuses. Thank you for the feedback and we will continue to watch the ongoing discussions across the community.

Mage

• Fire
  
  • (2) Set Bonus: Increases the duration of Combustion by 4 sec, up from 2 sec.
    
    • This change does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Fireball damage increased by 20%.
    
    • This change does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Fire Blast damage increased by 10%.
    
    • This change does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Pyroblast damage increased by 6%.
    
    • This change does not apply to PvP combat.

Monk

• Windwalker
  
  • Rising Sun Kick damage increased by 10%.
    
    • This change does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Blackout Kick damage increased by 10%.
  • Tiger Palm damage increased by 10%.
  • Fist of the White Tiger damage increased by 10%.
  • Developer note: While Windwalker Monks shine in multitarget situations, we’re seeing their performance fall behind in single target scenarios, even after acquiring endgame gear. As a result, we’re targeting specific abilities with the goal of improving their single target output.

Paladin

• Retribution
  
  • (2) Set Bonus: When you benefit from Art of War, you gain Seraphim for 4 sec, up from 3 sec
  • Divine Storm damage increased by 10%.
    
    • This change does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Wake of Ashes damage increased by 10%.
    
    • This change does not apply to PvP combat.

Rogue

• Assassination
  
  • Fan of Knives damage increased by 30%.

Warlock

• Demonology
  
  • Demonic Consumption’s now causes your Demon Commander to drain 12% of the life from your other demons (was 15%).

PvP

• Items
  
  • Cosmic Gladiator’s Eternal Aegis
    
    • The value of the Magic shield provided by Cosmic Gladiator’s Eternal Aegis has been reduced by 33%.
    • Developer note: We’ve been monitoring the performance of our newly introduced PvP trinkets during Season 3 and their effect on the length of matches, and have decided to adjust the effectiveness of the Cosmic Gladiator’s Eternal Aegis to bring it in line with other defensive trinket options. With weekly maintenance we’ll be reducing the Magic absorption provided by the trinket by 33%.

Druid

• Guardian
  
  • (4) Set Bonus: Architect’s Aligner damage and healing reduced by 25% in PvP combat (was 50%).

Priest

• Holy
  
  • Holy Ward’s (PvP Talent) cooldown increased to 45 seconds (was 30 seconds) and duration decreased to 15 seconds (was 30 seconds).
  • (4) Set Bonus: Divine Conversation’s effectiveness reduced by 40% in PvP combat.
  • Developer note: We have been monitoring Holy Priest performance in rated PvP and will be adjusting the cooldown and duration of Holy Ward to increase interactivity with the talent while providing more counterplay opportunity for opponents. We will also be reducing the effectiveness of Divine Conversation while in PvP combat, as the throughput increase provided by the set bonus is more substantial than we would like. With weekly maintenance, we will be increasing Holy Ward’s cooldown to 45 seconds and decreasing its duration to 15 seconds and we will also be reducing the effectiveness of Divine Conversation by 40% in PvP Combat.

[Mrbleedinggums]

of course they nerf the guardian druid bonus before the Catalyst is open.

[Takure]

Where are the blood DK nerfs?

[MrKnubbles]

Meanwhile, I've over here playing BM wondering why I'm still bottom tier.

[AidanJLowe]

The four set was so bizarre and dumb to begin with, look at all the other tank specs four set they take into account actual class abilities and for guardian they just add a pulse aoe & heal, like ofc this is gonna be broken.

How it even got out of PTR in this state amazes me, I'd rather them rethink the four piece if I'm honest at this point. The only thing its good for imo is snap threat if your group somehow pulls a crap tonne in a M+

[kamuimac]

god i hate blizzard mentality - this proves that there is 0 hope for 10.0

guardian druid nerf - insted buff other tanks so they feel as fun to play as guardian druids do with that set bonus they nerf it . and now no tank feels fun to play again .

ggblizz - thats exackly how you not design games

games are suposed to feel fun - and guardias with 4 set felt extremly fun to play .

[Daan]

Because the Feral 4p tier set nerf wasn't enough, now the Guardian one is in for it, too. Stop saying "bring its performance closer to other bonuses" please. The whole tier set balance is awful.

[Firebeast]

So does that mean that you're nerfing WW AOE? GG to spec that doesn't need help. Oh and the 3% for my BM hunter did jack. I see no hope for this game at all.

[Caprias]

Man, comments under balancing/tuning posts haven't change in a decade.

[Cthulhu fhtagn]

Meanwhile, I've over here playing BM wondering why I'm still bottom tier.

Because you play bm, most likely.

[MrKnubbles]

Because you play bm, most likely.

Right. Where are the BM buffs?

[Eazy]

FoK dmg increase by 30% - about time Blizz!

[Smashfist]

So does that mean that you're nerfing WW AOE? GG to spec that doesn't need help. Oh and the 3% for my BM hunter did jack. I see no hope for this game at all.

WW single target is trash. My 226 fury warrior alt wrecks my 245 WW single target and I know how to play WW far better than fury.

[Eapoe]

Meanwhile, I've over here playing BM wondering why I'm still bottom tier.

Because you’re playing a spec that is ST oriented in a 90% AoE/Cleave based endgame.

[tru]

Any world first even used a bear?

[Takure]

Because you’re playing a spec that is ST oriented in a 90% AoE/Cleave based endgame.

That would make sense if BM hunter ST was actually comparable to other two specs and other classes.

BM is the lowest ST spec of the class, lowest Cleave damage and lowest AoE.

[Caprias]

Right. Where are the BM buffs?

Sir, we're only giving out buffs to specs with an skill ceiling above toddler level.

[MrKnubbles]

That would make sense if BM hunter ST was actually comparable to other two specs and other classes.

BM is the lowest ST spec of the class, lowest Cleave damage and lowest AoE.

I'm actually happy with my single target damage. It's the aoe that's terrible. We have one aoe baseline and another with covenant but that's a 2 min cd that tanks still like to kite out of.

[Dackstrus]

Rogue
Assassination
Fan of Knives damage increased by 30%.

Are you fucking serious blizzard? Where the fuck is the outlaw AoE cap removal? nah, this is the last time you slap me across the face, i'm fucking done.

[Ealyssa]

games are suposed to feel fun - and guardias with 4 set felt extremly fun to play .

If you like doing damage, just play a dps ? there is no gameplay involved with the 4p, only more dps. It’s exactly as fun to play guardian with or without 4p.

So yeah if all you care is being top damage play a dps… and I’m a tank player, traing to squizz to most DPS is what is interesting. Just having a "I win" button is dumb.