Upcoming Class Tuning with the Weekly Maintenance - May 27

[Lumy]

Upcoming Class Tuning with the Weekly Maintenance - May 27

We continue to regularly monitor class balance and make adjustments to specializations that over-and under-perform in group content and in PvP.

With scheduled weekly maintenance in each region, we’ll make the following changes.

Classes

Evoker

• Augmentation
  
  • Nerub-ar Palace 2-piece class set increases Upheaval damage by 15% (was 30%) and Eruption damage by 15% per stack (was 30%).
  • Developers’ notes: With recent buffs to Augmentation’s personal damage, this older class set became stronger than intended.
• Preservation
  
  • Healing of all spells and abilities increased by 4%. Does not affect PvP combat.
  • Living Flame healing increased by 30%.
  • Spiritbloom healing increased by 20%.
  • Echo’s base healing increased by 100%. This only affects the raw healing, not how strong copied spells are.

Hunter

• Survival
  
  • Explosive Shot damage increased by 15%.
  • Fury of the Eagle damage increased by 25%.

Mage

• Frost
  
  • All damage dealt increased by 3%. Does not affect PvP.

Paladin

• Holy
  
  • Lightsmith: Blessing of the Forge healing increased by 15%.
  • Lightsmith: Hammer and Anvil healing increased by 20%.

Priest

• Shadow
  
  • Psychic Link now causes direct damage to inflict 35% of damage dealt to targets afflicted by Vampiric Touch (was 30%).
  • Halo damage increased by 30%.
  • Voidweaver: Entropic Rift damage increased by 12%.

Rogue

• Subtlety
  
  • All damage increased by 5%. Does not affect PvP combat.

Shaman

• Restoration
  
  • Farseer: Elemental Reverb now increases Riptide healing by 20% (was 10%). Not applied to PvP combat.
  • Farseer: Maelstrom Supremacy now increases the healing of Healing Wave, Healing Surge, Wellspring, Downpour, and Chain Heal by 25% (was 15%). Not applied to PvP combat.
  • Farseer: Offering from Beyond now reduces the cooldown of Riptide by 3 seconds (was 2 seconds). Not applied to PvP combat.
  • Farseer: Primordial Capacity now increases maximum mana by 10% (was 5%). Not applied to PvP combat.
  • Farseer: Hydrobubble absorption increased by 25%. Not applied to PvP combat.
  • Farseer: Hydrobubble now lasts for 15 seconds (was 10 seconds).

Warlock

• Destruction
  
  • Diabolist: Ruination damage increased 35%.
  • Diabolist: Wicked Cleave damage increased 15%.
  • Diabolist: Chaos Salvo damage increased 15%.
  • Diabolist: Felseeker damage increased 15%.
  • Diabolist: Gloom of Nathreza now causes enemies marked by your Havoc to take 7% increased damage from your single target spells (was 5%).

Warrior

• Arms
  
  • Whirlwind damage increased by 100%.
• Fury
  
  • Whirlwind damage increased by 120%.
  • Thunder Clap damage increased by 25%.
  • Odyn’s Fury damage increased by 30%.
  • Mountain Thane: Thunder Blast damage increased by 25%.

Player Versus Player

Druid

• Balance
  
  • Wrath damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  • Keeper of the Grove: Blooming Infusion now increases the damage of your next Wrath or Starfire by 25% (was 100%) in PvP combat.
• Restoration
  
  • Keeper of the Grove: Blooming Infusion now increases the damage of your next Wrath or Starfire by 25% (was 100%) in PvP combat.

Death Knight

• Improved Death Strike is no longer reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
• Frost
  
  • Frost Strike damage increased by 12% in PvP combat.
  • Obliterate damage increased by 12% in PvP combat.
• Unholy
  
  • Magus of the Dead’s Shadow Bolt damage is no longer reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
  • Festering Strike damage increased by 100% in PvP combat.

Mage

• Frost
  
  • Frostfire: Overpowered Barrier now causes Blazing Barrier to reflect 40% of damage absorbed (was 60%).
• Fire
  
  • Overpowered Barrier now causes Blazing Barrier to reflect 40% of damage absorbed (was 60%).
  • Pyroblast damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.
  • Fire Blast damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  • Fireball damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  • Scorch damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  • Frostfire: Isothermic Core now causes Meteor to call down a Comet Storm at 200% effectiveness (was 250%).
  • Frostfire: Frostfire Bolt damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.

Priest

• Discipline
  
  • Power Word: Radiance healing is no longer reduced by 10% in PvP combat.
  • Ultimate Penitence damage and healing increased by 35% in PvP combat.

Rogue

• Outlaw
  
  • Combat Stamina now increases Stamina by 18% in PvP combat (was 12%).

Shaman

• Restoration
  
  • Earth Shield healing increased by 20% in PvP combat.
  • Earthliving Weapon healing increased by 20% in PvP combat.
  • Healing Rain healing increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  • Totemic: Surging Totem healing increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  • Totemic: Lively Totems now casts a free Chain Heal at 150% effectiveness in PvP combat (was 100%).

Warlock

• Demon Skin’s armor increase is now 30% more effective in PvP combat.

Warrior

• Arms
  
  • Execute damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
  • Rend damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.

[Big Thanks]

LOL! What a coincidence!

I was/am roleplaying Stamina Outlaw rogue in PvP...and we get a boost in stamina wtf
I picked all 9 gems on gear of +stam +versatility, picked the talent, the trinket and the banner (+15%) you can use in rated Battleground Blitz.

Roleplay intensifies.

[Railander]

top 3 first blood in SS:
1) destro - 73%
2) aff - 61%
3) mm - 58%

"hmm let's buff the armor bonus talent by 30%, this 2% phys dmg reduction surely is going to help."

[conkrete]

Survival needs a lot more than that in cleave/AOE

[Sargasm]

Holy fucking shit! A substantial buff to Frost Mage. No way.. I can't believe it. Lol.

[Ashana Darkmoon]

As always, I'll say that the issue isn't things being bad or good, it is the slow speed of changes. And that strikes again. Fury and Shadow have been absolute dog m+ classes for the entire season which, let's be real, is already over for most people. Nothing wrong with some balance tweaks in a .7, but those specs needed this 2 months ago.

Also Idk about the Fury buffs, but the Shadow ones are about 5%, nowhere near enough to be competitive in the big pull keys.

[ArenaDk]

top 3 first blood in SS:
1) destro - 73%
2) aff - 61%
3) mm - 58%

"hmm let's buff the armor bonus talent by 30%, this 2% phys dmg reduction surely is going to help."

Which ratings?

[Foolicious]

As always, I'll say that the issue isn't things being bad or good, it is the slow speed of changes. And that strikes again. Fury and Shadow have been absolute dog m+ classes for the entire season which, let's be real, is already over for most people. Nothing wrong with some balance tweaks in a .7, but those specs needed this 2 months ago.

Also Idk about the Fury buffs, but the Shadow ones are about 5%, nowhere near enough to be competitive in the big pull keys.

They simply have no idea how to tune shadow when they have one good boss encounter. A tale as old as psychic link.
Also both shadow and fury struggle more this season because of target caps but thats usually never resolved mid season.

[Ashana Darkmoon]

They simply have no idea how to tune shadow when they have one good boss encounter. A tale as old as psychic link.
Also both shadow and fury struggle more this season because of target caps but thats usually never resolved mid season.

Fury has struggle with target cap for like 7 years, right?

NGL, having the lone DPS spec of a class held hostage by a raid fight is pretty frustrating, especially if you don't care about that content.

[Big Thanks]

My life as Outlaw rogue pre-buff (only when fully buffed in a Battleground)



Cant wait for this buff

[conkrete]

As always, I'll say that the issue isn't things being bad or good, it is the slow speed of changes. And that strikes again. Fury and Shadow have been absolute dog m+ classes for the entire season which, let's be real, is already over for most people. Nothing wrong with some balance tweaks in a .7, but those specs needed this 2 months ago.

Also Idk about the Fury buffs, but the Shadow ones are about 5%, nowhere near enough to be competitive in the big pull keys.

I agree. Everyone knew that Fury, Survival and Aug were not in a good place 2 months ago. The speed of changes is a problem but also is the tuning.

Sometimes the tuning needs to be aggressive. Aug was in an awful spot after the nerfs, it can be just decent... Or like in this case for Survival, (15% for Explosive Shot and 25% for Fury of the Eagle) is not going to save the spec for M+. We all know that.

Regarding Shadow priest, it wasn't bad. It's just that Disc Priest was THAT good.

[Railander]

Which ratings?

overall.
2100+ is the same for destro and even worse for aff.
btw they are 2 of 7 specs above 50% first blood at 2100+, and other than moonkin at 60% the rest is 50-55%.

30% bonus armor on a talent is useless in practice, that's maybe a 2% phys dmg reduction.

[Alanious]

But those specs needed this 2 months ago.

This is exactly why I stopped playing retail. They do nothing for months and claim to “balance classes”. The people in charge have no clue what they’re doing……but all those streamers say “Blizzard has finally got it!!”. It’s a squirrel cage effect, making you waste your time so that you play more while telling you “we need to do better”, we made a mistake. That's all Ion has done

[Ashana Darkmoon]

This is exactly why I stopped playing retail. They do nothing for months and claim to “balance classes”. The people in charge have no clue what they’re doing……but all those streamers say “Blizzard has finally got it!!”. It’s a squirrel cage effect, making you waste your time so that you play more while telling you “we need to do better”, we made a mistake. That's all Ion has done

Fair except that balance in any version of classic is far worse lol.

I'd recommend listening to Ion's presentation, I think he talks about balance in the middle. Pretty fascinating! Especially the Brood War charts

[ArenaDk]

overall.
2100+ is the same for destro and even worse for aff.
btw they are 2 of 7 specs above 50% first blood at 2100+, and other than moonkin at 60% the rest is 50-55%.

30% bonus armor on a talent is useless in practice, that's maybe a 2% phys dmg reduction.

overall is such a bad metric. Caster perform worse on low rating and get better the higher you get. Destro has 250 player over 2,1 in shuffel. Thats 100 more than dk speccs have and 150 more than enhancment. I feel like warlock getting buffs over this weird enough. But wanting big buffs when they overall perform average , while other classes are in the dirt is kinda cringe.

Also a big reason for warlocks dying first often is not only because they are squishy but you HAVE to focus and control them or they auto win the game with unhealable damage. So even if warlock isnt the best target to kill, you have to do it

[Railander]

ok, but i also just gave you 2100+ results, which is the same for destro and worse for aff.
i am not asking for OP warlocks, nerf their dmg after they are no longer the kill target 100% of the time, it's incredibly unfun to play when you are ALWAYS the target. try playing one and see for yourself.