PTR stealth nerf to DL

[allforone]

Just playing around on testing dummies and noticed they nerfed Drain life's spell coefficient.

Last patch on 80 dummy I was doing 3.9k ticks with drain life in full rotation.
Now I'm only doing 3k ticks.

Sidetrack: the immo change has a huge effect on the dot at least as demo. It's gone from doing about 1k per tick to just under 1.8k per tick. Haven't tried destro yet.

[allforone]

It might also be a bug. I also noticed that macros are only picking up the soulburn version of DL.

[Spraxle]

It could have something to do with DL only returning 2%HP per tick instead of 5%. I know that was an undocumented change, it could have affected the actual dmg aswell.

[allforone]

No, that 2% health back was happening yesterday as well.

[Deleted]

I think it was done to be sure affliction keeps SB as filler.

[Deleted]

I could be way off, but it's quite possible this is a side-effect of a change to fix a bug with it (in an earlier build, i got drained for 14k+53k overkill from a single tick of Drain Life, while wearing 1100 resilience gear and prot spec [Paladin]). This was, as said, in an earlier build, but it's not uncommon for numbers to drop "a little" after fixing a bug with said ability.

I imagine the immo buff will have an even bigger effect for destro.

bug only worked/works with 2/3 DE and on targets with less then 25% hp

Im still getting high DLs, 1850 without any debuffs, 3300 with all debuffs on the target. Its still huge damage compared to life so i dont mind really.

The thing im interested in is Searing pain, and how itll be for destro although Imp. SP is rather hmm strange.. ;p Depends tho how often targets will be beneath 50% if like now [never] then meh

---------- Post added 2010-09-29 at 08:26 AM ----------

I think it was done to be sure affliction keeps SB as filler.

Its not DL that needs nerfing, its pitiful dmg of SB that needs buffing. DL scales a lot from affliction talents/mastery etc, SB doesnt as good as DL does.

[adynn]

bug only worked/works with 2/3 DE and on targets with less then 25% hp

Im still getting high DLs, 1850 without any debuffs, 3300 with all debuffs on the target. Its still huge damage compared to life so i dont mind really.

The thing im interested in is Searing pain, and how itll be for destro although Imp. SP is rather hmm strange.. ;p Depends tho how often targets will be beneath 50% if like now [never] then meh

---------- Post added 2010-09-29 at 08:26 AM ----------



Its not DL that needs nerfing, its pitiful dmg of SB that needs buffing. DL scales a lot from affliction talents/mastery etc, SB doesnt as good as DL does.

Personally I like SB not being all that powerful, it means our dots make up a greater percentage of our damage. Let's face it, even with some buffs to SB, affliction is never going to be a burst spec, multidotting is where our real pvp power lies (in terms of damage/pressure).