Originally Posted by
Totaltotemic
Have you ever thought that you could use the chi on something besides Chi Wave? It only got a 14% nerf to healing, but you can now do a little bit of fistweaving if you Jabbed for it (not likely in pvp), or you can almost get another Enveloping off, or you can just use Uplift even if it's not a very efficient use of the chi. In no way is that talent tier having its cost removed a nerf for PvP.
I'm just not understanding the logic here, making Paralyze have a 20 yard range (let's ignore that the talent exists, no one would take it over the stuns anyways) and the option to remove all dots and making it undispellable is a nerf just because the best possible case (which wasn't even guaranteed to happen) got a 25% nerf to the duration? It's a ranged Gouge that a healer has and hardly costs anything, how is that better than a melee CC that can't remove dots (especially since Xuen has a nasty habit of dotting people) and can instantly be dispelled anyways? The sum of the Paralyze changes is a straight buff, the only downside at all is a 2 second duration nerf, but it's not like you'll be getting behind people to use it from 20 yards away anyways.
The only nerfs that affect MW PvP at all are the silence duration nerf, Paralyze duration nerf, and depending on how you look at it, maybe the healing reduction on the T30 talents. There's a whole list of buffs that aren't just "quality of life" things. Making things undispellable is a straight buff. Increasing damage is a straight buff. Removing the mana cost of a 27k mana spell is a straight buff. Adding a talent that would be useful in certain situations is a buff, because even if it is worse, you'd still be using Leg Sweep all the time anyways. On that note, making Charging Ox Wave a 30 second CD makes it compete with Leg Sweep now, being ranged and 15 seconds shorter in exchange for being 40% shorter. Healing Elixirs, Chi Torpedo's damage, Dampen Harm, mastery balls exploding for heals, all are buffs.
Hell, I would take the Paralyze duration nerf, the silence nerf, and the T30 changes just for Life Cocoon and Paralyze being actually usable against dispels. What exactly are all of these huge nerfs that everyone keeps talking about, because unless you use Chi Burst or Jab a ton in PvP, there aren't hardly any.