A'ight, I'm just crazy. Walked up to the mob I've been working and saw these numbers in a row.
Shield Slam -> 1.1K
Revenge -> 1K
C. Blow -> 1K
I think I've just got a biased memory.
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The above is regarding my thoughts that Prot Damage might have been nerfed somehow. Did some testing, found out I was wrong, deleted the posts. False alarm.
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So, moving past my "Onyxia Deep Breathes Moar" moment, I only PvPd briefly before instanced content got borked. But things felt a lil' more even overall, I less godly survival wise but still pretty strong. I couldn't fearlessly wade my way through half a dozen Alliance anymore, but other than that I stood my ground quite well.
My Holy Paladin friend is working for his heals though, through one heavy battle he went OOM towards the end. Was 4 v 6 I think, their favor and we all seemed twinked. He also mentioned that Exorcism was pretty sick, maybe I won't get to treat Ret Paladins as fodder anymore...
My other friend, a Frost Mage, swears his damage got upped and was quite gleeful.
Overall I'm worried about if Pallies will be OP, but otherwise satisfied. Still needs more testing though.
Edit: Did another round with some nice crits, ranged from 1.1K to 1.3K. Considering my 1.7Ks were with massive debuffs on the target and massive buffs on myself, I'm gonna have to put the nail in my stealth nerf paranoia.