Upcoming Class Balance Changes - November 10, 2020

[MMO-Champion]

Upcoming Class Balance Changes - November 10, 2020
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
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Classes

• General
  • [With regional restarts] All tank specializations passive threat generation has increased.
  
  
• Druid
  • Feral
    • [With regional restarts] Damage of all abilities increased by 8%.
  • Restoration
    • [With regional restarts] Damage of all abilities reduced by 5%.
  
  
• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery
    • [With regional restarts] The damage of all abilities except Cobra Shot and Barbed Shot have been reduced by 5%.
  • Marksmanship
    • [With regional restarts] Volley (Talent) damage reduced by 30%.
  
  
• Mage
  • General
    • [With regional restarts] Arcane Explosion damage reduced by 8%.
  • Frost
    • [With regional restarts] Splitting Ice’s Ice Lance damage to secondary targets reduced to 65% (was 80%).
      
    • [With regional restarts] Ice Lance damage reduced by 10%.
      
    • [With regional restarts] Freezing Rain’s Blizzard damage increased to 60% (was 50%).
      
    • [With regional restarts] Comet Storm damage increased by 5%.
  
  
• Monk
  • Windwalker
    • [With regional restarts] Damage of all abilities increased by 5%.
  
  
• Paladin
  • General
    • [With regional restarts] Crusader Strike mana cost reduced to 9% base mana (was 14%).
      
    • [With regional restarts] Shield of the Righteous damage reduced by 15%.
  • Holy
    • [With regional restarts] Holy Shock healing increased by 10%.
      
    • [With regional restarts] Word of Glory healing increased by 9%.
      
    • [With regional restarts] Glimmer of Light (Talent) healing reduced by 10%.
  • Protection
    • [With regional restarts] Protection Paladin passive Armor bonus reduced to 10% (was 20%).
      
    • [With regional restarts] Word of Glory healing increased by 9% and healing when casting Word of Glory (Rank 2) on yourself reduced to 250% based on your missing health (was 300%).
  • Retribution
    • [With regional restarts] Damage of all abilities increased by 4%.
      
    • [With regional restarts] Execution Sentence (Talent) no longer has a chance to critically strike and initial damage reduced by 25%.
      
    • [With regional restarts] Final Reckoning (Talent) increased damage taken reduced to 35% (was 50%).
      
    • [With regional restarts] Sanctified Wrath (Talent) damage increased by 50%.
  
  
• Priest
  • Discipline
    • [With regional restarts] Power Word: Shield absorb reduced by 8%.
      
    • [With regional restarts] Shadow Word: Pain damage reduced by 10%.
      
    • [With regional restarts] Purge the Wicked (Talent) damage reduced by 10%.
  
  
• Rogue
  • Subtlety
    • Resolved an issue that allowed Subtlety Rogue’s Eviscerate to deal additional damage to targets that have another Rogue's Find Weakness active.
  
  
• Shaman
  • General
    • [With regional restarts] Chain Heal healing reduced by 7%.
  • Restoration
    • [With regional restarts] The bonus damage for choosing the Restoration Shaman specialization has been lowered to 15% (was 40%). At level 37, this value increases back to 40%.
  
  
• Warrior
  • Arms
    • [With regional restarts] Damage of all abilities increased by 6%.
      
    • [With regional restarts] Cleave (Talent) no longer replaces Sweeping Strikes.
  • Fury
    • [With regional restarts] Damage of all abilities increased by 10%.
      
    • [With regional restarts] Whirlwind additional target damage reduced to 45% (was 50%).
      
    • [With regional restarts] Bladestorm (Talent) damage increased by 8%.
      
    • [With regional restarts] Frenzy (Talent) Haste reduced to 2% (was 3%) and max stacks increased to 4 (was 3).

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[Chops]

Warrior

• Arms
  • [With regional restarts] Damage of all abilities increased by 6%.

 

[Chops]

Don’t worry. WoD accessory nerfs are probably coming tomorrow too

Talasite stack coming in strong.

 

[Leek]

6% for arms DDDDDDDDDD

 

[toskosa]

Good bye 8-9k ES crits

 

[Magrain]

And Warlocks are untouched.
Praise be i won't get hit with a nerf, perfectly proud and fine with my class

 

[Goohd]

These class changes always reflect endgame.

 

[Asylum]

where all the hero class love @?

 

[hom]

Restoration

• [With regional restarts] The bonus damage for choosing the Restoration Shaman specialization has been lowered to 15% (was 40%). At level 37, this value increases back to 40%.

LMAO thank god that hidden damage multiplier has been retarded for far too long.

 

[DeLindsay]

@Warriors101 And here's the start. While this was probably aimed at 50's (soon to be 60's) it none the less will hit low Level Twinking and 10's a fair bit.

 

[Methical]

Time to push 4k executes

 

[Cattywompus]

where all the hero class love @?

I'm not so sure of dk, but I know dh is getting a big rework due to their reliance on borrowed power from endgame.

 

[Gandara]

I'm not so sure of dk, but I know dh is getting a big rework due to their reliance on borrowed power from endgame.

What is your source for that? I don't remember reading anything regarding a big DH rework recently.

 

[Imnotabelf]

So Execution Sentence (Ret Pally) is even more useless? Cool.

 

[ZenwØw]

RIP B F A