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Just before the WoW Patch 10.2 raid with Amirdrassil began, the developers made some adjustments to ensure better balance. Some playstyles have to live with severe nerfs, while others receive noticeable buffs.
WoW Patch 10.2 has been on the live servers for almost a week and the third season of WoW Dragonflight will begin next Wednesday with the ID change. But that doesn’t just mean we’ll have eight new and returning dungeons in the Mythic Plus system. We can finally pay a visit to the new attack. Nine new bosses and lots of items await us in Amirdrassil.
Just before the start of the third season, the developers made some balance adjustments to make the start as smooth as possible. This includes some nerfs and buffs to various classes. Reinforcement callers in particular need to suffer even more nerfs – but they should be able to handle them.
But that shouldn’t be the end. While these are likely the last major adjustments before the raid begins, experience shows that we can still expect a lot of balance adjustments in the first week of a new raid.
Here are Blizzard’s official class adjustments
Death Knight
- Profane
- Death Cloak damage increased by 10%.
- Scourge Strike/Tearing Shadows damage increased by 10%.
- Ghoul damage increased by 8%.
- Virulent Plague damage increased by 20%.
- Apocalypse Ghouls damage increased by 5%.
Demon Hunter
- Revenge
- Amirdrassil Tier Set: The bonus damage granted to Brand of Flame has been reduced by 20%.
- Illuminated Marks now increases parry chance against affected targets by 15% (was 20%).
Druid
- Guardian
- Rend now grants 12 Rage (was 10).
- Cat Form energy regeneration increased by 50% (was 35%).
- balance
- Cat form’s energy regeneration increased by 50% (was 35%).
- Restoration
- Burst damage increased by 140%. Not valid in PvP combat.
- Claw Slash damage increased by 60%.
- Destroyer damage increased by 140%.
- Feral Bite damage increased by 200%. Not valid in PvP combat.
- Cat form’s energy regeneration increased by 50% (was 35%).
Rufer
- Reinforcement
- Developer Notes: The amount of utility Reinforcement Summoners provide in addition to their damage has proven to be very powerful despite recent changes. As a result, we’ve further reduced his damage contribution to the group to bring him in line with other specializations.
- Black Power grants 6.5% of the Caller’s primary stat (was 8%).
- Inseparable Brothers increases the effectiveness of Black Power and Breath of Aeons by 10% (was 20%).
- The versatility granted by Shifting Sands has been reduced by 15%.
Magic
- frost
- Amirdrassil Level Set: 2-Bonus: Increases Glacial Thorns damage by 16% (was 10%).
- Amirdrassil Tier Set: 2-Bonus: Explosion damage is now 15% of Glacial Spike damage (was 20%).
monk
- Brewmaster
- Amirdrassil Tier Set: 2-Bonus: Fire Breath bonus damage increased to 40% (was 20%).
- Amirdrassil Tier Set: 4-Bonus: Bonus damage to targets affected by Fire Breath increased to 15% (was 10%).
- Wind Walker
- Amirdrassil Tier Set: 4-Bonus: The Blackout buff granted by melee skills now occurs 66% more often and increases Blackout Kick damage by 200% (was 150%).
paladin
- retribution
- All skill damage increased by 3%.
priest
- discipline:
- Developer Notes: Diszis’ healing output (especially in raids) is a little higher than we would like, considering the amount of damage and benefit they bring to the party. To balance them out, we are nerfing some talents that provide a lot of power for just one talent point. The goal is to improve the balance of talents while aligning her with other healers.
- Divine Aegis absorption reduced to 5% of healing done (was 10%).
- Inescapable Torment damage reduced by approximately 19%.
- Developer Notes: Diszis’ healing output (especially in raids) is a little higher than we would like, considering the amount of damage and benefit they bring to the party. To balance them out, we are nerfing some talents that provide a lot of power for just one talent point. The goal is to improve the balance of talents while aligning her with other healers.
On its own
- Murder
- Amirdrassil Tier Set: The tip for the 4-piece set bonus should now correctly reflect actual performance.
- Amirdrassil Tier Set: 4-pack bonus single target damage has been increased by 4%.
Sorcerer
- undoing
- Amirdrassil Tier Set: 4-Bonus: Flame Rift damage increased by 50%.
- Unstable Rift damage increased by 5%.
- Shadow Rift damage increased by 5%.
- Chaos Rift damage increased by 30%.
- Demonology
- Amirdrassil Tier Set: 2-Bonus: Doombrand single target damage increased by 50%.
- Amirdrassil Tier Set: 4-Bonus: Dread Demon single target damage increased by 40%.
- Aberrus Tier Set: 2-Pack Bonus now reduces the cooldown of Grimoire: Felguard by 0.5 seconds (was 1 second).
- Developer Notes: We are reducing the strength of the previous Demonology set bonus to bring it in line with other Aberrus set bonuses. We’re also increasing the yield on Amirdrassil’s Destruction and Demonology set bonuses.
Are you excited for Dragonflight Season 3 to begin? Finally new dungeons (albeit old ones), a new raid and the Emerald Dream. The latter has been open for a few days and has already been invaded by crowds of players. But somehow most people are already looking forward to War Within and the features announced with it.
