Nerfs/buffs inminentes después del 4.0.1.

Ghostcrawler escribió:We made many changes yesterday. A lot of these were bug fixes, and many bug fixes will affect damage one way or the other. So just because you don't see a specific change referenced below, doesn't mean it didn't change.

With that said, here are the specific changes we made in reference to my previous post:

1) We buffed the base points and coefficients of many warrior dps abilities. We didn't do as much to tanking abilities.

We buffed the base points and coefficients of many Ret abilities.

We buffed the base points and coefficients of many Feral cat abilities.

2) We lowered the base points and coefficients of many Mage abilities, but lowered Fire more than the other two.

3) We nerfed Shadow Word: Death, but it is possible we didn't nerf it enough. It should not be Shadow's biggest spell.

4) We returned Searing Pain's damage to its 3.3.5 levels.

5) We increased the benefit of resilience by 50% for players level 80 and below. The tooltips will probably not reflect this change.

We don't have any other changes to announce at this time. I am reluctant to mention additional classes or specs that we are looking at currently for fear of instilling excitement or panic.

0. Class balance as of Oct 13, 2010 10/13/2010 05:38:58 PM PDT

Ghostcrawler escribió:We made many changes yesterday. A lot of these were bug fixes, and many bug fixes will affect damage one way or the other. So just because you don't see a specific change referenced below, doesn't mean it didn't change.

With that said, here are the specific changes we made in reference to my previous post:

1) We buffed the base points and coefficients of many warrior dps abilities. We didn't do as much to tanking abilities.

We buffed the base points and coefficients of many Ret abilities.

We buffed the base points and coefficients of many Feral cat abilities.

2) We lowered the base points and coefficients of many mage abilities, but lowered Fire more than the other two.

3) We nerfed Shadow Word: Death, but it is possible we didn't nerf it enough. It should not be Shadow's biggest spell.

4) We returned Searing Pain's damage to its 3.3.5 levels.

5) We increased the benefit of resilience by 50% for players level 80 and below. The tooltips will probably not reflect this change.

We don't have any other changes to announce at this time. I am reluctant to mention additional classes or specs that we are looking at currently for fear of instilling excitement or panic.

1. Re: Class balance as of Oct 13, 2010 10/14/2010 11:14:38 AM PDT

Ghostcrawler escribió:Here are some more recent changes:

Shadow Priests – we lowered the damage of Shadow Word: Death, except when the target is at the 20% wounded state, at which point it will do full damage. We also fixed a bug where the energize from Masochism was causing too much threat. (This is just a clarification on the above note -- we have not nerfed it twice.)

Balance Druids – we lowered the base points and coefficients of several Balance spells, especially Insect Swarm.

Affliction Warlocks – we lowered the damage of Drain Soul slightly.

2. Re: Class balance as of Oct 13, 2010 10/14/2010 07:37:25 PM PDT

Blizzard Entertainment escribió:
Druid

Balance
Insect Swarm base damage has been reduced by 50%.

Feral
Maim now deals 155% weapon damage, up from 100%.
Rip base bleed damage has been increased by 50%.
Shred now deals 350% damage, up from 225%. Additional damage increased by 55%.
Swipe now deals 335% weapon damage, up from 215%.
Ravage now causes 850% damage, up from 550%. Additional damage increased by 55%
Claw now causes 155% damage, up from 100%. Additional damage increased by 55%.
Ferocious Bite base additional damage increased by 55%.
Rake bleed damage has been increased by 55%.
Fury Swipes now deals 310% weapon damage, up from 200%.

---

Mage
Arcane
Arcane Specialization now increases damage of Arcane spells by 15%, down from 25%.

Fire
Fire Specialization now increases damage of Fire spells by 10%, down from 25%.

Frost
Frost Specialization now increases damage of all Frost spells by 15%.

---

Paladin
Holy
Holy Wrath base damage has been increased by 30%.
Exorcism now scales from 15% of Spell Power or AP, down from 22,5%. Base damage increased by 30%.

Retribution
Hammer of Wrath base damage has been increased by 300%. (That's from [ 1253.82 to 1385.8 ] to [ 4890.09 to 5404.84 ]
Crusader Strike now deals 150% weapon damage, up from 120%.

---

Priest
Shadow
Shadow Word: Death base damage has been reduced by 75%.

---

Warlock
Affliction
Drain Soul now causes double damage if the target is below 25% health, down from 4 times the normal damage.

Destruction
Searing Pain base damage has been reduced by 60%. Mana cost reduced from 18% of base mana to 12% of base mana.

---

Warrior
Arms
Rend base damage has been increased by 50%.
Bladestorm now deals 150% weapon damage, up from 100%.
Mastery: Strikes of Opportunity now deals 115% normal damage, up from 75%.

Fury
Slam now deals 150% weapon damage, up from 100%.
Whirlwind now deals 75% weapon damage, up from 50%.
Raging Blow now deals 150% weapon damage, up from 100%.
Bloodthirst now scales from 75% of Attack Power, up from 50%.
Bloodsurge now also makes Slam free to cast.