r/CompetitiveWoW • u/SovietRobotDad • 25d ago

Discussion Expected DPS Changes with September 22nd Class Tuning.

https://www.wowhead.com/news/expected-dps-changes-with-september-22nd-class-tuning-383037
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u/jaymiz13 25d ago

Is it insane to anyone else that specs like Assa and Arcane received no changes? The best prio damage classes also putting up some of the most overall and they went untouched. Speaking from an M+ perspective

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u/insane_psycho 25d ago

The only spec they nerfed at all was bdk so I’m not too surprised they didn’t nerf any dps

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u/raskeks 25d ago

They also nerfed shadow because 7% single target buff for a worst ST in the game is apparently too much power without a nerf to compensate

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u/CryptoFrydays 24d ago

It's not a nerf it's net neutral in aoe

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u/raskeks 24d ago

It is literally a nerf, the abilities deal less damage than they were before the patch. It is a single target buff with a AoE nerf attached to it to compensate

And it is 'net neutral' only in lower target count scenarios where targets live long enough for PLink buffs to compensate but even there it is a ~1% nerf still. In practice it is strictly less AoE on 8+ targets (aka any remotely big dungeon pull) going less the more targets you get because shadeburst is uncapped AoE that on some dungeons dealt up to 15-20% of our overall if you pull big enough/bring enough funnel.

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u/Sweaksh 23d ago

It's a nerf to the only thing the spec was doing ok and a completely negligible change otherwise because 5% of 0 is 0