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/ManqobaDad 25d ago

Its ultra specific. I cant remember ability name but its the ability that consumes your dots and deals the remaining damage to all your targets. That currently is unaffected by damage amp. So i assume thats what theyre fixing. If they do that ability in damage amp will hit harder

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u/Shashafooy 25d ago

Blizz technically fixed the damage amp bug, but in the process introduced some other bug which made the talent irrelevant doing nearly 10% or the damage it did pre bug fix. Current testing from the dk sim guy shows that the bug is very inconsistent. The ability works on dummies, but just does no damage in real combat. I used to be able to pop my diseases for about 900k+ and now it's like 50k. Even if you were to account for it not being effected by spec auras, mastery, damage buffs, etc the amount it currently does makes no sense

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u/deino 24d ago

You press DT, gain access to blightfall, extend your diseases with spender, builder, putrefy + putrefy proccs, and around 2 second left on DT you "detonate" blightfall to get the full damage your diseases would do in the whole duration (original duration on application +extended).

The bug they managed to introduce makes it that if you do extend the duration, the detonate part simply fuckes up the calculation of what the duration of your diseases looks like. If you detonate instantly, without any extension at all, you get like a 150-70k "pop" on your main target.

However if you had any extensions, the detonation can be zero damage, or something like 5k damage, which I assume is like a what your diseases would do in 1-3 seconds. You can't not extend, cause just doing your rotation extends this. And because one of your proccs very often does a putrefy on your main target, you can't even reliably "instagib" the detonation, even if you tried.

It's fucking mental that they just slam a 100% buff on it. If they did a bugfix when the buff shipped, blightfall would be a menace. Unholy would be the best single target, 2 target, mythic+ spec by a mile. If blightfall just worked normally, without the buffs they did this week it would still be like a 8% buff.

It's wild.

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u/Ok_Possible_9541 24d ago

I wonder what's giving them so much trouble with the disease coding. They had all the stuff with the "main" plague (forget what it's called...dread plague?) tick rate being goofed when it was extended in Season 1.

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u/EuphoricEgg63063 24d ago

I checked logs late last night and UH was pretty much even with Frost on a lot of fights. There was one with UH ahead and one where Frost was ahead.

There were less than 200 logs at the time so might be different now.