Upcoming Tuning for July 25 - Frost DK and Ret Paladin Buffs

Posted 2017/07/21 at 7:44 PM by Squishei

Blizzard

We're looking to make the following changes with maintenance in each region next week:

Classes

Death Knight
Frost

Fixed a bug preventing Hungering Rune Weapon from generating a Rune at the correct rate of once every 1.5 seconds.
All damage abilities increased by 5%.

Paladin
Retribution

Blade of Justice damage increased by 10% (unchanged in PvP).
Radiant Onslaught damage increased by 10%.

Items

Rogue
All Specs

Mantle of the Master Assassin duration reduced to 5 seconds (was 6 seconds).

Subtlety

Denial of the Half-Giants cooldown reduction reduced to 0.2 seconds per combo point spent (was 0.3 seconds).

Warrior
Arms

The Great Storm's Eye damage bonus per stack reduced to 2% (was 4%).
Ayala's Stone Heart now procs 40% less often for Arms Warriors.

Comment by 1713827WHAT IS THIS REAL LIFE? Rets are finally getting some buffs? someone please pinch or slap me!Comment by Ray2255Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?Comment by DarksylvanasMy 2 favorite classes/specs are finally getting a buff, yay!Comment by CobraThekIngStep aside RET MAIN coming throughComment by ladilockMy 2 favorite classes/specs are finally getting a buff, yay!Comment by durf24So, why nerf mantle of the master assassin? I get it's a really good legendary but only if you can play near perfectly and utilize it with every vanish CD. Do they think sub rogues are that powerful? Sure, they've got a lot of burst and I do mean A LOT OF BURST but aside from that their damage is pretty average, assassination is able to make better use of MotMA imo but even still that's 100% crit for 6 sec on a 2 min CD meanwhile warriors have 100% crit for 5 seconds on a 50 sec CD for fury and 1 min for arms. I don't know, first they remove agonizing poison forcing me to switch to subtlety and now they're nerfing that not that this is an end of the world nerf.Comment by SilverSapphireWHAT IS THIS REAL LIFE? Rets are finally getting some buffs? someone please pinch or slap me!My 2 favorite classes/specs are finally getting a buff, yay!Comment by LucidterrorIs the 10% buff to Crusader Strike going to make Zeal for ST less viable? I am glad to see some buffs to retribution, but we will still need more to make up for our less than stellar ST damage. I think a good idea for ST would be to make Wake of Ashes do increased damage to your target if it is the only target. Say wake hits 2 targets for 500k each. Now if you use the same wake on a single target it would hit for 750k. This would make it very viable for AoE and ST.Comment by Isfendiyar5% is not enough for Frost DK's.However, a good start! Especially I switched to machine gun build, might do a trick!Comment by Richmond79That nerf to Ayala's Stone Heart for Arms Warriors is rough. Loved those executes, especially linked to the ability that lets 2xexecute=harder hitting mortal strike. Oh well :(Comment by WyldeGRNerfing the most reliable legendary rogues have. I can understand the subtlety part, but why does assassination have to pay for this too...Comment by Kilter1Instead of increasing the damage on Blade of Justice for rep, they needed to increase they actual proc rate of it. Hardly ever procs as it is currently.Comment by WinfreeInstead of increasing the damage on Blade of Justice for rep, they needed to increase they actual proc rate of it. Hardly ever procs as it is currently.Comment by EneathrieliaTime to find a new dps legendary for arms... wait, arms has none other than ring and helmet (And KJ trinket).
Crit heavy ring with 0.7 ppm is a joke. If you get "unlucky" you may see maybe 3 procs during entire encounter, this just renders the legendary useless.
I can imagine Arms will go for big stat-stick legendaries next raid-tier as even helmet will be bad without current tier.Comment by GreySageMore and more rogue nerfs, we REALLY don't need them, we are already on the bottom...Comment by PatrackoI don't understand the Ayala's nerf, there was no issue with it during 7.2.Comment by N0083rP00FGreat for the Pallies but when will they be allowed to moves as fast as everyone else?Comment by SkinpuIs the 10% buff to Crusader Strike going to make Zeal for ST less viable? I am glad to see some buffs to retribution, but we will still need more to make up for our less than stellar ST damage. I think a good idea for ST would be to make Wake of Ashes do increased damage to your target if it is the only target. Say wake hits 2 targets for 500k each. Now if you use the same wake on a single target it would hit for 750k. This would make it very viable for AoE and ST.Comment by SkinpuInstead of increasing the damage on Blade of Justice for rep, they needed to increase they actual proc rate of it. Hardly ever procs as it is currently.Comment by SkinpuGreat for the Pallies but when will they be allowed to moves as fast as everyone else?