Wowhead's Not a Tier List - Why It's Still Too Early to Decide the Best Class in Shadowlands

Live Publié 07/11/2020 à 19:18 par Archimtiros

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Fury Warriors were widely thought of as one of the stronger melee specializations during early raid testing. Unbeknownst to most players, Saccager was dealing 30% more damage than intended due to an innocuous bug in which Sanguinaire incorrectly affected both spells. Few players would know that though, as it isn't something that normally shows up in spell diffs. Since fixing the bug, Fury is now considered one of the worst specs, despite no obvious tuning change explaining the drop. If you're not in the know, it's almost completely unexplained.

Unholy Death Knight looked amazing when Pre-patch went live, until a bug fix stopped the azerite trait Magus de la mort from double dipping (benefitting twice from) mastery. On the other hand, the new Faucheur d’âme execute talent didn't scale with mastery as intended, making it much worse. This is also a great example of why Pre-patch performance is in no way indicative of what balance may look like at level 60.

Frost Mages were performing extremely well earlier in the beta due to the Vents givrants legendary effect not properly fading after Orbe gelé was finished dealing damage. They've also recently undergone a lot of tuning, with wide swinging buffs and nerfs over the last few weeks, so players who aren't keep up week to week will very quickly end up working off old information.

Tuning is one thing, but some Covenant abilities have been entirely redesigned, such as the Rogue Venthyr ability Flagellation being replaced by Flagellation.

Écho d’Eonar was widely considered one of the best legendary powers, BiS nearly across the board, which just last week lead to a significant redesign and resulting nerf. That's just one of many major recent tuning changes which will ultimately dictate performance.

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Vengeance Demon Hunters have rather poorly tuned damage and self-sustain, but perform amazingly well on the Beta due to how kite-friendly Mythic+ dungeons are. The synergy between Elysian Decree and Razelikh allows them to pop two decrees within 8 seconds, then jump out of harms way, but a nerf to either of those bonuses will drop them like a rock.

Brewmaster Monk covenants have received considerable tuning over the last several weeks, more than tripling the value of Passions calcinées, and halving-then-reverting the nerf to Dernier baril de Brune d’Orage. As a result, Kyrian went from middle of the pack to the overwhelming #1 single-target pick, while Necrolord went from worst to best in AoE, and Night Fae dropped from best to worst virtually overnight.

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