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July 16th Class Tuning - Arcane Mage Buff, Essence of the Focusing Iris
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Post by
perculia
Blizzard has announced class tuning going live after each region's maintenance, in time for Mythic Eternal Palace. These changes include a buff to Arcane Mages, and nerfs to several items in PvP including the
Oceanic Restoration
enchant as well as Restoration Druid healing in general.
Edit: Blizzard has also nerfed the Major Effect of the Essence of the Focusing Iris.
Keep in mind that this list of changes may not be complete, as Blizzard tends to update these types of posts several times before the hotfixes go live.
We're working on several pieces of targeted class tuning that we intend to make to the game with maintenance in each region:
Classes
Items
Heart of Azeroth
Essence of the Focusing Iris major effect damage reduced by 15%.
Mage
Arcane
Damage for all spells and abilities increased by 6%.
Player versus Player
Oceanic Restoration
's (weapon enchant) mana granted is reduced by 50% in PvP situations.
Developers' notes: At the start of BFA Season 2, we made changes to mana regeneration in PvP to increase the impact mana management has on long engagements. Similarly, Rise of Azshara introduced new methods of mana regeneration in the forms of a weapon enchant and Essences (below) that need to be reduced in the same fashion.
Druid
Restoration
Healing reduced by 10% in PvP situations.
Developers' notes:
Throughout Season 2, Restoration Druid's raw healing throughput paired very well with their crowd control, defensive abilities, and ability to sneak away and regain mana through drinking. This is intended to bring their healing throughput more in line with other healer specializations in PvP.
Items
Trident of Deep Ocean
absorb effect is now reduced by 80% in PvP (was 75%).
Mindthief's Eldritch Clasp
healing and self-damage effect is now reduced by 60% in PvP (was 50%).
Void Stone
effect is reduced in PvP by 45% for healers (was 30%) and 70% for non-healers (was 60%)
Developers' notes: Due to the scaling increase that some trinkets received with the release Rise of Azshara, the PvP-specific reductions put in place for Season 3 did not have the impact we were going for. These are items that we previously noted were intended to be scaled out this season.
Heart of Azeroth
Memory of Lucid Dreams
(Essence) now refunds 50% less mana in PvP situations, now heals for 50% less in PvP situations when it refunds resources, and now provides 50% less Leech when activated in PvP situations.
Vision of Perfection
(Essence) heals for 50% less in PvP situations.
Purification Protocol
(Essence) heals for 50% less in PvP situations.
The Ever-Rising Tide
(Essence) grants 50% less mana in PvP situations.
Developers' notes: These Essences provide additional passive self-healing that we feel should be reduced to the same degree as tier 3
Azerite
traits.
As always, these are not necessarily final numbers until we've completed our testing of the changes, and if we add any more tweaks or adjust the numbers further, I'll update this thread. Ultimately, you'll see these adjustments in
our regularly-updated hotfixes blog post
tomorrow.
Post by
Moon87
But why didn't you buff Blizzard?
Post by
Flawlezz4
Boring
Post by
Jemux
But why didn't you buff WW MONK Blizzard?
Post by
Jamesthewild
I don't get to complain as I play arcane feels bad
Post by
Calcitrant
where the harbingers nerfs at
Post by
Dragron
Nice Class tuning. The game has the perfect balance, all classes are relevant in any content. Sarcasm.
Post by
Agentkillerlee
where the harbingers nerfs at
I mean the M+ laser beam still hits way too hard.
Post by
Bandeeto
But why didn't you buff HUNTER MARKSMAN Blizzard?
Post by
Dereticus
I mean, in terms of the raid so far (granted, we're less than a week in, and it's only heroic so the data is skewed) there's a pretty good spread.
Post by
m2geek
Wooo Arcane buffs - this makes me happy <3
Post by
Neuroxic
So we ever gonna buff demo warlocks or are you just gonna leave them at the bottom for another raid tier because you refused to let them be good for more than a month in BOD?
Post by
Charak
Buff arms warriors, like come on, obviously the last one did nothing
Post by
angeleyed
Druid needs more nerf.
Post by
jediwump
CTL F... Types Paladin.. Sighs with relief. Back to dailies.
Post by
moon688
All i ask is to have 3 stacks of Clearcasting =(
Post by
Dereticus
But it did do something. Arms saw a considerable increase in power, and it's meshing well so far with the essence system through Lucid+ToM+FoB
Post by
WoWDontu
FIRIN' MY LAZERRRR
Post by
Dereticus
So we ever gonna buff demo warlocks or are you just gonna leave them at the bottom for another raid tier because you refused to let them be good for more than a month in BOD?
Demo was dominant, by a total degree, for three months, by a greater degree than Spriest dominated after demo was nerfed. Demo, additionally, was extremely strong in m+, and dominated there as well.
The "one month of being good" was actually several months of near game-wide domination. Demo was, and still is, good post-nerf. Just not god-tier.
Get over it.
Post by
Olieron
Now class balance is perfect and done with this last touch on arcane. Oh and at this point you can delete druids from game. Guardian and feral already dead since bfa beta. Resto keep getting nerf. So only playable spec is balance.
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