Upcoming Tank Tuning - 10% Overall Damage Reduction, Vengeance DH Magic Damage Bug

posted 16 days ago by Squishei

Tank

Physical Damage Reduction

Magic Damage Reduction

Blood Death Knight

+10%

Vengeance Demon Hunter

+5%

-10%

Guardian Druid

+10%

Brewmaster Monk

+10%

Protection Paladin

+10%

Protection Warrior

+10%

Recently, players observed that Vengeance Demon Hunters seemed to be receiving up to 15% less magic damage than expected. We have investigated and found the bug causing this.When a specialization is overperforming in raid and dungeon content, we prefer to wait to rein them in until the next major patch that brings with it all-new challenges, different gear, and other changes that shake up balance. This is because even if we’re improving overall balance, mid-tier nerfs can cause entire groups to potentially struggle with raid or dungeon content they could previously complete without issue, and this is especially true for the tank role.However, because of the magnitude of the bug, combined with extensive feedback about the current strength of Vengeance relative to other tank classes, we feel that we need to act quickly. We therefore plan to fix this bug during scheduled weekly maintenance next week (March 30 in this region). To reduce the impact to Vengeance tanks and their groups, we plan to make an additional change to offset the bug fix. We also want to address feedback that we’ve heard about overall tank survivability in Shadowlands, especially in Mythic Keystone dungeons.With the fix to the Vengeance Demon Hunter bug, we will increase the Vengeance Demon Hunter passive, Demonic Wards, by 5%. In most situations, Physical damage constitutes most of the damage suffered by tanks, so the result should be a manageable increase in the total damage taken by Vengeance tanks. We will also adjust all other tank specializations’ passives (such as Veteran of the Third War for Blood Death Knights) to add an effect that reduces overall damage taken by 10%. Our aim is to improve tank durability for all tanks.We appreciate the community bringing this issue to our attention, and thank you in advance for your feedback on these changes.

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Comment by dlbert2000There it is dudeComment by AelirinGood changesComment by ShryBeen tanking since TBC and i quit tanking a month ago because the absurdity of the damage tanks take makes it not fun to manage that ontop of everything else and i do not think a 10% bandaid will fix it.Comment by theresinWell .. at least the fix is combined with somewhat of an offset so it isn't quite as painful. This should help calm the non VDH tank nerdrage a little .. but meta still calls for extreme mobility/kiting .. and I don't see VDH falling off too much.Comment by hasheyRemovedComment by KorvacHappy to be more tanky soon!Comment by AgentkillerleeThis is one of those times where, blizzard actually made a great decision. I expected them to fix the bug, and do absolutely nothing else.Comment by TheWhiteInfernoA good change. That is one heck of a bug to miss this long though. Similar to the Let Go Of The Past bug. Where is the QA for Shadowlands?Comment by Mardux11Well .. at least the fix is combined with somewhat of an offset so it isn't quite as painful. This should help calm the non VDH tank nerdrage a little .. but meta still calls for extreme mobility/kiting .. and I don't see VDH falling off too much.Comment by ClaptrappYeah its a good change but the main problem for tanks atm is aggro.

Without misdirection or tricks sometimes you can't do #$%^ when dps do 10-20 times your dps and its worst when you got nothing with the pride buff XD.Comment by abris1995Inb4 the TOMRUS whiningComment by SaruyaA damage TAKEN reduction?

Phew, thought it was a blanket reduction in damage done by tanks!Comment by porkieeeLETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOComment by SilverhustleSo instead of nerfing VDH, all tanks are getting buffed? That's very generous of Blizzard to do that.Comment by ZewinterThis is a bit random and doesn't seem right. Yes buffs are welcome but they doesn't seem that much tuned at all. Did guardian druid and prot war needed more physical damage reduction? Also still waiting for some more blood dks damage buff.Comment by AerisotIn before Prot Pallies take over the world.Comment by ShaggypawHey tanking is a pretty thankless job at times. Making it easier on healers to support them will reduce overall group friction also.

This is more of the right direction to go with the gameComment by Yagerbombs83Can they delete class buffs so that tanks can play whatever class they want?Comment by ArchlaelVeng wasn't even bugged. Itamae was proven wrong in the comments of his post. So not sure what they are fixing here. Likely there was nothing to fix and they are just saying it will be fixed to appease the people who just want to see DH's get nerfs until the end of time. Pretty sure we are just going to get beefier with the 5% increase to DW. Sounds good to me.Comment by thurk33The kiting meta is so annoying. If tanks literally can't tank the trash at the gear level that content drops, then... wtf?

Hopefully 10% DR will carry us out of that horrible strategy.

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