Shadowlands Class Changes - Target Capping AoE Abilities

Posted 2020/04/08 at 8:43 PM by Archimtiros

Legion

Blade Dance Strike all5 nearby enemies for Physical damagedamage
Blade Dance and increase your chance to dodge by 100% for 1 sec.sec
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Now a Havoc spell
Cooldown changed from 9 sec cooldown to 15 sec cooldown

Brutal Slash Strikes allup to 5 nearby enemies with a massive slash, inflicting (69% of Attack power) Physical damage.
Awards 1 combo point.

Butchery Attack allup to 5 nearby enemies in a flurry of strikes, inflicting (80%88% of Attack power) Physical damage to each.
Survival (Level 62)32)
Reduces the remaining cooldown on Wildfire Bomb by 1 sec for each target hit, up to 5

Effect #1 Effect #1 School Damage
Value: 0 (AP mod: 0.80.88)

Multi-ShotDivine Storm

Bonestorm A whirl of bone and gore batters up to 8 nearby enemies, dealing (15.2334% of Attack power) Shadow damage every 1 sec, and healing you for 3% of your maximum health every time it deals damage (up to 15%). Lasts 1 sec per 10 Runic Power spent.

Consumption Strikes allup to 8 enemies in front of you with a hungering attack that deals (40% of Attack power)% Physical damage and heals you for 100%150% of that damage.
Cooldown changed from 45 sec cooldown to 30 sec cooldown

Barrage Rapidly fires a spray of shots for 3 sec, dealing an average of Physical damage to allup to 8 enemies in front of you. Usable while moving.
Marksmanship: Now requires Level 30, down from 90
Tier 2 Talent, in place of Volley
Beast Mastery: No change in required level 90

NEW Holy Shock leaves a Glimmer of Light on the target for 30 sec. When you Holy Shock, all targets with Glimmer of Light are damaged for (16% of Spell power) or healed for (20% of Spell power).
You may have Glimmer of Light on up to 8 targets.
Tier 7 Talent, in place of

Shuriken Storm Sprays shurikens at allup to 8 targets within 10 yards, dealing 0.98)]Offhand attack power) * 2 / 3)] -- 2H, DW / Attack power] Physical damage.
Damage increased by 50% while Stealth or Shadow Dance is active.
Awards 1 combo points per target hit
Subtlety
plus an additional 1
Subtlety (Level 40)
Critical strikes with Shuriken Storm apply Find Weakness for 8 sec
Awards 1 combo points per target hit
Subtlety (Level 34)
plus an additional 1

Fulmination Damage from your Lightning Bolt generates 8 Maelstrom, Lava Burst spells generate 10 Maelstrom, and your Chain Lightning generates 4 Maelstrom.Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning, and their overloads, have a 50% chance to generate a stack of Fulmination, up to 8 stacks. Earth Shock
Elemental Blast
and Elemental Blast
will discharge all stacks of Fulmination on the target, causing an extra (10% of Spell power) Nature damage per stack of Fulmination.

Felstorm The Felguard recklessly swings its weapon, striking allup to 8 nearby targets within 8 yards for Physical damage every 1 sec for 5 sec. The Felguard cannot take any other action during Felstorm.

Meteor Call down a molten meteor on your target, dealing (75% of Spell power) damage to allup to 8 enemies within 10 yards of your target.

Bladestorm Become an unstoppable storm of destructive force, striking all targets within 8 yards for up to 8 nearby targets for ) * (50% of Attack power)%)] Physical damage over 6 sec.
You are immune to movement impairing and loss of control effects, but can use defensive abilities and can avoid attacks.

Bladestorm Become an unstoppable storm of destructive force, striking all targets within 8 yards with both weaponsup to 8 nearby targets for Physical damage over 4 sec.
You are immune to movement impairing and loss of control effects, but can use defensive abilities and avoid attacks.
Generates 20 Rage over the duration.

Ravager Throws a whirling weapon at the target location that inflicts 44.226%42.4% of Attack power)] damage to allup to 8 enemies within 8 yards over 7 sec.
Protection
Also increases your Parry chance by 35% for 12 sec
Shield Slam
Also increases your Parry chance by 35% for 12 sec

Throws a whirling weapon at the target location that inflicts 44.226%42.4% of Attack power)] damage to allup to 8 enemies within 8 yards over 7 sec.
Generates 7 Rage each time it deals damage.

Ravager Throws a whirling weapon at the target location that inflicts 44.226%42.4% of Attack power)] damage to allup to 8 enemies within 8 yards over 7 sec.
Generates 7 Rage each time it deals damage.
Effect #1 Effect #1 School Damage
Value: 0 (AP mod: 0.442260.424)

Whirlwind

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Comment by dlbert2000One step forward, 3 steps backward. SMH my head BlizzComment by TheCyramOh wow. Sounds like an odd change... Maybe this is some sort of preventive change to make Thorgast more difficult?Comment by WasselinI think this is a good change. AOE pulling is getting way out of hand and really flattens out the gameplay. I know most will hate this though.Comment by TehLucarioOh wow. Sounds like an odd change... Maybe this is some sort of preventive change to make Thorgast more difficult?Comment by Lastdayer101Hell yes! Nerf them... NERF THEM ALL!Comment by TinyRaptorUh. No.Comment by KrunemAt face value I really dislike this change, and I do hope that unlike with the GCD issue we have with BFA going into Shadowlands, they listen to the feedback on this and either revert it or increase the cap. But I won't be able to judge it in terms of gameplay until we get access to the alpha / beta.

As someone who really enjoys Fury's ability to just devastate large clusters of mobs, this is very disappointing.Comment by Lastdayer101I agree, much of BFA's content was diminished with heavy AoE.Comment by Matrixwolfthis sucks especially for old content farming lolComment by SaardynaSo stupid XD. They nerf aoe abilities and leave 2 out of 3 biggest aoe nuke classes untouched. Try to get into m+ as melee other than UH or Outlaw in 9.0.Comment by FirelordAzulaEwComment by WhopThis is literally going to be the worst change ever in world of warcraft. I cant believe they are doing this. Whats the point? Once again catering to the casual audience.Comment by dlbert2000Fire mages and demon hunters untouched, this has to be a late april fools jokeComment by PeredhilAnd here we go, after the fancy cool stuff brought by art department, have to follow the changes no one asked for. Bringing fun to both current and legacy content by making aoe....a glorified limited cleave.Comment by GarrusN7Yeah...I'm not enjoying this change. Sure FROST got a huge buff including frost dmg on Oblit, but limiting the only AoE frost has besides the %^&*ty BoS (which I'm guessing probably wont be capped), it feels like a let downComment by MelilithiaBetter not be activated in old content. That's all I have to say.Comment by taiyathis is so dumb. big pulls are what make m+ fun. why are you trying to make it slower and more boring?Comment by TehLucarioThis is literally going to be the worst change ever in world of warcraft. I cant believe they are doing this. Whats the point? Once again catering to the casual audience.Comment by FpiceailEasily the worst class change yet. It's very counter-intuitive (imagine casting Bladestorm and having it arbitrarily stop doing damage to some things next to you) and it cuts out the ability to do larger pulls if you're up to it which is an interesting part of M+ strategies. They must reconsider.Comment by nimpouWell that's just a dumb change.

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