wow Big Upcoming PvP Hotfixes

[Starym 3,801]

 

We're getting a lot of PvP changes later this week and Blizzard have put them on the beta and shared them today. We're seeing racial ability, Death Knight, Druid, Hunter, Monk, Priest, Rogue and Shaman changes, making these some of the biggest adjustments impacting PvP in a while.

PvP Changes (source)

The following hotfixes have been applied to beta, and will be added to the live game later this week. We continue to work on other adjustments, such as the damage and healing output of other specs including Discipline, Retribution, and Balance. Those changes are going to take a little longer than the following hotfixes, but we wanted to get these in your hands for testing while playing on beta.

We appreciate all the feedback that has been generated from testing out the combination of Azerite Traits, Talents, Enchants, and Gearing options found on Gladiator's Sanctum.

In these hotfixes, we've targeted specs that are currently over-performing in certain PvP situations. Instead of reducing the overall damage that specializations such as Assassination Rogues and Marksmanship Hunters deal in PvP, we've chosen to reduce some of the talents and abilities that can contribute to high damage burst windows.

Changes to specializations in Battle for Azeroth have increased the power of specific PvP Talents. Restoration Druids in particular gained a large increase to Lifebloom in Battle for Azeroth, so we have in turn reduced the overall power of Focused Growth.

Racial Abilities

• Light's Judgment deals 50% less damage when engaged in combat with enemy players. (was a 60% reduction in 7.3.5)
• Light's Reckoning deals 50% less damage when engaged in combat with enemy players. (was a 60% reduction in 7.3.5)

Death Knight

• Unholy Strength increases Strength by 10% when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 15%).

• Frost
  • Pillar of Frost increases Strength by 10% when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 15%).
• Unholy
  • Wandering Plague damage reduced by 50%.
  • Necrotic Strike's Necrotic Wound healing absorption reduced by 33%.
  • Virulent Plague deals 25% less damage when engaged in combat with enemy players.
  • Virulent Explosion deals 25% less damage when engaged in combat with enemy players.

Druid

• Restoration
  • Focused Growth reduces the mana cost of Lifebloom by 40% (was 60%).
  • Focused Growth increases the healing of Lifebloom by 30% (was 50%).

Hunter

• Beast Mastery
  • Dire Beast: Hawk damage reduced by 40%.
• Marksmanship
  • Double Tap's effects are reduced by 50% when engaged in combat with enemy players.
  • Careful Aim increases Aimed Shot damage by 33% when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 50%).
  • Aimed Shot deals an additional 25% damage to targets you have not damaged yet when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 50%).
  • Streamline increases the duration of Rapid Fire by 2 seconds when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 3 seconds).

Monk

• Windwalker
  • Fists of Fury now deals full damage when engaged in combat with enemy players (was a 20% reduction).

Priest

• Shadow
  • Edge of Insanity now properly reduces damage taken when at or above 90 Insanity (60 Insanity while talented into Legacy of the Void).

Rogue

• Prey on the Weak increases damage dealt to the target by 5% when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 10%).
• Death from Above increases Eviscerate/Envenom/Dispatch damage dealt by 10% (was 15%).

• Assassination
  • Fixed a bug that caused Creeping Venom's duration to be refreshed to a longer duration than intended.
  • Creeping Venom's damage has been reduced by 50%.
  • Deadly Poison deals 20% less damage when engaged in combat with enemy players.
  • Vendetta increases damage dealt to the target by 20% when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 30%).
  • Toxic Blade increases Poison damage dealt to the target by 20% when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 30%).
  • Garrote deals 20% less damage when engaged in combat with enemy players.
  • Subterfuge causes Garrote to deal an additional 50% damage when cast from stealth in PvP situations (was 100%).
• Outlaw
  • Plunder Armor reduces the target's max health by 10% (was 15%).
  • Plunder Armor increases the Rogue's max health by 10% (was 15%).
  • Thick as Thieves increases the damage you and your Tricks target deal by 10% (was 15%).
• Subtlety
  • Shuriken Combo increases Eviscerate damage by 3% per stack when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 5%).
  • Night's Vengeance (Azerite Trait) effectiveness reduced by 66% in PvP situations.

Shaman

• Restoration
  • Spirit Link Totem now redirects 35% damage to the team (was 50%).
  • Spirit Link Totem 's mana cost has been increased by 12.5%.
  • Spirit Link Totem reduces the heal generated by Spouting Spirits (Azerite Trait) by 80%.

[Raelyn 17]

Good news! Some DPS classes were incredibly overpowered (I'm looking at you rogues) and it made life hell, especially for most (not you Priests, you deserve a nerf - especially Disc - but somehow evaded one) healers.

Will be nice to have it just a touch more balanced now but I can't understand how priests were left untouched!

[xvyrus 1]

1 hour ago, Raelyn said:

Good news! Some DPS classes were incredibly overpowered (I'm looking at you rogues) and it made life hell, especially for most (not you Priests, you deserve a nerf - especially Disc - but somehow evaded one) healers.

Will be nice to have it just a touch more balanced now but I can't understand how priests were left untouched!

I agree with you. Although rogues are not the only overpowered ones, i've been experiencing PvP against ton of paladins, and their defensive cooldowns are really annoying.

[krapmyself 60]

Good thing i made the change to haste/crit on my sin rogue. these nerfs wont effect me as much now.

[Brutalis 165]

I’m so glad to see MM can no longer oneshot people with a single aimed shot.

[razorfengraul 5]

10 hours ago, krapmyself said:

Good thing i made the change to haste/crit on my sin rogue. these nerfs wont effect me as much now.

It will definitely affect you since stats don't matter in pvp. These changes are to base damage of abilities before stats are taken into account. A much needed change across the board. 

[Azheal 2]

Love the paladin and rouge changes but dont got the unholy dk ones. Frost puts waaay more dmg yet almost no reduction . Ok plague is a nice aoe but in 1v1 situations UH wasnt op in any ways

[Raelyn 17]

9 hours ago, Brutalis said:

I’m so glad to see MM can no longer oneshot people with a single aimed shot.

Amen to that.

[Raelyn 17]

3 hours ago, Azheal said:

Love the paladin and rouge changes but dont got the unholy dk ones. Frost puts waaay more dmg yet almost no reduction . Ok plague is a nice aoe but in 1v1 situations UH wasnt op in any ways

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No Paladin changes are listed above? Did you mean Hunter?

[Azheal 2]

9 hours ago, Raelyn said:

No Paladin changes are listed above? Did you mean Hunter?

Ahh yeah donno why i wrote paladin ^^

[VictorVakaras 83]

On 8/2/2018 at 5:37 PM, razorfengraul said:

It will definitely affect you since stats don't matter in pvp. These changes are to base damage of abilities before stats are taken into account. A much needed change across the board. 

I'm pretty sure they dumped the pvp templates. 

[Slaith 19]

I had a lot of fun as a sin rogue lately... Oh well, it's probably a necessary nerf !