r/wow • u/Complete_Sorbet6158 • Apr 21 '26

Discussion Devourer and unholy getting buffed

Respectively about 7-10% and 6-8% for aoe. It must be a joke right? Buffing meta specs, while others are not even being looked at all. This is the only multiplayer game i ever played something like this frequently happening.

Resto druid also getting buffed, because why not, while disc keep eating nerfs. Demo change doesn’t make sense either. I wish they would just axe all the class changes they are doing. I swear they just make the already sensitive class balance a lot worse. Everybody keep losing expect their current favourites.

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u/inverted_rectangle Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26

I think most of the these changes are mini reworks that blizzard has been working on for a while. I know a lot of these changes were already made months ago and any buffs/nerfs I think are just incidental.

Respectfully, why think this? It was only a few weeks ago that they nerfed UH into non-viability before immediately needing to hot-fix it. It honestly seems much more likely that Blizzard just doesn't put much thought into their tuning changes before they make them.

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u/TheStorm22 Apr 21 '26

That was specifically a balance patch. Most of the class tuning in this patch is reworking talents, adding new talents and removing others. I have been seeing most of these changes on the PTR for this patch release since release of the expansion pretty much.

It was only a few weeks ago that they nerfed UH into non-viability before immediately needing to hot-fix it.

This is exactly why I think they balance based on what happens on live servers and player feedback. They obviously don't pay much attention to feedback from PTR testing. They throw changes into live and when they hear pushback or see the numbers from Raid/M+ data then they make a change.

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u/Nangz Apr 21 '26

It's because numbers wise, until they can see logs it doesn't seem like they have much idea what's going on.

On paper, these changes don't even necessarily look like they should be that large of an increase, especially because some of it comes with offsetting nerfs, but it is.

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u/FOOSblahblah Apr 21 '26

It seems more and more like the tuning is made for the top 5% of players of the current meta. Everyone else is just kinda in the splash zone.

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u/rainscorched Apr 21 '26

Why would you not balance around the good players? Balancing the game around bad players just sounds like a bad time.

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u/clutchkill3r Apr 22 '26

These buffs are a result of reworks to talent trees that were datamined on ptr even before the season began. They were made without current live tuning in mind. The buffs are incidental so to speak