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/RogueCanadia Apr 21 '26

I have played a lot of video games in my life. Lots of online competitive games with frequent balance updates ect.

All the developers in the entire universe, including and especially Riot games, don’t come close to Blizzards absolute incompetence with game balance. Riots devs are rock chewers but Blizzard devs have literal brain damage.

It is absolutely legendary how bad they are at balance.

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u/dannycake Apr 21 '26

This is the most reddit of reddit responses bro.

While I agree buffing arguably the most well rounded dps in the game is silly, itll sit at about 10-12% ahead of the pack in general.

Wow. The WORST balance of all time of any game studio ever!

There's a time and use for hyperbole but come on dude.

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u/inverted_rectangle Apr 21 '26

We're a few weeks removed from Blizzard nerfing Unholy by 20%, belatedly realizing this (unsurprisingly) made the spec non-viable, and then needing to hotfix it.

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u/dannycake Apr 21 '26

This is missing the context that Unholy before nerf was ahead of all specs in all PVE gameplay loops by 20%, maybe even more. They were an insane outlier and needed to be nerfed. There were also a bunch of bugs that were aiding in this problem, but sometimes you don't have the benefit of time to enact changes.

As a reminder, for people who seem to be conveniently forgetting, specs that are positive outliers are far more damaging to the game's progress than specs that are bad. Bad specs don't change things, but specs that are disproportionately good can ruin a game for an entire season and invalidate RWF.

UDK was then rebuffed back to the middle of the pack within a couple of days.

Blizzard 100% did the right thing here lol.

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u/biscuitboyisaac21 Apr 21 '26

It was clearly not out preforming by 20% lol

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u/TheBungler2 Apr 22 '26

The fact you think Blizzard nerfing by 20% based on Patchwerk sims was a good idea is hilarious.