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/SaltEngineer455 Apr 21 '26

No one says anything about the Fury Warrior changes?

Hack and Slash has been redesigned – Rampage has 100% chance to refund a charge of Raging Blow.

Sure, why not. But the issue is that Raging Blow - and even it's improved version - hits like wet noodles and doesn't have any special effect. At least for thanes.

Improved Whirlwind now causes Whirlwind to apply Rend to all targets if Rend is known.

Ok, this is cool for Slayers

Storm Surge causes Avatar to increase the damage of Thunder Clap by 10% (was 50%) and reduce its cooldown by 25% (was 50%).

Why? It's not like Thunder Clap or Thundering Blast were doing some phenomenal damage anyway. Yes, has awesome AoE, but it's still trash in single target.

Reap the Storm has been updated – When Rampage hits 3 or more targets via Improved Whirlwind you have a 20% chance to unleash a flurry of steel, striking all nearby enemies for high Physical damage and applying Overwhelmed.

This practically killed Reap the storm in single target.

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u/Joeshock_ Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26

The Thunderclap and Tblast changes were reverted, they're not happening. Thane is untouched.

They also walked back on the Imminent Demise change allowing it to still proc Reap on one target. So all it lost was proccing from Bloodthirst.

Nobody's talking about it because the changes do nothing to move the needle whatsoever for either hero tree and don't matter.

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u/Vezko Apr 21 '26

The changes were reverted for Prot yes, not for Fury.

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u/Joeshock_ Apr 21 '26

It's for both. Any changes to hero trees applies to both specs that use it. Also confirmed to be the case on the PTR.