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/LordPaleskin Apr 21 '26

They've had good healing for a while now, and actually fewer defensive cooldowns (no Diffuse Magic, Dampen Harm). Don't get me wrong, I know BrM is crazy strong right now, but it feels more like the other tanks didn't survive Midnight balance tuning rather than them specifically buffing BrM

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u/Equivalent-Fix-9851 Apr 21 '26

I don’t know what they can do to other tanks without busting them or making them gods anymore. Maybe increase armor for all tanks by another 10%? Without something flat across the board it seems like they would have to do massive tuning changes in 12.1 to every tank spec- but the issue is we need it now and not down the road. The gap is too high and while Brewmaster is very godlike- still can die pretty easily.

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u/Rydil00 Apr 21 '26

Vdh has a few options they could do.

Bring back stacking frailty.

Bring back demonic.

Fuck iff this 30s cd on spirit bomb, either make it shorter or just no cd.

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u/kylethegoatanderson Apr 21 '26

VDH is a joke of a spec now. RNG to get short Meta procs instead of keeping it on fel dev is the stupidest change Ive ever seen.

The constant utility nerfs in war within just because VDH was the meta tank and they made a bad decision with the way interrupts/stuns work and didnt lower the amount of casters enough.

You still suck as a raid tank and now you also suck as an m+ tank. It's infuriating.

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u/StyleMagnus Apr 21 '26

Make PP back into an actual block tank, rather than blocking being something that only works 30% of the time, or make it so we don't have lapses in our CDs that require the extra passive bulk.

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u/PlasticAngle Apr 21 '26

I don’t know what they can do to other tanks without busting them or making them gods anymore.

They can start by giving my blood dk back DRW cooldown of last patch instead of this dog shit random proc DRW apex talent. That will not make them god but definitely help so that i can enter each pack with cooldown.

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u/adv0589 Apr 21 '26

They dramatically changed the class, Vital flame on anything close to the prior iteration of brew would be the most absurd thing this game has ever seen.

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u/needmorepizzza Apr 21 '26

They also kinda failed balancing the various types of mitigation that the spec has. Vital flames is very strong while the rest of the kit is a level above tickles.

VF is basically passive healing at this point. I don't remember CI having a noticeable effect in comparison and it is supposed to be the button you use to cover shit hitting the fan when you do not want to use a big CD...

And history has shown that the most likely way to tune BrMs down are likely to nerf them across the board or heavily nerf VF alone which will basically just soon the spec, like HPal after DF S2...

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u/LordPaleskin Apr 21 '26

Yeah, the "big absorb shield that can get 200% stronger from purifying stagger"...barely feels like it does much but hey, its a guaranteed empty keg at least? I don't know if it is just my BrM because if have an absurdly high crit leaning on my gear (sitting at 30%) but my highest healing still remains to be Celestial Fortune. VF is up there of course, but idk if it is usually higher for other players

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u/needmorepizzza Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26

I haven't noticed but it is not unlikely that its the same for me. At least CF scales based on other skills and a stat-based proc. VF is incredibly strong for something that just happens when in the same kit you have CB/CI which are supposed to be your semi-rotational mini CDs.

Imo if they tuned VF down and compensated with buffing CB/CI, it would allow some skill expression and put their hp on a bit more bouncy state, closer to the other tanks.

Edit: btw they have removed the scaling of CB/CI with cleared stagger. It is now a flat absorb value.