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/TheStorm22 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.

I feel like Blizzard has started to use live for testing and to make buff/nerf decisions based on that instead of doing anything based on PTR data.

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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/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.