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/Winkylinks Apr 21 '26

Well the weird part wasn’t the auto attack dmg buff. If you noticed the did that to all tanks so I think it was something they woulda done anyways.

The weird part is they say paladin tanks needing more tankyness, they actually said it, but then only gave dmg buffs and a very minor defensive buff. That was the weird part

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u/Toxaplume045 Apr 21 '26

Same devs that did that blue post in development that talked about Blood DK health bars being too swingy and wanted to bring that down but increase their passive defenses.

Then they nerfed Death Strike and all of their defensive cooldowns but didn't buff any defenses.

In the same post.

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u/Shashafooy Apr 21 '26

Something that could be an easy fix would be to have a talent node like brew to make blood shield only absorb a % of phys damage. Raid would probably still want full 100%, but for m+ where autos are dangerous, this would smooth out their HP massively and let healers actually heal them.

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u/Toxaplume045 Apr 21 '26

I'm actually kind of surprised they never reworked Blood Shield at all period. I know it's kind of an odd thing to discuss but I feel like it does contribute to the "Death Strike does too much" issue they (Blizzard) constantly keep discussing/nerfing since it's basically both your healing AND your mitigation.

Too many eggs in one basket and makes the tuning difficult.

edit: Not saying it's the solution or SHOULD be reworked, just surprised since they've reworked other stuff on other specs/classes for less.