PvE
We’re happy with damage overall. We have very few traditional tank and spank fights (even Argaloth likes to parry melee) so it’s hard to get consistent numbers without very large data sets. Still, we see Survival hunters and Unholy DKs on top of a lot of single target fights. Arcane, Marksman, and Beastmaster damage is too low. Retribution, Shadow, and Fire and Frost mage damage might be too low, but we’re still watching them. We aren’t seeing a lot of Subtlety rogues in PvE yet, so that sample size is still small. On fights where there is a lot of area damage, Demonology warlocks, Frost DKs and possibly Survival hunters are all too high. Shadow priest AE, mostly due to a weak Mind Sear, feels too low.
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We’ll make a pass to make stats that aren’t attractive (but are supposed to be) more attractive. For example, we don’t want Assassination rogues to dismiss crit or Feral tanks to dismiss haste. We are considering making some physical attacks such as Lacerate, Steady Shot, and Slam scale with haste.
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As part of the Marks and Beastmaster buffs, we’re buffing Aimed Shot, Kill Shot, Chimera Shot, and Kill Command.
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“GC, is this the final list of changes? Does this mean I can expect no changes for my class? Does this mean you don’t care about me?”
No. This is some stuff we are looking at so that you’ll have some context if you see changes on a future PTR. The final list of class patch notes for the next patch will doubtless be much longer.
Sweet, a boost to Kill Command will be nice to see. I just hope they don't overreact...like that would ever happen
hehehee Drach. It's funny how much a 1/10 of a decimal place can impact output.
Tak, thanks. I agree with everything in there. I also changed back to Marksman/Beastmaster and said 'to hell with it' as far as moving to SV. MM feels much more natural to me, and there are far better hunters in me doing better with it than I can. I just have too much going on, and am glad to hear they are going to be buffing some of my favorite shots.
thank you for the update!
Thanks for the update Tak. I'm an orc SV now and I like the dps I'm doing. But once Kill Command's "fixed" I'll surely go back to BM… I'm pretty sure my Spirit Beasts miss me…