Too little, too late.
On the heels of me actually trying to use my brain to make some thoughtful damage reductions, Blizzard went ahead and did it anyway:
- Mangle: Ranks 4 and 5 base points reduced by about 11%. Scaling from attack power unchanged.
- Rake: Ranks 6 and 7 base points on initial and periodic damage reduced by about 7%. Scaling from attack power unchanged.
- Rip: Ranks 8 and 9 base points and points per combo point reduced by about 6%. Scaling from attack power unchanged.
- Savage Defense: The animation for gaining this buff will no longer make the bear stand upright
- Shred: Ranks 8 and 9 base points reduced by about 10%. Scaling from attack power unchanged.
- Swipe (Cat): Percent of weapon damage done reduced from 260% to 250%.
Pretty across the board, without any regard for rotation difficulty. Doesn’t this still penalize the “less-skilled” players? More on this later.
Slightly more information from Kalon here.Â
Sigh. The flat out nerfs are disappointing. The math from EJ helps a little, but lowe level druids, druids NOT in BiS, and PvP druids are still getting hurt by this change. One can only hope for a compensatory mechanism or that these changes don’t go live.
Looks good to me. I would rather they didnt simply the rotation - I enjoy it and its not that hard.
Oh a side note: why do people complain that it makes it harder for people at lower levels, or people not in BiS. At lower levels, and at levels that dont require BIS, the game is ridiculously easy anyway. It IS. Everyone knows it. That’s why we all fight to get to high levels, and get BiS etc, because its the only place we get challenged.
I don’t get it.
Since it affects base damage, but not scaling, doesn’t this nerf most hurt the people just beginning to gear cat dps - the ones who haven’t mastered rotations and aren’t putting out the awesome numbers?
I’m really loathe to make any assumptions until we get some actual numbers on the PTR. So far, we’re getting estimates of ~2% overall damage loss.
Sorry if this sounds stupid but what is BiS? Resto main feral tank offspec here. I kitty occasionally.
Hi there! BiS is short for “best-in-slot,” which of course refers to the pieces of gear that are basically Totally Awesome.
3 000 000 dmg on a hc doll with MotW only.
Live 4075 dps
PTR 3525 dps
I really hope I’m doing something wrong
Well, hopefully my computer will be finished downloading the PTR client by the time I get home today. I meant to get on last night but actually passed out very early.
I’ll see if I come up with similar numbers.
3775 today.. and it’s still a bit laggy for EU players. So it’s probably not that big of a nerf in the end.
This is merely to nerf new level 80 druids who were doing too much damage when comapred to other classes with similar levels of gear. Doing slightly less non-scaling damage is not going to change the dps of raiding cats.
It will change the DPS of raiding cats, as I’ve personally noted on the PTR; however, it’s not going to be world-ending. Just enough to be frustrating.