Damage Nerfs Hotfixed in Today

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Posted Thu, Oct 14, 2010 by Cyrak

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We made many changes yesterday. A lot of these were bug fixes, and many bug fixes will affect damage one way or the other. So just because you don't see a specific change referenced below, doesn't mean it didn't change.

With that said, here are the specific changes we made in reference to my previous post:

1) We buffed the base points and coefficients of many warrior dps abilities. We didn't do as much to tanking abilities.

We buffed the base points and coefficients of many Ret abilities.

We buffed the base points and coefficients of many Feral cat abilities.

2) We lowered the base points and coefficients of many mage abilities, but lowered Fire more than the other two.

3) We nerfed Shadow Word: Death, but it is possible we didn't nerf it enough. It should not be Shadow's biggest spell.

4) We returned Searing Pain's damage to its 3.3.5 levels.

5) We increased the benefit of resilience by 50% for players level 80 and below. The tooltips will probably not reflect this change.

We don't have any other changes to announce at this time. I am reluctant to mention additional classes or specs that we are looking at currently for fear of instilling excitement or panic.

The first hotfix to the game since 4.0.1 is now live following the restarts earlier today. It addressed some of the more extreme damage imbalances in part of an ongoing process to make the last two months of Wrath of the Lich King enjoyable for the majority of classes and specs.

Damage has been wild ever since 4.0.1 was released, and I'm sure there are more adjustments to come (*cough* Frost Mages).