- Author: Luxrah
- Date: September 7, 2024
- Updated: September 7, 2024
- Expansion: World of Warcraft
Blizzard has announced their plans for class tuning that will be coming to the game with the weekly reset on September 10th, just in time for the start of Season 1 of The War Within. They plan to do further tuning after the season starts, hoping to have everything balanced out for when Mythic+ dungeons and Mythic raids become available on September 17th.
Blood and Unholy Death Knights are each getting an across-the-board 5% damage increase. Demon Hunters are likewise getting a 3% buff for Vengeance and a 4% buff for Havoc. Devastation Evokers will see a 3% damage increase and Enhancement Shamans will get 2%. There are also some adjustments to the tier set bonuses for each of these classes in Nerub-ar Palace.
With scheduled weekly maintenance on September 10, we’re going to reduce the effectiveness of a few new Class Tier sets that would otherwise overperform relative to our targeted values. We will also increase the baseline damage of the affected specs to account for the tier set tuning.
We will then look forward to additional tuning that we’ll develop during Heroic week, which will address anything needed for PvP, Mythic+, and Mythic raiding on September 17.
The September 10 changes will be:
Death Knight
Unholy
- All ability damage increased by 5%
- Nerub-ar Palace Tier Set: 4-piece – Haste when summoning a minion reduced to 1% (was 2%), up to a maximum of 4% (was 8%).
Blood
- All ability damage increased by 5%
- Nerub-ar Palace Tier Set: 4-piece – Damage is increased by 0.5% per Boneshield Charge (was 1%).
Demon Hunter
Havoc
- All ability damage increased by 4%.
- Nerub-ar Palace Tier Set : 4-piece – Damage of Chaos Strike reduced to 12% (was 20%). Now reduces the Fury cost of Blade Dance by 30% (was 50%).
Vengeance
- All ability damage increased by 3%.
- Nerub-ar Palace Tier Set : 2-piece – Soul Cleave damage reduced to 10% (was 15%). Soul Cleave has a 25% chance to shatter 1 Lesser Soul Fragment (was 35%).
Evoker
Devastation
- All ability damage increased by 3%.
- Nerub-ar Palace Tier Set : 2-piece – Damage of Disintegrate and Pyre increased by 6% (was 10%).
- Nerub-ar Palace Tier Set : 4-piece – Eternity Surge’s cooldown reduced by 3 seconds (was 5 seconds).
Shaman
Enhancement
- All ability damage increased by 2%.
- Nerub-ar Palace Tier Set : 2-piece – Stormstrike, Lava Lash, Ice Strike, and Crash Lightning deal 6% increased damage (was 15%).
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