Hunter's Raptor Fury Buffed, Paladin's Divine Light Nerfed - Season of Discovery Hotfix

Classic Posted 3 days ago by PopularTopular

Raptor FuryDivine LightFocused Attacks

Class Tools

Balance

Talents

Feral Combat

Talents

Restoration

Talents

Transforms the Druid into Moonkin Form. While in this form the armor contribution from items is increased by 360%

S03 - Tuning and Overrides Passive - Druid
Moonfire costs 50% less mana and deals 50%100% more damage over time, your periodic damage spells can deal critical periodic damage, you gain (60 * 2) spell damage

and all party members within 30 yards have their spell critical chance increased by 3%.

S03 - Tuning and Overrides Passive - Druid
The Moonkin cannot cast healing spells while shapeshifted

The Moonkin can only cast Balance spells while shapeshiftedshapeshifted.Reduces all threat from Arcane and Nature spells by 0% while in this form

The act of shapeshifting frees the caster of Polymorph and Movement Impairing effects.
Effect #1 NEW Effect #4 Apply Aura: Mod Threat
Value: 0

Effect #3 NEW Effect #13 Apply Aura: Add Modifier - Flat Modifies Effect #4's Value
Value: -30
Affected Spells:

NEW Effect #14 Apply Aura: Dummy Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 20
Affected Spells:

NEW Effect #15 Apply Aura: Dummy Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 20
Affected Spells:

Class Tools

Beast Mastery

Talents

Marksmanship

Talents

Survival

Talents

Engrave your bracers with the Raptor Fury rune:

Raptor Strike increases damage done by Raptor Strike and Mongoose Bite by 10% for 1515% for 30 sec, stacking up to 5 times. Subsequent doses do not extend the duration of this effect.

Engrave your bracers with the T.N.T. rune:

Increases the damage done by Explosive Shot and all your damaging traps by 10%. Additionally, the initial damage of Explosive Trap and the total periodic damage of your Immolation Trap are increased by 50%25% of your melee Attack Power.

Effect #2 NEW Effect #6 Apply Aura: Dummy Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: -1200

NEW Effect #7 Apply Aura: Add Modifier - % Modifies Buff Duration
Value: -50%
Affected Spells:

Class Tools

Holy

Talents

Protection

Talents

Retribution

Talents

Gives you a 3% bonus to Physical and Holy damage you deal for 8 sec after dealing a critical strike from a weapon swing, spell, or ability.

S03 - Tuning and Overrides Passive - Paladin
Also Reduces all Physical and Holy threat you generate by 6% while Righteous Fury is not active

Effect #1 NEW Effect #2 Apply Aura: Mod Threat Modifies Effect #1's Value
Value: -6

NEW Effect #2 Apply Aura: Mod Threat Modifies Effect #1's Value
Value: -12

NEW Effect #2 Apply Aura: Mod Threat Modifies Effect #1's Value
Value: -18

NEW Effect #2 Apply Aura: Mod Threat Modifies Effect #1's Value
Value: -24

NEW Effect #2 Apply Aura: Mod Threat Modifies Effect #1's Value
Value: -30

Effect #2 REMOVED Effect #1 Apply Aura: Dummy Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 4000

NEW Effect #1 Apply Aura: Add Modifier - % Modifies Effect #2's Value
Value: 100%
Affected Spells:

Increases the threat generated by your Holy attacks by 60%. Lasts 30 min.
Effect #1 NEW Effect #2 Apply Aura: Add Modifier - % Modifies Effect #2's Value
Value: -100% (SP mod: 1)
Affected Spells:

NEW Effect #8 Apply Aura: Add Modifier - % Modifies Effect #2's Value
Value: -100% (SP mod: 1)
Affected Spells:

Class Tools

Assassination

Talents

Combat

Talents

Subtlety

Talents

Increases the armor reduced by your Expose Armor ability by 25%.
Duration changed from -1 ms to 0 ms
ProcChance changed from 101 to 0

Increases the armor reduced by your Expose Armor ability by 50%.
Duration changed from -1 ms to 0 ms
ProcChance changed from 101 to 0

Engrave your helm with the Focused Attacks rune:

You gain 32 Energy every time you deal a melee or ranged critical strike.

Finishing move that deals instant poison damage based on Deadly Poison doses on the target. Following the Envenom attack you have a 75% increased frequency of applying Instant Poison for 1 sec plus an additional 1 sec per combo point. One dose is activated per combo point:
1 dose: \ damage
2 doses: \ damage
3 doses: \ damage
4 doses: \ damage
5 doses: \ damage
Effect #1 Effect #1 School Damage
Value: 80

Class Tools

Elemental

Talents

Enhancement

Talents

Restoration

Talents

Reduces all damage you take by 20% and you regenerate mana equal to 5% of your maximum mana every second for 15 sec. Your party and raid members within 40 yards will also receive 10%18% of the mana you receive this way.
Effect #1 Effect #5 Apply Aura: Dummy Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 1018

Mind Blast critical strikes reduce the duration of your next Mind Flay by 50% while increasing its total damage by 100%50%.
Item Set: Twilight Prophecy: 6 pieces

Hurls a fiery ball that causes 83 to 101 Fire damage and an additional 16 damage over 8 sec.
Cost changed from 45 Mana to None
Used by Items Sulfuron Hammer Sulfuron Hammer

Effect #1 Effect #3 Apply Aura: Add Modifier - % Modifies Periodic Damage/Healing Done
Value: 50100%
Affected Spells:

The hunter invokes the heart of a lion, increasing total stats by 10% for all nearby allies, and increasing total stats for the Hunter by an additional 10%.

Raptor Strike increases damage done by Raptor Strike and Mongoose Bite by 10% for 1515% for 30 sec, stacking up to 5 times. Subsequent doses do not extend the duration of this effect.

Effect #1 Effect #1 Apply Aura: Add Modifier - % Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 1015%
Affected Spells:

Effect #3 Apply Aura: Dummy Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 5025 (SP mod: 1)

Gain the Raptor Fury ability:

Raptor Strike increases damage done by Raptor Strike and Mongoose Bite by 10% for 1515% for 30 sec, stacking up to 5 times. Subsequent doses do not extend the duration of this effect.

Heals a friendly target for \ to \. 50% of any excess healing on the target is converted into an absorption shield that lasts 15 sec. Multiple casts of Divine Light do not accumulate this shield.

Divine Light benefits from all talents and effects that trigger from or modify Holy Light.
8 sec cooldown

NEW Effect #1 Apply Aura: Add Modifier - %
Value: -100%
Affected Spells:

Gain the Focused Attacks ability:

You gain 32 Energy every time you deal a melee or ranged critical strike.

Effect #1 Effect #1 Apply Aura: Periodically give power Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 1018

Comment by SinRI Guess no more spamming 4k Shields on my Main Tank.

Oh well.Comment by ExtremelyCrustyRemove Seal TwistingComment by DarkLinkUmbreonRemove moonkinComment by AdamRCWhat , you couldn't add a CD to the Divine light shield, you had to put the heal on CD too?Comment by DeathisiHonestly this is a massive nerf to Hpala, and a real disappointment considering we stuck through bottom of the pack healing for so long.
Guess it's time to finally main my Priest, and it has some interesting buttons to click! This was most likely the plan all along from the dev team, why fix Hpala when you can just make nobody want to play it.Comment by KeferNo surprise, devs are cluelessComment by PlusTechShaman is legitimately the "hero class" of SoD lmaoComment by FaesteriaLike ik mindflay was super good for shadow priest but idk y the nerf. It brought shadow priest in a good spot. Not first and not lastComment by TheInnsanityHunter TNT initially did 50% of melee AP at the start of phase 4

last week it was changed to 25% of thr higher of ranged or melee AP

if it is now changed to only melee AP at 25%, this is a mild nerf to melee hunter and a massive nerf to ranged hunter.

*EDIT*
apprently TNT had no changes this week according to official notesComment by Keferi just wanna know why can't hunters be on top? ever? whenever hunters are on top of the dps we get a nerf, I didn't see shamans get nerfed last phase, neither warriors. now rogues are gonna be top dps, are they gonna get nerfed too? DONT YOU REALISE SOMEBODY GOTTA BE ON TOP? WHY NOT HUNTERS? WHY NOT THE ONLY DPS ONLY CLASS?Comment by HyehowareyouIt's legit insane that it took this long to buff raptors fury, when I, and many other hunters have been screaming into the void how bad it was. and it took almost 2 months for them to fix it. Absolutely insane. Now let's see if they do anything to "Hit and Run" the back rune that literally no hunter is using, probably not because these devs are clueless even when someone else does their job for them. Dual Wield Specialist should make mongoose bite strike with both weapons as well, and make flanking strike better because it basically requires you to have broken tooth to function unless you have godlike luck. Melee specialist after it was nerfed into the ground is basically useless, and just pushes slot machine like mechanics onto a spec that is so rng heavy it's not fun to play. Should actually give melee hunters a head rune because they have to use Rapid Killing for the ablility to use Rapid Fire for melee, it should let you shoot in range or something to be useful beyond a single cd. Make Beast Mastery great again, idk.Comment by TheInnsanityI desperately hope they revert some of the tnt nerfs in favor of making the explosive trap damage effect the DoT instead of the initial damage.

Everyone knows they're targetting it because of PvP complaints, but they're just making it useless instead of addressing the problem of AoE pvp burst.

If they want to add ranged hunter diversity, buff focus fire, make one of the other chest runes playable, and give us an alternative to trap launcher for pve.

*EDIT*
apprently TNT had no changes this week according to official notesComment by b4ughThere are no buffs to any tank threat (or nerfs to Paladin's threat, which is just miles and miles ahead of everyone else). Why is it okay for Paladin tanks to do double the amount of threat of any other tank? There are no changes to tank damage despite Rogue and Warlock tanks doing miles more DPS than any other tank out there while having roughly the same survivability. Whats the point of playing any other tank?

There are no changes to Druids' Wildstrikes aura, forcing bear tanks to run the Wildstrikes rune for the melee group instead of using, you know, the actual bear tanking rune SoTF - this easily could be raid-wide aura like they made the hunter aura into the last phase letting bears actually run their tank rune, and the kitties run their rune. Instead, they are forced to take Wildstrikes and completely deny them of their one legit good rune, which actually gives them an advantage by taking significantly less damage than any other tank.

Nerfing rogues when they already were not the #1 DPS in raids. Absolutely gutting Paladin healers and turning them into a flash-of-light spam machine yet again, instead of you know just nerfing it a bit, but no, let's gut the entire thing completely instead of even trying to rework it differently. Buffs to melee hunters two months too late after no one is playing them anymore.

This is really what they come up with after two full months of nothing and a phase 3 that lasted so long that most of the SoD population has left and is not returning, with recruitment pools drying up. All this on top of a bulls@#$ molten core mechanic that one-shots you if you don't have over a certain level of fire resist, meaning all that work you put into getting gear and ready for the raid is absolutely worthless. Also, good luck gearing your alts for raids or finding what limited people are in the recruitment pool that might be tempted to try out SoD again, only to realize there is a hard FR requirement.

This dev team, including Aggrend, is so out of touch and just living on another planet. They refuse to listen to literally any of the hundreds of ideas the community has given them, INCLUDING the ones THEY ASKED THE COMMUNITY FOR INPUT ON and then just completely ignored and nothing came out of that entire Twitter thread Aggrend had made.

This "balance patch" is too late, too little, doesn't fix basic core balance issues and class rune/mechanic issues, and with everything else this has just put the most sour taste in my mouth for this content. I'm officially done with SoD, gg.Comment by juan321077Meanwhile warriors = -Skeleton at the bottom of the sea-Comment by Hexiani just wanna know why can't hunters be on top? ever? whenever hunters are on top of the dps we get a nerf, I didn't see shamans get nerfed last phase, neither warriors. now rogues are gonna be top dps, are they gonna get nerfed too? DONT YOU REALISE SOMEBODY GOTTA BE ON TOP? WHY NOT HUNTERS? WHY NOT THE ONLY DPS ONLY CLASS?Comment by KeevoMeanwhile warriors = -Skeleton at the bottom of the sea-Comment by Keferi just wanna know why can't hunters be on top? ever? whenever hunters are on top of the dps we get a nerf, I didn't see shamans get nerfed last phase, neither warriors. now rogues are gonna be top dps, are they gonna get nerfed too? DONT YOU REALISE SOMEBODY GOTTA BE ON TOP? WHY NOT HUNTERS? WHY NOT THE ONLY DPS ONLY CLASS?Comment by BIGMAN22Shaman is legitimately the "hero class" of SoD lmaoComment by BIGMAN22i just wanna know why can't hunters be on top? ever? whenever hunters are on top of the dps we get a nerf, I didn't see shamans get nerfed last phase, neither warriors. now rogues are gonna be top dps, are they gonna get nerfed too? DONT YOU REALISE SOMEBODY GOTTA BE ON TOP? WHY NOT HUNTERS? WHY NOT THE ONLY DPS ONLY CLASS?Comment by BIGMAN22There are no buffs to any tank threat (or nerfs to Paladin's threat, which is just miles and miles ahead of everyone else). Why is it okay for Paladin tanks to do double the amount of threat of any other tank? There are no changes to tank damage despite Rogue and Warlock tanks doing miles more DPS than any other tank out there while having roughly the same survivability. Whats the point of playing any other tank?

There are no changes to Druids' Wildstrikes aura, forcing bear tanks to run the Wildstrikes rune for the melee group instead of using, you know, the actual bear tanking rune SoTF - this easily could be raid-wide aura like they made the hunter aura into the last phase letting bears actually run their tank rune, and the kitties run their rune. Instead, they are forced to take Wildstrikes and completely deny them of their one legit good rune, which actually gives them an advantage by taking significantly less damage than any other tank.

Nerfing rogues when they already were not the #1 DPS in raids. Absolutely gutting Paladin healers and turning them into a flash-of-light spam machine yet again, instead of you know just nerfing it a bit, but no, let's gut the entire thing completely instead of even trying to rework it differently. Buffs to melee hunters two months too late after no one is playing them anymore.

This is really what they come up with after two full months of nothing and a phase 3 that lasted so long that most of the SoD population has left and is not returning, with recruitment pools drying up. All this on top of a bulls@#$ molten core mechanic that one-shots you if you don't have over a certain level of fire resist, meaning all that work you put into getting gear and ready for the raid is absolutely worthless. Also, good luck gearing your alts for raids or finding what limited people are in the recruitment pool that might be tempted to try out SoD again, only to realize there is a hard FR requirement.

This dev team, including Aggrend, is so out of touch and just living on another planet. They refuse to listen to literally any of the hundreds of ideas the community has given them, INCLUDING the ones THEY ASKED THE COMMUNITY FOR INPUT ON and then just completely ignored and nothing came out of that entire Twitter thread Aggrend had made.

This "balance patch" is too late, too little, doesn't fix basic core balance issues and class rune/mechanic issues, and with everything else this has just put the most sour taste in my mouth for this content. I'm officially done with SoD, gg.