The Hotfix is live.

[Jayros 0]

The hotfix to the number of soul shards is live now. What does everyone think about it, and how much will this hotfix really effect us ? Lets help yourselves and Blizzard to fix our issues and focus on bigger and better things.

[Blainie 2,336]

For levelling and WQs, this could be a BIG buff.

For instanced content, I imagine it just changes your opener.

[mindthegap5 0]

Just been playing tonight (EU) and it wasn't going to 3 yet. May be fine by the morning i just assumed they'd release the notes after changing it not before.

[Jogamita 0]

6 hours ago, Jayros said:

The hotfix to the number of soul shards is live now. What does everyone think about it, and how much will this hotfix really effect us ? Lets help yourselves and Blizzard to fix our issues and focus on bigger and better things.

What Hotfix are you talking about?

[spikeysquad 50]

It makes questing as Demo much smoother in my opinion and the first pull in a dungeon/when hitting a target dummy goes better (unless you have to move still...) As for the rest I am rarely out of combat long enough to regain any and I cap on shards going into bosses so there is no change there. The other specs don't really feel different to me but I never dungeon with Affliction. 

There has been a sim in the lock Discord and the Demo guide over at MMO-Champ that puts the buff at 423 DPS gain (on a nearly 300k parse...) However, that is playing perfectly and the number of targets, type of fight/amount of movement or length of fight is not stated so this number could be very skewed. 

Edited September 14, 2016 by spikeysquad

[Vilacom 0]

It honestly feels great on boss fights as destro, being able to basically open with grimiore, lord of flames and a chaos bolt to increase all the damage makes for a CRAZY strong opening to a fight.  Only real issue with it is that you need to wait for a while outside of combat for it to regen up to 3 shards, so sometimes if you're pulling fast you wont have them.

 

 

[Arende 0]

1 hour ago, Vilacom said:

It honestly feels great on boss fights as destro, being able to basically open with grimiore, lord of flames and a chaos bolt to increase all the damage makes for a CRAZY strong opening to a fight.  Only real issue with it is that you need to wait for a while outside of combat for it to regen up to 3 shards, so sometimes if you're pulling fast you wont have them.

 

 

From my experience, when I see tank/group chainpulling trash with ease I suppose they will pull the boss straight ahead. In this scenario I tend to not waste shards on last trash pack and save 5 of them for the boss. Recent fix actually helps with scenarios, when healer needs to top up mana before the pull or when the group is weaker/slacky.

[Vilacom 0]

5 hours ago, Arende said:

From my experience, when I see tank/group chainpulling trash with ease I suppose they will pull the boss straight ahead. In this scenario I tend to not waste shards on last trash pack and save 5 of them for the boss. Recent fix actually helps with scenarios, when healer needs to top up mana before the pull or when the group is weaker/slacky.

Yeah I figured that out too as the instance went on lol

[Blainie 2,336]

On 13.9.2016 at 11:01 PM, mindthegap5 said:

Just been playing tonight (EU) and it wasn't going to 3 yet. May be fine by the morning i just assumed they'd release the notes after changing it not before.

US vs. EU update times is the cause of this.