wow Spreadsheet of Target Caps in Shadowlands By Limit

[Stan 4,790]

As you probably know, many AoE abilities will be capped to only attack up to a certain number of enemies in Shadowlands, and so Max, the GM of Limit, created a spreadsheet, where he keeps track of all the capped and uncapped abilities.

We included some of the more important changes in this post, but for more details, we encourage you to check out the spreadsheet.

MELEE DPS

Havoc Demon Hunter

• Eye Beam will have square root scaling (not confirmed).
• Fel Barrage is capped to 5 targets.

Frost Death Knight

• Breath of Sindragosa square root scaling.
• Frostscythe is capped to 5 targets.

Unholy Death Knight

• Bursting Sores is capped to 8 targets.
• Death and Decay's Scourge Strike (AoE Cleave) is capped to 5 targets.
• Epidemic,  Unholy Blight remain uncapped.

Feral Druid

• Swipe and Brutal Slash are capped to 5 targets.
• Primal Wrath and Thrash are uncapped.

Survival Hunter

• Butchery and Carve are capped to 5 targets.

Windwalker Monk

• Fists of Fury (Main Hand) is capped to 5 targets.
• Spinning Crane Kick is capped to 6 targets.
• Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger is capped to 4 targets.
• Whirling Dragon Punch remains uncapped.

Retribution Paladin

• Divine Storm is capped to 5 targets.
• Wake of Ashes and Consecration remain uncapped.

Assassination Rogue

• Fan of Knives is capped to 8 targets.
• Poison Bomb is uncapped.

Outlaw Rogue

• Blade Flurry (Main Hand) is capped to 4 targets, but its activation remains uncapped.

Subtlety Rogue

• Shuriken Storm and Shadow Vault are capped to 8 targets.

Enhancement Shaman

Thanks to wordup for fixing most of this.

• Chain Lightning is capped to 3 targets.
• Crash Lightning has half square rooted, and half uncapped.
• Fire Nova is capped to 6 times the number of Flame Shocks active on the target.
• Hailstorm is capped to 6 targets.

Arms Warrior

• Bladestorm and Ravager are capped to 8 targets.
• Whirlwind (Main Hand) is capped to 4 targets.

Fury Warrior

• Bladestorm is capped to 8 targets.
• Whirlwind (Main Hand) is capped to 4 targets.
• Dragon Roar remains uncapped.

RANGED DPS

Balance Druid

• All dots and Starfall are uncapped.

Beast Mastery Hunter

• Beast Cleave is capped to 5 targets.
• Barrage is capped to 8 targets.
• Stomp is uncapped.

Marksmanship Hunter

• Multi-Shot is capped to 5 targets.
• Explosive Shot is capped to 6 targets.
• Volley remains uncapped.

Mages

• Arcane Explosion is uncapped.

Arcane Mage

• Arcane Barrage is capped to 5 targets.
• Arcane Orb is capped to 8 targets.
• Touch of the Magi is uncapped.

Fire Mage

• Ignite and Living Bomb are capped to 8 targets.
• Dragon's Breath and Flamestrike are uncapped.
• Meteor damage is now split evently between all targets within 8 yards.

Frost Mage

• Frozen Orb is capped to 8 targets.
• Blizzard, Comet Storm, and Cone of Cold are uncapped.

Elemental Shaman

• Chain Lightning is capped to 5 targets (3+2 from Rank 2 Chain Lightning.
• Earthquake remains uncapped.

Affliction Warlock

• Dots are uncapped.

Demonology Warlock

• Felstorm (pet ability) is capped to 8 targets.
• Hand of Gul'dan and Implosion are uncapped.

Destruction Warlock

• All abilities are uncapped.

TANKS

Vengeance Demon Hunter, Blood Death Knight, Brewmaster Monk, and Protection Paladin are mostly uncapped.

(Source)

Below is a video that demonstrates how the AoE cap looks in practice on the Beta.

If you are still not sure why target cap is a bad idea (Beta) from r/wow

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An overview of class abilities that will be nerfed through the AoE cap in Shadowlands.

[Syridian 14]

What a terrible example of "CAPS R BAD GAIZ". Oh no, you can't solo an ancient 40 man raid pull quite as quickly. What a shame.

 

[thurk 52]

11 minutes ago, Syridian said:

What a terrible example of "CAPS R BAD GAIZ". Oh no, you can't solo an ancient 40 man raid pull quite as quickly. What a shame.

 

You've got to be trolling, right?  No one actually thinks that's the impact of target caps?

[KDF 26]

I don't have strong feeling about any of these except for hunter's barrage. To maintain the fun I've come to expect from playing alongside my hunter friends, it should be:

Capped to 8 targets plus any mobs not yet pulled. 

[Migol 414]

So high end mythic+, bring a tank with a good slow aoe, 1 boomkin and 3 frost mages.   Pull entire instance.

[Lawrenz 105]

they should make uncapped abilities like the dazar alor dmg trinkets. have a set amount of dmg, split among all hit enemies, but the dmg increases by x% per additional enemy. So that big aoe is still a thing, and the overall dealt dmg increases, but doesnt get out of hand. (The wording could be clearer than the trinkets which just said "increased damage when hitting more", and to avoid people thinking its a multiplicative scaling, they could say "Ability deals 1000 damage split among all enemies hit. base damage is increased by 400 per enemy hit." so its additive 40%)

It would make balancing a bit better, or not? you could make the x value weaker, if the ability should be good on low amount of mobs, but decrease the dmg and increase the x value if its supposed to be a better aoe scaling ability.

And adittionally i think its weird, to have some capped and some uncapped abilities on a class. Maybe the classes should be either with cap completely or not (but uncapped with scaling like mentioned above.)

Edited August 7, 2020 by Lawrenz

[Teufel 325]

Confused, what's 'square root' cap?

Edited August 7, 2020 by Teufel

[breck 29]

Looks like destro locks are gonna run wild in mythic plus at a minimum.

[mrread55 0]

On 8/7/2020 at 7:43 PM, Teufel said:

Confused, what's 'square root' cap?

I believe dmg is divided by the square root of the number of enemies hit when the ability is cast.

I.e. if there's 2 enemies, the dmg per enemy is 2 divided by sqrt(2) per enemy, if there's 3 damage per enemy is 3 divided by sqrt(3) per enemy, etc 

Dmg scaling looks something like this

[Morigan 0]

Nobody cares about tanks? Because capped targets on tanks equal your death. Go ahead and pull another pack while a tank is capped with 5 targets and let me know how you feel. GDruids aren’t even listed and this spreadsheet is being highlighted as some form of reputable source of data? What a joke. 

[farble1670 0]

On 8/6/2020 at 10:23 AM, thurk said:

You've got to be trolling, right?  No one actually thinks that's the impact of target caps?

Maybe the author of TFA article since they embedded a video showing that.