wow Item Tuning and Nerfs Coming in Patch 9.0.2 on Tuesday/Wednesday

[Staff 1,378]

 

Today is nerf day it seems, as the pre-patch is also receiving many item nerfs in this week's reset, in addition to the big class changes. From the Heart of Azeroth to many legacy trinkets and, well, MORE trinkets, there's a whole lot of reduced power happening tomorrow/Wednesday.

Item Tuning (source)

We’ve identified a number of items that were disproportionately powerful for their item level, especially going into Shadowlands, where reaching max level should also come with new, more powerful items to wear. So we’re making the following adjustments with patch 9.0.2:

• Heart of Azeroth’s secondary stats have been reduced by 20%.
• The power of several legacy trinkets has been reduced in all content. The effectiveness of the following trinkets have been reduced by 15%:
  • Dead-Eye Spyglass
  • Harlan's Loaded Dice
  • Lustrous Golden Plumage
  • Peerless Alchemist Stone
  • Tiny Electromental in a Jar
  • Torment in a Jar
  • Vial of Animated Blood
  • Writhing Segment of Drest'agath
• The effectiveness of the following trinkets have been reduced by 25%.
  • Azshara's Font of Power
  • Corrupted Aspirant's Badge
  • Corrupted Aspirant's Insignia
  • Galecaller's Boon
  • Manifesto of Madness
  • Vita-Charged Titanshard
• The effectiveness of the following trinkets have been reduced by 40%.
  • Ashvane's Razor Coral
  • Highborne Compendium of Storms

These changes are also testable in the Shadowlands Beta over the next week, and again, will be effective in the live game with patch 9.0.2 (tomorrow in this region).

[Senou 40]

Booo! Big booo! Focus on balancing future content, not that old *filtered*. Dang it!

[Frogspoison 63]

I can see why they nerfed HoA though - Ppl who've been grinding it, it'll stay good until heroic - What's more, it's still uncapped, so in theory you could continue to do BfA content to continually upgrade HoA and keep it relevant in terms of ilvl. Now, not so much.

 

It's still absolute BiS for Timewalking though combined with a full set of your BiS Azerite pieces.

[Saffsdeman 0]

So your telling me it took till 1 week before the shadowlands release to nerf ashvanes razor coral... was that really necessary at this point?

[Ragingwolf 286]

So basically all the trinkets that I've kept through BFA for both Havoc and Vengeance.  Guess back to crappy quest trinket rewards while leveling in SL.