wow Dragonflight 10.2 PTR Class Tuning: October 24th

[Staff 1,195]

This week's PTR changes come in the form of class tuning hotfixes, with almost exclusively healing specs affected. So we may see another, bigger change later today or during the week as well. 

10.2 PTR (Source)

Hello everyone. The below changes will be applied to the Guardians of the Dream PTR as hotfixes over the course of this week:

CLASSES

• Demon Hunter
  • Vengeance
    • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible (4) Set Bonus – Souls required to trigger Recrimination increased to 60 (was 20).
    • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible (4) Set Bonus – Duration of Fiery Brand applied by Set Bonus reduced to 3 seconds (was 6 seconds).
• Monk
  • Mistweaver
    • Blackout Kick damage increased by 15%. Does not apply in PvP combat.
    • Tiger Palm damage increased by 50%. Does not apply in PvP combat.
    • Spinning Crane Kick damage increased by 5%.
    • Faeline Stomp healing and damage increased by 150% (was 100%).
    • Ancient Teachings of the Monastery may now stack up to 4 times (was 3).
    • Essence Font now heals 5 targets (was 6).
    • Essence Font healing increased by 40%.
    • Developers’ note: We aren’t looking to heavily push Essence Font rotationally in Guardians of the Dream, but it’s total healing output has fallen further behind than is comfortable and this may help Faeline Stomp’s initial heal feel more impactful.
• Paladin
  • Holy
    • Healing reduced by 8% (was 5%).
    • Holy Prism heal increased by 40%.
    • Blessing of Sacrifice now splits 20% of all damage (was 30%).
• Priest
  • Discipline
    • Developers’ note: We are doing another damage reduction pass on Discipline Priest, as our previous change was not significant enough to bring Discipline closer in line to other healers. This should bring them much closer to other healers while still retaining the ability to deal reasonably high damage as one of their strengths.
    • Sins of the Many increases damage by 20% (was 40%).
    • Atonement heals for 40% of damage done (was 35%).
  • Holy
    • Fixed an issue that caused Holy Word: Sanctify to hit 6 targets instead of 5.
    • Symbol of Hope now reduces the cooldown of major defensives by 30 seconds (was 40 seconds).
    • Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope (4) Set Bonus – Proc chance reduced by 10%.
  • Shadow
    • Shadow Word: Pain damage increased by 17%. Not applied to PvP combat.
    • Shadow Apparition damage increased by 17%. Not applied to PvP combat.
    • Vampiric Touch damage increased by 25%. Not applied to PvP combat.
    • Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope (4) Set Bonus – Now increases the initial damage of your next cast of Shadow Word: Pain by 225% (was 200%).
• Shaman
  • Restoration
    • All healing increased by 3%.
    • Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope (4) Set Bonus – Now increases the healing of Riptide by 25% (was 20%) and has a 6% chance to create a new Riptide (was 5%).

[Prophet001 481]

Closer 10.2 gets the more stoked I'm getting for arms warrior and chasing the legendary.

I tanked a dungeon last night as prot warr and it was a blast. Feel like a block of metal getting hammered but standing firm.

:D

[Cham79 59]

12 hours ago, Prophet001 said:

Closer 10.2 gets the more stoked I'm getting for arms warrior and chasing the legendary.

I tanked a dungeon last night as prot warr and it was a blast. Feel like a block of metal getting hammered but standing firm.

😄

Isn't arms broken in the PTR? A little worrying considering 10.2 is 2 weeks away

[Prophet001 481]

1 hour ago, Cham79 said:

Isn't arms broken in the PTR? A little worrying considering 10.2 is 2 weeks away

I don't know I haven't played it yet. I wouldn't mind it being a little overtuned tho lol.

[Cham79 59]

3 minutes ago, Prophet001 said:

I don't know I haven't played it yet. I wouldn't mind it being a little overtuned tho lol.

Not broken in the fun way unfortunately, I believe it's their tier set impacting their core rotation to make it feel awful