Blizzard continues to fine-tune classes in Mists of Pandaria, aiming to follow a similar patch cycle as the original game.
Continuing Class Tuning
We’ve recently made the following change, which is live on all realms.
Raids
- Heart of Fear
- Garalon
- Arms Warriors’ Sweeping Strikes no longer deal 100% increased damage to Garalon’s body when striking a Leg.
- Developers’ notes: In Original Mists of Pandaria, during the first week of Heart of Fear Heroic difficulty, a Garalon hotfix addressed Sweeping Strikes, Blade Flurry, and similar effects. This was later superseded by changes made to Sweeping Strikes in patch 5.4, when Garalon was no longer the most relevant content. This fix returns Sweeping Strikes to its original behavior for Garalon’s body.
- Garalon
Additionally, this change will go live with scheduled weekly maintenance in each region:
Classes
- Rogue
- Subtlety
- Sanguinary Veins bonus damage reduced to 40% (was 50%).
- Developers’ notes: A bug fix made right before the release of Heart of Fear addressed a situation where multiple rogues in a group were constantly removing this damage increase from each other and not benefitting from it. The bug was pulling down average Subtlety performance, and since the correction, things got a little out of hand. This may display an incorrect value between 40/45/50%, so to be clear, 40% is the intended value.
- Subtlety
We will continue to monitor the performance of all classes in Mists of Pandaria Classic as players’ gear improves with raid progression, and we expect to develop more adjustments as they become necessary.
