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My feel it is a very small nerf (adjustment) that has been made to look bad (by a tiny nerf to every ability listed individually in the notes) mainly to shut up the qq'ers complaining that we are OP. I think we came out of the process really well - most of us won't even see the difference.

It actually does count because any druid who wants to pve as balance is pretty much required to pick up a talent that has been shown to add over 1000 more dps for just 3 talent points.

With the change even in pvp it's going to be amazing because you can keep eclipse up pretty much at all times. This paired with the 4 set pvp bonus you have an instant cast starfire that has something like a 60% chance to crit.

Really?

I'm resto, but the feral druid in my guilds second raid team regularly puts out 6k dps on trash pulls.

Admittedly it's trash, but when else are you going to have AoE dps anyway?

2% nerf to my single target self-buffed damage right now would be ~80 dps, not a huge deal and honestly almost unnoticed due to the complexity of our damage cycle. Letting Rip drop for 3-4 seconds could even give a drop like this.

I hit roughly 4k self-buffed on the heroic target dummy. I have reached 7k on XT in 10 man and average between 4.8 and 5.8 on non buffing bosses in Ulduar. I regularly top the dps charts on both bosses and trash. Less QQ and more pewpew.

Trash rotation is easy, get a few combo points, depending on length of pull, more for longer, less for short and then Savage roar. Wait for energy, Swipe, Tiger's Fury, Swipe spam until SR is almost up, refresh if needed, using Tiger's fury if it comes up again when you have >35 energy.


If you know any actual good DK's (admittedly there are only a few), especially tanks, then you'd understand that they got nerfed decently last patch and this one will be about as harsh as the nerf that druid tanks took recently. Although it isn't class ending, it's definitely painful.

Regardless, comparing our nerfs/buffs to another class is pointless since blizz in it's infinite wisdom has continued to balance dps/burst/efficiency/cc/etc... off of pvp, which imo is still retarded.

Most of you are misunderstanding me.

Before the eclipse change it's giving up to and over 1000 dps for 3 talent points

Now with the change its been showing that it will increase dps by 500-600 plus the original 1000.

When I go mew mew on occasion my DPS is competitive to beating other people.

In bear spec, with gear missing enchants. A proper spec and enchants will be insane.

The cat DPS cycle is one of the hardest. Blizz has the predicament of not being able to nerf anything to severely as then the people who aren't skilled will have absolute **** DPS. The rotation rewards a high skill level.

JOHN FCUKING MADDEN

I don't understand why it would matter if they lower burst as long as sustained DPS remains where they want it for PvE.

I'm sorry, but I'm still confused. Are you referring to the Warlock Conflag nerf right after 3.1? I can't really think of another, recent, time where a class was nerfed substantially for PvP and it ended up having severe reprecussions in PvE.

In my amateur opinion, that's less of a "This dps nerf isn't that bad..." post and more of a "Look at my deeps on a fight that buffs my damage by 100% for a good 80% of it!" post.