[3v3] BoS, BoF, and Windfury Nerfed

[Tyveris]

Is this the end of Pally/Warrior/Shaman lineups? Seems like they might have gone a bit overboard with the nerfbat.

[faction]

The windfury nerf isn't really that big for pvp imo, most windfury procs tend to come off white hits anyway. It's a nerf sure but more of a pve one. The BoS nerf however is horrible, and i'm willing to bet it will kill paladins as solo healers in 2v2 and 3v3. With a shaman though I seriously doubt it, games vs my (admittedly crappy) 3v3 never ever come down to cc based burst even though our paladin is pretty bad and has to be told to use sacrifice. It's either us or them going OOM. (this is with a resto shaman, ele might be different - ive never played that combo though)

[Nn]

The BoS nerf is going to suck for 2v2 due to the fact if you run into a SL Lock and Frost Mage, all they have to do is Spell-steal the BoS, sheep the Paladin nuke the Lock. Then, the Paladin will be forced to Bubble after the bubble wears off switch to the paladin, gg.

[icenine]

The WF nerf is huge, not just for PVE. Currently, the most popular warrior weapon is deep thunder/stormherald, which runs at a 3.8 speed. This means that post nerf, warriors have a chance to proc windfury every 3.8 seconds (less with flurry, but work with me here.) Many warriors, especially with the rage provided by pre-nerf windfury, could afford to spam an instant of some variety every 1.5 seconds, this means that they would get their one windfury chance every 3.8 seconds from white damage, in addition to two extra windfury chances from hamstring/MS. In a perfect world, this cuts down the amount of windfuries that warriors get by 70%.

To put it another way, prenerf warriors were getting over triple the windfuries they're getting now. I realize that warriors won't be spamming an instant every single 1.5 seconds, but they were certainly using one at least every 3.8 seconds in a rage starved environment. Even hedging it still cuts windfuries by 50%, and, thus, rage generation by a significant amount.

So yes, the nerf is gargantuan.

[Realz]

the Windfury nerf is relevant, and the BoSac nerf is relevant.

it's still not enough to really change anything overall, though.

[qi]

the Windfury nerf is relevant, and the BoSac nerf is relevant.

it's still not enough to really change anything overall, though.


You're crazy.

[shyst]

won't matter....cause don't all warriors just roll with a druid now? :roll: