New World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth Patch Will Nerf Shadow Priest Damage

Blizzard is rolling out a new World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth Patch that nerfs the impairment output of Shadow Priests.

The new hotfix is going live this week and will reduce the damage of Auspicious Spirits from 100% to 70%. Co-ordinate to Blizzard, for Shadow Priests, multi-target performance was beyond the squad's tuning targets and they want to bring it back into range. On the official Earth of Warcraft forums, various players are lament most as the nerf also has quite the impact to single target damage.

We've included the release notes for this new hotfix downwards beneath:

World of Warcraft: Boxing for Azeroth Patch Apr 23 Release Notes

Classes

DoT specs are ofttimes in the "normal" harm range for single-target fights and tin be significantly in a higher place "normal" for multi-target fights. Please annotation that the goal hither isn't to just counter-tune specs in each bit of new content equally we believe specs that work well in an encounter should go along to practice so.

Regarding this specific Shadow Priest change, their multi-target performance was beyond our tuning targets so we just want to bring them back into range while minimizing the affect to their unmarried-target performance.

Priest

Shadow

Auspicious Spirits damage reduced to 70% (was 100%).

Developers' notes: The damage reduction to this talent is meant to curb the synergy of Insanity and Shadowy Apparition generation when combined with some Azerite traits, while however leaving information technology as a fun and interesting combo.

Player versus Actor

Abyssal Speaker Gauntlets's shield absorption effect is reduced by 66% when engaged in combat with enemy players.

Trident of Deep Oceans's shield absorption upshot is reduced past fifty% when engaged in gainsay with enemy players.

Final twelvemonth, Blizzard already implemented various Shadow Priest changes, including Voidform Buffs alongside defensive ability and utility improvements.

Battle for Azeroth, the 7th WoW expansion, is bachelor globally now.