Blizzard Roundup: Draught of Souls Nerf for Fury & Arms, Overwatch Anniversary Event

Blizzard Posted 2017/05/23 at 6:38 PM by Squishei

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Blizzard

For Arms and Fury Warriors, we’re going to scale down the damage of Draught of Souls in the next build for the 7.2.5 PTR.

Specifically, we’re aiming for a roughly 40% reduction in the effectiveness of Draught of Souls. For those two specs, it’s a trinket that is extremely valuable due to its interaction with Battle Cry. We’ve already tuned other forthcoming on-use trinkets that drop in Tomb of Sargeras for Arms and Fury with the same modifier to compensate for Battle Cry’s effectiveness in boosting trinkets of this kind. Our goal is for new trinkets to have more similar power levels between various specs, while leaving Draught of Souls in a place where it remains competitive for Arms and Fury.

We’re making sure to consider this trinket change as we update Warriors in Patch 7.2.5. With this in mind, Fury damage has been increased by 5% across the board. Arms is currently in the middle of receiving some heavy mechanical changes which will require a deeper look into their overall performance, and we’ll account for this change when we do our final tuning.

We don’t want Draught of Souls to define DPS Warriors for the remainder of the expansion, but we do want Warriors who have one to be able to make good use of it as they progress through Tomb of Sargeras.

Thank you for all of your feedback!

WoW Token DisabledWoW Tokens are once again available for purchase.

Blizzard

Hey all,

I've just learned that we've disabled WoW Tokens for the time being - this is intentional, and not a bug.

I don't have details to share on the 'why' or the 'when will they be back' questions you inevitably have, but I'll update you as I can.

Thanks for your patience!

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Comment by Dragonheartsthey would not be removing wow tokens right? seems a bit odd since they sell so well. I'm only got a few now and then but it's very nice to get gold when you need it maybe don't feel like getting a bit in game.Comment by Alfathey would not be removing wow tokens right? seems a bit odd since they sell so well. I'm only got a few now and then but it's very nice to get gold when you need it maybe don't feel like getting a bit in game.Comment by noelie3107I would think its got to do with the cost they are getting too on the NA ah and also the fact that destiny 2 is coming out later this year and they want people to pay actual money and not in theory get it for freeComment by YewfireProbably to do with Destiny 2 coming to the store.Comment by magiccozmoWhat is it with people thinking 'free'. The simple fact is that even if I get a token with GOLD and use it to BUY stuff from blizz SOMEBODY paid the $$$. I may not have spent $$$ but the person that bought my GOLD did. There is no 'free'. $$$ is still spent. The fact that I am subbed over a year in advance at the moment through tokens bought with gold has not taken a single dollar out of blizz pocket. Actually it ADDS to their bottom line since the cost of token in $ is MORE than a flat month cost. And even more than the bulk subscription.

In NO WAY does blizz loose money on the token market. They are not idiots.Comment by ONCHEhapWIth luck,that'll make them fall below 200K on EUComment by MightylorddkI would think its got to do with the cost they are getting too on the NA ah and also the fact that destiny 2 is coming out later this year and they want people to pay actual money and not in theory get it for freeComment by WinfreeWell they sure been finding good way to piss players off lately. First the AK nerf now this, they think oh let give them Squirky & they will forget all about it.Comment by ChaxtonDraught being nerfed? I'm worried, I just got a heroic titanforged one. 5% increased damage definitely will not be enough to make up for that ridiculous burst that Draught does right now. Now, if Rampage let Fury do Draught damage, and Bladestorm let Arms do Draught damage, I wouldn't complain! That'd be a fair compromise!

Jokes aside, I'm sad. They said they would NOT nerf the trinket, and they're doing it anyway.Comment by DocHouseIf you check wowtoken.info you can see that the price was at the cap rate of increasing (3% per hour) over the past 6 hours at least.
Something's going on - either the demand was too high or something fraudulent might have happened.Comment by darquisIt's not related to Destiny, I don't think, or it'd have happened days ago. It's probably more to do with the price spike.Comment by 1238240This post was from a user who has deleted their account.Comment by jac121Well they sure been finding good way to piss players off lately. First the AK nerf now this, they think oh let give them Squirky & they will forget all about it.Comment by RilgonBlizzard: we're not gonna nerf your nighthold trinkets

Also Blizzard: lmao actually we're incompetent so see ya

At this point I'm starting to realize that Blizzard's word has zero gravity whatsoever.Comment by RayythBlizzard: we're not gonna nerf your nighthold trinkets

Also Blizzard: lmao actually we're incompetent so see ya

At this point I'm starting to realize that Blizzard's word has zero gravity whatsoever.Well they sure been finding good way to piss players off lately. First the AK nerf now this, they think oh let give them Squirky & they will forget all about it.Comment by ChaxtonTokens are back up.
https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20755027222?page=8#post-158Comment by RilgonBlizzard: we're not gonna nerf your nighthold trinkets

Also Blizzard: lmao actually we're incompetent so see ya

At this point I'm starting to realize that Blizzard's word has zero gravity whatsoever.Comment by Purgatorywolfwooooooooooooo squirky!Comment by helladinlol people i think forget it

blizzard earn more money from gold

token wasnt given by blizzard every payer who add his balance 13 euro someone else payed 20 euro an bought token

so lets say destiny (dunno wtf is that game) 65 euro 13x5 token so someonele else payed 100 euro for it. 35 profit extra for blizzard
plus now its look gold token raise so much was 200k at europe last week now 235k
1-1.25m gold yes not so much

yeah they think we will sold anyway those game token its just pure greed

same as they raise service price at europe total bs

blizard old day nice comapnay but lot lot more they act like activision still better then ea
its annoyingComment by Tuckletuts"Hey guys, we promise we're not going to touch Nighthold trinkets at all."
2 weeks later: "So uh, here's a 40% DoS nerf..."

Has Blizzard learned nothing in almost 13 years? Never make promises, especially about things that players already knew would have to happen. The dps gains from certain trinkets in NH (hell, Arcanocrystal is still BiS over most 895+ trinkets for me) was far too large, especially with trinkets such as Draught and Whispers. Draught in particular almost became mandatory for Warriors due to how strong it was.