Shadowlands DPS RANKINGS in Season 4 Week 3 – Fated Mythic Sepulcher of the First Ones

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https://www.wowhead.com/news/shadowlands-dps-rankings-in-season-3-week-17-fourth-week-of-patch-9-2-5-327509

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In response to player feedback, we have elected to not make changes to Destruction Warlock this week. We expect to adjust Destruction as well as Survival Hunter with the beginning of Season 4.

Previously in our April 20 tuning, we made adjustments to Destruction Warlock and Survival Hunter to reign in their performance in M+. Those changes did not turn out to do enough, and we need to make further adjustments, but we realize this will have a significant impact on players who have committed time and effort into those specs for the conclusion of the M+ season.

Please prepare for reductions to Destruction Warlock and Survival Hunter damage in high target situations at the start of Season 4.

Reactions to the Tank and Destruction Warlock Class Tuning – The Community Asks “Why Now?”

Tank Changes
Blizzard recently announced the following Guardian Druid and Vengeance Demon Hunter buffs:
Developers’ note: Vengeance Demon Hunter and Guardian Druid have fallen behind in damage, particularly in single target. Our intent with these changes is to improve their performance in single-target without unduly impacting AOE environments.
Druid
Guardian
Mangle and auto attack damage increased by 10%.
Demon Hunter
Vengeance
All damage and healing abilities increased by 3%.
Fracture and Shear damage increased by 20%.
Auto attack damage increased by 10%.

Using these graphs, Guardian Druid and Vengeance DH tanks look to be anywhere from 3,000 dps to 4,000 dps behind the upper end of the competition of Protection Paladin, Protection Warrior and Blood DK on single target. From these graphs, it looks to be a really small buff that doesn’t really help Guardian or Vengeance compete with the other tanks on single target.
Why Now?
The question of “Why Now?” for these buffs comes from how long these two Tank specs have been at the bottom of the Single Target damage meter and how much their class hasn’t been touched. Using a compilation of all Class Tuning:
Guardian Druid had its tier set nerfed on April 4th and nothing since then.
Vengeance Demon Hunter has received zero individual tuning over the entire season.
So the question of “Why Now?” comes up from the community. Why did it take 3 months since the last nerf for Guardian Druid and why did it take the entire Season for Vengeance to have these tuning buffs finally coming in, and at this magnitude?

If Blizzard did weekly or bi-weekly tuning passes, the magnitude of these buffs probably seems more reasonable as they can be fixed in the future. However, it’s taken over 2 months to get here, so the question is why aren’t these buffs bigger? On the other hand, why has it taken this long to get Guardian Druid single-target looked at after its tier set was nerfed and why is this the first time that Vengeance DH has gotten any tuning this entire Season?

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