Sharpening Stone & Sharpened Edges
It could be that they wanted to nerf condi druid (who doesn’t typically have a free utility spot on the bar to take sharpening stone) while keeping condi ranger DPS roughly in the same spot.
Just a thought.
Sharpened Edges should have been been changed for PvE only. Even with 66% bleed-chance it wasn’t that good.
Taking 50% of the the precision-gated sharpened edge bleeds away to justify +4 bleeds on 24sec cd sharpening stone is just an abomination in balancing.
I don’t think the two are related like that.
I’m pretty sure Sharpened Edges was nerfed to tone down condi ranger in raids.
Win10 pro | Xeon 5650 @ 4 GHz | R9 280x toxic | 24 Gig Ram | Process Lasso user
They’ve been watching your videos and decided the crit bleed build was op. It’s the same reason the carry devourer went untouched while the other pets were buffed.
Also known as Puck when my account isn’t suspended
LGN
LGN
Sharpened Edges should have been been changed for PvE only. Even with 66% bleed-chance it wasn’t that good.
This exactly.
They’ve been watching your videos and decided the crit bleed build was op. It’s the same reason the carry devourer went untouched while the other pets were buffed.
probably got sick of all the hacking reports for bearbow rangers doing 30 stacks of bleed and devourers doing 1k poison tics.
I too am very disappointed…
Their focus seems to have been to reduce the overall abilities of the jack of all trades build that is Condi Druid.
They already reduced the base healing by a great amount in the past and now decided to go further by reducing the GOTL damage buff by 5% and lowering the personal DPS by about 1-2k/sec.
Wether this was needed or not is a different story. One could probably argue about that. But I clearly feel like their focus was indeed to nerf druids and especially Condi Druid across the board.
Lousy change that kills viability of an entire build.
Downright insulting that a major trait is no better than minors given for free. Utterly senseless ‘balancing’ as always.