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Subject: What the...Earthquake damage?
I was doing 1100-2200 damage per pulse prior to patch. Now Im hitting for 400-800. Was this changed or am I just crazy?

 

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Subject: What the...Earthquake damage?
someone else freaked out about tonight and our hunter also said he feels his multi shot damage is lower as well

 

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Tuskers are also hitting harder.

 

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Stealth nerfs!

 

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Nerf stealths!

 

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Auenwing posted:
Nerf stealths!


My priest supports this. My rogue does not.

 

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Subject: What the...Earthquake damage?
It doesn't take your spellpower into account anymore or something

 

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Subject: What the...Earthquake damage?
blizzards solution to making the game more challenging...nerf aoe.

 

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Subject: What the...Earthquake damage?
The thing is if they wanted to nerf AOE, then why give Shaman's earthquake in the first place. Give us a cool new AOE spell, and then nerf the damage right out of the gate.

If you don't want us to AOE anymore, give me something worth while using. I was very amazed that in an expansion where Blizzard wants to get back to the good old days of using CC and slowing down the instance runs to be more deliberate, they make the elememental 31 point talent to be an AOE.

Why not give us a nice powerful single target spell that will be worth using in Cat. If we truely have to CC and stuff, then sudddenly our 31 point talent doesnt even make it on my bar cause nobody is going to want us to use it.

 

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Subject: What the...Earthquake damage?
need to toss it anyway just for being the most annoying graphic in the game.

 

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Subject: What the...Earthquake damage?
Wonder if they fixed the way its damage works, might be why it was nerfed. It's supposed to be physical damage, but I was getting mobs that were Immmune to it (Pretty much any Elemental seemed to be)

 

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Subject: What the...Earthquake damage?
Simple.

Devs can't balance a spreadsheet much less ingame damage, so just nerfs across the board.

 

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It's basically not taking your spell power co-efficient.

 

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siujoey posted:
Tuskers are also hitting harder.


They are! I got one shot earlier and everyone I know says the same thing! I have unassailable proof!

 

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I wouldn't doubt a nerf. Everyone was crying that we were one button raping the meters on trash lawl.

 

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I would guess that it's intentional. The same thing happened to a lot of the other aoe spells with 4.0. Mind sear has been doing damage in the same range (5-800 ish) since 4.0 and has for all intents and purposes been nerfed into uselessness.

It definitely does make you wonder why they thought earthquake was worthy of being at the top of the tree instead of a trained talent though. I sure as hell wouldn't spend a point on mind sear in its current state, especially as a 31 point talent. Maybe when people don't spec into earthquake they'll take another pass at the numbers or give you guys a better top tier talent.

 

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Subject: What the...Earthquake damage?
You have to get Earthquake to go into other trees.

edit: Or not, just have to put 31 points in... Sweet, skipping that talent for now.

 

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_Kewk_ posted:
I wouldn't doubt a nerf. Everyone was crying that we were one button raping the meters on trash lawl.


Perhaps..but you'd think if that were the case they would've taken care of the even bigger offenders... Demo Locks and Frost DKs are still pretty sick on their AOE.

BTW, it's terrible what they've done to mind sear. I hope they tweak it some. It's garbage for now.

 

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Subject: What the...Earthquake damage?
maybe they reduced the coefficient on purpose to balance out the fact that it has the knockdown effect? or maybe they just figure that between magma totem, fire nova and earthquake shaman had too much aoe if played right.

granted i still find magma totem and flame nova a hassle since elemental is a ranged spec. we need to be able to throw totems.

 

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GrimTempest posted:
maybe they reduced the coefficient on purpose to balance out the fact that it has the knockdown effect? or maybe they just figure that between magma totem, fire nova and earthquake shaman had too much aoe if played right.

granted i still find magma totem and flame nova a hassle since elemental is a ranged spec. we need to be able to throw totems.


Yeah, I rarely used magma totem and flame nova and still topped the ae meters.

 

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Subject: What the...Earthquake damage?
Yeah, its bugged. Currently not scaling with SP.


http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=15309073952&sid=1

 

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Talehon69 posted:
Wonder if they fixed the way its damage works, might be why it was nerfed. It's supposed to be physical damage, but I was getting mobs that were Immmune to it (Pretty much any Elemental seemed to be)


Perhaps that is why my level 80 MM Hunter with a 5.7 gearscore was only pulling 2.5k dps on the elementals in Stormwind last night.

 

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We shall see what happens. I am not holding my breath.

We should all be thrilled at the chance to be in the pre-cataclysm Live Beta test that has been patch 4.0.

 

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Pretty much knew earthquake would get hit with the bat. It's all the server talked about after the patch.

 

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Sociop posted:
Talehon69 posted:
Wonder if they fixed the way its damage works, might be why it was nerfed. It's supposed to be physical damage, but I was getting mobs that were Immmune to it (Pretty much any Elemental seemed to be)


Perhaps that is why my level 80 MM Hunter with a 5.7 gearscore was only pulling 2.5k dps on the elementals in Stormwind last night.



I mean before the recent patch. Earthquake's tooltip says Physical, but Elementals were straight up immune to it.

 

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Subject: What the...Earthquake damage?
I'm not sure what is more disturbing. The claims of earthquake damage being nerfed or the fact that some shaman are using earthquake as a damage spell in their rotation.

 

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Subject: What the...Earthquake damage?
Why wouldn't you use Earthquake for AoE, before the nerf? It did a LOT of damage before.

 

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