WoW: Big Buffs for Shadow Priests and Warriors – But also many Nerfs

Big buffs and nerfs are coming to World of Warcraft. We will tell you which classes are affected and what changes are coming.

Season 4 of World of Warcraft Shadowlands is on the horizon, and some balance changes are coming with it.

Blizzard wants to adjust the different classes a bit to weaken particularly strong specializations and to support the currently weakest ones.

What is the main focus? First and foremost, Blizzard aims to eliminate some extreme cases with these changes. This means that Destruction Warlocks and Survival Hunters will lose some damage. These changes were announced weeks ago.

At the same time, Shadow Priests are to receive stronger options for situations with many enemies. Warriors should be able to withstand magical damage better, which is why “Bite the Bullet” will be significantly strengthened.

Nerfs and Buffs for Season 4 of Shadowlands

Here are the upcoming changes in detail:

• Druid
  • Balance
    • The damage of Starfall has been increased by 15%.

• Hunter
  • Survival
    • Raptor Strike, Mongo Bite, and Get in the Sack! deal 15% more damage.
    • (4) Set Bonus: The bonus damage from Firebomb has been reduced to 20% (formerly 30%).
    • Firebomb and all its variants deal reduced damage when hitting more than 8 targets. This change is not yet displayed in the tooltip.

• Mage
  • Arcane
    • The duration of Freezing Traps has been increased to 20 seconds (formerly 15 seconds).

• Monk
  • Windwalker
    • Whirling Crane Kick deals 5% less damage.

• Paladin
  • Protection
    • Armor has been increased by 5%.
    • The block chance of Holy Shield has been increased to 20% (formerly 15%).

• Priest
  • Shadow
    • Mind Blast deals 30% more damage.
    • Shadow Bolt deals 25% more damage.
    • Seething Nightmare deals 15% more damage.

• Warlock
  • Destruction
    • Chaos Bolt deals 5% more damage in PvE situations.
    • Conflagrate deals 20% more damage.
    • Immolate deals 20% more damage.
    • Inferno deals 10% more damage in PvE situations.
    • (4) Set Bonus: Blasphemy no longer grants Rain of Chaos.

• Warrior
  • Protection
    • Bite the Bullet absorbs 30% more damage and the maximum amount of absorption is now based on the amount of maximum health.

When will the changes go live? The adjustments will go live with the start of Season 4, on August 3, 2022. Other adjustments will come along with it.

Note that Blizzard might introduce additional changes. They particularly want to keep an eye on the performance of the Shadow Priest and possibly make more adjustments.

What do you think about the buffs and nerfs? Are they appropriate? Or is it again your class that was actually perfect that gets hit?