WoW brings strong buffs for 4 classes, also announces first nerfs

In World of Warcraft the first strong buffs of the new season are coming. Warlocks and shadow priests can be happy, but so can druids.

Season 3 of World of Warcraft Dragonflight has been running for a few weeks now, and it’s time for the first major adjustments. Blizzard has released a list of buffs that will become active during the upcoming maintenance on Wednesday. We’ll show you all the buffs – although there are also a few nerfs to an old tier set.

The trailer for the current patch:

All buffs in WoW for November 29, 2023

Death Knight

• Frost
  • Aberrus Tier Set 2-piece bonus
    • The damage of your next Howling of the Frost Wyrm will be increased by 4% (previously 5%).
    • The effectiveness of Howling of the Frost Wyrm will be reduced to 25% (previously 30%).
    • The damage of Howling Gale has been reduced to 10% (previously 20%).
  • Amirdrassil Tier Set 4-piece bonus
    • Chain Frost will now skip 3 additional times (previously 2 times).
    • The chance for the effect to occur will be increased to 35% (previously 30%).
  • The damage of Chain Frost is increased by 10%.
  • The damage of Eradicate is increased by 8%.
  • Continuous Frost will now skip with a 25% chance (previously 20%).
  • The damage of Penetrating Frost will be increased to 12% (previously 10%).

Druid

• Restoration
  • All healing done is increased by 3%.

Priest

• Shadow
  • All damage dealt is increased by 5%. (Blessed be the Void.)

Warlock

• Affliction
  • All damage of the Warlock and its companion is increased by 6%.
• Destruction
  • All damage of the Warlock and its companion is increased by 6%.

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Why are the buffs only coming now? Blizzard usually takes some time at the start of a season to analyze enough data. At the same time, however, the developers refrain from making particularly drastic class changes during the “World First” race – that could ultimately benefit one of the professional guilds and distort the popular community event.

Now the race is over, which is why Blizzard can now implement balance changes faster and more frequently. Here, the developers especially want to address major issues in the coming weeks and then release fewer hotfixes later in the season.

Is there more to come? Yes. Blizzard has already announced that there will be further adjustments next week – on December 6, 2023. They speak of “some buffs and nerfs.” This sounds like the currently best classes in the damage meter should prepare for some nerfs.