In World of Warcraft there is a new specialization: the Enhancement Caller. The class brings a new twist to the MMORPG WoW. It is a hero who specializes in enhancing teammates. And this has already resulted in crazy outcomes. With a special tactic, the “overuse of the class,” the damage of a death knight in the raid was increased to 13 million DPS. This melts a boss away in seconds and turns the balance of the MMORPG on its head.
What is special about the new specialization?
- With patch 10.1.5, Blizzard tried something completely new with WoW: A class received a new specialization during an ongoing expansion. This has never happened before.
- The Caller received the specialization “Enhancement”: The class specializes in strengthening the damage, performance, and stamina of teammates. Such “buff” specializations have existed in earlier MMORPGs, but in WoW this has not been the case in this form.
- This uniquely new playstyle of the Enhancement Caller already caused problems in normal group play: Because the Enhancement Caller does little damage themselves, they appear in the DPS meter as if they contribute nothing and are even kicked from groups.
22 Callers make a death knight a boss killer
This was seen in the raid: The death knight specialist from the site “Wowhead” has now entered a raid with 22 Enhancement Callers and increased the DPS of an Unholy Death Knight to 13.4 million.
This allowed his group to shorten the fight against a heroic raid boss, which normally lasts about 2 minutes, to 24 seconds. The player says:
“Every Enhancement Caller scales multiplicatively when you add more Callers during the burst phase.”
The expert explains that each of the 22 Callers had 5 different buffs running on 2 targets:
- Intellect: Dark Might
- Versatility: Changing Sands
- Crit: Prescience
- Flat Multiplier: Fate Mirror
- 15% Burst Multiplier: Breath of the Eons
Here is the kill in the Twitter clip – on YouTube you can see the full video (via youtube):
Blizzard apparently overlooked a problem in balance
What’s behind it: Blizzard seems to have simply overlooked a problem in balance: Enhancement Callers scale too strongly with each other.
Certain bonuses from the Caller’s abilities are multiplicative and not additive. As PC Gamer explains, it comes down to the raid boss “Kazzara the Hellforged” simply being melted away in the “Aberrus” raid.
Fastest kill to date lasted 1:44 minutes, new record at 24 seconds
How fast is that in comparison? The kill of the team with 24 seconds is much faster than the previous record kill of 1:44 minutes.
Most groups need about 2 minutes for the boss.
It is expected that Blizzard will release a hotfix for WoW shortly to curb the scaling of the Enhancement Caller. This cannot obviously be Blizzard’s wish and will surely be fixed soon.
Whoever knows 22 Callers willing to respec might have some fun for a while.
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