WoW SoD Phase 2: Priest Class Tuning Announced

It seems that the devs at Blizzard are looking to make weekly class tuning and adjustments to World of Warcraft Season of Discovery Phase 2.

They have added Priest tuning to the mix for the upcoming class tuning so we will be taking a look at the expected changes. It seems that Shadow Priest will be receiving some needed tweaks to make them more balanced.

We will see how this approach will impact the overall health of SoD Phase 2 as many players are quick to start calling out overpowered and imbalanced builds and spells, however, given the nature of WoW Classic, there have always been class imbalances.

WoW SoD Priest Tuning

Mind Spike damage increased by 10%.
Void Plague damage increased by 10%.
Shadow Word: Death base damage before modifiers decreased by 40% and spellpower coefficient adusted to 42.9% (was 64.3%).

Developers’ notes:

Overall, this should result in a 33-40% damage reduction on Shadow Word: Death, depending on the amount of spellpower the priest has.

Shadow Word: Death has been doing a larger percentage of overall priest damage than intended, and we feel like this could begin to put additional pressure on healers in PvE, as spellpower gear improves and the damage that priests inflict on themselves continues to scale upwards. It could also prove to be increasingly oppressive in PvP, as it’s an instant attack that can be used on the move, from range, with very little counterplay.

Although Shadow Word: Death is receiving some nerfs, it should make up for the Mind Spike and Void Plague buffs. Shadow Priests have performing very well so far in both PvP and PvE.

We will be looking forward to how players further experiment with different gear and talents to make Shadow Priests even more stronger and we might even discover new meta strategies in the following weeks of WoW SoD Phase 2.