Patch 8.3 Hotfixes for June 2nd - Gushing Wound Nerf

Live Posted 2020/06/02 at 8:24 PM by perculia

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Gushing Wound (Corruption Effect) damage over time effect has been reduced by 35%.

Developer’s note: While we try to avoid changes like this outside of regular balance patch intervals, the changes we've made to the Corruption system to make Corruption more targetable and attainable risks turning a rare but powerful Corruption into the optimal choice in nearly every situation. With this reduction in damage, Gushing Wound will remain reasonably powerful in all situations, but will no longer be the most efficient source of damage per Corruption in all situations.

Fixed a bug that caused the lockout time of interrupted spell schools to increase when the Ineffable Truth Corruption effect ends.

Comment by NickMyersFor all the hate blizzard gets about changing things with little warning, atleast they should get some credit for this one. I can imagine hoe it woul look in comments if they didnt tell us weeks ago gushing had a nerf incomingComment by elthorasIts was a little bit to strong, but overall its not that cool to nerf a Corruption 2 Months later. Same with Echoing Void, that got nerfed to the ground.
Testing something on Liveserver, PTR was waste for testing it as i see. Atleast its performing also good after the nerf, not like EV.
I hope it will be better in Shadowlands.Comment by MajikayoGood, now I can step into arena since we got rid of ridicilously overpowered gushing wounds.Comment by elthorasArena is also i point that i understand, but the better way for Pvp is, to nerf all Corruption in Pvp for like 50%.Comment by TheRedRogueI feel that the problem is they intentionally make a corruption 'rare' so you can't have a bunch, so they decide to only nerf it once a LOT of people can have 'enough' to make it worth nerfing. If the corruptions, such as Gushing wounds and Ineffable Truth, were more common, they probably would have realized these issues sooner and not have had to nerf them within a week of the corruption vendor existing.Comment by knokout1For all the hate blizzard gets about changing things with little warning, atleast they should get some credit for this one. I can imagine hoe it woul look in comments if they didnt tell us weeks ago gushing had a nerf incomingComment by SielinthI feel that the problem is they intentionally make a corruption 'rare' so you can't have a bunch, so they decide to only nerf it once a LOT of people can have 'enough' to make it worth nerfing. If the corruptions, such as Gushing wounds and Ineffable Truth, were more common, they probably would have realized these issues sooner and not have had to nerf them within a week of the corruption vendor existing.PTR was waste for testing it as i see.Comment by wallrochaAt least DHs get to keep Lash of the Void unerfed in arenas :)Comment by SkifulDislike no reasons to nerf for this big %%Comment by brudarekAt least they didn't overnerf it, it's still good enough to be in top 3 or so just not #1 by a huge margin anymore.Comment by TheRedRogueI feel that the problem is they intentionally make a corruption 'rare' so you can't have a bunch, so they decide to only nerf it once a LOT of people can have 'enough' to make it worth nerfing. If the corruptions, such as Gushing wounds and Ineffable Truth, were more common, they probably would have realized these issues sooner and not have had to nerf them within a week of the corruption vendor existing.PTR was waste for testing it as i see.Comment by MasqeraderFor all the hate blizzard gets about changing things with little warning, atleast they should get some credit for this one. I can imagine hoe it woul look in comments if they didnt tell us weeks ago gushing had a nerf incomingComment by WindsingerEUYou can tell which classes blizzard favor,

imho, if you'd remove corruption effects altogether from PvP (They are disabled in BG/Arena's) to give everyone the same baseline. it would turn back to skill, and not so much the RNG of corruption effect. but that's me :3Comment by PeachTimeIf it was OP in PvP then just nerf it for PvP not everything else, I'd understand maybe 15% but not 35%, pre-nerf my one piece 475 gushing did between 2-4% of my total dmg, clearly it was too broken compared to IS being top dmg on most classes or Mind Flay Tentacle on rogues or TD on all melee specs.

Who is in charge of balancing at Blizz ? absolute clown show, they keep adding all these new features that are clearly broken by all the different specs and classes, and instead of balancing around that, they change it for everyone regardless if it's good or bad and the next expansion is entirely focused around this through the Covenant system, good luck balancing that out, by the end of the expansion people will be stuck playing the same 3 classes cause all others are just not good enoughComment by NatPaggleIsaPOSIf it was OP in PvP then just nerf it for PvP not everything else, I'd understand maybe 15% but not 35%, pre-nerf my one piece 475 gushing did between 2-4% of my total dmg, clearly it was too broken compared to IS being top dmg on most classes or Mind Flay Tentacle on rogues or TD on all melee specs.

Who is in charge of balancing at Blizz ? absolute clown show, they keep adding all these new features that are clearly broken by all the different specs and classes, and instead of balancing around that, they change it for everyone regardless if it's good or bad and the next expansion is entirely focused around this through the Covenant system, good luck balancing that out, by the end of the expansion people will be stuck playing the same 3 classes cause all others are just not good enoughComment by aski4777So you're telling me that the people and I who have been waiting for gushing wounds, have been letting this poor system of rotating corruptions, let other corruptions go because we have been awaiting / saving up for Gushing Wounds? The system of rotating corruptions should be going away, like right now. I don't even understand why corruptions work in PVP, no one likes rolling dice with corruptions procs. It ridiculous and disgusting.Comment by AzraelUltimaI may just be unlucky, which is entirely possible, however since corruption came out I’ve yet to see a single gushing wound on my characters, and of the folks I’ve played with maybe one or two people have a single one.Comment by BaddiesLMAORemovedComment by longslowgoodbyeIt has been like this since arena came. Pvp has ruled how the rest of the game works. A few percentage of players vs the rest (pve). Maybe not. But it seems like it sometimes.Comment by VylexesIt has been like this since arena came. Pvp has ruled how the rest of the game works. A few percentage of players vs the rest (pve). Maybe not. But it seems like it sometimes.You can tell which classes blizzard favor,

imho, if you'd remove corruption effects altogether from PvP (They are disabled in BG/Arena's) to give everyone the same baseline. it would turn back to skill, and not so much the RNG of corruption effect. but that's me :3