Mage & Warlock Nerfs Coming This Week – Mists of Pandaria Classic

Blizzard has announced that they will be reverting some temporary power increases from classes as a part of this week's maintenance. These changes will nerf Mages and Warlocks ahead of the Escalation content Phase.

Mists of Pandaria Classic Roadmap

The week of February 3, with scheduled weekly maintenance in each region, we will remove temporary power increases that were made to some specs at the beginning of MoP Classic. This is a necessary step before we move to the next MoP patch, “Escalation”.

These changes only affect servers where the Throne of Thunder is active, and do not impact PvP.

Classes
Mage

Fire

Reverted the 15% increase to Pyroblast.

Combustion now provides an additional 20% of Ignite damage on the target (was 50%).

Warlock

Demonology

Reverted the 25% increase to Doom.

Reverted the 10% increase to Soul Fire.

Affliction

Reverted the 10% increase to Malefic Grasp’s DoT.

Reverted the 15% increase to Malefic Grasp’s damage.

Reverted the 20% incrase to Drain Soul’s DoT.

Reverted the 20% increase to Drain Soul’s DoT.

Hunter

Ranged attack power from the Legendary Meta Gem Capacitive Primal Diamond increased by 100%.

Developers’ notes: This adjustment is a separate tuning effort that applies to all Hunter specs.