Earlier today, a group of 5 Guardian Druids timed a +20 Windrunner Spire. Blizzard appears to have reacted to this change, nerfing their damage and survivability with the weekly reset. This occurs after many Guardian Druid tuning changes across all of Season 1. Bears originally started the season with really high burst during cooldowns and really low damage outside of cooldowns, but was changed to be more consistent. With these nerfs, Bears started removing the Apex talents which caused them to do very high damage.
Our recent adjustments to Guardian have made the Elune’s Chosen build stronger than intended. We’re going to take steps to bring this back in line with realm restarts during scheduled weekly maintenance this week.
Classes
Druid
Guardian
Thrash direct damage reduced by 25%.
Elune’s Favored now heals for 15% of Arcane damage dealt (was 25%).
Developers’ Notes: These changes aim to bring this build closer to its expected output: high-damage relative to other tanks, but not abnormally so.
We recognize that the build in question avoids the Apex talent. With this tuning, we’re choosing to not break the Elune’s Chosen build or require the Apex talent. We have further plans to update the Guardian Apex Talent in a future patch to give us more flexibility with it and alleviate some of the current pain points for Druids.
