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Subtlety Rogue & Arms Warrior Nerfs – Mists of Pandaria Classic

Blizzard has released a Hotfix for Mists of Pandaria Classic, which reduces the bonus damage of Subtlety Rogue's Sanguinary Vein and Arms Warriors' Sweeping Strikes abilities.

We've recently made the following change, which is live on all realms.

Raids

Heart of Fear

Garalon

Arms Warriors' Sweeping Strikes no longer deal 100% increased damage to Garalon's body when striking a leg.

Developers' notes: In Original Mists of Pandaria, during the first week of Heart of Fear Heroic difficulty, a Garalon hotfix addressed Sweeping Strikes, Blade Flurry, and similar effects. This was later superseded by changes made to Sweeping Strikes in patch 5.4, when Garalon was no longer the most relevant content. This fix returns Sweeping Strikes to its original behavior for Garalon's body.

Additionally, this change will go live with scheduled weekly maintenance in each region:

Classes

Rogue

Subtlety

Sanguinary Veins bonus damage reduced to 40% (was 50%).

Developers' notes: A bug fix made right before the release of Heart of Fear addressed a situation where multiple rogues in a group were constantly removing this damage increase from each other and not benefitting from it. The bug was pulling down average Subtlety performance, and since the correction, things got a little out of hand. This may display an incorrect value between 40/45/50%, so to be clear, 40% is the intended value.

We will continue to monitor the performance of all classes in Mists of Pandaria Classic as players' gear improves with raid progression, and we expect to develop more adjustments as they become necessary.

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