Why buff, then nerf?

#0 - Dec. 11, 2009, 1:12 p.m.
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You have had 2 MONTHS on ptr where you seen the result of SS and after 2 DAYS you decide its OP and needs a nerf. I wonder what the entire staff did during those 2 months, you all took a vaccation together ?

The only thing dks had to look forward to this patch was the new SS and you couldnt let us have that. So all we got was 4 set bonus nerf, unholy blight nerf, SS unchanged/nerf.

I heard this nerf is becouse of us hiting to hard on clothies, yeah right. I sure as hell still have major problems with disc priests, frost mages are almost untouchable, so we must been spanking warlocks to hard i guess. I just love when blizzard change everything for pvp "balance" and screw the pve'ers over again and again.

So all in all DK's got a major PvP nerf aswell. I dont even wanna think how hard a hpaladin will be now, 10% reduced UB and a main nuke who deals only physical dmg. Without a MS effect we will have a hard time vs teams with a healer. Before SS atleast ignored armor with shadow dmg, now we get 60% physical dmg and you can be sure as hell that no healer will let you stack diseases on him beside druids who are hard as hell anyway with no way of interrupting them.

Seriously, why do you even have a ptr when you just ignoring the feedback you get there ? This isnt the first time you introduce a buff just to nerf it 1 day after it goes live (Abarr, conflagurate, just to mention the latest). After manage this game for like 5 years one expect you to actually have a clue what you are doing and how to use the ptr before it goes live.
#7 - Dec. 11, 2009, 2:48 p.m.
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"Ideally, we'd rather make changes while we're still in PTR before a patch goes live, but in the end we'd rather make changes than allow something imbalanced to continue just because we didn't change it pre-patch. To the community's credit, some players predicted these issues might become a problem. We appreciate the feedback as always, even if we don't always immediately make changes suggested by the community."