500% Buff?! HUGE Class Tuning Drops in Less Than 12H

It’s finally happening — Blizzard just dropped a massive class tuning wave for Patch 11.1 in World of Warcraft! Buffs, nerfs, and everything in between go live in less than 24 hours.

We’re talking: ⚡ 500% Buff to Elemental Shaman’s Primordial Wave
🛡️ Prot Warrior finally nerfed after dominating Season 2
💀 Mistweaver Monk damage cut down
🔥 Windwalker, Shadow Priest, and more class changes
💬 All backed by dev notes, including tier set reworks!

Wowhead Articles on Class Balance and Tuning estimates:

Plater Profiles:

This isn’t just number tuning — this could shift the entire meta in Mythic+, Raiding, and PvP.

🎯 I break it all down and give my thoughts, spec by spec, in this commentary video.
What’s your take on the buffs and nerfs? Drop a comment below! 👇

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[vjr]

Agree, warrior nerfs were dumb! The tank that brings virtually nothing outside its tankiness and damage…. Should bring legendary tankiness and damage.
Also to be noted, the brilliant devs didnt have any problems leaving prot pally as a “dps” spec for the entire season WITH all their insane utility and saves…

[JavierBT]

Either rework warrior completely or revert the nerfs. If warrior's lack of utility is compensated by their damage and tankiness, make their tankiness and damage insane.

[Mentok]

Brewmasters on suicide watch. All 5 of us.

[Evil_Befall]

Flame : I'm gonna main monk
Blizzard : We gonna nerf monks
Flame : *Ah shit here we go again*

[ArielWhisperwind]

As a priest main, the holy priest buffs were amazing, i went from 700k roughly as oracle in raids to over 1.4m hps passively with a Prayer of Mending build which gives it infinite jumps in theory because of oracle nullifying its CD letting me fire off 4x2 Prayer of Mendings (all of which have 12% chance to place a renew on targets)

[romanbloomfield]

Can we stop nerfing tanks? We need more of them

[chef]

Prot warri and shadow priest nerfs are super unnecessary

[flashUlter]

Like prot warrior has enough problems not getting invite for high M+ keys

[unclebence]

I rly hope they give BL to warrior i mean the name itself is made for warrior

[samdrake]

Happy to hear arcane is getting buffed as I felt useless playing my favourite spec

[LouisKing]

They can give it a 10000% buff, it will still feel like ass to queef a primordial wave on a bunch of targets vs a lava burst

[Orothan]

Arms and Fury warriors need to be COMPLETELY reworked. They keep just moving things around and it's never worked. As a warrior main this makes the game I want to play, almost impossible.

[misskill]

BRO, the whole community complains that we don't have tankers ( and its very true ) and Blizz decide to nerf the best choice for beginners who wanna become tanks mains (except BDK who can self sustain) .. what a decision .. this nerf its so fucking unnecessary .. same for shadow priests in my opinion . Devs seems rlly wanna Pala and DH meta for this season ..

[arliss]

Augmentation either needs reworked into an entirely new thing, like a regular dps or a tank, or we need new support specs. It seems like blizz cant balance it in any capacity to make it work well without making it even more mandatory to a group.

[SymbolicLogic]

So you have a tank that should have the strongest tankiness and dps now having neither. RIP prot war.

[Altraice]

I’m a prot warrior. Fury gets boring and arms is only really fun when it’s overtuned, so I was a pure prot warrior. Due to the nerds, I’m swapping to DH. Note, I didn’t say vengeance, I said DH because havoc is actually fun and, and pretty strong rn. That’s one less tank in the pool and I’m probably not alone. I don’t know why blizzard doesn’t want tanks to be able to do damage, maybe put more effort into designing everything else better instead of literally just reducing the numbers on the thing people were enjoying.

[JahjuanR]

I wish they just let tanks and healers be strong it makes M+ so much more enjoyable not looking for 20mins

[DiogoMartins]

warrior specs bring nothing... not just prot. please give warrior BL and 3%haste on battle shout

[kalasmournrex]

The vdh change is huge, the only reason it was the best tank was ability to survive huge pulls. It's probably still slightly the best, but after this the tanks are mostly in line except for poor brewmaster monk.

[DMephisto]

the 4% for my Frost DK didn't change anything. I feel like we need at least another 5% before we can even come close to competing. WW still destroying me in keys, even those who are -5 my ilvl lol.

the 8% did improve things on my Arcane Mage, but not as much as I hoped. I did jump up in my parses, but I think that's due to getting my 2nd embellishment today.

I'm hoping for further tuning in a few weeks.