Pres Evoker Finally Nerfed?! Many Hero Talents Buffed! Patch Notes Review

[@exk4]

Hpal nerf is honestly the most inexplicable balance change I've ever seen

[@danielmooreorless]

They just gotta keep the pattern every patch notes needs a nerf to hpal then by next patch we get another rework :)

[@Darkrampager]

The demo buffs s4 shadowlands was worse, they BUFFED the best spec

[@RdawgT]

Playing Holy already felt bad having to use like 3 globals to do significant aoe healing. It felt very mid and this nerf seems very dumb.

[@serge2cool]

That promotional insert was hilarious Drat, love it! 😆

[@martynjeffries937]

What a salesman!

[@menelar479]

Im divided between hilarious and cute

[@simoncasson1526]

RIP Holy Paladin

[@Moonwired]

As a holy paladin main, I am both confused and upset. Raiding was sort of fine, m+ is absolutely horrifically bad.

[@Phyr123]

Thank you yet again for going above and beyond. You link the notes which is so helpful.

[@GonzytheMage]

I normally skip ads but this was without a doubt the finest advertisement I've ever seen in my entire life.

[@Worst_Casts]

I think the big thing is just they are willing to do big swaths of balance changes to overall specs and specific hero talents between patches which is great to see even if I don’t agree with every single change it’s nice to see

[@guffels]

Get that bag dratty (I skipped the ad)

[@amandarinorange91]

You shouldn't have, it was top tier 😂❤

[@brandonm3621]

I was already using Templar on my Ret...this is awesome! Loving the Prot buffs for my other paladins too!

[@TheK3vin]

Love watching these videos, but I also greatly appreciate you linking the notes you talk about in the description, so I can actually find them if I'm not in a situation to watch it.

[@Nadrii]

Wake up babe, new Dratnos drop

[@theronwilliams1044]

Hooooooyeeeaaaa!

[@JimBobe]

Okay okay! Im up!!

[@kernel2006]

He’s probably thinking about other girls. *Me wondering when they’re gonna buff Keeper of the Grove resto Druid*

[@FNigslol]

So cringe when people steal comments for likes

[@googleaccount2821]

The BM Hunter changes mean BM will no longer be used in Raid either. I guess BM is just for Delves.

[@jace4817]

Love the promotion! Grab that bag man

[@Machete__Squad]

Objectively the best sponsor segue to exist on KZbin.

[@QUILLWYRM]

bro that ad read was wildly awkward I loved it, keep it up.

[@msk5992]

You including the patchnotes are the little things which make me subscribe & like every video you post. Keep it up

[@johnMa7869]

Can't wait to watch the monthly dratnotes :D

[@ryanorr1]

Super smooth sponsor transition

[@steiige]

New dratnotes just dropped holy 😮

[@filipfenix]

Man those Resto paladins definitely needed another one.

[@VkaraujoHusk]

The smooth transition to the promo hahahaha XD

[@SpcGrdnr]

Dratnos has sponsors! He's made it

[@BoundlessBoredom]

Dratnos is the new top product sponsor

[@chewyy50]

Let’s go Dratty getting sponsors on these now. New dratty tech to print money

[@rosco3]

Mountain Thane Prot is insane now, the AoE damage will be insane, don't think the rage generation nerf is enough, it was overcapping rage in AoE pulls

[@Daemos66]

Yeah, there's no way Colossus pulls ahead. It feels rage starved by comparison to MT. I don't see there's changes doing anything to that.

[@PendlayRoe]

15:50 Manather did some sims, now frostfire frost is only 5.8% behind in single target and actually slightly ahead in AoE (0.5%). It used to be 14% behind in ST so it's getting there :)

[@unclvinny]

It’s got what plants crave!

[@dantrethekid1539]

The mark of a good content creator is how they introduce and play out their ads. It stayed true to your type of humor and it wasn’t long. Great job Drat get your paper!

[@timmy3211]

Absolutely wild that they would nerf blistering scales without nerfing white swings across the board, or reducing the xalatath damage bonus on 12s

[@samharper1082]

Good to see you back squire

[@zuralani1]

Almost every havoc response to aldrachi being buffed was negative. People were RELIEVED when the total buffs turned out to probably not change anything. That shows how bad that hero tree is in terms of design, yet it is having absolutely no changes in 11.0.5.

[@kayladecant7332]

Best part about the Vengeance Mastery buff? I feel less bad using my mast-heavy gear when off-speccing as Veng

[@Ahcyc]

Being someone who prefers Arms this season has just been so frustrating, the spec just keep catching stray after stray as blizzard tries to tune fury without any kind of compensation buffs for arms. The Warrior discord is even saying the fury changes are coming out as a net gain for fury, neutral on ST (which is what they really need) and a small gain on AoE while Arms its a 1% nerf on ST and AoE and Colossus is still over 9% behind Slayer on ST.

[@brucewayne4172]

Chronowarden prevokers feelin good

[@evildarkeevildark5943]

Poor warriors are like top of the nerf list in every hotfix :D... good i play prot warr and we got just a little bit nerf with rage but i hope its fine :)

[@JohnFromTheInternet.]

BM hunters will now not only be bad at AOE, but also ST.... yay

[@JoshSmiththeoneandonly]

that wallpaper was sick!

[@Kevmoeman]

They need to buff Colossus size, 5% size? I want to be able to see the Colossus in town like "oh shit that's a Colossus warrior" vibes, need more size

[@RunicSoulEater]

Ah yes, take the thing resto shamans have zero of, an external, and make the kinda external we had even worse. Of course, how did we never think of this.

[@robertocortesortiz1528]

BUFF HOLY PALADIN WHAT IS THIS

[@fastydave]

You're an ISU fan, you should already be wearing your nut cup

[@penqu1ns]

SPONSORED VID LETS GO GET THAT BAG

[@jonathanmatthews8862]

Master of Harmony is actually a well designed spec; it’s just behind in numbers. For tanks it was only a bit behind but for Mistweavers it wasn’t even a close second. To the point that you would feel like you are griefing your raid if you play it. That’s not really where the hero specs should be.

[@James_Johnson79]

San’Layn’s biggest detriment is that Reaper just throws out like 3 or more huge scythes. Maybe if the blood abomination showed up a lot more often it would give it that visible ooof it needs.

[@mrmoveup]

Yes. Make it proc on demand. Let's say from dancing rune weapon. Having proc based tank defensive is troll. Though there is some kind of this change coming up in the anniversary patch. Would be perfectly happy with San being more defensive and easier to play spec vs death more offensive and skill intensive

[@James_Johnson79]

@@mrmoveup thing is I’m not sure what real defensiveness it brings, but it and the “condemn” animation vamp strikes use are the only really cool thing about the hero tree. So let it have that pizzazz in a regular cadence that can also be used on demand at the points where we need help with defense and aggro - the start of a pull.

[@BorgWolf359]

I'm keeping an eye on the changes but am not playing until November after the 20th Anniversary drops! All of this will change again by then at least three more times! They need to fix the Earthen brokenness!

[@Sekraiii]

Guess they forgot the Sub Rogue buffs to Black Powder on the US patch notes, but 35% dmg increase to black powder might make it a bit better for m+ along with the Ass aoe nerfs

[@VitaliyIndie]

nice lean sip 💯

[@sombrego2260]

The Coalescece for Mistweaver is a huge buff that could make the spec honestly OP for the dumbest reason. It used to be 10% and it means now that whenever you apply the buff all of your throughput is 30% higher which is a huge number.

[@Delemaroth]

That was possibly the most awkward ad in the history of youtube

[@Priisti]

RIP BM. lets see what next patch gives.

[@ziggs123]

Voidweaver baby ❤

[@rockstar6goalkeeper]

Aldrachi Reaver is a vengeance tree, and those buffs are really good for it. I don't think havoc will be forced to play AR now

[@chrisbreen6484]

that promo was so clumsy that i actually watched it because it was funny 😂

[@Xynth25]

BM eating a 9-15% ST nerf and still 40% behind MM in aoe lmao...feelsbad

[@scanGfu]

I guess frost DK is considered balanced

[@Crayzyy]

It hasnt been good since Wotlk so i think its fine for it to be good.

[@schmidth]

​​@@Crayzyy100%, if something is good for the first time in forever just let it stay good for at least ONE whole season. Or do yall just wanna see augmagespriest again?

[@mietek958]

That BM change is 9% nerf for single target and 9% buff for aoe, seems fine but in reality BM is now 10-15% behind on single target in comparison to MM and survival, and 40% behind on AOE in comparison to MM which means that it is basically dead as dps spec.

[@SouthernDrinkSlinger]

Exactly this. They nerfed the one thing BM actually had going for it...

[@TheDopeGoblin]

Those single target changes are not 9 percent nerfs. You’re way overestimating the single target nerd

[@avalectra1]

Yeah but you can literally do everything while moving. 100% uptime always.

[@Smartiezs]

@@avalectra1 every specc has enough movement tools to execute their rotation without loosing dps, we are not in classic anymore. maybe it takes a bit longer than bm to learn the fight, know when you need the movement in the fight, but when you progress the fights you will see people catch up very quick to their speccs full potential while hunters stay almost the same dpswise. bm is good for nothing now, not good in st, not good in burst aoe, not good in sustained aoe, not good in execute, not good for bursting down a new priority target. if movement really is a problem, why not give bm something they have to stand still, but do more dmg.

[@havtor007]

​@avalectra1 Fire Mage does 99% of their damage on the move you never see this argument about fire mage.

[@Aethermie]

thank god they nerf prevoker (saying it as a prevoker main myself). Now delete fucking augmentation-crocodiles from M+ and I'm happy with my class.

[@ThePolarpop]

Huh. Never heard of them referred to as crocodiles.

[@TheJackhicksisc]

Wait was the sound when drinknos said "aaaah" after swigging the drink added in post or just insane timing with a part of the background music? Either way I'm astonished.

[@PhoTC]

Anytime everyone's taking one spec all of the time it's good that they are buffing the other one - *cries in oracle disc*

[@afkjustin]

Can you do a "conclusion" or "thoughts" at the end? Thanks.

[@ztormur6504]

oh my god, i love that sponsor bit. pure gold !

[@Schilani]

For the BDK Sanlayn changes: The main issue for me is still and always will be, that with that tree you now have to use two defensive cooldowns offensively. Not only do you use DRW offensively and don't really care about the parry chance it gives, but you also need to use Vampiric Blood offensively. And not just that, you have to stack so much health and uptime on the boss, that you can use it less than every 30 seconds. And don't you dare ever drop those 30 seconds, because then your output just plummets. In comparison Deathbringer is a lot more lenient.

[@tek512]

Well, Unholy DK is dead now. It wasn't even overperforming to start with. That nerf makes no sense.

[@joaomacedo4837]

Sometimes I wish I was more like Dratnos

[@TheMartianBotanist]

Be yourself unless you can be dratnos then be dratnos

[@nmisteli7385]

Whoever is touching hpal at blizzard is just lost as hell

[@chaoticpotato6404]

Paid promotion Dratnos!?!?!? Our boy has hit the Big Leagues!!!!

[@Frowntain]

I hate that they nerfed outlaw so hard only to undo the nerfs once they realized how terrible the tier set was but only after the RWF.

[@phenax1144]

Yeah they just have no idea how to handle rogue i doubt a single dev playes rogue at this point

[@okkipooky8612]

I mean they DID know the tier set was weak because of outside sources doing the sims and also internally blizz agreed. Which is why they “nerfed” the spec and gave the power to the tier to make the tier better…. It just didn’t have the result they wanted so they are buffing the baseline back up.

[@morgenmuffel5747]

They need to demote the BM hunter dev and hire one that understands the spec and can run a basic sim. With these changes they nerfed BM ST by 9%, making it now the worst spec in mythic raid and bottom 3 in heroic. As it was already the weakest DPS in M+, the dev just single-handedly killed the spec in all forms of group content

[@Cyballistic]

Wtf is the balance “team” doing. Hpal changes are absolute incompetence.

[@tbreeze79]

I'm sticking with my Resto Druid. Everyone jumping on Resto Shaman and Evoker boat. I like being challeneged in Mythic+ for healing with my Resto Druid.

[@luxyslovy]

Funny to see that ret went from "D tier never used" to "I dont think this spec needs a buff" in the span of a month.

[@phulcq6716]

I've barely touched my mage this expansion but from the beta I remember frostfire being super, super awkward to play due to the projectile behaviour of frostfire bolt. For frost I think it had a slower travel time than frostbolt, which meant it wouldn't do the classic shatter combo, which feels bad (even if numerically it works out fine). And for fire I remember it feeling really weird with heating up procs, again I think probably due to a slow projectile time. If they haven't done something about those interactions since then I suspect people will be avoiding frostfire, even if the numbers are competitive.

[@thelastspectre8141]

Rogues, "we EXPECT this to be an overall net increase" do we expect anything from blizzard in terms of balancing...they are litterally reverting 80% of there nerfs to alot of these classes from when they nerfed them in beta, for example shadow priest just now most of them like void blast was nerfed back them just to get buffed yet again when they should have just left it alone from the start

[@deejkeithanmusic]

First patch in my life where none of my 4 mains got nerfed.

[@Checkem]

brawndo, it's got electrolytes

[@mekevinnn]

You know it's real when you see at least one mage spec being buffed

[@geoffreybentley5619]

dps warriors just need a rework.

[@markuslc1888]

agreed

[@ThePolarpop]

I dont even like warrior and I agree for you

[@zacharyperry1254]

Does anyone else read the blue post in Draty-D's voice too?

[@guffels]

why would I read it when this video is always out same day

[@PlukeMaps]

I hate dealing with templars 5 spender without wasting holy power wish it wasnt buffed tbh or it was 4 spender instead

[@HowNowBrownCow69]

10/10 Ad Dratty

[@datguy2271]

As a Brew player, I think the devs doesn't understand anything. With 4pc, the main dps source is Keg. Shado-pan buffs Keg, while Harmony doesn't. Why would I run Harmony even with the tuning? Now the only good thing about Harmony is that you get more Celestial Brews, and a bit more healing from Purifying. That's sounds ok, expect that both of these defensive spells are pretty dogshit. Celestial Brew is basically just 1-2 casts of Ignore Pain. Amazing. Brewmaster obviously needs buff to its base kit rather than hero talents. Hope they come soon.

[@hudsonhoch]

brb buying 1000 pure kick drinks

[@NerdNavigator]

*slow clap for gutting BM single target damage while doing pretty much nothing for AoE* Great job blizzard.

[@kernel2006]

Ya boy’s staying hydrated 💪

[@whirlwinddragon]

Pres Evoker here - the overhealing thing on Consume Flame is deceptive, because Consume Flame currently spits out massive amounts of healing onto every target it can find, including pets. Pets are usually at full health, so that's basically all overhealing, causing the overhealing number to appear higher in logs than it actually is. Going into the log you showed, it looks like the actual overhealing done by Consume Flame on players is closer to 10-20% on average (with a few outliers such as the pres evoker itself). So this nerf will probably kill Flameshaper Preservation... but Preservation as a spec will be fine because Chronowarden is also very strong and is more fun to play anyways.

[@dakotawoodruff2622]

Time to blanket raids with echos and cast Lifebind/Spiritbloom. more "fun" for some I guess.

[@ThePolarpop]

M+ pres evoker here who just learned how to do the flameshaper build last night so I could apply to guilds to raid ..but played chrono spirit week 1 and 2 for tier set in non guild raids.. I'm not sure which id prefer long term but definitely think the flameshaper build was fun as a shiny new thing at least. Dont mind spiritblooming tho. Just please god no reversion perma entire raid w minor emerald blooms DF s1 shit again

[@haydenwallace2056]

BM is essentially fucked until they release the full rework. ST will be mid and AOE is still abysmal.

[@alexandergiresi7731]

what the heck is this purple drink ad in the middle of my patch notes

[@skakid88]

Healing buff is definitely the wrong approach to resto druid. The issue resto druid has is the mana cost of rejuv. Buff resto druid by reducing rejuv cost rather than constantly giving aura buffs

[@haavardbrautaset]

Issue is they cant TOP the group fast enought before big hits. They need a oh shit button or a propper cd. Convoke isnt reliable

[@tbreeze79]

@@haavardbrautaset agreed

[@fred114b]

The BM nerfs are devestating to the spec. small AOE increase very large single target nerf

[@Shewars]

"I'm died I guess" 🤣🤣🤣

[@CreatorOfWrath]

Oh boy, a tiny buff to wildstalker.... that changes nothing for feral. They aren't having any changes in the anniversary patch, so I have no idea what plans blizz has. Hopefully, something will happen soon because they will be in the gutter soon.

[@Ben-iv4yb]

Are you on crack?

[@perfectman3077]

Hasn't feral been in the gutter for the past 10 years anyway??

[@ThePolarpop]

​@@perfectman3077minus like 2 seasons inbetween, yeah.

[@perfectman3077]

@@ThePolarpop it is baffling how much love some of these new trash classes get, yet the much loved classes who made the game popular are left in the dumpster.

[@luckdrivenluu6429]

Man warriors are not allowed to be over mid tier ever

[@markuslc1888]

df s3 and s4 warri was super strong and it was brought and even stacked during RTWF, so idk, since there are almost no st fights in the raid and they got crazy burst, how are they in a bad spot? arms needs a bit of love and prot is very good currently.

[@nickh4354]

Me Fury. Me give no group benefits, no utility, no single target damage, but me kill trash good.

[@bneva123]

I still cannot believe Frost DK hasn't been touched but Fury (which is worse) has gotten like 4 nerfs. I don't even care that Frost is good, but make balancing consistent.

[@johndoee4964]

I went from carrying my raid group to watching my heals do nothing at all. I'm now losing to Hpaladin, RDruid and Holy Priest, can you guess which class I play?

[@WorgenDeath]

Not sure why they keep doing these buffs to San'layn, even if you also add in the changes that are on ptr ontop of the ones they just announced it's still not competitive and even if they do more tuning passes to keep buffing it, the level of rng and lack of defensive value would still not make you play it even if the damage might eventually be on par, they just need to rework that entire talent tree instead of tweaking numbers cause it's awful.

[@tom9764]

Dratnos, I love you

[@ginoweinberg5212]

I don't like the BDK Hero talents DMG there is Just so much dependency on rng for your reapers Mark or abomination to proc

[@KyleSportsman]

Well we had fun Fury mains

[@loganwebb5086]

yeah i dont have time level and gear anoither character think im done for season

[@ThePolarpop]

Saw other warriors saying this is super fine for em but I have no idea

[@Kamia2003]

More rogue buffs plz(not Assa AoE just ST)

[@VividVoid]

This man really got an ad read for a patch note reading.