World of Warcraft Class Tuning Arrives May 5 With Major Buffs to Warrior, Warlock and Rogue

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Blizzard is rolling out a class tuning pass for World of Warcraft on Tuesday May 5 following weekly server restarts, delivering a mix of buffs and nerfs across numerous specializations as the development team continues to address the fallout from Patch 12.0.5's troubled launch. Warriors are among the biggest winners of the update, with Arms Warriors receiving 20% damage increases to both Execute and Overpower alongside massive Slayer hero talent buffs of 30% to 40%. Fury Warriors gain a 5% across-the-board damage increase plus a 50% boost to Mountain Thane's Ground Current, while Protection Warriors benefit from the same Mountain Thane improvements by proxy. Affliction Warlocks see meaningful damage increases with Unstable Affliction and Corruption both receiving 20% buffs and Agony gaining 10%, addressing what many players felt was underperformance in sustained damage output.Outlaw and Subtlety Rogues receive 5% and 7% overall damage increases respectively, with targeted buffs to the Trickster hero talent No Scruples bringing its crit chance bonus up to 12%. Marksmanship Hunters get some of the patch's most dramatic single-ability changes, with Explosive Shot and Steady Shot both receiving 100% damage increases alongside a 30% buff to Arcane Shot. Enhancement Shaman, which has been underperforming in both raid and Mythic Plus content according to Blizzard's own assessment, gains 5% overall ability damage and 10% auto attack damage. On the healing side, Holy Paladin receives 15% increases to Word of Glory, Eternal Flame, and Light of Dawn, while Protection Paladin gains 10% base armor for improved survivability.

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Steady Shot doing 100% more damage after the patch means it was doing half of what it should have been doing before the patch and someone approved those numbers.