Welcome to Reset Day, Parsers.
If you read Saturday’s Weekend Meta Breakdown, you know exactly what the 95th-percentile data looked like for Week 3. It seems Blizzard’s balance team was looking at the exact same logs, because this week’s reset hotfixes are a direct surgical strike on the top and bottom of the meters.
Here is exactly what you need to know before you log in to raid tonight.
📈 The Winners: Life Support for the Bottom Tier Blizzard looked at the bottom of our M+ and Raid charts and decided to act.
Frost Death Knight: Dead last in Mythic raid and struggling in keys. They just received a flat 12% to 15% buff to their core single-target rotation (Obliterate and Frost Strike) to help pull them off the floor.
Assassination Rogue: Another bottom-5 M+ spec getting bailed out. A 10% buff to Fan of Knives and Crimson Tempest is a massive injection for their AoE viability in dungeons.
Tank Privilege: If you tank, you are probably eating well today. Blood DK, Vengeance DH, and Prot Paladin all received massive survivability and single-target damage buffs.
📉 The Losers: The S-Tier Tax
Demonology Warlock: Demo has been sitting in the Top 5 across literally every single category (M+, Heroic, and Mythic). Blizzard just hit them with a "bug fix" that drops their pet critical damage from 260% down to 230%. Expect them to slide down a peg by this weekend.
Brewmaster Monk: The only tank to catch a nerf today. Their self-healing and damage reduction were dialed back to bring them in line with the rest of the pack.
🤡 The "Why?": Augmentation Evoker As we reported Saturday, Augmentation is currently breaking the scoring algorithm with a perfect 100 aggregate score in keys. Blizzard's response? They increased the radius of Ebon Might from 100 yards to 500 yards. It is technically a pure quality-of-life change, but the optics of giving the undisputed #1 spec in the game a massive range buff is incredibly funny.
Get your vault, update your addons, and we will see you on Saturday to see how these changes shift the Week 4 data.