What is the reasoning behind stealth 'balancing'? What's the point of having patch notes if they can't be trusted to be comprehensive?
Personally, I'd prefer for all changes to be documented, but I get that this isn't a perfect world. If the undocumented changes thread here is any indication, requests like that are simply too much to ask. I get that.
But when it comes to the hard numbers of class and spec balancing, these are things that above all else must be communicated properly. Maybe it's just me, but I like to think that surely things like changes to damage or mitigation percentages would receive a higher priority for making it into patch/hotfix notes over yet another minor bugfix for a bug that shouldn't have made it to live release in the first place.
Things like Retribution's Hammer of Wrath damage being stealth nerfed in 6.1 (reduced to 240% spellpower from 253% SP) as an example - these are things you need to communicate. Sidenote, I fail to see how that change was warranted, given that ret's aggressively mediocre DPS was only middle of the pack at best.
But that's besides the point. Regardless of whether nerfs or buffs are needed or not, the severity of the adjustments, or which specs they affect: the principle of the matter is that they must be documented. This sort of thing is information your playerbase needs to know, and the fact that you think it's okay to withhold this info offers some rather disturbing insight on your attitude towards transparency and communication.
The discovery of the omitted HoW change begs the question: What else are they keeping from us? I can't help but wonder what other changes they've made to other classes they've decided we don't need to know about, and it calls into question the reliability of their patch notes.
Personally, I'd prefer for all changes to be documented, but I get that this isn't a perfect world. If the undocumented changes thread here is any indication, requests like that are simply too much to ask. I get that.
But when it comes to the hard numbers of class and spec balancing, these are things that above all else must be communicated properly. Maybe it's just me, but I like to think that surely things like changes to damage or mitigation percentages would receive a higher priority for making it into patch/hotfix notes over yet another minor bugfix for a bug that shouldn't have made it to live release in the first place.
Things like Retribution's Hammer of Wrath damage being stealth nerfed in 6.1 (reduced to 240% spellpower from 253% SP) as an example - these are things you need to communicate. Sidenote, I fail to see how that change was warranted, given that ret's aggressively mediocre DPS was only middle of the pack at best.
But that's besides the point. Regardless of whether nerfs or buffs are needed or not, the severity of the adjustments, or which specs they affect: the principle of the matter is that they must be documented. This sort of thing is information your playerbase needs to know, and the fact that you think it's okay to withhold this info offers some rather disturbing insight on your attitude towards transparency and communication.
The discovery of the omitted HoW change begs the question: What else are they keeping from us? I can't help but wonder what other changes they've made to other classes they've decided we don't need to know about, and it calls into question the reliability of their patch notes.