WoW Dragonflight patch 10.1 buffs damage to create “meaningful” choice
The latest WoW Dragonflight patch 10.1 notes are here for the Public Test Realm, and the focus is on buffing up both player health and enemy damage in an attempt to make player choices more “meaningful” and mitigate the impact of burst damage spikes in the Blizzard MMORPG. This latest update to the Embers of Neltharion PTR has also been given ‘release candidate’ status, meaning that we’re unlikely to see dramatic build updates ahead of the WoW Dragonflight 10.1 release date on May 2.
“We’ve decided to increase both player stamina and enemy damage by 25% in Embers of Neltharion,” Blizzard says, explaining that this change closely resembles one the team made prior to the launch of Dragonflight, for largely similar reasons. Essentially, it boils down to wanting players to have more chance to react to incoming damage and create more impactful decisions about how to use cooldowns and mana in response.
“When damage mitigation abilities and healing are too strong relative to player health, the only way to threaten players is to make enemy damage very high and spiky,” it continues. However, countering potent healers with massive burst damage “isn’t very satisfying gameplay,” so the increases to both player health and enemy damage shift the balance to “give players more time to react to incoming damage, and make players’ choices about cooldowns and mana management more meaningful.”
As such, the latest set of WoW Dragonflight PTR patch notes also include a number of notable tweaks to hybrid healing spells, items, and enchantments, along with percentage-based healing spells. A whole wealth of WoW Dragonflight classes are being adjusted as a result, with buffs to healing abilities across the board but the likes of Warrior’s max
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