Battle system changes

[Xenosan]

4) Changes in damage calculations based on stats, potency and weapon damage, likely minor tweaks

Wouldn't read too much into this one. They had to 'adjust damage calculations, etc' in HW expansion too.

Amounted to little more than tuning the scaling curves of stats to accommodate the new max lvl & ilvl. They have to tweak the pipe-work to keep the stats to yielding what they currently do.

Will have to do that again no doubt.

[Malzian]

Wouldn't read too much into this one. They had to 'adjust damage calculations, etc' in HW expansion too.

Amounted to little more than tuning the scaling curves of stats to accommodate the new max lvl & ilvl. They have to tweak the pipe-work to keep the stats to yielding what they currently do.

Will have to do that again no doubt.

Well, I did qualify that with "minor tweaks". You might see a slide of a couple DPS up or down, but I doubt it would be ultimately noticeable without hard data crunching. Still, it qualifies as a battle system adjustment so I included it anyway.

[Shurrikhan]

Wouldn't read too much into this one. They had to 'adjust damage calculations, etc' in HW expansion too.

Amounted to little more than tuning the scaling curves of stats to accommodate the new max lvl & ilvl. They have to tweak the pipe-work to keep the stats to yielding what they currently do.

Will have to do that again no doubt.

^ This seemed mostly to be de-tunings for the stats over the increased level cap to ensure that haste, etc., didn't start the new expansion high already (or therefore end the expansion at ridiculous levels). Heck, the changes to how Crit works that came with HW can also be seen as a slight Monk/DRG buff and a noticeable Bard nerf.