Class Tuning Incoming September 22: Augmentation, Blood DK, Hero Talent Catch-Up

Linxy posted the September 22 class list — the fifth-week check-in from the Season 2 roadmap. Target is low performers in Mythic+, raid, and PvP, plus hero-talent gaps so more trees are actually playable. It lands with the already-written trinket pass. Do not mix the two.

PvE headlines

Augmentation — personal kit that was under-contributing: Eruption +15%, Fire Breath +60%, Upheaval +40%, Blistering Scales +100%. No PvP exemption on those four.

Blood Death Knight — San’layn AoE is too high, single-target too low. All ability and minion damage −6%, Death Strike +25%, Deadly Reach cleave 75% → 60%. Deathbringer gets a package (Exterminate +25%, Reaper’s Mark / Wave of Souls +20%, plus Blood Boil / Death Strike / Strength talent bumps) meant as a small net buff after the aura cut.

Frost / Unholy — Frostreaper +100% and Obliterate +10% (not PvP). Unholy raid pass: Scourging erupt 65%/100% (was 50%/70%), Blightfall 200% remaining plague (was 100%), plus San’layn Infliction of Sorrow 30% → 75%. Not PvP except the San’layn lines that lack an exemption.

Devastation — Mythic+ AoE catch-up, larger for Flameshaper than Scalecommander: Pyre +10%, Unbound Flame +25%, Azure Strike / Azure Sweep +50%, Fire Breath +5%, Shattering Star +10% (all not PvP).

Discipline — Atonement +40% outside raid and battleground instances so dungeons are not stuck behind raid tuning. The old +40% PvP Atonement bonus is gone. Penance mana −20%.

Hero talent catch-up — Aldrachi Reaver (Havoc and Vengeance), Ret Templar (Hammer of Light +50% PvE), Subtlety Trickster, Fury / Prot Mountain Thane Lightning Strike and Ground Current +50%.

Also: Restoration healing +4% (not PvP) and a Photosynthesis fix; Mistweaver healing +5% plus Vivify / Sheilun’s Gift +15%; Windwalker melee +25%; Protection Paladin abilities +6%; Shadow single-target +15% with Psychic Link 25% → 20% to stay multi-target neutral; Marksmanship Trick Shots ricochets 60% → 75%; Survival Wildfire Bomb +20% with primary extra 80% → 50% (AoE up, single-target even); Fire Meteor DoT +100% and Frost Comet Storm +50% (M+ weighted); Devourer Annihilator primary Collapsing Star +25%.

PvP (selected)

Augmentation Ebon Might 10% → 12%. Restoration Call of Ohn’ahra pushes Nature’s Swiftness’s cooldown to 60 seconds (was 30) and Swiftmend −20%. Preservation Flameshaper Consume Flame −30%. Survival Takedown / Moonlight Chakram burst cuts. Fire Pyroclasm 180% → 160%. Windwalker Conduit of the Celestials +50%, Shado-Pan Flurry Strikes −15%. Assassination −4%, Outlaw +5%, Enhancement +3%. Elemental Lightning Bolt / Lava Burst up, Voltaic Blaze / Purging Flames cleave down. Affliction Agony +40%. Unholy San’layn Inevitable 30% → 60% and Vampiric Strike +100%. Priest Mindgames +50%.

Full blue text is long — read your spec before you craft or swap for the Sept 22 reset. Winds of Mysterious Fortune still ends with that same Tuesday. Reset-live after NA is up.

Sources: Class Tuning Incoming – September 22 (Linxy) · Wowhead’s roundup · Icy Veins.