Square Root Scaling: Targets uncapped.Players can expect to see multiple abilities in their toolkits with different AoE target caps. A 2 or 3 target cap on an ability would see a much different intended use for that ability than, for example, an ability with a cap of 5, 8, or 10.
This allows for a range of situational ability uses.
DPS and Heals players will also notice that different abilities have different target caps applied. The most lenient caps are to Tank abilities for obvious instanced content reasons Tanks need to be able to hold threat to do their jobs. While this is rather efficient for players, Blizzard would like to see a return to a more strategic paradigm by adding additional hard target caps to AoE abilities. This guide goes through all the AoE damage and healing spells, noting how many targets each of these abilities can hit in the Shadowlands expansion.Ĭurrently in Battle for Azeroth, players can pull huge numbers of mobs with AoE abilities and do damage to all of them. Going into Shadowlands, many new spells are receiving a hard-target cap, limiting the AoE damage capability of certain classes.
