
This means that AoE healing spells will no longer gain additional healing past 6 targets, but the spell will split the healing equally across all targets hit (excluding player pets). Similarly for healing, the default for healing spells is soft-capped at 6 targets. This means that AoE damage spells will no longer gain additional damage past 20 targets, but the spell would split the damage equally across all targets.
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In Patch 5.2 in Mists of Pandaria, Blizzard changed the way AoE damage caps work by adding a soft-cap at 20 targets. 2,000 total damage.Įffects that "Meteor" effectively have a Soft-Cap of 1 as the damage does not increase, the damage is split equally among all available targets.

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.
