Big Mythic+ Dungeon Tuning Hotfixes: September 24th

Today with hotfixes, we’ve made several significant adjustments to dungeons.

Dungeons

• Siege of Boralus
  • Iron Tide Raider health reduced by 15%.
  • Bilge Rat Buccaneer health reduced by 10%.
  • Irontide Waveshaper health reduced by 20%.
  • Ashvane Sniper health reduced by 10%.
  • Scrimshaw Enforcer health reduced by 20%.
  • Bilge Rat Tempest’s Choking Waters cast time increased.
  • Iron Tide Raider’s Iron Hook ability cooldown increased.
  • Iron Tide Raider’s Iron Hook maximum range decreased.
  • Bilge Rat Demolisher Crushing Slam’s damage ignores armor and its damage has been reduced by 40%.
  • Bilge Rat Demolisher health reduced by 10%.
  • Dread Captain Lockwood
    • [hotfix not yet live] No longer faces players during Mass Bombardment.
    • [hotfix not yet live] Clear the Deck now has a cast visual.
  • Hadal Darkfathom
    • Health reduced by 5%.
  • Viq’Goth
    • Demolishing Terror’s Slam no longer knocks players back.
    • Demolishing Terror’s Slam damage now ignores armor.
    • Fixed an issue that caused the area effect when dispelling Putrid Waters to not scale in Mythic keystones.
    • Developers’ notes: The intent of these changes is to balance the overall length of the dungeon against the timer, while rewarding players for prioritizing high-threat enemies. The adjustments to Viq’goth aim to even out damage across all armor types and eliminate a frustrating aspect of the encounter.
• Grim Batol
  • Twilight Warlock’s Enveloping Shadowflame now targets 1 player (was 2).
  • Mutated Hatchling’s Shadow Wound increases Shadow damage taken by 3% per application (was 5%).
  • Faceless Corruptor’s Corrupt cast time increased and damage reduced by 10%.
  • Twilight Destroyer’s Twilight Ember area denial no longer inflicts damage instantly when stepping into the area.
  • Erudax
    • Reduced the visual scale of Erudax to improve visibility during the encounter.
    • Players afflicted with Depth’s Grasp have a brief immunity to Void Tendrils upon expiration.
    • Improved the visibility of Void Tendrils.
    • Mutated Hatchling’s Shadow Wound increases Shadow damage taken by 3% per application (was 5%).
• Necrotic Wake
  • Addressed an issue where players can be targeted by affixes while on their way back to the top platform during Nalthor the Rimebinder.
• Mists of Tirna Scithe
  • Mistcaller
    • Improved the visibility of the Vulpin summoned by Freeze Tag.
    • The range of Patty Cake has been increased.
• The Stonevault
  • [hotfix not yet live] Void Bound Howlers will now properly reset their health when leaving combat.
  • Master Machinists
    • Ability timing has been adjusted to prevent a potentially unfair overlaps between Exhaust Vents and Blazing Crescendo.
    • Molten Metal cast time increased to 3 seconds (was 2 seconds).
    • Silenced Speaker now inflicts damage every 3 seconds (was every 1.5 seconds).

User Interface

• Dungeon Finder
  • Addressed an issue where key level does not automatically populate for Siege of Boralus.

These changes will all appear in our next hotfixes update.