We have a gigantic batch of hotfixes today, bringing not only the announced class and dungeon tuning, but a LOT more.
We have Delve and raid nerfs coming in as well, with Forgeweaver, Nexus-King and Dimensius all affected. There are also item changes and more, so let’s dive in.
Classes
- Death Knight
- Blood
- All damage increased by 6%.
- Boneshield Armor increased by 10%.
- Blood
- Druid
- Balance
- All damage increased by 5%. Does not affect PvP combat.
- Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 2-piece: Starfire damage increased by 15% (was 20%). Does not affect PvP combat.
- Elune’s Chosen: Boundless Moonlight’s Fury of Elune flash damage reduced by 10%. Does not affect PvP combat.
- Elune’s Chosen: Minor Moon damage reduced by 10%. Does not affect PvP combat.
- Balance
- Evoker
- Augmentation
- Command Squadron (Scalecommander 2-piece) Disintegrate damage increased by 10%.
- Scalecommander: Bombardments damage increased by 25%.
- Devastation
- Deep Breath damage increased by 20%. Does not affect PvP combat.
- Command Squadron (Scalecommander 2-piece) Disintegrate damage increased by 10%.
- Scalecommander: Bombardments damage increased by 25%.
- Preservation
- Deep Breath damage increased by 20%. Does not affect PvP combat.
- Augmentation
- Hunter
- Beast Mastery
- All damage dealt increased by 4%. Does not affect PvP combat.
- Deathblow updated. Kill Command’s chance to grant Deathblow to Beast Mastery Hunter increased to 20% (was 10%).
- Dark Ranger: The Bell Tolls damage bonus increased to 8% (was 6%).
- Dark Ranger: Phantom Pain damage share increased to 80% (was 30%).
- Dark Ranger: Bleak Powder damage increased by 25%. Does not affect PvP combat.
- Marksmanship
- Fixed an issue causing Withering Fire’s arrow barrage to fire an inconsistent number of arrows.
- Withering Fire will now fire at your primary target when it has no nearby enemies to apply Black Arrow’s periodic effect to.
- Beast Mastery
- Monk
- Mistweaver
- Master of Harmony: Fixed an issue that caused Ancient Teachings healing to not be increased by Coalescence.
- Mistweaver
- Paladin
- Retribution
- Resolved an issue causing Divine Toll to be cast twice.
- Retribution
- Priest
- Holy
- Heal healing increased by 12%. Not applied to PvP combat.
- Halo healing increased by 40%.
- Archon: Empowered Surges increases the healing done by Flash Heals affected by Surge of Light by 45% (was 30%).
- Discipline
- Atonement heals for 33% of damage done (was 28%).
- Atonement healing is increased by 100% outside of raid (was 125%).
- Holy
Delves
- Fixed a bug causing Twisted Mana Sprite’s overheal absorb values to be much higher than intended.
- Mercenary Aquisitionist
- Borrow Power damage reduced by 17%.
- Mercenary Acquisitionist will no longer cast Borrow Power while the existing shield is still active.
- Borrow Power damage increase reduced by 25%.
- Nexus-Princess Ky’veza
- Nether Rift damage reduced for larger groups on all difficulties.
- Nexus Daggers now spawns 3 additional phantoms (was 4), and time between phantoms increased to 1 second (was 0.75 seconds) on [?] difficulty.
- Dark Massacre time between phantoms increased to 2 seconds (was 1.5 seconds) on [?] difficulty.
Dungeons and Raids
- Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
- Trilling Attendant
- Resonant Barrage initial cooldown increased, ability cooldown increased by 50%, and periodic damage reduced by 12.5%.
- Engorged Crawler
- Venomous Spit ability cooldown increased by 40%.
- Avanoxx
- Starved Crawler health reduced by 20%.
- Gossamer Onslaught periodic damage reduced by 17%.
- Anub’zekt
- Addressed an issue with Eye of the Swarm, where the rim visual is larger than the actual safe zone.
- Trilling Attendant
- Halls of Atonement
- Reduced the numbers of Depraved Obliterators and Depraved Collectors near each Shard of Halkias.
- Reduced the density of creatures in the courtyard before Echelon.
- Enemy forces requirement reduced by 10%.
- Stoneborn Slasher enemy force value increased by 50%.
- Manaforge Omega
- Fixed an issue where the teleport option to Central Operations became unavailable if players activated the raid skip after already unlocking this teleport location.
- Forgeweaver Araz
- Arcane Obliteration will now still cast even if the target dies early.
- Arcane Siphon damage reduced in Mythic difficulty.
- Arcane Harvest and Silencing Tempest targeting updated to de-prioritize targeting tanks and to reduce the possibility of targets being selected by both of these abilities at once.
- Nexus-King Salhadaar
- Stage One: Oath-Breakers
- Command: Besiege now activates 9 Fractal Images (was 12), and time between each activation increased to 1.375 seconds (was 1 second) on Mythic difficulty.
- Banishment damage reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
- Invoke the Oath damage reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
- Intermission One: Nexus Descent
- Manaforged Titan health reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
- Nexus-Prince health reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
- Shadowguard Reaper health reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
- Stage One: Oath-Breakers
- Dimensius
- Cosmic Radiation damage reduced by 10% in Stage One and Stage Three on Mythic difficulty.
- Fission damage reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
- Living Mass, Voidwarden, and Nullbinder health reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
- Crushing Gravity damage reduced by 25% on Mythic difficulty.
- Reverse Gravity now targets 4 players (was 6) on Mythic difficulty.
- Gamma Burst pushback strength reduced on Mythic difficulty.
- Black Hole radius reduced on Mythic difficulty.
- Interval between Shadowquake impacts slightly increased on Mythic difficulty.
Items and Rewards
- Timewalking Stonecore items should now drop at the correct item level when obtained at max level.
- Nexus-King’s Command’s spell visual orb from Oath-Bound is now hidden while out of combat.
- The Manaforge Vandals raid Renown “Attuned to the Aether” effect at rank 6 is now limited to weapon enchantments only and also increases the power of Death Knight Runeforge effects by 10%. The effect tooltip will temporarily be incorrect, until it is updated with a future hotfix.
- Fixed an issue where the Manaforge Vandals ‘view Renown’ button would remain locked after completing “Meet the Vandals”.
Player versus Player
- Stamina granted from the PvP trinket Set Bonus increased by 5% for all roles.
- Death Knight
- Frost
- Shattering Blade damage decreased by 50% in PvP combat.
- Frost Fever damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
- Frost
- Druid
- Feral
- All damage increased by 4% in PvP combat.
- Balance
- Keeper of the Grove: Dream Burst damage reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
- Elune’s Chosen: Lunar Calling increases Starfire damage to its primary target by 80% was 128%) in PvP combat.
- Feral
- Evoker
- Preservation
- Chrono Flame’s maximum damage increased from the 4-piece class set reduced to 325% spell power in PvP combat (was 450% spell power).
- Preservation
- Hunter
- Survival
- Flanking Strike damage decreased by 20% in PvP combat.
- Survival
- Mage
- Arcane
- Arcane Harmony now increases the damage of Arcane Barrage by 2% per stack in PvP combat (was 5%).
- Intuition now increases the damage of Arcane Barrage by 20% in PvP combat (was 50%).
- Improved Touch of the Magi now causes Nether Flux to increase the damage of your next spell by an additional 10% (was 25%).
- All damage increased by 6% in PvP combat.
- Sunfury: Glorious Incandescence now increases the damage of Arcane Barrage by 10% in PvP combat (was 20%).
- Sunfury: Meteorites damage from Arcane Phoenix reduced by 38% in PvP combat.
- Sunfury: Greater Pyroblast damage from Arcane Phoenix reduced by 33% in PvP combat.
- Sunfury: Arcane Surge damage from Arcane Phoenix reduced by 33% in PvP combat.
- Frost
- Glacial Spike damage increased by 40% in PvP combat.
- All damage increased by 5% in PvP combat.
- Arcane
- Monk
- Mistweaver
- Rushing Wind Kick damage decreased by 50% in PvP combat.
- Mistweaver
- Paladin
- Retribution
- Hammer of Light damage decreased by 15% in PvP combat.
- Retribution
- Priest
- Discipline
- Power Word: Shield absorption increased by 20% in PvP combat.
- Atonement healing increased by 12.5% in PvP combat.
- Discipline
- Rogue
- Subtlety
- Shadow Blades now causes attacks to deal 5% additional damage as Shadow in PvP combat (was 10%).
- All damage increased by 6% in PvP combat.
- Subtlety
- Shaman
- Elemental
- Earth Shock damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
- Stormbringer: Tempest damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.
- Elemental
- Warrior
- Arms
- All damage increased by 4% in PvP combat.
- Arms