Class and Dungeon Tuning and New Fixes: War Within 11.2 Hotfixes, August 19th

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Frost
    • Fixed an issue causing Legion Artifact appearance transmogrifications to cause some spells to fail to deal damage.
    • Fixed an issue causing Frostreaper’s tether to fail to sever against large enemies.
  • Unholy
    • Rider of the Apocalypse: Fixed an issue causing Chains of Ice from King Thoras Trollbane to sometimes fail to apply Chains of Ice to large enemies.
• Demon Hunter
  • Fel-Scarred: Fixed an issue that prevented demon soul fragments generated by 4-piece tier set from applying their effect when consumed by casting Spirit Bomb.
• Druid
  • Balance
    • Keeper of the Grove: Fixed an issue with Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 4-piece causing damage dealt to absorb shields to not count towards damage dealt while your dryad is active.
• Mage
  • Fire
    • All damage dealt increased by 4%.
    • Flamestrike damage increased by 8%.
• Paladin
  • Retribution
    • All damage increased by 5%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
• Priest
  • Shadow
    • Fixed an issue causing Shadow Crash to not apply Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch to targets not in line of sight of the Priest.
    • Fixed an issue preventing the spell visuals for the Idol of C’Thun talent.
• Rogue
  • Fatebound: Fixed an issue that could cause the 4-piece class set’s skill cooldown reduction effects to apply twice under certain conditions.
  • Assassination
    • Fixed an issue that allowed Caustic Spatter to directly benefit from effects that provide damage bonus to all Rogue damage abilities.
• Shaman
  • Enhancement
    • Stormbringer: Fixed an issue causing Static Accumulation to not continue to generate Maelstrom Weapon stacks if Ascendance was cast while Ascendance was already active.
• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • • All damage dealt reduced by 3%. Does not affect PvP.
• Warrior
  • Arms
    • All damage dealt increased by 8%. Does not apply to PvP combat.

Delves

• In the Spiral Weave delve variant Down to Size, Web Bombs will no longer disappear upon entering combat.

Dungeons and Raids

• Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
  • Avanoxx
    • Gossamer Onslaught’s missile damage reduced by 50%.
  • Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
    • Mythic+ timer increased to 35 minutes (was 34 minutes).
    • O.S.T. Master
      • Now starts gaining energy after 12 seconds of casting Unstable Goods (was 6 seconds).
    • Myza’s Oasis
      • Total number of enemy waves reduced to 2 (was 3).
      • Commander Zo’far
      • Health reduced by 16%.
      • Enemy forces value increased by 25%.
  • Manaforge Omega
    • The Soul Hunters
      • The Hunt damage reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty.
      • Consume healing absorb reduced by 15% in Mythic difficulty.
      • Dark Residue damage reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty.
      • Soulcrush healing absorb reduced by 15% in Mythic difficulty.
      • Immolation Aura damage reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty.
    • Forgeweaver Araz
      • Health of Forgeweaver Araz reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty.
      • Photon Blast cast time increased to 2 seconds (was 1 second) in Mythic difficulty.
      • Astral and Void Manifestation health reduced by 30% in Mythic difficulty.
      • Astral and Void Manifestation movement speed reduced in Mythic difficulty.
      • Increased time allowed before Containment Breach to 10 seconds (was 3 seconds).
      • Prime Sequence movement speed and number of missiles reduced.
    • Fractillus
      • Fractillus health reduced by 8% in Mythic difficulty.
      • Crystal Lacerations damage reduced by 20%.
      • Shockwave Slam now increases Physical damage taken.

Items

• Fixed an issue where K’areshi Voidstone would not grant additional Mage armor appearances.

Player versus Player

• The 2-piece bonus from equipping Gladiator’s Medallion and Gladiator’s Emblem now grants an additional 5% stamina in PvP combat.
  • Developers’ note: This is intended to slightly increase the time it takes to kill an enemy in PvP combat, to give players more time to react to incoming burst.
• Death Knight
  • Anti-Magic Zone reduces magic damage taken by 30% in PvP combat (was 15%).
  • Frost
    • Deathbringer: Reaper’s Mark damage reduced by 25% in PvP combat.
  • Unholy
    • Death Coil damage reduced by 10% in PvP combat.
• Druid
  • Druids who reached Combatant II during War Within Season 3 should now be granted the Elite legs appearance.
  • Balance
    • Whirling Stars reduces Celestial Alignment or Incarnation: Chosen of Elune duration by 30% in PvP combat (was 20%).
    • Damage of spells and abilities reduced by 4% in PvP combat.
• Mage
  • Frostfire: Frostfire Bolt damage reduced by 13% in PvP combat.
  • Frostfire: Isothermic Core’s Comet Storm is called down at 150% effectiveness in PvP combat (was 200%).
  • Arcane
    • Sunfury: Arcane Soul now increases the damage of Arcane Barrage by 5% per stack in PvP (was 15%).
  • Fire
    • Hyperthermia’s stacking damage bonus to Pyroblast and Flamestrike reduced to 5% per stack in PvP combat (was 15%).
• Rogue
  • Fatebound: Fatebound Coin (Tails) and Lucky Coin damage reduced by 33% in PvP combat.

Quests

• “Tranquila-Bee” is now completable again.