Raid Nerfs and Dungeon Tuning: Midnight Weekly Hotfix Summary, April 13 – 20

Classes

• Hunter
  • Fixed an issue causing Bestial Wrath to not deal damage if Bestial Wrath’s charge would put the Pet out of range.

Delves

• Reaching Midnight Season 1 Delver’s Journey Rank 10 will now properly reward the Void Breacher title.

Dungeons and Raids

• Algeth’ar Academy
  • Addressed an issue where Crawth’s Deafening Screech’s debuff could persist after the encounter ended.
  • Addressed an issue where Alpha Eagle could start casting Gust while still in the air.
• Maisara Caverns
  • Frenzied Berserker’s health reduced by 13%.
  • Keen Headhunter’s health reduced by 10%.
  • Resolved an issue causing Hollow Soulrender’s Frost Nova to occasionally inflict damage at the incorrect location.
  • Muro’jin and Nekraxx
    • Resolved an issue where Carrion Swoop could occasionally strike units behind Nekraxx or strike players twice.
  • Rak’tul
    • Spectral Residue duration increased to 40 seconds.
    • Additional applications of Spectral Residue no longer refresh the duration.
• Pit of Saron
  • Forgemaster Garfrost
    • Fixed an issue that could prevent Night Elf Vengeance Demon Hunters from being able to hide behind Saronite Ore.
• Seat of the Triumvirate
  • Addressed an issue where Merciless Subjugator’s Chains of Subjugation can be interrupted unintentionally.
  • Addressed an issue where some area of the dungeon is unintentionally empowering creatures.
  • Siphon Void in L’ura’s encounter is now marked as important.
  • Decimate in Zuraal the Ascended encounter now has an encounter warning.
• Skyreach
  • Target of Cast Down now has a debuff on their unit frame.
• Windrunner Spire
  • Commander Kroluk
    • Fixed an issue where Commander Kroluk could fail his jump based on his target’s location within his chamber.
• The Voidspire
  • Corrected an issue where the Lightblinded Vanguard could fail to appear after using the raid skip.
  • Fallen-King Salhadaar
    • Fixed an issue where Void Infusion could override the boss entering berserk phase.
  • Vaelgor & Ezzorak
    • Resolved an issue where Ezzorak could continue to fight the Lightbound Vanguard after Vaelgor and all players have perished.
    • Addressed an issue where the bosses could respawn atop the Devouring Stronghold instead of their arena.
  • Lightblinded Vanguard
    • Addressed an issue where using the raid skip can fail to spawn all three paladins for the encounter.
    • War Chaplain Senn’s Aura of Peace silence effect no longer triggers from Halo, Ice Lance, or Galactic Guardian Moonfire.
    • Resolved an issue where Execution Sentence’s vulnerability could sometimes not work in Mythic difficulty.
    • Health reduced by 5% on Mythic difficulty.
      • Developers’ notes: Our goal with this change is to encourage a greater diversity of raid compositions to succeed in the encounter.
  • Crown of the Cosmos
    • Alleria and Rift Simulacrum’s health reduced by 5% in Heroic difficulty.
    • Cosmic Barrier absorb amount reduced by 5% in Heroic difficulty.
    • Silverstrike Ricochet width increased to 5 yards in non-Mythic difficulties (was 4 yards).
    • Undying Voidspawn’s nearby player detection range has been reduced to 10 yards in non-Mythic difficulties (was 15 yards).
• March on Quel’danas
  • Belo’ren, Child of Al’ar
    • Belo’ren’s Stage Two health has been reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Ashen Benediction has been reduced to 5% per stack on all difficulties (was 10%).
    • Reduced the frequency of Guardian’s Edict casts over the course of the encounter on all difficulties.
  • Midnight Falls
    • L’ura’s health reduced by 5% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Termination Matrix
      • Terminate applications reduced to 4 (was 5).
      • Terminate cast time increased to 2 seconds (was 1.5 seconds).
    • Heaven’s Glaives
      • Blades per cast reduced to 5 on Heroic and Mythic difficulties (was 6).
      • Max duration reduced to 2 minutes on Heroic and Mythic difficulties (was 3 minutes).
    • Grim Symphony
      • Melody can no longer repeat the same Dark Rune twice.
      • Second cast now spins clockwise (was counter-clockwise).
      • Eclipsed heal absorb reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
      • Overkill Current damage reduced by 20% on Heroic difficulty.
      • The final cast of Criticality now triggers 2 Tears of L’ura per Dawn Crystal (was 3).
      • Dark Constellation precast time increased to 2.5 seconds on Mythic difficulty (was 2 seconds).

Items

• Light’s Preservation potion now provides more healing.

Quests

• Fixed a bug where players were unable to collect handfuls of sand from Loosened Sand piles in Vol’dun for “The Fragrance of the Dunes”.