Blizzard have adjusted the new dungeon, Altar of Fangs. The intention is to improve readability and room for player reactions throughout the dungeon, especially for the big abilities. Overall, this seems to be mostly nerfs, with delays to ability triggers, increased cooldowns, less frequent procs, HP decreases, and more. The changes are live already.
With hotfixes that are now live, we’ve made some adjustments in Altar of Fangs to improve the readability of key abilities and give players more time to respond during some of the dungeon’s more demanding moments, while preserving their intended challenge.
Dungeons
- Altar of Fangs
- Ravenous Descendant’s Ravenous now grants 10% attack speed per stack (was 20%), and movement speed reduced by 20%.
- Twinfang Harrower’s Paralyzing Shots initial damage reduced by 50%.
- Venom Leech’s Septic Spatter no longer creates a puddle at the leech’s corpse location.
- Ritual Chieftain’s Blood Sacrifice absorb reduced by 10%.
- Caustic Mist Totem’s Unstable Totem damage reduced by 10%.
- High Evolutionist’s Evolve cooldown increased, Envenom cast time increased to 3 seconds (was 2.5 seconds), and Mass Envenom cast time increased to 3.5 seconds (was 2.5 seconds).
- Bloodletter’ Bloodletting now procs less frequently.
- Ascendant Serpent health reduced by 10%.
- Rav’i
- Feeding Frenzy no longer increases the rate of Messy Eater and Carrion Burst.
- Fresh Meat piles now display a warning visual when Rav’i is close enough to eat from them.
- Hydrastrike damage reduced by 33%.
- Zul’jan
- The initial cast of Ritual of the Fang now occurs a few seconds later in the encounter.
- Ritual of the Fang cast time increased to 5 seconds (was 4 seconds).
- Fang Empowered damage reduced by 20%.