World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies

Dungeons and Raids

• The Everbloom
  
  • Addressed an issue where Witherbark can reset during the encounter.
    
• Throne of the Tides
  
  • Addressed an issue where Naz'jar Tempest Witch can cast Lightning Surge while mind-controlled.
    
• Waycrest Manor
  
  • Addressed an issue where Pallid Gorger can ignore players and run away.
    
  • Reduced Pallid Gorger's melee damage by 66%.
    
  • Heartsbane Triad
    
    • Added an additional safeguard to ensure Aura of Dread is removed.
      

WoW Classic Era

• Paladin
  
  • Fixed an issue where Seal of Righteousness ranks 4 and higher did less damage than rank 3. This fix has been applied to Season of Discovery and Classic Era.
    

WoW Classic: Season of Discovery

• Druid
  
  • Starsurge was incorrectly getting 30% additional critical strike chance when Eclipse (Lunar) was active. It now only gets 30% increased critical strike chance from Eclipse (Solar).
    
• Hunter
  
  • Chimera Shot - Scorpid is now properly mitigated by Weapon Chains and reduction to Disarm effects.
    
• Paladin
  
  • Fixed an issue where Seal of Righteousness ranks 4 and higher did less damage than rank 3. This fix has been applied to Season of Discovery and Classic Era.
    
• Priest
  
  • Spirit of Redemption will no longer be prevented from triggering for Priests whose Dispersion or Pain Suppression is on cooldown.
    
  • Each Priest now correctly creates their own separate stack of Mind Spike effects on the target, and consumes only their own stack.
    
  • Fixed an issue where Prayer of Mending was double dipping with Spiritual Healing, and was also increasing by 10% per bounce on top of that.
    
• Shaman
  
  • Fixed an issue where the benefit of Dual Wield Specialization rune could be lost for Shamans when swapping weapon configurations.
    
  • Fixed an issue where Stormstrike would sometimes do offhand damage despite no offhand equipped.
    
  • The range on Decoy Totem is now the correctly intended 30 yards, matching the radius of its effect preventing movement impairment.
    
• Warlock
  
  • Subjugate Demon used against players in Metamorphosis now has a 10 second duration, with diminishing duration like other crowd-control effects used on players. It is considered a Charm effect like Mind Control.
    
• Stranglethorn Vale PvP Event
  
  • Warlocks and Hunters participating in the Blood Moon will now resurrect with their last active pet.
    
  • Fixed an interaction with Blood Moon and Spirit of Redemption resurrecting the fallen Priest earlier than intended.
    
  • Fixed an issue with Blood Coin turn-ins when a player is the victim of Subjugate Demon or Mind Control.
    
  • Drained of Blood during the Blood Moon event now also grants immunity to movement impairing effects.
    
  • Fixed an issue where stacks of Blood for the Blood Loa could sometimes exceed the intended 255.
    
  • The Chosen of the Blood Loa will now be visible in the spirit world.
    

With scheduled weekly maintenance in each region, we’ll make the following adjustments to a few classes in Season of Discovery.

Druid

• Swipe now scales with attack power, gaining 10% of attack power as damage. Threat caused by Swipe has been greatly increased.
• The Berserk rune now also causes Lacerate to hit 3 targets.
• The duration of Rip has been increased to 16 seconds (was 12 seconds).
• The next Starfire cast after the Starsurge rune ability now has its damage increased to 80% (was 66%).
  
  • Corrected a bug causing this bonus damage to be lower than intended at level 40.

Shaman

• The Dual-Wield Specialization rune now provides 50% bonus damage to your offhand weapon swings.
• Lava Lash now gains 50% increased damage if Flametongue Weapon is imbued on your offhand.
• The proc chance of Maelstrom Weapon is now roughly 50% higher when your main hand weapon or your two-hand weapon is imbued with Windfury Weapon.

Mage

• Conjure Water (Rank 5) will now conjure a full stack of 20 with each cast (was 2).
  
  • Developers’ notes: The tooltip will still indicate that only 2 are conjured. We hope to adjust the tooltip in the future.

Paladin

• Art of War now reduces the mana cost of Exorcism and Holy Shock by 80% when active.
• Beacon of Light base mana cost has been greatly decreased.

The Paladin changes above were activated on all Season of Discovery realms yesterday, February 14. In this region, the rest of the changes above will go live on February 20.

Dungeons and Raids

• Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope
  
  • Tindral Sageswift
    
    • Addressed an issue where players who teleport out of the raid before the encounter ends can sometimes cause them to be stranded in The Great Sea.
      
• Atal'Dazar
  
  • Addressed an issue where a mind-controlled Dazar'ai Confessor's Dispel can remove an ally's Challenger's Might.
    
• Darkheart Thicket
  
  • Removed randomized spawn of enemies before Archdruid Glaidalis.
    
• Dawn of the Infinite: Rise of Murozond
  
  • Addressed an issue where Grommash Hellscream can melee players while leaping in the air before Bladestorm.
    
  • Addressed an issue where Battle Senses can trigger from Shockwave.
    
• Waycrest Manor
  
  • Addressed an issue where Heartsbane Triad's associated auras can fail to fall off.
    
  • Addressed an issue where Sister Solena does not lose the Soul Manipulation debuff if the mind-controlled player dies.
    
  • Addressed an issue where Pallid Gorgers can sometimes melee players during Ravaging Leap.
    
  • The spawning of Heartsbane Runeweavers and Heartsbane Soulcharmers are now consistent each week.
    

Love is in the Air

• Fixed an issue causing Love is in the Air daily quests to be removed from the quest log when logging out.

WoW Classic: Season of Discovery

• Corrected an issue where players leaving a party sometimes lost their stacks of Blood for the Blood Loa.
• The Blood Moon now increases the health of participants by 30%.
• Resurrection from Chained Spirits during the Blood Moon event now also grants players 100% of their mana.
• Blood Moon-averse Zandalarian Emissaries will now ward players in the far-off lands of Ratchet, Tirisfal Glades, and Duskwood.
• The scoreboards during the Blood Moon event should now be more responsive in activating and deactivating when the event starts and ends.
• Druid
  
  • Fixed an issue where Berserk was not discounting the energy cost of abilities learned from runes such as Savage Roar, Sunfire, and Skull Bash.
  • Starsurge visual corrected to not hit the caster as well as the target.
  • Savage Roar visual no longer has a Challenging Roar animation attached to the cast.
  • Eclipse now properly reduces spell pushback on Wrath and Starfire.
• Paladin
  
  • Fixed an issue where Guarded by the Light’s effect could be cancelled by the player.
• Priest
  
  • Fixed a bug that caused Void Plague to benefit more from spell power than intended.
  • Fixed a bug that made it possible for a Priest to place two copies of Renew on a target.
• Shaman
  
  • Power Surge gained during a Lava Burst, Lightning Bolt, or Chain Lighting cast will no longer be consumed by that cast (since it does not benefit).
• Warlock
  
  • Fixed an issue with Fear ranks 2 and 3 not changing into Menace properly while Metamorphosis is active.
  • Fixed an issue where Dance of the Wicked was giving an incorrect amount of mana back.
• Gnomeregan
  
  • Electrocutioner 6000
    
    • Players can no longer out range or use line of sight to prevent the cast or chain effect of Static Arc.
  • Mechanical Menagerie
    
    • The fight now resets properly if one of the bosses was in self-repair mode when the fight resets.
  • Rig Wars
    
    • Thermaplugg’s Safe will now spawn under one of the Bomb Dispensers after defeating Mekgineer Thermaplugg.

Beginning February 16, the keystone timers will count down for the 2024 Dragonflight Season 3 Mythic Dungeon International! Watch the Groups Stage Tournament on Twitch and YouTube to see how fast the dungeoneers can go!

The Mythic Dungeon International is back! The premiere Mythic+ Dungeon speedrunning format has returned to challenge the world’s most elite teams in a more competitive format than ever before.

This season, the Top 16 teams from the Time Trials earned a spot in the Groups Stage Tournaments. Tune in each weekend of the Groups Stage Tournament to witness eight teams speedrunning dungeons in the head-to-head format filled with epic action and innovative strategies, with the fastest four teams qualifying to compete in the Global Finals.


Details

• Venue: Online: Twitch.tv/Warcraft and YouTube.com/Warcraft
  
  • German: https://www.Twitch.tv/Kimuh
    
  • Spanish: https://www.Twitch.tv/Phobyac
    
• Co-Streaming: Co-streaming is returning in 2024! The MDI Watch Party registration is now open—check with your favorite competitor to see if they are streaming their POV during the tournament and host a co-stream! Use the MDI Watch Party Form to sign up for an MDI Watch Party.

• Date:
  
  • Group A: February 16–18
    
  • Group B: February 23–25
    
  • Global Finals: March 8–10
    
• Broadcast Start Time: 10:00am (PT) / 7:00pm (CET)
  
• Format: Double Elimination, Best-of-3. Grand Finals, Best-of-5.

Competing Teams and Groups


Talent

• DoA
  
• Dratnos
  
• Meeix
  
• Naguura
  
• Rookuri
  
• Tettles
  
• Xyronic

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