World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies

We’re working on a series of hotfixes to adjust class balance. We currently plan to implement the following changes with weekly maintenance (the morning of February 25 in this region):

Classes

• Druid
• Restoration
  
  • Rejuvenation now costs 10% base mana (from 10.5%).
  • Efflorescence now costs 17% base mana (from 21.6%).
  • Tranquility direct healing increased 11%.
    
    • Developers’ notes: These changes should improve Restoration Druid’s raid healing output, without much impact to their already strong capabilities in dungeons and Arenas.
• Hunter
• Marksmanship
  
  • Damage of all abilities increased by 5%.
• Monk
• Windwalker
  
  • Damage of all abilities increased by 5%.
• Mage
• Frost
  
  • Damage of all abilities increased by 5%.
• Shaman
• Enhancement
  
  • Damage of all abilities increased by 3%.
• Warlock
• Demonology
  
  • Damage of all abilities increased by 5%.

Player vs. Player

• Tank Specializations
  
  • Tank specialization player characters now take an additional 50% damage from enemy players (was 40%).
• Death Knight
• Unholy, Frost
  
  • Death Strike now heals for 20% of damage taken when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 40%).
  • Death Strike now heals for a minimum of 5% of maximum health when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 10%).
• Blood
  
  • Death Strike now heals for 12.5% of damage taken when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 25%).
  • Death Strike now heals for a minimum of 3.5% of maximum health when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 7%).
• Mage
• Frost
  
  • Ice Barrier now absorbs 40% less damage when engaged in combat with enemy players.
• Fire
  
  • Blazing Barrier now absorbs 40% less damage when engaged in combat with enemy players.
• Arcane
  
  • Prismatic Barrier now absorbs 40% less damage when engaged in combat with enemy players.
• Warlock
• Affliction, Destruction
  
  • Demon Armor now increases Stamina by 5% (was 10%).
  • Demon Armor now increases Armor by 90% (was 150%).

We’re working on a set of hotfixes to the game that should streamline upgrading your Legendary cloak via Horrific Visions.

• Coalescing Visions now drop in higher numbers from Assaults and Daily Quests.
• The Unique(5) inventory cap on Vessel of Horrific Visions has been removed, allowing you to carry as many Vessels as you like.
• Up to 4 Torn Pages of "Fear and Flesh" quest items can now drop in Horrific Visions from objectives on the rank 7-11 Legendary cloak upgrade quests (was a max of 2).
  
  • You’ll need to clear more than two sides areas in one run to get more than two pages. The rank 13-15 quests will still drop a max of 2 pages, only from Lost Area objectives.

These updates will go into effect with weekly maintenance (Tuesday, February 25 in this region).

Classes

• Monk
  
  • Windwalker
    
    • Resolved an issue that prevented Spinning Crane Kick from tracking the correct number of targets with your Mark of the Crane active.
      

Dungeons and Raids

• Return to Karazhan
  
  • Players should now appear in the instance’s entrance after zoning in.
    
• Ny’alotha, the Waking City
  
  • N'Zoth the Corruptor
    
    • Azeroth’s Radiance now properly restores Sanity to players who are under the effects of an Immunity spell on all difficulties.
      

Horrific Visions

• Fixed a rare issue where more than 2 Torn Page of "Fear and Flesh" could drop in a Horrific Vision.

Items and Rewards

• Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve’s active ability now resets its cooldown when a boss encounter ends.
  
  • Corrupted Items
    
    • Fixed a bug which prevented Void Ritual from scaling down to the level of the content in Timewalking.
      
  • Heart of Azeroth
    
    • Resolved an issue that prevented the correct visual effects of Worldvein Resonance Rank 4 from displaying.
      

Player versus Player

• Resolved an issue that allowed characters to remain as a Servant of N'Zoth while not in War Mode.
  
• The Alliance mount Vicious White Warsaber now correctly changes to Vicious White Bonesteed for Horde characters.

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