World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies

Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

Classes

• Monk
  
  • Fixed an issue causing Weapons of Order to incorrectly increase enemy damage taken from trinket and embellishment effects.
• Shaman
  
  • Enhancement
    
    • Fixed an issue where using Windstrike in Ascendance while talented into Legacy of the Frost Witch and Thorim’s Invocation was not properly resetting the cooldown of Windstrike when gaining the Legacy of the Frost Witch buff.
• Warlock
  
  • Demonology
    
    • Fixed an issue where Ripped through the Portal would not function on Magmorax’s platform.
    • Fixed an issue where Dread Calling would not function on Magmorax’s platform.
    • Fixed an issue where Infernal Command would not function on Magmorax’s platform.

Dungeons and Raids

• Mythic+
  
  • Neltharus
    
    • Forgemaster Gorek
      
      • [With weekly restarts] Reduced the duration of Blazing Aegis reduced to 4 seconds (was 6 seconds).
  • Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr
    
    • Bromach
      
      • [With weekly restarts] The health of Quaking totem has been reduced by 20%.
  • The Vortex Pinnacle
    
    • Asaad
      
      • [With weekly restarts] Reduced the health of Skyfall Nova by 10%.

Enemies and NPCs

• Zaralek Cavern
  
  • [With weekly restarts] The loot lockout now resets when the content in a given area of the map becomes available. Now, when world quests are visible in an area, the rare elite enemies in that area will also be available. Rare elite rewards have been increased to offset their reduced frequency.
    
    • Developers’ notes: Unlike Forbidden Reach, the rare elites in Zaralek Cavern are meant to be a bonus, rather than the primary activity.

Quests

• The extra Effervesta will not be present during the “Best Friends” quest chain.
• Fyrakk is looking for more folks to burninate during “Aiding the Accord: Suffusion Camp,” so this quest can now be offered to qualifying alts between levels 60 and 66 (was 67+).

Today, members of the WoW Community Council met with Classic devs to talk about the development of current content in Wrath Classic, as both a retrospective on Ulduar and a look forward to the Call of the Crusade.


Please feel free to continue the discussion here, and ask any follow-up questions that you might have.

Greetings raiders.

We will be addressing an emerging tactic that trivializes certain aspects of the Vigilant Steward, Zskarn encounter. We’re planning on implementing these changes live tomorrow, May 26.

We hope that these changes will encourage more interaction with the encounter’s existing mechanics, while maintaining its prior level of difficulty.

Dungeons and Raids

• Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
  
  • Developers’ note: The Zskarn changes address an emerging tactic that trivializes certain aspects of the encounter. We hope these changes will encourage more interaction with the encounter’s existing mechanics, while maintaining its prior level of difficulty.
  • The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn
    
    • The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn health reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Dragonfire Golem health reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Zskarn will now Berserk on all difficulties.
    • Adjusted the position of Dragonfire Traps.
    • Shrapnel Bomb reduced to 3 on Mythic difficulty (was 4).
    • Fixed an issue that could cause an inappropriate amount of Shrapnel Bombs to spawn.
    • Zskarn no longer activates Tactical Destruction based on his location.

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