Dragonflight Hotfixes - January 6, 2023

Dragonflight Hotfixes - January 6, 2023
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Classes

  • Evoker
    • Preservation
      • Fixed an unintended interaction between the Time of Need talent and Lifespark, the 4-piece tier set bonus.
  • Warlock
    • Demonology
      • Fixed an issue where Wrathful Minion and Demonic Inspiration would occasionally cause Warlocks to not generate the correct amount of Soul Shards outside of combat.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Adjusted various Arcane visuals in Court of Stars, Algathar Academy, and The Arcane Vaults to be more visible.
  • Court of Stars
    • Advisor Melandrus
      • Improved visual clarity for Piercing Gale.
  • Vault of the Incarnates
    • Dathea, Ascended
      • Reduced Thunderbolt’s damage by 33% on Heroic difficulty.
      • Reduced Thunder Caller’s health on lower group sizes on Heroic difficulty.
      • Reduced Cyclone’s damage on lower group sizes on Heroic and below difficulties.
      • Volatile Infusers no longer cast Unstable Gusts at low health on Heroic and below difficulties.
      • Zephyr Slam’s initial knockback distance reduced by 40% On Heroic and below difficulties.
    • Kurog Grimtotem
      • The damage from the elemental enemies’ Presence abilities during Kurog’s intermission now respect Avoidance. This is to keep them consistent with Kurog’s Dominance damage abilities respecting Avoidance.
  • Mythic+
    • The Nokhud Offensive
      • Granyth
        • Tectonic Stomp’s area of effect now correctly matches the visual on all difficulties.
      • Raging Tempest
        • Fixed an issue causing Surge of Power to damage players through immunities on all difficulties.
        • Surge of Power damage reduced by 80%.
        • Fixed an issue causing Surge of Power to not scale with keystone level.
          • Developers’ note: We are nerfing the damage of Surge of Power to compensate for fixing an issue that was causing Surge of Power damage to not scale with keystone level.
    • Ruby Life Pools
      • Thunderhead’s Storm Breath, Flamegullet’s Flame Breath, and Erkhart Stormvein’s Cloudburst no longer damage player pets or guardians.
    • Shadowmoon Burial Grounds
      • Sadana Bloodfury
        • Fixed an issue that caused Defiled Souls to regenerate health during the encounter.
        • Fixed an issue causing Dark Eclipse to kill pets.
        • Fixed an issue causing Defiled Souls to contribute to Enemy Forces.
      • Ner’Zul
        • Fixed an issue causing Ritual of Bones to not scale with keystone level.

Items and Rewards

  • We have slightly increased the amount of Primal Chaos gained from the Victorious Contender’s Strongbox at all ranks, but particularly at the lower ones, to help make it easier to earn enough for the Embellished PvP Crafted Gear.
  • Fixed an issue where Broodkeeper’s Promise would snapshot the caster’s Versatility for the buff’s full duration when calculating the heal.

Player versus Player

  • Classes
    • Evoker
      • Time Stop may no longer be cast on Mind Controlled targets.

Quests

  • Valdrakken
    • Deployed additional fixes for “Aiding the Accord: The Hunt is On" not always granting quest credit when completing a Grand Hunt.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Dragonflight Hotfixes - January 6, 2023 started by Lumy View original post
Published on 2023-01-07 02:38 AM
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  1. Morae's Avatar
    I want to point out again. What are these?

    "Surge of Power damage reduced by 80%."

    or even

    "Reduced Thunderbolt’s damage by 33% on Heroic difficulty."
    "Zephyr Slam’s initial knockback distance reduced by 40% On Heroic and below difficulties."

    How badly you balanced the game if you have to do so large nerfs?
  1. kamuimac's Avatar
    "Surge of Power damage reduced by 80%."

    top kek .

    tunign is fine guys . perfeckly fine to keep this for 3 weeks.
  1. Biomega's Avatar
    Do you people, like, not even read?

    Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
    Developers’ note: We are nerfing the damage of Surge of Power to compensate for fixing an issue that was causing Surge of Power damage to not scale with keystone level.
  1. Nereidaa's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Morae View Post
    I want to point out again. What are these?

    "Surge of Power damage reduced by 80%."

    or even

    "Reduced Thunderbolt’s damage by 33% on Heroic difficulty."
    "Zephyr Slam’s initial knockback distance reduced by 40% On Heroic and below difficulties."

    How badly you balanced the game if you have to do so large nerfs?
    Basically, enough decent players have defeated the encounter, so now they are making the mechanics survivable for casuals and pugs, so they don't have to use their brain and they can just bruteforce the encounter. It's not that it was badly tuned, it's just that bad players at some point gotta be allowed to win so they keep paying subscriptions. This is nothing new either, it's baffling that it still surprises anyone.
  1. Loveliest's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Morae View Post
    I want to point out again. What are these?

    [...]

    "Reduced Thunderbolt’s damage by 33% on Heroic difficulty."
    "Zephyr Slam’s initial knockback distance reduced by 40% On Heroic and below difficulties."

    How badly you balanced the game if you have to do so large nerfs?
    Tbh the Zephyr slam was a bit dicey. I tank with a warrior so if things go sideways for whatever reason, he can go for more than 3 stacks because he can charge / jump back. But not sure what others would do. When I first did this encounter, it was very tiresome and I felt like I was playing chess, calling out to everyone when to switch on boss, when to switch on adds, when to move and where to move, to make sure I don't get blown off when the adds die and it aligns with Zephyr. Now we do so much more damage, so it matters less, because we can afford a rez if something happens, but yeah.

    - - - Updated - - -

    Quote Originally Posted by kamuimac View Post
    "Surge of Power damage reduced by 80%."

    top kek .

    tunign is fine guys . perfeckly fine to keep this for 3 weeks.
    Not sure why people don't read the entire note. They say they nerfed it but now it scales with key level, so depending on your key level it may actually do more damage now than before.

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