WoW Hotfixes - November 15, 2023, Samwise Didier - Why He Left Blizzard

WoW Hotfixes - November 15, 2023
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Classes

  • Evoker
    • Augmentation
      • Ebon Might now properly benefits from the 4-piece class set bonus from Aberrus as well as Close as Clutchmates.
  • Hunter
    • Hunter pet attacks now scale with weapon attack power.
    • Kill Command, Bite, Claw, Smack, Flanking Strike, Froststorm Breath, and Burrow Attack damage reduced by 32.5%.
      • Developers’ notes: In a recent hotfix aimed at correcting an issue with Augmentation Evokers and their damage logging, we adjusted how Hunter pet damage is calculated. A side effect of this was that Hunter pet attacks started scaling with weapon attack power, increasing the damage of a Hunter pet's special attacks by about 32.5% at 450 item level. This is actually something we would like to retain, as it means that Hunter pet damage will now benefit from weapon upgrades.
    • Mend Pet and Revive Pet are now separate pet utility buttons and are no longer automatically swapped back and forth based on your pet's state. This is a temporary change to resolve some issues with interactions between Call of the Wild, Mend Pet, and Revive Pet. Mend Pet can be found in the "Pet Utility" flyout menu in the main Hunter spellbook.
  • Rogue
    • Outlaw
      • Fixed an errant interaction that caused Soulrip to apply without the rogue dealing combat damage.
  • Warlock
    • Fixed an issue where damage from Dimensional Rift would not break Fear effects.
    • Demonology
      • Resolved an issue causing Malefic Impact to not grant the proper amount of critical strike chance to Hand of Gul'dan.

Dragonriding

  • Fixed an issue where Ride Along passenger whelps were animated incorrectly.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Amirdrassil
    • Smolderon
      • Reduced the duration of Smoldering Ground puddles to 2.5 minutes (was 5 minutes) on Raid Finder difficulty.
    • Volcoross
      • Fixed an issue that caused Shadowstrike to teleport Subtlety Rogues into the lava.
  • Antorus the Burning Throne
    • Resolved an issue causing Foul Steps to remain on players after defeating the Eonar the Life-Binder encounter.
  • Dawn of the Infinite
    • Fixed an issue that caused Coalesced Time and Timestream Leech to be Arcane damage, instead of the intended Physical damage.
  • The Everbloom
    • Reduced the effectiveness of Enraged Growth on players.
  • Throne of the Tides
    • Fixed an issue that allowed players to line of sight Commander Ulthok's Festering Shockwave.

Items

  • Cataclysmic Signet Brand’s self-damage effect can no longer be dispelled.
  • The Porcelain Crab trinket from Throne of the Tides should no longer drop for non-melee classes.

Player versus Player

  • The Battleground Blitz brawl no longer grants progress toward the PvP quest “Proving in Battle”, which is intended to reward participation in random battlegrounds.
  • Shaman who reached Combatant I during Dragonflight Season 3 should now be granted the Elite cloak appearance.
  • Priest
    • Discipline
      • Fixed an issue that caused the Guardians of the Dream 2-piece tier set to not extend Atonements while using the Trinity PvP talent.

Superbloom

  • The Emerald Bounty location for Whisperbloom planting should now be available at all times, and not just during the Superbloom.

WoW Classic Era

  • [With realm restarts] Fixed an issue that prevented respeccing from refunding all of the character’s talent points as expected.

Samwise Didier - Why He Left Blizzard
Samwise Didier has uploaded a YouTube video, sharing the reasons why he decided to retire from Blizzard after his impressive 32-year journey.

This article was originally published in forum thread: WoW Hotfixes - November 15, 2023, Samwise Didier - Why He Left Blizzard started by Lumy View original post
Published on 2023-11-16 02:10 AM
14 Comments
Comments 14 Comments
  1. OokOok's Avatar
    No one is surprised by these hunter nerfs,

    But it is hilarious Blizzard has been doing PTR servers since TBC and yet still they don't listen to feedback. Pet dmg was reported as high, sims were done, tier lists on youtube were done, it was analyzed...once again PLAYERS DID THE DEVELOPERS JOBS! and yet still....it made it......to live...

    And this is why I have 0 sympathy for Blizz developers when they get fired.
  1. Neotart's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by OokOok View Post
    No one is surprised by these hunter nerfs,

    But it is hilarious Blizzard has been doing PTR servers since TBC and yet still they don't listen to feedback. Pet dmg was reported as high, sims were done, tier lists on youtube were done, it was analyzed...once again PLAYERS DID THE DEVELOPERS JOBS! and yet still....it made it......to live...

    And this is why I have 0 sympathy for Blizz developers when they get fired.
    Yup...Blizzard has no idea.
  1. Eapoe's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by OokOok View Post
    No one is surprised by these hunter nerfs,

    But it is hilarious Blizzard has been doing PTR servers since TBC and yet still they don't listen to feedback. Pet dmg was reported as high, sims were done, tier lists on youtube were done, it was analyzed...once again PLAYERS DID THE DEVELOPERS JOBS! and yet still....it made it......to live...

    And this is why I have 0 sympathy for Blizz developers when they get fired.
    Not nerfed, fixed. Time will also show whether this change is going to be neutral or a positive at higher ilvls, since pets scale off of AP now.
  1. crusadernero's Avatar
    Hah, I knew something was up last night when I did m+ runs on my BM hunter. Fun while it lasted!
  1. Allegresse's Avatar
    Not surprised by the hunter nerfs but annoyed that now my hunter will have to have action bars rearranged because of the seperation of Mend Pet and Revive since I have my keys set up and memorized until now.

    Still waiting for Blizz to say SOMETHING or actually fix the damn Great Vault bug that I've seen hundreds of posts about on the forums and have experienced myself with my characters. They need to fix it before the reset next week that's for sure.
  1. panda040's Avatar
    Always hilarious seeing arguably the easiest class to play in the game doing the top damage.
  1. Matsudah's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Eapoe View Post
    Not nerfed, fixed. Time will also show whether this change is going to be neutral or a positive at higher ilvls, since pets scale off of AP now.
    In PVP we already played with 473-476 weapons and the spec/damage felt decent but not unbelievably good at all (MM had higher damage and the meta classes too), 32,5% pet and KC damage nerf will just delete the specc, AGAIN.
  1. Pakheth's Avatar
    I'm actually glad they split Mend Pet and Revive. Ever since DF launched there has been this weird bug that made the spell claim your pet was either dead or alive when it wasn't making you unable to either heal or revive your pet. So if splitting the ability is what fixes the issue then I am fine with that.
  1. Alanar's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Allegresse View Post
    Not surprised by the hunter nerfs but annoyed that now my hunter will have to have action bars rearranged because of the seperation of Mend Pet and Revive since I have my keys set up and memorized until now.

    Still waiting for Blizz to say SOMETHING or actually fix the damn Great Vault bug that I've seen hundreds of posts about on the forums and have experienced myself with my characters. They need to fix it before the reset next week that's for sure.
    Its 1 extra button?
  1. Quixef's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Matsudah View Post
    In PVP we already played with 473-476 weapons and the spec/damage felt decent but not unbelievably good at all (MM had higher damage and the meta classes too), 32,5% pet and KC damage nerf will just delete the specc, AGAIN.
    It's not a 32.5% nerf compared to patch launch, its a 32.5% nerf compared to 24 hours ago when augment evoker & BM interaction was fixed. As they inadvertently buffed pet damage by that much while doing that so they just took it back to patch launch level-ish, but now pet damage will scale with weapon ilvl so its better for the future.

    ilvl 450 - 1.5% nerf
    ilvl 480 - neutral
    ilvl 483+ - tiny buff
  1. Matsudah's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Quixef View Post
    It's not a 32.5% nerf compared to patch launch, its a 32.5% nerf compared to 24 hours ago when augment evoker & BM interaction was fixed. As they inadvertently buffed pet damage by that much while doing that so they just took it back to patch launch level-ish, but now pet damage will scale with weapon ilvl so its better for the future.

    ilvl 450 - 1.5% nerf
    ilvl 480 - neutral
    ilvl 483+ - tiny buff
    Are you sure about this? (I understand much better you than the original post btw).
  1. Kallisto's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Eapoe View Post
    Not nerfed, fixed. Time will also show whether this change is going to be neutral or a positive at higher ilvls, since pets scale off of AP now.
    For BM it's lower ilevel is slightly nerfed, higher ilevel slightly buffed.
  1. Daan's Avatar
    BM Hunter is still broken.
  1. Tupolew519's Avatar
    We're gonna miss him so much.

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