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Patch 4.2 Hotfixes - September 20
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
September 20

Dungeons & Raids
Firelands
  • Hell Hound Rend Flesh damage has been reduced by 25%.
  • The damage multiplier granted by energy to Unstable Magma has been reduced by 50%.
  • Alysrazor
    • Health and damage have been reduced by 25% on normal difficulty. Health and damage have been reduced by 15% on Heroic difficulty.
    • Alysrazor now drops 1 additional feather in 10-player mode and 2 additional feathers in 25-player mode in all cycles.
    • The Wings of Flame buff duration on Alysrazor is now uniformly 30 seconds.
    • Alysrazor’s Fiery Tornados now move slower.
  • Baleroc
    • Health and damage have been reduced by 25% on normal difficulty. Health and damage have been reduced by 15% on Heroic difficulty.
    • Baleroc now swings 25% slower while Decimation Blade is active.
    • The duration of Tormented has been reduced on normal difficulty.
  • Beth'tilac
    • Beth'tilac's health and damage have been reduced by 15% on both normal and Heroic difficulty.
  • Lord Rhyolith
    • Health and damage have been reduced by 15% on both normal and Heroic difficulty.
    • The health and damage of additional enemies in this encounter have been reduced by 15% on both normal and Heroic difficulty.
  • Majordomo Fandral Staghelm
    • Health and damage have been reduced by 25% on normal difficulty. Health and damage has been reduced by 15% on Heroic difficulty.
    • Druid of the Flame have had their health reduced by 15%, and Sunfire damage reduced by 25% on both difficulties.
    • The health and melee damage of Spirit of the Flame have been reduced by 25% on normal difficulty, and reduced by 15% on Heroic difficulty.
  • Ragnaros
    • Ragnaros' health and damage have been reduced by 25% on normal difficulty.
    • Ragnaros' damage has been reduced by 15% on Heroic difficulty.
    • Magma Trap damage has been reduced on all difficulties.
    • The health and damage of additional enemies in this encounter have been reduced by 25% on normal difficulty and 15% on Heroic difficulty.
    • Wrath of Ragnaros now knocks targets up, but not back, on normal difficulty.
  • Shannox
    • Health and damage have been reduced by 15% on both normal and Heroic difficulty.
    • Riplimb's health has been reduced by 15%.
    • Rageface's health has been reduced by 15%.
    • Magma Flare damage and Hurl Spear damage have been reduced by 15% on both difficulties.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Firelands Raid Hotfixes Sept. 20 started by Boubouille View original post
Comments 301 Comments
  1. subanark's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by cherb View Post
    If you thought that Firelands normal was too hard, your guild is terrible and will not kill Ragnaros nor anything on heroic before 4.3
    Thanks for the troll. No one horde side on my server (The Scryers) managed to kill Rags on normal before the nerf. Alliance didn't fare much better either with 1 guild being able to get heroic shannox just before the nerf.
  1. Garbles's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by subanark View Post
    Thanks for the troll. No one horde side on my server (The Scryers) managed to kill Rags on normal before the nerf. Alliance didn't fare much better either with 1 guild being able to get heroic shannox just before the nerf.
    hahahahaha ur kidding right? your server must be just full of kids with downs....
  1. ODDLAWL's Avatar
    • Alysrazor’s Fiery Tornados move slower.
    • Wrath of Ragnaros in Stage 1 now knocks targets up, but not back.
    That made me LOL irl, seriously What is this I don't even, is all that I could think about. I'm not glad these nerfs are out and about; the fact that my guild can't down heroic bosses before a nerf makes me very sad and ashamed. World of Warcraft is hard, please give me epics with no effort, I deserve them because I rent a character for 15 dollars a month.
  1. Cakka's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Sacricarl View Post
    Yay! I might finally be able to down Shannox! XD
    Yep, same for us. Been just doing T11 raid once a week with guildies so far, we tried Shannox once month or so back but we don't have time to wipe on bosses for hours to be able to kill them.
  1. Gohzerlock's Avatar
    reg shannox here I come!!!!!
  1. Sacricarl's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Garbles View Post
    ffs, look at all you idiots..."omg yes now i can finally kill majordomo on regular!" you people are the reason blizzard had to dumb down the game so much, so ty... i will not be re-activating my account, so long WoW. So good for you "casuals" because now they just nerfed firelands to fuck for you. oh and in 4.3 you guys will get to do LFR, its official.... "Bad" is a viable way to play now. So i would like to thank all the retards that couldnt take a moment to learn how to play their fucking class, so now blizzard caters to you. Sure you guys are happy, but the people that actually know what the fuck they are doing, aren't.
    ZOMG NERD RAAAGGGEEE! Rofl!
  1. wariofan1's Avatar
    Glad that the nerfs are coming, having a really hard time getting into raids as a Fury Warrior, and hope this will open the gates for me. Keep crying hardcores, but this is for the better of the game.
  1. VanishO2's Avatar
    Jesus Christ... For whoever was expecting little nerfs, to get to the "20%" at the end of the patch (4 months), BAM! Not only 15% and 25% but also mechanics alread changed... I can only imagine that T12 Heroic will end being easier than T11 Heroic. At least they had the common sense to let H-Rag's HP "untouched" (at least for this week).
  1. Sandwrong's Avatar
    Know what's going to really mess me up? The slowing of Alice's flaming tornadoes. I had that shit down like clock work... *sigh* Well, looks like I know how I'm going to die tonight.
  1. mmoca1e94eb7cd's Avatar
    Better, You have missed the dictionnary
  1. mmoc9aa38bccdb's Avatar
    I lol at all the "elite" players raging about these nerfs with comments like "thats it blizz so dumb game down im heppy i never goings backs to wows anymore!!111" Noone cares about you and what you think. Please go somewhere else and waste precious forum space.
  1. TheEaterofSouls's Avatar
    In all honesty who will care about these when the next lvl of content comes out. You only care now because its relevant. Once 4.3 is over theyre gonna do the exact same thing before exp. 4 and their event and beyond. (Unless Blizzcon Q&A changes anything.) QQ is pointless. Top guilds will get through these quickly. If not the nerf is good. Even if you like the challenge it wont matter come 4.3 unless you have some ultra consumer morals like "some" people do. I for one dont care.
  1. VanishO2's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Tygor View Post
    I understand you are a pro player and all, but no "super casual guild" is 6/7 heroic. I wouldn't even necessarily say that a "super casual" guild would raid 6 hours a week.
    Yes, they can be 6/7. Because casual raiding means playing less, but not badly.

    ---------- Post added 2011-09-20 at 06:38 PM ----------

    Quote Originally Posted by Shawaam View Post
    To the people whining about too easy content: It's a game, you shouldn't need to dedicate your entire life to it to be able to down some pixels.
    And ppl should be sad, qqing, and demanding their rewards for their 15$ because they can't down some pixels, it's a game.
  1. Tastyfish's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Aettis View Post
    I approve. Being on a 'not so progressed server' I welcome these nerfs.
    Exactly! Congrats on your future 7/7! ^_^
  1. Belial's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by wariofan1 View Post
    Glad that the nerfs are coming, having a really hard time getting into raids as a Fury Warrior, and hope this will open the gates for me. Keep crying hardcores, but this is for the better of the game.
    And how is this better for the game? So that people that can't push a button on a keyboard without destroying it AND the mouse in the same procces can also "see" the content?
  1. Applenazi's Avatar
    To the mother fucking ground.
  1. Kewk's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Garbles View Post
    ffs, look at all you idiots..."omg yes now i can finally kill majordomo on regular!" you people are the reason blizzard had to dumb down the game so much, so ty... i will not be re-activating my account, so long WoW. So good for you "casuals" because now they just nerfed firelands to fuck for you. oh and in 4.3 you guys will get to do LFR, its official.... "Bad" is a viable way to play now. So i would like to thank all the retards that couldnt take a moment to learn how to play their fucking class, so now blizzard caters to you. Sure you guys are happy, but the people that actually know what the fuck they are doing, aren't.
    You aren't going anywhere stfu.
  1. Aumane's Avatar
    These nerfs are a bit excessive, and this comes from someone who hasn't cleared normal yet. This doesn't really help those that are struggling learn to play better when they can just wait for Blizzard to "soften things up" a few months later then having those same bads require ridiculous things from pugs (LFM H Firelands, link achievement and ilvl 380 or better or no invite). I would have thought possibly that the nerfs would have been slowly fed in to allow folks some aid to clearing the content while actually learning and playing better.
  1. Spotnick's Avatar
    I really hope they nerfed the trash to domo by 25% too... FFS that takes forever.

    I actually enjoy I can do Rag with him knocking me to outer space with Rage of Ragnaros while I'm flying down from a trap.. that was shitty RNG.
  1. Haakkon's Avatar
    Excellent. If you want to feel special down the bosses before the patch has been out 3 months. This will let us take players who aren't so great in for alt runs so they are less bored with the game.

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