Patch 8.3 Hotfixes - March 16, 2020
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Dungeons and Raids
  • Ny’alotha, the Waking City
    • Resolved an issue that caused players to get locked inside the Chamber of Heart if both Carapace of N'Zoth and N’Zoth the Corruptor encounters were defeated but other bosses undefeated on Mythic difficulty.
    • N’Zoth the Corruptor
      • Tank-specialization characters should no longer be targeted by Paranoia on all difficulties.
        • Developers’ note: Paranoia’s coordination requirements when tanks are involved is a bit higher than we’d like. This fix prevents tanks from being targeted altogether, preventing awkward moments where a ranged character would need to run a long distance to meet up with a tank partner.
    • Mythic Keystone Dungeon
      • Tidesage Council
        • Blessing of the Tempest should now be more visible when active on Galecaller Faye.
        • Blowback damage reduced by 20%.
        • Slicing Blast damage reduced by 20%.
      • Waycrest Manor
        • Reduced the rate at which members of the Heartsbane Triad gain energy from the Focusing Iris, resulting in an increased delay before Dire Ritual is cast.

Items and Rewards
  • Corrupted Items
    • [With regional restarts] All equipment rewards from Horrific Visions are now Corrupted.
      • Developers’ note: We’ve heard from many players that Corrupted Items were not obtainable enough, limiting their ability to play with the system and its inherent tradeoffs. This change will substantially increase the number of Corrupted Items reliably earned each week, allowing players to choose from among a greater selection of Corrupted pieces and enjoy those that work best in a given situation.
    • Twisted Appendage no longer benefits from buffs like Power Word: Shield or Earthen Wall.
    • Twisted Appendage and Infinite Stars can no longer trigger more than once every 12 seconds during player versus player combat.
  • Heart of Azeroth
    • [With regional restarts] Players who have Rank 3 Azerite Essences on at least one character can now more easily acquire those Essences on other characters on the same account via a new currency: Echoes of Ny’alotha. MOTHER will offer any eligible character a Rank 3 Essence for 500 Echoes of Ny’alotha each. Any player who is eligible to purchase at least one Essence from MOTHER will now receive Echoes of Ny’alotha from a wide range of activities in current content:
      • Black Empire Assault – 125 Echoes of Ny’alotha
      • Aqir/Amathet/Mantid/Mogu Assault – 75 Echoes of Ny’alotha
      • Horrific Visions – 50 Echoes of Ny’alotha, plus 25 per additional objective completed (i.e. 150 Echoes of Ny’alotha for a full clear)
      • Emissary Quest – 50 Echoes of Ny’alotha
      • Heroic Darkshore Warfront – 75 Echoes of Ny’alotha
      • Normal/Heroic/Mythic Ny’alotha raid bosses – 15-25 Echoes of Ny’alotha each, once per week per boss
      • Ny’alotha Raid Finder wings – 25 Echoes of Ny’alotha
      • Random Battleground wins – 15-25 Echoes of Ny’alotha
      • Rated Arena wins – 10-25 Echoes of Ny’alotha baseline, scaling up with PvP rank
      • Rated Battleground wins – 35 Echoes of Ny’alotha baseline, scaling up with PvP rank
      • Weekly PvP Cache – 175 to 300 Echoes of Ny’alotha, based on PvP rank
      • Mythic Keystone dungeon end-of-run chest – 3 Echoes of Ny’alotha per Keystone Level (i.e. 30 Echoes of Ny’alotha for a Mythic 10)
      • Weekly Mythic Keystone Dungeon Cache – 20 Echoes of Ny’alotha per highest Keystone Level
        • Developers’ note: The general goal here is that doing Assaults and associated Horrific Visions should provide enough to get at least one Rank 3 Essence of your choice per week. Doing other content you like (PvP, dungeons, or raids) will increase that significantly, depending on the level of content you’re doing. Of course, Essences can still be earned normally via their associated activities, so if you want to get your Essence of the Focusing Iris directly via Mythic Keystone dungeons and then buy others from MOTHER, that’s now an option. Within a couple of weeks of hitting max-level on your alt, you should be able to obtain your preferred Essences by playing the game as you usually would.

          Please note: Echoes of Ny’alotha may appear to replace Azerite in the Emissary and PvP reward panes, however, it does not. Echoes of Ny’alotha are always additive with existing rewards. We believe that it is more important to release this update with a reward display issue than hold the change for a fix. We expect to fix the display issue in the next week or two.

          For more information read our forum post.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Patch 8.3 Hotfixes - March 16, 2020 started by Lumy View original post
Comments 73 Comments
  1. Nightstalker's Avatar
    275 from Assaults
    up to 900 from Vision runs (by now you easily get 6 keys per week with the daily routine)
    350 from emissaries
    Warfront is not a given (once every 3 weeks)
    240 = 20 per raid boss on average
    230 from 1 m+10 weekly run
    175 from the pvp chest
    None from islands (I wonder why)
    Weekly effort for this should be way less than 10 hours
    Result is 2k+ per week, 4 essences.
  1. Eazy's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Inxert View Post
    Essences have very little bearing on being able to full clear a vision. The two things that make visions easy are cloak and elite/gift tech, otherwise you can easily clear a full vision with no essences.
    Yes, but it requires cloak+heroic visions. Which is even making it even more grindy.
  1. grexly75's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by JohnRoads View Post
    How do you get that to 400?

    125 from major assault
    75x2 from minor assault
    150 from full clear
    50x7 from emissaries

    125+75x2+150+50x7 = 775 1½ essence.
    Ahh k yeah my maths is not the best.. But if that is the case will be happy, got a lot of alts to get essences for.. llol
  1. lucky6969's Avatar
    so 2-3 weeks per each essence with spending few hours each week on alts.

    gross.

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    hello ji aao ramg udd ake
  1. Laqweeta's Avatar
    I hope this company goes down and a good company picks wow up.
  1. ExtremelyCrusty's Avatar
    Not even bind to account? Ok then.
  1. Will's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by lucky6969 View Post
    so 2-3 weeks per each essence with spending few hours each week on alts.

    gross.

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    hello ji aao ramg udd ake
    No lol that's the complete opposite of what the article says. 1 week per level 3 essence assuming you do the bare minimum.
  1. Zephire's Avatar
    Great stuff. A good balance! I like it. Hopefully this sort of system will be avilable from scratch in Shadowlands
  1. Nnyco's Avatar
    Imagine moaning because you actually need to play an alt a little bit.
  1. Havikz's Avatar
    Waaah I have to play the video game waaah give me everything for free I need my rank three essences to time my +5 keys
  1. Nuggsy's Avatar
    Whoever thought Blizzard wouldn't turn the essence thing into a bs grind was fooling themselves. I gave up giving Blizzard the benefit of the doubt years ago. I've learned to just expect the worse because that's usually the case and be surprised when it turns out good. And to everyone saying 'oh boo hoo, you have to grind in an MMO, who would have thought' you're kidding yourself. It's literally the end of the expansion and the entire azerite system (you know, the literal centerpiece of the expansion) was awful and broken from the start. Who does it actually hurt if blizzard just let those had earned their essences get them for their alts without all the damn hoops and grind?

    People aren't moaning because they have to play their alt. They're moaning because they've done the crap before and they want to get into better/higher content faster on alts. God forbid now that the expansion is at an end, eh?
  1. Hero2Zer0's Avatar
    would've loved to buy ranks of essence i don't have, surprised its only rank 3 ones. Oh well back to naz for me
  1. Tiwack's Avatar
    So can you buy and trade this currency? Asking for a friend that only likes to play the content he enjoy...
  1. froschhure's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Laqweeta View Post
    I hope this company goes down and a good company picks wow up.
    I do totally agree with your opinion.
    sadly... this scenario is very unlikely :-(
  1. terminaltrip421's Avatar
    do we need ranks 1 and 2 to purchase mother's rank 3?
  1. Kallisto's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by terminaltrip421 View Post
    do we need ranks 1 and 2 to purchase mother's rank 3?
    no, only rank 3 on another character.
  1. Erous's Avatar
    "Tank-specialization characters should no longer be targeted by Paranoia on all difficulties."

    Geez, thank you. Now I don't have to run my ass from the opposite side of the planet to the tank that can't move on the other side of the planet.
  1. Doffen's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Eazy View Post
    Doing full Horrific Visions on alts and still needing essences.
    Making a comment which made no sense


    And, I have been saying for some time, you don't really need bis essences, but now that they are this means I get actual bis from just playing. Just like old times. Do raids? Get bis essence and gear. Do dungeons? Get bis essence and gear. Do solo content like HV, get bis essence and guaranteed corrupted gear. Why thank you, I'll take it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Inxert View Post
    Essences have very little bearing on being able to full clear a vision. The two things that make visions easy are cloak and elite/gift tech, otherwise you can easily clear a full vision with no essences.
    Yeah, the sentence you quoted made no sense to me.

    Needing good essences for a full clear
  1. bloodykiller86's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Will View Post
    No lol that's the complete opposite of what the article says. 1 week per level 3 essence assuming you do the bare minimum.
    these people can't do math
  1. deenman's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Arainie View Post
    Then stop friggin playing many alts if you don't have the time for it. The maths is at kindergarden level and you're really all just acting like spoiled brats. DAD WHERE'S MY NEW IPHONE?

    I dont care rly,but its what people have been asking for,and we all know how blizzard responds to what people ask for,by doing the oposite,in extremes

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