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9.1.0 Chains of Domination Full PTR Notes - April 29th, 2021
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Classes
  • Death Knight
    • Blood
      • Damage of all spells and abilities increased by 6%.
  • Hunter
    • Survival
      • Raptor Strike damage increased by 15%.
      • Kill Command damage increased by 15%.
      • Mongoose Bite (Talent) damage increased by 15%.
      • Flanking Strike (Talent) damage increased by 15%.
    • Pets
      • Mammoth Family
        • Trample is now instant cast (was 6 second channel).
      • Pterrordax Family
        • New Ability: Updraft – Your pet beats its powerful wings, slowing the fall speed of both itself and the hunter for 30 seconds.
      • Classic pterrordax pets and Mists of Pandaria python pets are now larger in size.
  • Priest
    • Clear Mind (Conduit) effectiveness reduced by 25%.
    • Shadow
      • Shadow Word: Pain damage increased by 25%.
      • Vampiric Touch damage increased by 25%.
      • Devouring Plague damage reduced by 18%.
      • Shadowflame Prism (Runecarving Power) Shadowflame Rift damage reduced by 16%.
      • Talbadar’s Stratagem (Runecarving Power) Mind Blast’s damage increase reduced by 8%.
  • Warlock
    • Dark Pact’s (Talent) additional absorb shield has been increased by 316% (was 216%).
    • Affliction
      • Corruption damage increased by 15%.
      • Seed of Corruption damage increased by 25%.
      • Dark Caller is no longer a talent and is now learned baseline at level 58.
      • Shadow Embrace is no longer learned at level 58 and is now a talent option on the level 45 row.
      • New Conduit: Withering Bolt – Shadow Bolt (or Drain Soul) deals 33% more damage per damage-over-time effect active on your target.
      • Cold Embrace (Conduit) has been removed.
  • Warrior
    • Arms
      • Mortal Strike damage increased by 10% in non-PvP situations.
      • Deep Wounds damage increased by 10% in non-PvP situations.
      • Overpower damage increased by 10%.
      • Execute damage increased by 10%. This does not apply to Condemn (Venthyr Ability).
    • Protection
      • Execute damage increased by 10%. This does not apply to Condemn (Venthyr Ability).

Covenants
  • New Covenant Campaign Chapters
    • Chapters 6 and 7 are available in the April 28 update.
  • Conduits
    • Changing to a new Covenant will now refill your available Conduit Energy.

Dungeons and Raids
  • New Raid: Sanctum of Domination
    • The following encounters will be available for testing on Heroic difficulty April 29 [Schedule]:
      • Eye of the Jailer
      • Kel’Thuzad
    • The following encounters will be available for testing on Heroic difficulty April 30 [Schedule]:
      • Fatescribe Roh-Talo
      • Remnant of Ner’zhul

Professions
  • New Recipes
    • New Optional Reagent: Crafter’s Mark III – Sets the crafted equipment to item level 200.
    • New Optional Reagent: Crafter’s Mark of the Chained Isle – Sets the crafted equipment to item level 230. Only one piece of equipment created with the Crafter’s Mark of the Chained Isle can be worn at a time.
    • Enchanting:
      • Formula: Anima-ted Leash
    • Alchemy:
      • Coloration Powders
        • Blossom Burst
        • Marrow Burst
        • Glory Burst
        • Torch Burst
        • Widow Burst
      • Transmute: Stones to Ore
    • Inscription
      • New Vantus Rune Technique: Sanctum of Domination
    • Jewelcrafting:
      • Porous Stone Statue
      • Shaded Stone Statue
    • Tailoring:
      • Shrouded Hand Towel
    • Cooking:
      • Bonemeal Bread
      • Porous Rock Candy
      • Twilight Tea
    • Leatherworking:
      • Elusive Pet Treat
      • Pallid Bone Flute
      • Pallid Oracle Bones

Player Vs Player
  • Demon Hunter
    • Havoc
      • New PvP Talent: Glimpse.
      • Mana Break (PvP Talent) has been removed.
  • Druid
    • High Winds (PvP Talent) now reduces healing done in addition to its existing effect. No longer available to Guardian Druids.
  • Paladin
    • Luminescence (PvP Talent) has been redesigned – When healed by an ally, allies within your Aura gain 5% increased damage and healing for 5 seconds.
    • Holy
      • Holy Light healing increased by 20% in PvP combat.
      • Darkest Before the Dawn (PvP Talent) healing bonus per stack increased to 20%, stacking up to 5 times (was 10%, stacking up to 10 times).
      • Divine Favor (PvP Talent) healing bonus of next Holy Light reduced to 50% (was 100%).
      • Light’s Grace (PvP Talent) damage reduction is now 15% for 5 seconds and no longer stacks (was 5% damage reduction for 8 seconds, stacking up to 3 times). Holy Light healing bonus reduced to 15% (was 50%).
    • Retribution
      • Jurisdiction (PvP Talent) now increases the range of Blade of Justice by 10 yards and the radius of Divine Storm by 4 yards, in addition to its current effect.
      • Aura of Reckoning (PvP Talent) damage bonus for the next auto-attack reduced to 200% (was 250%).
  • Warrior
    • Fury
      • Slaughterhouse (PvP Talent) has been redesigned – Your Rampage damage reduces the healing the target receives by 15% for 5 seconds, stacking up to 4 times.

Runecarving
  • New Runecarving Powers
    • Druid has new and updated powers available in the April 28 update.
  • A new legendary currency – Soul Cinders, is now available from completing Torghast Layers 9–12.

The Maw
  • New Zone: Korthia
    • Visitor Dailies
      • New Visitor dailies added in the April 28 update.
  • New: Maw Assaults
    • New Maw Assaults added in April 28 update.
  • New: Tormentors of Torghast
    • New Tormentors added in the April 28 update.
  • New treasures to discover in Korthia and Desmotaeron.

Torghast
  • The total number of floors per run is now 5 (was 6).
  • The Tarragrue will now be terrorizing players in the Sanctum of Domination and as such, there is no longer a death counter barrier for continuing your run.
  • Bosses no longer regenerate health after they have defeated you.
  • New Scoring System and Perks
    • You are now scored based on performance after successfully completing a run. At the end of the run, your score will be ranked and you will be awarded with Tower Knowledge, which can be spent at The Box of Many Things to acquire permanent Perks and grow stronger, which will allow you to combat the enemies in Torghast even quicker.
    • Play efficiently to become Anima Empowered, earning bonus score for how long you were Empowered during your run and a bonus to your movement speed and Haste.
  • New Layers
    • Four new and more challenging Layers have been introduced, Layers 9–12.
    • Layers are now unlocked by reaching a specific rating in the previous Layer’s run.
  • New Bonus Floor: Adamant Vaults
    • Brave adventurers who make their way through Layers 9–12 efficiently will now be given the option to enter the Adamant Vaults, a new floor in Torghast. There they will be challenged against the new creatures and traps that lie within for a chance at even greater rewards.
  • Torments
    • Starting at Layer 4, Torments are applied to increase the challenge of the run.
    • Torments are displayed on the HUD and provide an additional challenge to overcome.
    • Torments are selected per wing per day.
    • The existing Torments are no longer applied.
  • Blessings
    • Through Tower Knowledge, you can unlock Blessings that will provide bonuses to your run.
    • Like Torments, Blessings are selected per wing per day.
This article was originally published in forum thread: 9.1.0 Chains of Domination Full PTR Notes - April 29th, 2021 started by Stoy View original post
Comments 55 Comments
  1. Shyning's Avatar
    loving the shadow shaman changes
  1. unbound's Avatar
    Sigh. Making Torghast more like M+ just reduces options for players even further.

    Stop it with the "Go! Go! Go!" nonsense in the game. Not everything needs to be this way.
  1. pleaseeasaur's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Shyning View Post
    loving the shadow shaman changes
    We needed this buff
  1. Kumorii's Avatar
    Torghast starts to sound fun again after the huge nerfs it got. Probably gonna be nerfed heavily again after people crying about not being able to get a good rating...
  1. Selennah's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Hellobolis View Post
    torghast only 5 floors instead of 6?

    how does that work?

    it's 4 floors + 1 empty vendor floor + 1 boss only floor atm.

    are they just gonna put the vendor in a regular floor or actually cutting a full regular floor?
    I did torghast today in the ptr, vendor is on 3rd floor, then you have 4th floor and the final boss in the 5th floor. So it's 3 floors (1st, 2nd and 4th) with mobs, one with just the vendor and another one with just the final boss.
  1. Linnianna's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by jk1895 View Post
    Are they buffing shadow priests? Shadow priests are on the second place in damage?! This is a joke, right?
    My beloved spec, beast master hunter, is on the last three places.
    This sucks!

    https://de.wowhead.com/news/analysis...f-april-322052
    Shadow is getting nerfed with the devouring plague changes, not to mention nerfing our top 2 legendaries.
  1. Levyan's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Brenz View Post
    Congratulations on not being nerfed, even with one of the top performing specs in raids.
    That's all the notes you need.
    You said basically the same thing, but got an actual response. Well thanks, he at least said what he actually wanted: assassination buff. He mentions raids, but isn't assassination in the top 5 dps specs. Aren't the other 4 getting nerfed/ rebalanced to remove their outlier damage abilities? Isn't that going to likely move assassination up the rankings next tier?
  1. Samuraijake's Avatar
    still not resubbing
  1. gaaara's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by kiramon View Post
    Not sure what their issue with conduits is. Like, do they realize other conduits are like a 30% chance for 1.4% more damage? And they just gonna stick 33% more damage on a conduit? lol
    My guess is the intention was around 10%/dot for Shadowbolt and 13% for drainsoul. Something along that line
  1. Cosmic Janitor's Avatar
    That's really not adressing the issue with torghast. The problem was that you got bugger all for spending an hour in there if you couldn't beat the last boss (which was affected by luck). The changes try - in typical blizzard fashion - to adress this by moonwalking 20 steps back, 3 to the side and one forward, instead of just giving smaller rewards along the way. Neither the change to the death system nor the gogogo bullshit were needed here. An unnerfed torghast would have not been a problem if torghast had remained not shackled to the gear progression to the degree it was. It was essentially gimped to the point where it was a lesser version of visions that lacked the solo iLvl progression gradual reward structure. Not to mention a few key features that make rogue-likes interesting in the first place, like bringing something back even on a failed run to make your next one better.
  1. Nak88's Avatar
    I will play 9.1 since I will be subbed for TBC, but I am not planning on wasting any second on Torghast or the new Maw area. I will just clear the new raid which is very promising I think.
  1. Echorausch's Avatar
    Just watched Preach's video about the "new" Torghast and couldn't stop laughing.. he is so right. Putting in torments is a stupid idea. Don't make Torghast artificially "harder" with M+ style affixes. Instead make it more fun and ridiculous.
    Not a big fan of the timer either... why has almost everything to be about speed or chainpulling these days.
  1. FuxieDK's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Stoy View Post
    9.1.0 Chains of Domination Full PTR Notes - April 29th, 2021
    Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
    Covenants
    • New Covenant Campaign Chapters
      • Chapters 6 and 7 are available in the April 28 update.
    How is this to be understood? We have completed chapter 9 LOOOOOONG time ago..
  1. Cosmic Janitor's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by FuxieDK View Post
    How is this to be understood? We have completed chapter 9 LOOOOOONG time ago..
    Patch 9.1 - Chains of Domination - Chapter 6 and 7. The next patch the main quest chapter numbering starts over from 1, instead of continuing with chapter 10 of the previous main quest format.
  1. FuxieDK's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Haidaes View Post
    Patch 9.1 - Chains of Domination - Chapter 6 and 7. The next patch the main quest chapter numbering starts over from 1, instead of continuing with chapter 10 of the previous main quest format.
    Ok..... But what about 1-5 then?

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