World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies

To provide more transparency on the actions that get taken against exploitative accounts, here is a breakdown on the number of actions that have been taken over the course of the last month:

Total Exploitative WoW Account Actions Last Month: 167799

All of these actions are for cheating or exploitation which are primarily permanent bans or 6-month suspensions. This number does not include separate actions like character name or in-game language violations. We will continue to evolve our methods and act against these malicious accounts on a daily basis.

Thank you and we’ll see you in Azeroth.

-The WoW Classic Team

Classes

• Priest
  
  • Discipline
    
    • Fixed an issue where Radiant Providence from the Discipline Priest 4-piece set bonus would reset on when engaging a dungeon boss.
  • Holy
    
    • Fixed an issue where the duplicated Prayer of Mending from the Holy Priest 2-piece set bonus would cost twice as much mana.

Classes

• Monk
  
  • Brewmaster
    
    • Fixed an issue causing Blackout Kick to double-dip on its recent buffs.

Dungeons and Raids

• Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
  
  • Scalecommander Sarkareth
    
    • The contribution of damage towards Blazing Blast and Void Blast is now properly reduced by absorbs.

Items and Rewards

• Nasz'uro, the Unbound Legacy's primary stat and Speed granted to allies reduced by 70% in PvP Combat.
• Djaradin Elder Spear’s damage reduced by 50% in PvP Combat.
• Fixed an issue where Ominous Chromatic Essence would continue to reapply to other allies when two players shared the same alignment.

Classes

• Paladin
  
  • Retribution
    
    • Fixed an issue causing the Indomitable Justice Azerite trait to sometimes provide an unintended speed bonus.

Dungeons and Raids

• Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
  
  • The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn
    
    • Developers’ notes: These changes are directed at reducing the burden on tanks in smaller groups where Shrapnel Bomb was more difficult to handle with more limited amounts of utility from the group.
    • [With June 6 resets] Zskarn health reduced by 10% for small group sizes on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
    • [With June 6 resets] Shrapnel Bomb initial damage and DOT damage reduced by 50% on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
    • [With June 6 resets] Searing Claws damage reduced by 25% on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
    • [With June 6 resets] Unstable Embers damage reduced by 30% on Heroic difficulty.
  • Echo of Neltharion
    
    • Calamitous Strike’s debuff duration reduced from 40 seconds to 37 seconds on all difficulties. This is done to remove a problematic overlap in phase one of the encounter.
    • Calamitous Strike’s debuff will now be removed when the encounter enters intermission on all difficulties.
    • Fixed an issue where Neltharion immediately melee his target after casting Calamitous Strike on all difficulties.
    • Added a slight delay before the same player can trigger an additional stack of Shatter after destroying Twisted Earth on all difficulties.
    • Volcanic Heart’s radius reduced from 25 yards to 20 yards on Mythic difficulty.
  • Scalecommander Sarkareth
    
    • Developers’ note: A series of changes have been made to ease up a bit on the difficulty of this encounter on lower player size raids. Each of these changes are for non-Mythic difficulties only and scale back as raid size increases, evening out to about no changes for the 30 player raid.
    • [With June 6 resets] Health of Sarkareth and Null Glimmers reduced by 6% in 10 player raids.
    • [With June 6 resets] Duration of Astral Flare buff increased from 23 seconds to 30 seconds in 10 player raids.
    • [With June 6 resets] Oblivion damage per tick reduced by 50% in 10 player raids.
    • [With June 6 resets] Void Surge damage per tick reduced by 40% in 10 player raids.
    • [With June 6 resets] Dread raid wide damage reduced by 25% in 10 player raids.
• Halls of Infusion
  
  • Fixed an issue where Infuser Sariya’s Inundate spell could inflict inconsistent amounts of damage.

Items and Rewards

• Fixed an issue that prevented the Drakewatcher Manuscript for the Cliffside Wylderdrake - Black Hair customization option from dropping in some circumstances.
• Zaralek Cavern
  
  • Fixed an issue where Cobalt Shalewing’s drop rate was lower than intended. Its drop rate is now in line with other similar drops.

Quests

• Fixed an issue where Sparks of Life were not dropping in Zaralek Caverns from various content.

Just wanted to let everyone know that the Cobalt Shalewing’s drop rate has been hotfixed and has been brought in line with other similar drops.

Thanks to everyone for pointing this out!