Dec 5 Hotfixes, Mythic Antorus and LFR Wing 1, Matron Folnuna, Cataclysm Timewalking

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Patch 7.3.2 Hotfixes - December 5

Classes

• Priest (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  
  • Shadow
    
    • Vampiric Touch and Shadow Word: Pain damage reduced by 12%.
      
    • All other abilities increased by 3%.
      
  
  
• Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  
  • Outlaw
    
    • All damage abilities increased by 4%.
      
  
  
• Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  
  • Affliction
    
    • Corruption and Agony damage reduced 6%
      
    • Unstable Affliction damage reduced 4%
      

Dungeons and Raids

• Antorus, the Burning Throne
  
  • Coven of Shivarra
    
    • Corrected an issue that caused the health of Torments to not properly scale with raid size.
      
  • Eonar the Life-Binder
    
    • Players who are disconnected during the Eonar encounter will have access to Surge of Life once they reconnect.
      
  • Argus the Unmaker
    
    • Cheat Death and similar effects will not reset their cooldowns when you die during the final phase of the Argus the Unmaker encounter.
      
    • Boss Health increased by 10% on Normal and Heroic difficulties
      
    • Soulbomb and Soulburst now deal periodic damage more rapidly
      
    • Edge of Obliteration damage increased by 50%
      
    • Constellar elemental vulnerabilities reduced from +200% to +100% damage taken
      

Items

• Carafe of Searing Light now correctly shares a short cooldown with other "Use" trinkets.
  
• Convergence of Fates primary stat increased by 13%. Effect reduced to 3 seconds of cooldown reduction (was 4 seconds).
  
  • Developers’ notes: This change is aimed at changing how Convergence of Fate scales with item level – or rather, how it doesn’t. For some specializations, the cooldown reduction effect is so powerful that the item level of the trinket is all but irrelevant. We’re shifting more of the item’s power to primary stat and less in the base proc to cause the trinket’s scaling with item level to be more similar to other trinkets in Legion.
    
• Forgefiend's Fabricator damage increased by 25%.
  
• Garothi Feedback Conduit Haste amount increased by 10%.
  
• Gorshalach's Legacy damage increased by 25%.
  
• Highfather's Machination healing amount increased by 10%.
  
• Ishkar's Felshield Emitter absorb amount increased by 10%.
  
• Prototype Personnel Decimator damage increased by 10%. Minimum damage when targets are 20 yards from the impact point increased to 50% of max damage (was 20%).
  
• Seeping Scourgewing damage increased by 10%.
  
• Shadow-Singed Fang stat bonuses increased by 20%.
  
• Sheath of Asara damage increased by 20%.
  
• Tarratus Keystone healing increased by 10%.
  
• Terminus Signaling Beacon damage increased by 15%.
  
• Vitality Resonator Intellect increased by 10%.
  
• Demon Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  
  • Havoc
    
    • Felreaper Vestments 2-piece bonus changed to 40% Eye Beam damage (was 30% Eye Beam damage).
      
    • Felreaper Vestments 4-piece haste bonus changed to 25% (was 15%).
      
  
  
• Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  
  • Balance
    
    • Stormheart Raiment 4-piece – Starsurge and Starfall now increase your Haste by 2% (was 3%), stacking up to 4 times (was 5).
      
  
  
• Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  
  • Beast Mastery
    
    • Serpentstalker Guise 4-piece – Kill Command now reduces the cooldown of Aspect of the Wild by 2.5 seconds (was 1.5 seconds).
      
  • Marksmanship
    
    • Serpentstalker Guise 4-piece – Marked Shot now has a 50% chance (was 30%) to fire an extra Marked shot at up to 3 additional targets.
      
  
  
• Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  
  • Brewmaster
    
    • Chi-Ji’s Battle Gear 4-piece – Dodging an attack now reduces the remaining cooldown of Breath of Fire by 2.0 seconds (was 1.0 seconds).
      
  
  
• Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  
  • Assassination
    
    • Regalia of the Dashing Scoundrel 4-piece – Your Deadly or Wound Poison critical strike now generate 3 Energy (was 2 Energy).
      
  • Subtlety
    
    • Regalia of the Dashing Scoundrel 4-piece – Backstab and Shadowstrike now have a 4% chance (was 3%) to grant Shadow Gestures.
      
  
  
• Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  
  • Affliction
    
    • Diabolic Raiment 4-piece – Spending a Soul Shard now has a chance to grant you 10% Haste (was 15%).
      
    • Grim Inquisitor’s Regalia 4-piece – Unstable Affliction and Seed of Corruption now increase the damage targets take from your Agony and Corruption by 15% (was 10%).
      
  • Demonology
    
    • Grim Inquisitor’s Regalia 4-piece – Demonic Empowerment now causes your Dreadstalkers to immediately cast another Dreadbite with 75% increased damage (was 50%).
      
  
  
• Warrior (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  
  • Arms
    
    • Titanic Onslaught Armor 4-piece – The amount of bonus Mortal Strike damage events has been reduced to 2 during Bladestorm (was 3), and 1 during Ravager (was 2).
      

Player versus Player

• Priest (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  
  • Shadow
    
    • PvP Template Intellect increased by 2%.
      
    • Mind Blast damage increased by 5% in PvP situations.
      
    • Mind Flay damage increased by 15% in PvP situations.
      
  
  
• Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  
  • Affliction
    
    • PvP Template Versatility increased by 25%.
      

Antorus - Mythic and LFR Wing 1 Open This Week
Antorus, the Burning Throne Mythic difficulty and LFR Wing 1 open this week!

Greater Invasion - Matron Folnuna
Matron Folnuna is up this week!

World Boss - Shar'thos
The Sleeping Corruption is up this week, so you can head to Val'sharah to kill Shar'thos. Warriors can loot the piece of the Fury Warrior hidden artifact appearance.

Bonus Event - Cataclysm Timewalking
Cataclysm Timewalking is back this week.

• The weekly quest from Archmage Timear rewards a Accolade of Victory, Seal of Broken Fate, and Cache of Antoran Treasures. The cache can contain tier set pieces.
• You can find Kiatke in Stormwind and Orgrimmar. Her unique items include Tosselwrench's Mega-Accurate Simulation Viewfinder and Gurboggle's Gleaming Bauble.
• Don't forget to keep working towards Reins of the Eclipse Dragonhawk and Bridle of the Ironbound Wraithcharger!
• Reins of the Infinite Timereaver can also drop from any Timewalking dungeon boss.

[Ophenia]

Aaah, the small up T21 DH <3

[omni]

Buffing a boss one week after release? Pretty unheard of. Goodluck with that Blizz.

[Pawstruck]

Unsure about those spriest changes. 12% on their strongest damage ability is a lot.

Yay for slight Outlaw Rogue buffs though.

[Svad1287]

Yeah, and most of the healing trinkets are garbage, except the PL one, that drops from Argus...

[SupBrah]

Buffing a boss one week after release? Pretty unheard of. Goodluck with that Blizz.

Probably because 25.5% of guilds who killed Heroic Garothi also killed Argus within the first week, while only 9.6% of guilds who killed Heroic Goroth also killed KJ within the first week.


Argus was severely undertuned. To the point where decent groups were literally killing him with pugs within <20 pulls. I'd say Coven was much harder than Argus and even that was pretty faceroll with 3 tanks.

[BooQT]

12% on dot damage!? Come on man

[SenpaiDean]

all these abrupt changes to raid trinkets and gear after the first raid week is making me dislike this game

[turlockmike]

Probably because 25.5% of guilds who killed Heroic Garothi also killed Argus within the first week, while only 9.6% of guilds who killed Heroic Goroth also killed KJ within the first week.


Argus was severely undertuned. To the point where decent groups were literally killing him with pugs within <20 pulls. I'd say Coven was much harder than Argus and even that was pretty faceroll with 3 tanks.

What is the point of 3 tanks on Coven? I haven't seen this yet.

[Mhyroth]

Small indie company, can't predict or make appropriate balancing because they don't have the resources to do so.
Must feel great to use the playerbase as a live-testingground for big swing changes made.

[SupBrah]

What is the point of 3 tanks on Coven? I haven't seen this yet.

You can remove the downtime caused by immunity completely, which ends up being an overall increase in dmg even with the extra tank


Shadow/Ice: swap on every ice cast
Shadow/Fire: 2 tanks + 1 healer handle fire while everyone ones hammers on shadow the entire time
Fire/Ice: 2 tanks + 1 healer on fire again. You need either a pally Hand of Freedom himself/the tank or put a BDK on ice to AMS the stacks off.

[Vasaru]

That Vindicaar skybox image makes me think of the original Mass Effect title menu and its soundtrack ♥

[Lumineus]

Probably because 25.5% of guilds who killed Heroic Garothi also killed Argus within the first week, while only 9.6% of guilds who killed Heroic Goroth also killed KJ within the first week.


Argus was severely undertuned. To the point where decent groups were literally killing him with pugs within <20 pulls. I'd say Coven was much harder than Argus and even that was pretty faceroll with 3 tanks.

Well, they should remove the gear, achievements, and mounts obtained on week one, then. Since they won't, buffing him after the fact is complete BS.

[SupBrah]

Well, they should remove the gear, achievements, and mounts obtained on week one, then. Since they won't, buffing him after the fact is complete BS.

... Why? It's not the players' faults that Argus was undertuned. They did the content without exploit, and they did it fairly easier than what Blizz intended. Thus Blizz decided that they thought Argus should be buffed. Just because you couldn't couldn't get your toy when it was on sale doesn't mean Blizz should take the toys away from those who put in the effort to get it while it was on sale.

Hell, even with the buff it's not too difficult. We 2-shot it last night, and that was with a few initiates who hadn't done him yet. With more and more people 945+ upgraded gear, 75 traits, and tier sets, the buffs are basically negated.

[Lumineus]

They should NEVER make a boss more difficult after releasing it Live. I've seen what this does back in Classic and it ends up with the situation where they're tweaking Razorgore every week to defeat whatever clever strategy the big guilds used to cheese him and making life miserable for everyone else.