Hotfixes for August 10th - Class Tuning and Blight Boar

Live Posted 2018/08/10 at 11:45 PM by perculia

announced yesterday

Blizzard

Animations and Appearances

The Toad pet family ability "Swarm of Flies" will now continue to swarm around the Hopper instead of staying in place.
Hammer of Wrath's impact visual should now appear on its target.

Classes

Death Knight

Frost

All damage abilities increased by 3%.
Breath of Sindragosa damage reduced by 12%.

Druid

All Feral Affinity-granted abilities increased by 15%.
Feral Affinity Energy regen bonus increased to 45% (was 35%).

Guardian

Lunar Beam will now correctly heal and deal damage while on an elevator.

Hunter

Beast Mastery

All damage abilities increased by 3%.

Marksmanship

All damage abilities increased by 3%.

Priest

Holy Nova damage increased by 20%.

Holy

All damage abilities increased by 8%.

Rogue

Assassination

Crimson Tempest damage reduced by 10%.
Subterfuge bonus reduced to 80% (was 100%).

Shaman

Elemental

All damage abilities increased 4%.

Warlock

Fear mana cost reduced to 10% (was 15%).

Affliction

Summon Darkglare cooldown now resets at the end of encounters.
Demonology

All damage abilities increased by 5%.

Creatures and NPCs

Alzzin the Wildshaper no longer deals excessive damage.
Chromie's health has been increased.
Bastillax's health has been decreased.

Darkmoon Faire

The Blight Boar encounter in Darkmoon Faire is no longer more difficult than intended.

Items

Fixed a bug that was causing several trinkets to fail to proc when cast at max range.

Player versus Player

Racial Abilities

Light's Judgment deals 50% less damage when engaged in combat with enemy players.
Light's Reckoning deals 50% less damage when engaged in combat with enemy players.

Death Knight

Unholy Strength increases Strength by 10% when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 15%).

Frost

Pillar of Frost increases Strength by 10% when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 15%).

Unholy

Wandering Plague (PvP Talent) damage reduced by 50%.
Necrotic Strike's (PvP Talent) Necrotic Wound healing absorption reduced by 33%.
Virulent Plague deals 10% less damage when engaged in combat with enemy players.
Virulent Explosion deals 10% less damage when engaged in combat with enemy players.

Druid

Restoration

Focused Growth (PvP Talent) reduces the mana cost of Lifebloom by 40% (was 60%).
Focused Growth (PvP Talent) increases the healing of Lifebloom by 30% (was 50%).

Hunter

Beast Mastery

Dire Beast: Hawk (PvP Talent) damage reduced by 40%.

Marksmanship

Careful Aim increases Aimed Shot damage by 50% when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 100%).
Aimed Shot deals an additional 15% damage to targets you have not damaged yet when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 50%).

Monk

Windwalker

Fists of Fury now deals full damage when engaged in combat with enemy players (was a 20% reduction).

Paladin

Retribution

Righteous Verdict increases the damage of Templar's Verdict by 10% when engaged in PvP combat with enemy players (was 15%).
increases damage to the target by 15% when engaged in PvP combat with enemy players (was 20%).
healing reduced by 20% when engaged in PvP combat with enemy players.
Divine Purpose increases damage and healing by 20% when engaged in PvP combat with enemy players (was 30%).
Aura of Reckoning (PvP Talent) gains a stack when targets with your Greater Blessings take 2.5% of your maximum health in damage (was 5%).
Vengeance Aura (PvP Talent) increases Holy Damage and Critical Strike chance by 3% per stack (was 4%).
Vengeance Aura's (PvP Talent) duration reduced to 8 seconds (was 10 seconds).

Priest

Discipline

Sins of the Many increases damage by 8% when engaged in PvP combat with enemy players (was 12%).
Trinity (PvP Talent) increases Atonement healing by 12% (was 20%).
Archangel (PvP Talent) increases healing and absorption by 20% (was 30%).

Shadow

(PvP Talent) now properly reduces damage taken when at or above 90 Insanity (60 Insanity while talented into ).

Rogue

Sting Like a Bee increases damage dealt to the target by 5% when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 10%).
Death from Above (PvP Talent) increases Eviscerate/Envenom/Dispatch damage dealt by 10% (was 15%).

Assassination

Fixed a bug that caused Creeping Venom (PvP Talent)'s duration to be refreshed to a longer duration than intended.
Creeping Venom (PvP Talent)'s damage has been reduced by 50%.
Deadly Poison deals 20% less damage when engaged in combat with enemy players.
Vendetta increases damage dealt to the target by 20% when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 30%).
Toxic Blade increases Poison damage dealt to the target by 20% when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 30%).
Deadened Nerves deals 20% less damage when engaged in combat with enemy players.
Subterfuge causes Garrote to deal an additional 50% damage when cast from stealth in PvP situations (was 100%).

Outlaw

Plunder Armor (PvP Talent) reduces the target's max health by 10% (was 15%).
Plunder Armor (PvP Talent) increases the Rogue's max health by 10% (was 15%).
Thick as Thieves (PvP Talent) increases the damage you and your Tricks target deal by 10% (was 15%).
Brigand's Blitz (Azerite Trait) is no longer gained from Control is King's Adrenaline Rush.

Subtlety

Shuriken Combo increases Eviscerate damage by 3% per stack when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 5%).
Night's Vengeance (Azerite Trait) effectiveness reduced by 66% in PvP situations.

Shaman

Restoration

(PvP Talent) now redirects 35% damage to the team (was 50%).
's (PvP Talent) mana cost has been increased by 12.5%.
(PvP Talent) reduces the heal generated by Spouting Spirits (Azerite Trait) by 80%.

Quests

"Continue Your Training: Master Woo" and its corresponding daily quest have been temporarily removed.

Comment by SlidesStill waiting for Druids to be nerfed for once lmao.Comment by kassia1213Honestly, their dry way of putting things, e.g., "Lunar Beam will now correctly heal and deal damage while on an elevator." causes me endless giggles, imaging the bizarre possible scenarios that demonstrated the bug in question.Comment by jellysaurus"The Blight Boar encounter in Darkmoon Faire is no longer more difficult than intended."

can this be any more vague?Comment by DuckerOfficialHonestly, their dry way of putting things, e.g., "Lunar Beam will now correctly heal and deal damage while on an elevator." causes me endless giggles, imaging the bizarre possible scenarios that demonstrated the bug in question.Comment by kodora1316I wonder why the monk quest was removedComment by EinfachheitStill waiting for Druids to be nerfed for once lmao.Comment by SquirePipI wonder why the monk quest was removedComment by DecilaHonestly, their dry way of putting things, e.g., "Lunar Beam will now correctly heal and deal damage while on an elevator." causes me endless giggles, imaging the bizarre possible scenarios that demonstrated the bug in question.Comment by VyrthurXDHe killed everyone, no one could kill himComment by Richmond79Shame about assassination rogues - was a lot of fun suddenly being able to hurt people in pvp. Still not convinced the discipline priest pvp nerfs are nearly enough - you need a raid to kill them at the momentComment by 940955Still nothing on auto-accept. They really are pretending it hasn't happened huh....Comment by Zennen313Still waiting for Druids to be nerfed for once lmao.Comment by divrskeep waiting to see any mages changes or tweaks for better or worse, but apparently like always were an absolutely perfect class that never gets touched (until like every new expansion, they realize "oh #$%^, we forgot to tune a class"). I don't remember the last time I saw an actual tuning note for mages for bfa outside of the global changes across the board for certain things (such as azurite powers).

Edit: The last mage tuning was a fix for a single fire mage talent over a month ago.Comment by 1400571This post was from a user who has deleted their account.Comment by Joker1313

feral sucks at the beginning of every single expansion and they get playable with more gear, just like aflliction. hmmm, a dot spec that plays just like the other dot specs? GASP!. and they also just got the biggest buff that they have ever received....EVER!Comment by Ignatios1518Druids are actually ranked #2 currently for progression raiding through the first raidComment by SlendermandAll the fixes regarding elevators is because the first boss in Uldir is on an elevator.Comment by MirtaiCH

feral sucks at the beginning of every single expansion and they get playable with more gear, just like aflliction. hmmm, a dot spec that plays just like the other dot specs? GASP!. and they also just got the biggest buff that they have ever received....EVER!Comment by Voault"The Blight Boar encounter in Darkmoon Faire is no longer more difficult than intended."

can this be any more vague?Comment by angeleyednerf freaking feral druids, add even their movement buttons to gcd they are way too op