Blizzard
With a hotfix that we're making to the game today, several changes to Alchemy items will take place:
- The ratio of ingredients for 敏捷战斗药水 has been adjusted so that the demand for 海妖花粉 and 流波花苞 are more closely aligned in the long term.
- The costs of creating 死亡崛起药水 and 鲜血喷发药水 have been reduced. Since these potions have non-stat effects, it has been difficult to judge whether or not you should use them instead of stat potions. In practice, both contribute a similar amount of damage, but these potions are more constrained, since they are direct damage. We're reducing their costs to make the decision of whether to use them or not more of a question of economics, rather than a question of straight throughput. The goal is for these potions to provide most of the effectiveness of a Battle Potion, at a lower cost.
- To complement these changes, we're reducing the minimum range required for the 死亡崛起药水's damage effect to reach full value. It will now be a 20-yard range (it was 30 yards).
In the next major content patch, Tides of Vengeance, we're going to update the
死亡崛起药水 tooltip to read “damaging ranged abilities” instead of “ranged attacks”, to make it more clear this potion is functional for casters.
These hotfixes should go live very soon, over the next hour or two, and we'll have them noted in
our hotfixes blog post later this evening.