wow 7.1.5 Hotfixes: January 24th

[Starym 3,800]

 

Only very minor class changes this time around, thankfully, with the new reward scheme for M+ taking center stage, the previously detailed trinket changes, as well as some new ones, going live and a few more PvP class tweaks.

January 24 (source)

Classes

• Monk
  • Essence Font's periodic effect can now correctly critical heal.
• Rogue
  • Shadow Dance should no longer sometimes consume a charge but fail to trigger.

Dungeons and Raids

• Mythic Keystone Dungeons
  • Players who complete a Mythic Keystone dungeon at level 13, 14, or 15 will receive items of the following item levels from the chest at the end of the dungeon:
    • Mythic 13 – 875
    • Mythic 14 – 880
    • Mythic 15 – 885
  • Items from the weekly Grand Challenger's Bounty will be of the following item levels:
    • Mythic 13 – 890
    • Mythic 14 – 895
    • Mythic 15 – 900

Items

• Aluriel's Mirror: Healing-over-time effectiveness increased by 140%. Area of effect healing detonation effectiveness reduced by 35%.
  • Developers’ Notes: Aluriel’s Mirror’s detonation effect is strong when it activates, but hard to rely on. We’re increasing the heal-over-time effect significantly to improve the up-front value of this trinket, and reducing the detonation effect slightly to compensate.
• Animated Exoskeleton: Absorb amount increased by 33%.
• Etraeus' Celestial Map: The amount of Critical Strike, Mastery, and Haste granted by this item has been increased by 5%.
• Claw of the Crystalline Scorpid: Damage increased by 30%.
• Convergence of Fates
  • Frost Death Knight
    • with Hungering Rune Weapon: -23% proc rate
    • with Empower Rune Weapon: +10% proc rate
  • Unholy Death Knight
    • with Summon Gargoyle: +68% proc rate
    • with Dark Arbiter: no change
  • Feral Druid
    • with Berserk: no change
    • Note: Incarnation: King of the Jungle was not properly working with Convergence, which has now been fixed.
  • Windwalker Monk
    • with Storm, Earth, and Fire: -62% proc rate
    • with Serenity: -75% proc rate
  • Retribution Paladin
    • with Avenging Wrath: +250% proc rate
    • with Crusade: +25% proc rate
    • Note: This change should bring Convergence back to roughly its original effectiveness for Ret Paladins who are not using Crusade.
• Arcanogolem Digit: Damage increased by 30%.
• Entwined Elemental Foci: The amount of Critical Strike, Mastery, and Haste granted by this item’s proc has been increased by 5%.
• Might of Krosus: Base damage reduced by 25%, but is now always a critical strike.
  • The tooltip for Might of Krosus will display the amount of damage that will result from the critical hit, not the base damage.
  • Also fixed a bug where the cooldown was incorrectly being reduced if Might of Krosus damaged at least 3 targets.
• Draught of Souls: The Use effect of this trinket now respects the global cooldown.
  • The damage of this trinket is now reduced by 30% for Unholy Death Knights (was reduced by 40%).
  • Designer Notes: Since Draught of Souls deals Shadow Damage, it’s increased by Unholy’s Mastery, which means we needed to reduce its base damage to keep its overall value similar to other classes. It’s currently a little too low, however, so we’re increasing the damage it deals for Unholy.
• Icon of Rot: Damage increased by 40%.
• Pharamere's Forbidden Grimoire: Damage increased by 85%.
• Fury of the Burning Sky: Damage increased by 40%.
• Star Gate: Damage increased by 30%.
• Perfectly Preserved Cake: Absorb amount increased by 140%.

Player versus Player

• Druid
  • Guardian Druids now have 5% less Agility in PvP.
• Hunter
  • Survival Hunters now have 7.5% less Agility in PvP.
• Paladin
  • Protection Paladins now have 5% less Strength in PvP.
  • Hand of the Protector and Light of the Protector now heal for 35% less in PvP situations (was 15% less).
• Priest
  • Vampiric Touch now deals 10% less damage in PvP situations (was 25% less).
• Shaman
  • Elemental
    • Icefury and Icefury Overload's damage is reduced by 35% in PvP situations.
    • Icefury now increases the damage of Frost Shock by 300% in PvP situations.
    • Elemental Blast and Elemental Blast Overload's damage is reduced by 15% in PvP situations.
    • Damage to pets and guardians will no longer contribute to Lightning Rod damage in Arenas and Battlegrounds.
  • Enhancement
    • Windfury can no longer be activated by Windfury Totem’s Windfury.

Previous hotfixes.