wow Patch 8.0.1 Hotfixes: November 16th

[Stan 5,240]

The latest round of hotfixes includes changes to the Grievous and Explosive affixes and dungeon tuning. Blizzard also increased the Tol Dagor Mythic Keystone timer to 36 minutes (was 33 minutes) and the Underrot timer to 33 minutes (was 30 minutes).

Blizzard (Source)

14th Anniversary Event

• The respawn time for all event world bosses has been lowered.

Dungeons and Raids

• In Mythic Keystone dungeons, the Grievous affix now stacks every other tick (was every tick), and now deals 2% of the player’s total HP per stack (was 1.5%).
• In Mythic Keystone dungeons, the health of Explosives has been reduced by 50%, and Explosives should no longer spawn from a crowd-controlled enemy.
• Kings’ Rest
  • King A'akul's Hidden Blade Poison DoT reduced by 50%.
  • King Timalji's Bladestorm snare increased to 60% (was 25%), and Bladestorm recast time increased to 20-25 seconds (was 10-20 seconds).
  • Queen Wasi's Seduction duration reduced to 8 seconds (was 30 seconds).
  • Shadow of Zul's Absorbed in Darkness periodic damage reduced by 50%, and Shadow Barrage direct damage reduced by 25%.
  • Shadow-Borne Champion's Ancestral Fury damage reduced by 50%.
  • The Golden Serpent's Animated Gold health reduced by 50%.
• Shrine of the Storm
  • Deepsea Ritualist's Unending Darkness damage taken bonus has been reduced to 10% (was 25%), and cast time increased to 3 seconds (was 2 seconds).
  • Tidesage Enforcer's Deep Smash impact damage reduced by 25%.
  • Tidesage Spiritualist's now casts Mending Rapids every 25 seconds (was 10 seconds) and does 50% less damage with Anchor of Binding .
• Temple of Sethraliss
  • Galvazzt's Galvanize periodic damage reduced by 25%.
  • Faithless Tender's Embryonic Vigor healing reduced to 10% (was 50%), and Greater Healing Potion now begins cooldown immediately, allowing stuns to preventing it from being recast instantly.
• Tol Dagor
  • The Mythic Keystone timer is now set to 36 minutes (was 33 minutes).
• Underrot
  • The Mythic Keystone timer is now set to 33 minutes (was 30 minutes).
• Uldir
  • Mythrax
    • Oblivion Sphere now strongly favors targeting ranged specs across all difficulties.
    • Fixed a bug that prevented earning the criteria for the Achievement Existential Crisis .

World Quests

• Corrected an issue that was preventing players from receiving quest credit for “Breaking Irons ” in Siege of Boralus on Mythic difficulty.

[tkioz 229]

Honestly don't think most of these nerfs were needed except for...

1 hour ago, Stan said:

The Golden Serpent's Animated Gold health reduced by 50%. 

Because damn that was a nightmare at higher keys.

[Allseye 96]

3 hours ago, Stan said:

In Mythic Keystone dungeons, the Grievous affix now stacks every other tick (was every tick), and now deals 2% of the player’s total HP per stack (was 1.5%).

Eeeeee whaaaat Oo? Can someone explain what this actually means? What does "other" mean in this context?

[Stan 5,240]

26 minutes ago, Allseye said:

Eeeeee whaaaat Oo? Can someone explain what this actually means? What does "other" mean in this context?

Every 2nd tick.

[Jinzuru 9]

3 hours ago, Allseye said:

Eeeeee whaaaat Oo? Can someone explain what this actually means? What does "other" mean in this context?

Every 2nd tick instead of every tick.