wow Mythic Azshara Nerf Coming in Hotfix Tomorrow

[Starym 3,800]

 

Update: The hotfix should be live now!

This hotfix will go live in a few minutes, at approximately 10:40 a.m. PDT.

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It seems after taking a good look at the situation of the World First race at the moment, Blizzard have decided that Queen Azshara is, indeed, a little too hard. The adds have become the focus of progress recently, and they will be becoming a bit easier from tomorrow, as their Berserk will come a minute later into the fight, opening a lot more options for dealing with them.

Mythic Azshara (source)

We have a hotfix in testing that we intend to apply to change the Queen Azshara encounter tomorrow morning (PDT):

• Queen Azshara’s minions now Berserk after 3 minutes in Phase 3 of the encounter on Mythic difficulty (was 2 minutes).

We’ll confirm when the hotfix is ready and going live tomorrow morning.

I also wanted to mention that this is exactly the way significant hotfixes to bosses during progression should be handled, giving the guilds some time to prepare and not find out about it mid-pull and have to adjust. Hopefully all changes from now on will be handled this way, so a big thank you to Blizzard from at least one race fan here.

[Starym 3,800]

Also, as a side note, just wanted to clarify that this is different from the enrage that Azshara casts on the adds at 50%, but it is what is currently wiping the guilds - they get 2 adds down and then the berserk hits, wiping them immediately.

[Whisla 76]

It does make me sad that this will ultimately kill the advantage limit had on this boss. Like its going to kill 50+ pulls for method and the asian guilds.

[Starym 3,800]

40 minutes ago, Whisla said:

It does make me sad that this will ultimately kill the advantage limit had on this boss. Like its going to kill 50+ pulls for method and the asian guilds.

I dunno, I mean a significant part they have that advantage is their head start soooo... I'm not saying they wouldn't be in the lead without it but we really can't ever know. Plus the same thing always happened whenever Method or Exorsus or whoever got to a final boss first or to a specific phase first. It's a bad way to do things but I'm not sure there's a better one.

[Hentryk 15]

The head start is a narrative we created. The guilds gain information from the "head start" that helps them catch up, like they did this time.   

Limit had over a 16 hour lead that they earned by being the first to get pulls on QA.

To boot they did manage to kill all 3 adds last night. So they made progress before the nerf/adjustment.

Now one thing that could come from this is more guilds battling it out at the end.  Only time and hot fix will tell.

Especially because no one has seen Phase 4.

 

[Starym 3,800]

7 hours ago, Hentryk said:

The head start is a narrative we created. The guilds gain information from the "head start" that helps them catch up, like they did this time.   

Limit had over a 16 hour lead that they earned by being the first to get pulls on QA.

To boot they did manage to kill all 3 adds last night. So they made progress before the nerf/adjustment.

Now one thing that could come from this is more guilds battling it out at the end.  Only time and hot fix will tell.

Especially because no one has seen Phase 4.

 

It is so incredibly NOT a narrative. Yes there is a disadvantage to getting to a potentially unkillable boss first, yes there is a disadvantage to other guilds checking your kills, but here's the thing: EVERYONE gets that. When Method got to a boss first they had the same exact issues, and yet they didn't have the 16 hours advantage. So yes, there are some disadvantages to going first, however they do not equal a FULL raid day of tries. Not to mention the hotfix today also coming at US guild raid prime time and 8 hours into EU guild progress, not to mention that it comes at the literal end of Asia guild raid day.