wow Patch 8.2.5 Hotfixes: October 22nd

[Starym 3,800]

 

Here come today's BfA hotfixes, featuring the already announced raid nerfs (and the Palce opening to cross-realm groups on Mythic), with lady Ashvane and Queen Azshara getting significantly easier, mostly on Mythic. We also get a change to how the Battle of Nazjatar works, as it is no longer on a fixed delay, and we get some Mechagon quest and world changes as well.

October 22 (source)

Dungeons and Raids

• Azshara’s Eternal Palace
  • The Eternal Palace is now available for cross-realm groups on Mythic difficulty.
  • Lady Ashvane
    • Lady Ashvane’s health reduced by 5% in Mythic difficulty.
    • Rippling Wave damage reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty.
    • Waterlogged periodic damage reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty.
  • Queen Azshara
    • The "Stand Together!" and "Stay!" decree combination is no longer possible in Heroic difficulty.
    • Overzealous Hulk and Tidemistress health reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty.
    • Draining Azshara’s Ancient Ward now reduces its energy by an additional 5 points in all difficulties.
    • Empowering a Ward of Power now increases its energy by an additional 5 points in all difficulties.
    • Healer-specialization characters are now less likely to be targeted with decree combinations that include “March!” in all difficulties.
    • Short Circuit now drains 10% less energy from the affected Ward in all difficulties.
    • Essence of Azeroth now has an increased duration if there are fewer than 20 players in the raid in Normal and Heroic difficulties, and lasts 30 seconds (was 25 seconds) in Mythic difficulty.
      • Developers’ note: These changes were made to smooth out the difficulty curve of the instance as we transition into the next raid tier, something we often do after all Mythic Raid Hall of Fame slots have been earned.

Player versus Player

• The start time for the Battle of Nazjatar is no longer fixed to a 3-hour interval. The delay between events now has random variance.
  • Developers’ note: As players have learned the timing of the event over the course of Rise of Azshara, increasingly the perceived optimal way to participate is to camp the control points in advance of the start time. By adding some variance (which still averages out to a 3-hour interval), we hope to make the Battle for Nazjatar more dynamic without reducing the overall frequency of the event.

Quests

• "Energy Cells for Everyone " now resets daily (was weekly) and will be automatically removed from players’ quest logs with the daily reset.

World

• The Charging Station construction project in Mechagon now appears significantly faster after the Charging Station is destroyed.

[Ragingwolf 310]

It's a nice fix to the Queen of Azshara fight for Normal and Heroic difficulties.  Unfortunately I know several people that refuse to install (mainly my own guildies) weak auras to help with the decrees still or simply ignore their DBM addons.  Along of not understanding about the arcane bomb mechanic and having to line of sight from the raid group -.-