War Within Hotfixes, September 24th: Weekly Class and Dungeon Tuning

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Rider of the Apocalypse: Trollbane’s Icy Fury slows targets by 40% (was 70%).
• Druid
  • Feral
    • Rampant Ferocity now damages enemies within 8 yards of the Druid when using Ferocious Bite, instead of enemies within 8 yards of the target.
    • Developers’ note: This change is intended to give Feral Druids more control over which enemies Rampant Ferocity’s AOE hits and avoid cases where hitting a large boss with Ferocious Bite wouldn’t hit other nearby enemies.
  • Restoration
    • All healing increased by 4%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
• Hunter
  • Fixed an issue causing Kodo Tranquilizer to dispel two magic effects in addition to making Tranquilizing Shot affect nearby targets.
  • Beast Mastery
    • Beast Cleave damage increased to 90% (was 80%).
    • Kill Cleave damage increased to 90% (was 80%).
• Mage
  • Fire
    • Flamestrike damage increased by 15%.
    • Phoenix Flames damage increased by 20%.
    • Living Bomb damage increased by 10%.
  • Frost
    • Glacial Spike damage increased by 20%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Ray of Frost damage increased by 15%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
• Priest
  • Shadow
    • All damage increased by 4%.

Dungeons

• Siege of Boralus
  • Iron Tide Raider health reduced by 15%.
  • Bilge Rat Buccaneer health reduced by 10%.
  • Irontide Waveshaper health reduced by 20%.
  • Ashvane Sniper health reduced by 10%.
  • Scrimshaw Enforcer health reduced by 20%.
  • Bilge Rat Tempest’s Choking Waters cast time increased.
  • Iron Tide Raider’s Iron Hook ability cooldown increased.
  • Iron Tide Raider’s Iron Hook maximum range decreased.
  • Bilge Rat Demolisher Crushing Slam’s damage ignores armor and its damage has been reduced by 40%.
  • Bilge Rat Demolisher health reduced by 10%.
  • Hadal Darkfathom
    • Health reduced by 5%.
  • Viq’Goth
    • Demolishing Terror’s Slam no longer knocks players back.
    • Demolishing Terror’s Slam damage now ignores armor.
    • Fixed an issue that caused the area effect when dispelling Putrid Waters to not scale in Mythic keystones.
    • Developers’ notes: The intent of these changes is to balance the overall length of the dungeon against the timer, while rewarding players for prioritizing high-threat enemies. The adjustments to Viq’goth aim to even out damage across all armor types and eliminate a frustrating aspect of the encounter.
• Grim Batol
  • Twilight Warlock’s Enveloping Shadowflame now targets 1 player (was 2).
  • Mutated Hatchling’s Shadow Wound increases Shadow damage taken by 3% per application (was 5%).
  • Faceless Corruptor’s Corrupt cast time increased and damage reduced by 10%.
  • Twilight Destroyer’s Twilight Ember area denial no longer inflicts damage instantly when stepping into the area.
  • Erudax
    • Reduced the visual scale of Erudax to improve visibility during the encounter.
    • Players afflicted with Depth’s Grasp have a brief immunity to Void Tendrils upon expiration.
    • Improved the visibility of Void Tendrils.
    • Mutated Hatchling’s Shadow Wound increases Shadow damage taken by 3% per application (was 5%).
• Mists of Tirna Scithe
  • Mistcaller
    • Improved the visibility of the Vulpin summoned by Freeze Tag.
    • The range of Patty Cake has been increased.
• Necrotic Wake
  • Addressed an issue where players can be targeted by affixes while on their way back to the top platform during Nalthor the Rimebinder.
• The Stonevault
  • Master Machinists
    • Ability timing has been adjusted to prevent a potentially unfair overlaps between Exhaust Vents and Blazing Crescendo.
    • Molten Metal cast time increased to 3 seconds (was 2 seconds).
    • Silenced Speaker now inflicts damage every 3 seconds (was every 1.5 seconds).

Items

• Treacherous Transmitter – Cryptic instructions are now more reliably completable when used on transports such as the Dawnbreaker.

Player versus Player

• The “Weapons of Conquest” quest for free PvP weapons has been replaced with the Forged Weapons of Conquest achievement found under Feats of Strength → PvP. Progress towards this achievement can be tracked by viewing the Conquest currency and is retroactive.
• The Forged Weapons of Conquest achievement grants two Forged Gladiator’s Weapon Tokens which can be exchanged with Lalandi at the Contender’s Gate for free PvP weapons of your choice. 2 tokens for 2-handed weapons and 1 token for 1-handed weapons.
• To help offset the need for Fury Warriors’ need for two 2-handed weapons, their strength weapon choices will only cost 1 token.
• Death Knight
  • Unholy
    • Doomburst causes Death Coil to burst 2 Festering Wounds (was 3).
• Demon Hunter
  • Havoc
    • Demon’s Bite damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.
    • Demon Blades damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.
    • Chaos Strike/Annihilation damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.
    • Blade Dance/Death Sweep damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.
• Druid
  • Feral
    • Sabertooth now increases the damage of Ferocious Bite by 10% (was 15%) and increases the damage of Ferocious Bite per periodic effect by 2% (was 3%) in PvP combat.
    • Taste for Blood now increases the damage of Ferocious Bite by 6% (was 12%) in PvP combat.
    • Rip damage increased by 25% in PvP combat (was 15%).
    • Rake initial damage increased by 25% (was 15%) and its periodic damage increased by 10% (was -6%) in PvP combat.
• Evoker
  • Devastation
    • Eternity Surge damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
• Mage
  • Frostfire: Frostfire Bolt damage increased by 100% in PvP combat (was 75%).
  • Frostfire: Frostfire Empowerment increases Frostfire Bolt damage by 30% in PvP combat (was 50%).
  • Arcane
    • Arcane Blast damage increased by 45% in PvP combat (was 15%).
    • Arcane Missiles damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.
    • Arcane Barrage damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
    • Magi’s Spark is now 50% effective in PvP combat.
  • Fire
    • Fireball damage increased by 100% in PvP combat (was 35%).
    • Greater Pyroblast cast time reduced to 4 seconds (was 4.5 seconds) but it now deals 30% of its target’s maximum health in damage (was 35%).
  • Frost
    • Ice Lance damage increased by 25% in PvP combat (was 45%).
    • Frostbolt damage increased by 150% in PvP combat (was 118%).
    • Ray of Frost damage increased by 5% in PvP combat.
    • Ice Barrier absorb amount is now decreased by 40% in PvP combat (was 25%).
• Monk
  • Mistweaver
    • Enveloping Mist healing increased by 20% in PvP combat.
    • Vivify primary healing increased by 20% in PvP combat.
• Paladin
  • Holy
    • Mana regeneration reduced by 20% in PvP combat (was 35%).
    • Holy Shock healing increased by 15% in PvP combat.
    • Word of Glory healing increased by 15% in PvP combat.
    • Holy Light healing increased by 20% in PvP combat.
• Priest
  • Discipline
    • Weal and Woe’s bonus to Power Word: Shield is now 50% effective in PvP combat.
  • Holy
    • Holy Word: Serenity healing increased by 40% in PvP combat.
    • Holy Word: Sanctify healing increased by 40% in PvP combat.
  • Shadow
    • Perfected Form now increases damage dealt during Voidform by 10% in PvP combat (was 20%).
• Rogue
  • Subtlety
    • Reverberation now increases Echoing Reprimand damage by 50% in PvP combat (was 70%).

Professions

• Engineering
  • Fixed an issue that caused Pausing Pylon to only affect party members instead of an entire raid.

Quests

• Slaying Azj-Kahet’s world boss, Orta, The Broken Mountain, will now contribute to the Severed Threads Pact weekly quests.

User Interface

• Dungeon Finder
  • Addressed an issue where key level does not automatically populate for Siege of Boralus.