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Upcoming Class Tuning Hotfixes
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
/ Official Forums
)
Hey all. As with each major patch that significantly changes class spells and abilities, we review tuning based on live data once it’s live, to look for any tuning issues that may have arisen. Based on that, we’re planning to make the following changes during the next weekly restarts in each region. We’ll continue to pay close attention to each spec’s performance as players progress through the Nighthold, and are ready to make further adjustments as necessary.
Classes
- Fire
- Flame Patch damage reduced by 17%.
- Frost
- Ray of Frost damage increased by 12%.
- Affliction
- Agony now has its full chance to generate a Soul Shard on Soul Effigy (up from a 55% of normal chance).
- Malefic Grasp now increases the damage of damage over time effects by 70% (down from 80%).
- Demonology
- Shadowbolt damage increased by 42%.
- Demonbolt damage increased by 42%, but its damage is now increased by 10% per active demon (down from 18%).
- Blood
- Blooddrinker damage reduced by 40% (unchanged in PvP).
- Beast Mastery
- Cobra Shot damage increased by 46%.
- Chimaera Shot damage increased by 10%.
- Barrage damage increased by 10%.
- Kill Command damage increased by 10%.
- Marksmanship
- Aimed Shot, Arcane Shot, Barrage, Black Arrow, Bursting Shot, Marked Shot, Multi-shot, Murder of Crows, Piercing Shot, Sidewinders, Volley, and Windburst damage increased by 8%.
- Survival
- Carve, Flanking Strike, Explosive Trap direct damage, Flanking Strike, Mongoose Bite, Raptor Strike damage increased by 7%.
- Explosive Trap damage over time, Lacerate, and Serpent Sting damage increased by 12%.
- Caltrops damage reduced by 10%.
- Discipline
- Trinkets that deal single-target damage now deal 45% of normal damage (up from 40%).
- Trinkets that deal multi-target damage now deal 35% of normal damage (up from 25%).
- Shadow
- Mind Blast, Mind Flay, Shadow Crash, Shadow Word: Death, Shadow Word: Void, Shadowy Apparition, Void Bolt, Void Torrent, and Void Eruption damage reduced by 4%.
- Shadow Word: Pain damage reduced by 11%.
- Vampiric Touch damage reduced by 14%.
- Elemental
- Lightning Bolt damage increased by 9%.
- Enhancement
- Crash Lightning, Flametongue, Lava Lash, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Shield, Rockbiter, Stormstrike, Windfury, and Windsong damage increased by 4%.
- Hailstorm damage increased by 29%.
- Boulderfist damage increased by 15%.
- Fury of Air damage reduced by 12%.
- Doom Vortex damage increased by 33%.
- Protection
- Charge, Devastate, Devastator, Heroic Throw, Ravager, Shield Slam, Victory Rush, and Deep Wounds damage reduced by 5%.
- Revenge and Thunder Clap damage reduced by 14%.
- Retribution
- Execution Sentence damage reduced by 15%.
- Assassination
- Agonizing Poison increases damage by 3.5% per stack (down from 4%).
- Havoc
- Annihilation, Blade Dance, Chaos Nova, Chaos Strike, Death Sweep, Demon Blades, Demon’s Bite, Eye Beam, Fel Barrage, Fel Eruption, Fel Rush, Fury of the Illidari, Metamorphosis, and Throw Glaive damage reduced by 2%.
- Fel Mastery now grants 30 Fury (up from 25).
- Chaos Blades now increases autoattack damage by 150% (down from 200%).
- Windwalker
- Rushing Jade Wind now applies Mark of the Crane to 4 targets (down from 5).
Legendary Items
- DPS Specs
- Kil'jaeden's Burning Wish: Damage increased by 55%.
- Paladin
- Chain of Thrayn: Damage bonus reduced from 20% to 10%.
- Priest
- Mother Shahraz's Seduction: Stacks of Voidform gained when entering Voidform reduced from 5 to 3.
- Zeks Exterminatus: Damage bonus increased from 25% to 100%.
- Rogue
- Duskwalker's Footpads: Energy needed per 1 second of CDR for Vendetta increased from 50 to 65.
Additionally, we’re planning to make some general changes to PvP balance, with the intent of lowering overall damage from a few overperforming specs and talents. Those exact changes have not yet been finalized, but we’ll share them as soon as we are able.
Patch 7.1.5 Hotfixes - January 13
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
/ Official Forums
)
Brawler’s Guild
- Strange Thing is now immune to knockback.
- Fixed a bug preventing the Thwack U encounter from ending properly.
Classes
- Demon Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
- Metamorphosis (Vengeance) will properly reset its cooldown after a raid encounter ends
- Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
- Ranger’s Net will no longer proc Sephuz's Secret on a target that is immune to Roots.
- Mage (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
- Fixed the animation for Cold Snap.
- Fixed a bug where Flurry's missiles were all launching at the same time, making it difficult to take advantage of Winter's Chill with a follow-up Ice Lance.
- Fixed the animation for Cold Snap.
- Shaman (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
- Lava Lash will no longer incorrectly activate Windfury
- Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
- Impending Doom will now cause Doom to tick more often in addition to reducing its duration
Dungeons and Raids
- The Sunwell
- Burn cannot be taken outside of the instance.
Items
- Using the reusable shoulder enchant, Boon of the Nether, should cause the item it is used on to become Soulbound.
- The Ensemble: Tyrannical Gladiator's Ringmail Armor should now grant Horde Shaman the correct appearances.
Player versus Player
- Demon Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
- Mana Break now deals 5% of the target's health in damage base, up to 25% if they have 0% remaining mana.
- First Blood's additional damage in PvP situations has been reduced to 100% additional damage (was 200%).
- Fury of the Illidari deals 30% less damage in PvP situations. This also reduces the amount of damage that Rage of the Illidari will deal to targets.
- The additional auto-attack damage of Chaos Blades in PvP situations has been reduced to 150% additional damage (was 200%).
- Mana Break now deals 5% of the target's health in damage base, up to 25% if they have 0% remaining mana.
Professions
- Enchanting
- All three ranks of Mark of the Trained Soldier should now be categorized together.
Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Arena Rewards
Just a quick update, we're still reviewing the accuracy of the data, but barring any unforeseen problems, we hope to re-distribute rewards at some point next week. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Legendary Item Sources
Just to confirm, this is intended and not a bug. Blingtron 6000's gift packages do have a chance of containing a legendary. He's a nice guy like that! (well, sometimes, at least.)
Does fishing? it's quite a popular post on reddit, seems the SS is fake, but can you confirm?
Can confirm that we believe the screenshot is indeed fake. After checking, there aren't any fishing pools that award Legendaries so if this player truly did get a Legendary, it's a bug. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Blood Plague V2
Sorry for the trouble caused by this. Antibiotics have been deployed and it seems to have sorted everything out. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Tooltips
you guys can't just send out a small tool tip patch to fix it? Seems simple enough.
We have that capability, but the effort required (mostly in terms of translation) makes it not worth it in most cases. (Celestalon)
The process of translating the English text into 13(?) other languages still has very high overhead. (Celestalon)
Translation is something that's most efficiently done in bulk (patches), not one-off little translations (hotfixes). (Celestalon)
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