Midsummer Fire Festival Live, Healer Essences, Essence Hotfixes

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Midsummer Fire Festival Live
Midsummer Fire Festival is live once again and runs June 21st through July 5th.

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Level Type Name Model Viewer
365Back Icebound Cloak

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365Back Shroud of Winter's Chill

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365Back The Frost Lord's Battle Shroud

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365Back The Frost Lord's War Cloak

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365Back Cloak of the Frigid Winds

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This year there have been some changes:

• Ahune now drops ilvl 365 loot.
• New bonfires have been added to Zandalar and Kul Tiras.
• New Achievements:
  • Extinguishing Kul Tiras
  • Extinguish Zandalar
  • Flame Keeper Zandalar
  • Flame Warden of Kul Tiras
• Battle-Hardened Heirloom Armor Casing - Sold for 600 Burning Blossom
• Fire Eater's Hearthstone - Sold for 300 Burning Blossom

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Now is also a great time to take advantage of the hour-long 10% experience buff from Ribbon Dance. Visit any Midsummer Festival tent and /dance around the poll to acquire the buff.


Essences Feedback - Healer Essences
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
/ Official Forums
)
Some tuning tweaks that will be on PTR soon, noting here because they’ll be coming in as PTR hotfixes at this point:

• Artifice of Time, Minor: Haste/Speed bonus increased 13%
• Ever-Rising Tide, Minor: Int bonus increased 20%
• Ever-Rising Tide, Major: Duration (both active duration, and bonus duration) reduced to 8 seconds
• Life-Binder’s Invocation, Major: Cooldown reduced to 2.5 minutes
• Vitality Conduit, All: Transfer amount increased 15%
• Vitality Conduit, Minor: Proc rate increased 25%
• Vitality Conduit, Minor Rank 3: Absorb value increased 38%
• Lucid Dreams, Minor: Proc rate for mana users reduced 20%

Essences Feedback - Multiple Role Essences
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
/ Official Forums
)
Some additional hotfix balance changes have been made for a few Essences:

Crucible of Flame

• Minor effect rank 1 damage and healing values increased by 35%.
• Minor effect rank 1 proc chance increased for all healer roles.

Vision of Perfection

• Major effect proc chance reduced for Holy Paladin.

Stress Test Has Concluded -- Thank You!
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
/ Official Forums
)
Following a final flurry of sudden-but-inevitable deaths due to bosses spawned in the starting zones and an impressively huge lineup of people in Goldshire, we’ve concluded the Stress Test.

Please feel free to leave your feedback on your experiences in this stress test in our Feedback thread. We’re particularly interested in your experiences after the initial four hours of the test. Please let us know what time-frame your experiences are from when you post feedback.

Again, thank you very much for participating!

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