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Patch 8.1.5 Hotfixes - Week of April 23
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
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The changes below will be going live this week.
Classes
DoT specs are often in the "normal" damage range for single-target fights and can be significantly above "normal" for multi-target fights. Please note that the goal here isn’t to just counter-tune specs in each bit of new content as we believe specs that work well in an encounter should continue to do so.
Regarding this specific Shadow Priest change, their multi-target performance was beyond our tuning targets and so we simply want to bring them back into range while minimizing the impact to their single-target performance.
Priest (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
Developers’ notes: The damage reduction to this talent is meant to curb the synergy of Insanity and Shadowy Apparition generation when combined with some Azerite traits, while still leaving it as a fun and interesting combo.
Player versus Player
Upcoming Patch 8.2 PTR Class Changes
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
/ Official Forums
)
We have a few more class changes coming to the Rise of Azshara PTR. We made the initial changes and the following will be active on the PTR soon.
Demon Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
Vengeance
Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
Guardian
Death Knight (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
Frost
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Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
/ Official Forums
)
The changes below will be going live this week.
Classes
DoT specs are often in the "normal" damage range for single-target fights and can be significantly above "normal" for multi-target fights. Please note that the goal here isn’t to just counter-tune specs in each bit of new content as we believe specs that work well in an encounter should continue to do so.
Regarding this specific Shadow Priest change, their multi-target performance was beyond our tuning targets and so we simply want to bring them back into range while minimizing the impact to their single-target performance.
- Shadow
- Auspicious Spirits damage reduced to 70% (was 100%).
Developers’ notes: The damage reduction to this talent is meant to curb the synergy of Insanity and Shadowy Apparition generation when combined with some Azerite traits, while still leaving it as a fun and interesting combo.
Player versus Player
- Abyssal Speaker's Gauntlets shield absorption effect is reduced by 66% when engaged in combat with enemy players.
- Trident of Deep Ocean shield absorption effect is reduced by 50% when engaged in combat with enemy players.
Upcoming Patch 8.2 PTR Class Changes
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
/ Official Forums
)
We have a few more class changes coming to the Rise of Azshara PTR. We made the initial changes and the following will be active on the PTR soon.
Vengeance
- Metamorphosis
- Health bonus 50% (from 30%)
- Now causes Shear to generate 20 additional Pain and 1 additional Lesser Soul Fragment (was: generates 7 Pain per second).
- Developers’ Note: This significantly increases the self-healing potential of Metamorphosis, as well as the health buffer, making it a more reliable major cooldown against all types of damage.
Guardian
- Frenzied Regeneration (Rank 3) is learned at level 85:
- Frenzied Regeneration spends up to 30 additional Rage to immediately heal you for up to 18% additional health.
- Note: This spell is affected by Guardian of Elune, but not affected by mastery.
- Frenzied Regeneration spends up to 30 additional Rage to immediately heal you for up to 18% additional health.
Frost
- Runic Empowerment has a 2.0% chance to proc per Runic Power spent (from 1.5%)
- Frost Fever’s chance to generate Runic Power increased to 30%
- Chance now diminishes on targets beyond the first
- Breath of Sindragosa now has double the usual chance to proc Runic Empowerment
- Breath of Sindragosa costs 18 Runic Power/sec (from 15)
- Developers’ Note: Frost was starved of resources too often, especially when using Breath of Sindragosa. This increases Frosts’s Rune income baseline and includes a further change that returns many extra Runes while using Breath of Sindragosa. Breath builds will now be able to fill more global cooldowns with casts of Obliterate, to make up for the lost Frost Strikes. The cost of Breath itself is increased to keep its overall duration roughly unchanged.
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