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By Starym
The massive February 24th hotfixes are here, featuring both the class and Horrific Vision tuning, as well as Explosive Orb M+ affix changes, Ny'alotha tuning, and even more Horrific Visions changes. In WoW Classic we have Razorgore only save raids to the instance if he was killed after all the eggs were destroyed.
February 24 (source)
February 24, 2020
Classes
Druid Restoration [With regional restarts] Rejuvenation now costs 10% base mana (was 10.5%). [With regional restarts] Efflorescence now costs 17% base mana (was 21.6%). [With regional restarts] Tranquility direct healing increased 11%. Developers’ note: These changes should improve Restoration Druid’s raid healing output, without much impact to their already strong capabilities in dungeons and Arena. Hunter Marksmanship [With regional restarts] Damage of all abilities increased by 5%. Mage Frost [With regional restarts] Damage of all abilities increased by 5%. Monk Windwalker [With regional restarts] Damage of all abilities increased by 5%. Damage unchanged in PvP. Rogue Outlaw Resolved an issue that could prevent Blade Flurry from damaging some types of creatures in Uldum and Vale of Eternal Blossoms. Shaman Enhancement Damage of all abilities increased by 3%. Warlock Demonology [With regional restarts] Damage of all abilities increased by 5%. Dungeons and Raids
Mythic Keystone Dungeons Explosive Affix Explosive Orbs again immediately put players into combat. Explosive Orbs can again be tab-targeted. Developers’ note: When testing the Awakened affix, we found that Explosive Orbs could sometimes prevent players from entering or exiting Ny'alotha Spires and Rifts if their party was in combat inside the instance. To solve this issue, we changed them to not place players in combat immediately. However, this had the unintended side effect of breaking player expectations around tab-targeting Explosive Orbs, so we're reverting their threat-generation behavior and trying an alternate solution. Ny’alotha, the Waking City Azeroth's Radiance now properly restores Sanity to players who are under the effects of an Immunity spell on all difficulties. Vexiona Cultists now have their health adjusted based on raid size, up to a maximum 10% reduction for 10-player raids on Normal and Heroic difficulties. Ra-den the Despoiled Resolved an issue that allowed Re-origination Anchors to be attackable with area of effect spells. Horrific Visions
Research into Synchronized Mind Stabilizer has improved, now always reviving the player with at least half their Sanity. Horrific Vision of Stormwind Magister Umbric now casts Frozen Storm twice during the encounter (was 3 times). Items and Rewards
Torn Pages of “Fear and Flesh” The number of Torn Page of "Fear and Flesh" quest items required for the rank 13-15 cloak quests has been reduced. Rank 13 now requires 4 Torn Pages (down from 6). Rank 14 now requires 6 Torn Pages (down from 12). Rank 15 now requires 8 Torn Pages (down from 18). Developers’ note: This change should make all the quests completable by most players in the week and not require players to feel the need to save as many keys week to week. Along with our other quality-of-life changes, this should help newer characters catch up with their peers. [With regional restarts] Up to 4 Torn Page of "Fear and Flesh" quest items can now drop in Horrific Visions from objectives on the rank 7-11 legendary cloak upgrade quests (max of 2). Developers’ note: Players will need to clear more than two side areas in one run to get more than two pages. The rank 13-15 quests will still drop a max of 2 pages, only from Lost Area objectives. Coalescing Visions Coalescing Visions now drop in higher numbers from Assaults and Daily Quests. [With regional restarts] Visions of N’Zoth daily quests now reward 50% more Coalescing Visions. [With regional restarts] The N’Zoth Assault now rewards 2500 Coalescing Visions (in addition to a Vessel of Horrific Visions). [With regional restarts] Lesser Threats will now reward 6500 Coalescing Visions (was 5500). Heart of Azeroth Reaping Flames (Essence) will no longer have its cooldown reduced to 5 seconds and deal additional damage when killing Twisted Appendages. Player versus Player
Tank-specialization characters take an additional 50% damage from enemy players (was 40%). Death Knight Blood Death Strike now heals for 12.5% of damage taken when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 25%). Death Strike now heals for a minimum of 3.5% of maximum health when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 7%). Frost, Unholy [With regional restarts] Death Strike now heals for 30% of damage taken when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 40%). [With regional restarts] Death Strikee now heals for a minimum of 5% of maximum health when engaged in combat with enemy players, down from 10%. Mage Arcane [With regional restarts] Prismatic Barrier now absorbs 40% less damage when engaged in combat with enemy players. Fire [With regional restarts] Blazing Barrier absorbs 40% less damage when engaged in combat with enemy players. Frost [With regional restarts] Ice Barrier absorbs 40% less damage when engaged in combat with enemy players. Warlock Affliction, Destruction [With regional restarts] Demon Armor now increases Stamina by 5%, (was 10%). [With regional restarts] Demon Armor now increases Armor by 90% (was 150%). WoW Classic
Razorgore the Untamed now only saves players to the raid instance if defeated after the eggs have been destroyed.
Previous Hotfixes
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By Starym
We have further updates on the Horrific Visions tuning coming tomorrow/Wednesday to go with the class changes, as we have some specifics to check out - from the exact numbers on the Coalescing Visions rewards increases to the Torn Pages required for cloak upgrades.
Horrific Visions Changes (source)
I’ve updated the OP here with further information.
UPDATED 2:45 p.m. PST Monday, February 24
We’re working on a set of hotfixes to the game that should streamline upgrading your Legendary cloak via Horrific Visions.
We now have some specifics to outline. Once again, these changes will come into effect with scheduled weekly maintenance:
Coalescing Visions
Visions of N’Zoth Daily Quests now reward 50% more Coalescing Visions. The main N’Zoth Threat now rewards 2500 Coalescing Visions (in addition to a Vessel of Horrific Visions ). Lesser Threats now reward 6500 Coalescing Visions. Quests to Increase Cloak Rank
For Rank 13, the Quest now requires 4 Torn Pages (was 6). For Rank 14, the Quest now requires 6 Torn Pages (was 12). For Rank 15, the Quest now requires 8 Torn Pages (was 18). Posted previously–
Coalescing Visions now drop in higher numbers from Assaults and Daily Quests. The Unique(5) inventory cap on Vessel of Horrific Visions has been removed, allowing you to carry as many Vessels as you like. Up to 4 Torn Pages of “Fear and Flesh” quest items can now drop in Horrific Visions from objectives on the rank 7-11 Legendary cloak upgrade quests (was a max of 2). You’ll need to clear more than two sides areas in one run to get more than two pages. The rank 13-15 quests will still drop a max of 2 pages, only from Lost Area objectives. These updates will go into effect with weekly maintenance (Tuesday, February 25 in this region).
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By Starym
We have some changes to the class balancing coming tomorrow and Wednesday, with Windwalkers and Death Knights having some changes reverted and some of the nerfs lessened for PvP:
Class Balance (source)
I’ve updated the OP above with three further adjustments:
Windwalkers will not have their damage increased in PvP situations. For Unholy and Frost DKs, Death Strike healing is being taken down to 30% in PvP. For Blood DKs, Death Strike healing is being taken down to 19% in PvP. And here are the original class balance changes that were already announced, without the modifications from above:
Class Balancing Feb 25th (source)
We’re working on a series of hotfixes to adjust class balance. We currently plan to implement the following changes with weekly maintenance (the morning of February 25 in this region):
Classes
Druid
Restoration
Rejuvenation now costs 10% base mana (from 10.5%).
Efflorescence now costs 17% base mana (from 21.6%).
Tranquility direct healing increased 11%.
Developers’ notes: These changes should improve Restoration Druid’s raid healing output, without much impact to their already strong capabilities in dungeons and Arenas. Hunter
Marksmanship
Damage of all abilities increased by 5%. Monk
Windwalker
Damage of all abilities increased by 5%. Mage
Frost
Damage of all abilities increased by 5%. Shaman
Enhancement
Damage of all abilities increased by 3%. Warlock
Demonology
Damage of all abilities increased by 5%. Player vs. Player
Tank Specializations
Tank specialization player characters now take an additional 50% damage from enemy players (was 40%). Death Knight
Unholy, Frost
Death Strike now heals for 20% of damage taken when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 40%). Death Strike now heals for a minimum of 5% of maximum health when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 10%). Blood
Death Strike now heals for 12.5% of damage taken when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 25%). Death Strike now heals for a minimum of 3.5% of maximum health when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 7%). Mage
Frost
Ice Barrier now absorbs 40% less damage when engaged in combat with enemy players. Fire
Blazing Barrier now absorbs 40% less damage when engaged in combat with enemy players. Arcane
Prismatic Barrier now absorbs 40% less damage when engaged in combat with enemy players. Warlock
Affliction, Destruction
Demon Armor now increases Stamina by 5% (was 10%). Demon Armor now increases Armor by 90% (was 150%). -
By Starym
We have another remastered WoW cinematic on our hands, this time hand-made and not AI upscaled to boot! The end cinematic of the Icecrown Citadel raid is particularly relevant today, as it not only sets up Bolvar as the new Lich King, but also takes place in the Sylvannas vs. Bolvar arena that sets off Shadowlands.
And here's the description from the creator, Pivotal:
And here's the intro cinematic for the patch, remastered a long time ago by Hurricane:
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By Starym
The biggest ongoing discussion in a large part of the WoW raiding player base has been whether raids are harder now than they were in the past, with Vanilla and Classic especially coming under fire for seemingly "easy" bosses. Now it's obvious today's boss fights are infinitely more complex, but there's a huge mitigating factor to consider, and that's addons. If you needed more proof for just how important mods are to raiding, the recent World First race win by Complexity Limit came just as they got their own dedicated addon coder, in their partnership with Deadly Boss Mods. Regardless of where you come out on the "raids were harder in era X" discussion, it's very clear addons have completely changed the way raids work, and we now have a look inside how exactly that evolved in a PC Gamer interview with lead game designer Morgan Day.
We start in Warlords of Draenor and Hellfire Citadel, where Archimonde sat waiting. The boss had been the hardest in a long time, surviving for 16 days and was only surpassed by his fellow Burning Legion bigwig Kil'jaeden, 2 years later to the day. So why was Archimonde so important? Well, a new addon was developed by the top raiders at the time that could actually draw lines on the minimap, making the Wrought Chaos mechanic easier to deal with. As Morgan Day explains:
This particular addon was deemed too powerful and the API was changed so it didn't work anymore, and this wasn't the first time Blizzard had to step in and curb a mod's functionality, as Blackwing Lair (and Chromaggus in paticular) had shown that the Decursive addon was too powerful and needed to be toned down.
The biggest new piece of info from the interview would have to be that while Blizzard don't actually design bosses with addons in mind from the ground up, they very much do pay attention to them when it comes to implementing the boss designs. They don't always catch everything, however. Day mentions that the Prophet Skitra's main mechanic in Ny'alotha was actually completely ignored by mods - the boss would split into many mirror images and players were supposed to communicate and find out which one was real, except Blizzard didn't quite foresee a method mods could mark the real one, and so that part of the fight was completely trivialized.
And finally, Day talks about how some addons, while deemed too powerful and were shut down, lead to actual improvements in the game itself, like bosses using similar tech to telegraph their attacks better (like the Augmented Virtual Reality one from WotLK which allowed you to draw whatever you wanted on the game screen).
The interview covers a lot more ground and goes into detail on some of the above examples and is a great read if you're a raider or interested in the World First race, so definitely go check it out!
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