wow 7.2 Hotfixes: May 22nd

[Starym 3,785]

 

Some big news in today's hotfixes as the Artifact Knowledge cap gets reduced by 10 down to 40 and we get some dev insight into why they reduced it. We also see some Monk Stagger fixes and PvP Paladin Judge Unworthy changes, as well as the previously tweeted 15 minute limit to Deepwind Dunk.

Blizzard (source)

Achievements

• “Grand Opening” now requires 8 spotlights activated during the Chronomatic Anomaly encounter (was 12).

Classes

• Monk
  • Ironskin Brew and Fortifying Brew once again grant the correct Stagger percentage.

Class Hall

• Artifact Knowledge can now be researched to a maximum level of 40 (was 50).
  • Developers’ Notes: We raised the Knowledge cap from 40 to 50 very late in the 7.2 PTR cycle, out of an abundance of caution: We wanted to ensure that players of all playstyles, as well as alt characters, would view the Concordance trait as accessible. However, between the additional Artifact Power gains added in 7.2 and others that were hotfixed in after the patch released, we’re now well ahead of that mark. Knowledge 40 now seems more than sufficient for players to reach Concordance, and the prospect of months’ worth of additional Knowledge still left to research makes some players feel like their efforts in the interim aren’t meaningful. Therefore, we’re rolling the cap back to 40.

Player versus Player

• Deepwind Dunk is now 15 minutes long, and each player killed during Deepwind Dunk awards 5 points.
• Paladin
  • Attacking a Judged target will now cause Judge Unworthy to only spread that target's Judgment, instead of all your nearby Judgments.
  • Judge Unworthycan now spread Judgment to targets that are under the effects of crowd-control abilities.
  • Damage from Lawbringer can no longer cause Judge Unworthy to spread Judgment.

UI

• Players using Korean and Chinese clients can now chat in public chat channels on the Broken Shore.

Previous hotfixes (May 15th).

[xBlueBlaze 5]

Glad that cap is going from 50 to 40, I stop researching it as it was taking to long and using my resources up

[Archimage 98]

Any indication when they are going to increase the cap back to 50? Pretty much gave me a reason not to play till Patch 7.2.5.

[Fun 5]

1 hour ago, Archimage said:

Any indication when they are going to increase the cap back to 50? Pretty much gave me a reason not to play till Patch 7.2.5.

I'm confused. I thought they just lowered it. Why would there already be indication that it's to be raised back to 50?

[Thorosofbeer 3]

1 hour ago, Fun said:

I'm confused. I thought they just lowered it. Why would there already be indication that it's to be raised back to 50?

I'm confused as well as to why he would lose his willingness to play until 7.2.5, let's set aside the fact that it's less than a month away, but if anything this impact will have more effect in 7.2.5 than it does now when people are still getting to 40.

[Archimage 98]

1 hour ago, Fun said:

I'm confused. I thought they just lowered it. Why would there already be indication that it's to be raised back to 50?

Let me rephrase my question. When are they going to increase the cap again? In Argus - Patch 7.3?

47 minutes ago, Thorosofbeer said:

I'm confused as well as to why he would lose his willingness to play until 7.2.5, let's set aside the fact that it's less than a month away, but if anything this impact will have more effect in 7.2.5 than it does now when people are still getting to 40.

Heirloom upgrades in Patch 7.2.5 - I'll only start leveling my alts then. 
People are at AK 37, with 2 notes being researched.
Concordance of the Legionfall
Guild only does up to Heroic raiding, and I've already got all the gear I want from Heroic Nighthold.
Up to date with the story questlines.

The people I play with are also playing other MMO games while we wait for Tomb.

[Jumanji 0]

With lvl 37 the most of my guild mate have concordance i think 50 is to long and no needed

Edited May 23, 2017 by Jumanji

[Sharknad0 67]

They are not going to put it back to 50 at all. They do not want people to grind AP, so they wanted to make sure people got to concordance at a decent rate, then make the rest an endless nightmare so people will not grind to max weapon, since it will be close to impossible in this xpac. 40 is where it will stay, unless they decide to re-work the weapon traits and concordance again, which I doubt.