wow Patch 7.3.2 Hotfixes: December 5th

[Starym 3,777]

 

A huge bunch of hotfixes today, with the already announced class and set bonus changes, with new Demon Hunter ones added, as well as some new PvP changes, more item tweaks (including big Convergence of Fates changes) and Antorus tuning!

December 5 (source)

December 5

Classes

• Priest
  • Shadow
    • Vampiric Touch and Shadow Word: Pain damage reduced by 12%.
    • All other abilities increased by 3%.
• Rogue
  • Outlaw
    • All damage abilities increased by 4%.
• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • Corruption and Agony damage reduced 6%
    • Unstable Affliction damage reduced 4%

Dungeons and Raids

• Antorus, the Burning Throne
  • Coven of Shivarra
    • Corrected an issue that caused the health of Torments to not properly scale with raid size.
  • Eonar the Life-Binder
    • Players who are disconnected during the Eonar encounter will have access to Surge of Life once they reconnect.
  • Argus the Unmaker
    • Cheat Death and similar effects will not reset their cooldowns when you die during the final phase of the Argus the Unmaker encounter.
    • Boss Health increased by 10% on Normal and Heroic difficulties
    • Soulbomb and Soulburst now deal periodic damage more rapidly
    • Edge of Obliteration damage increased by 50%
    • Constellar elemental vulnerabilities reduced from +200% to +100% damage taken

 

Items

• Carafe of Searing Light now correctly shares a short cooldown with other "Use" trinkets.
• Convergence of Fates primary stat increased by 13%. Effect reduced to 3 seconds of cooldown reduction (was 4 seconds).
  • Developers’ notes: This change is aimed at changing how Convergence of Fate scales with item level – or rather, how it doesn’t. For some specializations, the cooldown reduction effect is so powerful that the item level of the trinket is all but irrelevant. We’re shifting more of the item’s power to primary stat and less in the base proc to cause the trinket’s scaling with item level to be more similar to other trinkets in Legion.
• Forgefiend's Fabricator damage increased by 25%.
• Garothi Feedback Conduit Haste amount increased by 10%.
• Gorshalach's Legacy damage increased by 25%.
• Highfather's Machination healing amount increased by 10%.
• Ishkar's Felshield Emitter absorb amount increased by 10%.
• Prototype Personnel Decimator damage increased by 10%. Minimum damage when targets are 20 yards from the impact point increased to 50% of max damage (was 20%).
• Seeping Scourgewing damage increased by 10%.
• Shadow-Singed Fang stat bonuses increased by 20%.
• Sheath of Asara damage increased by 20%.
• Tarratus Keystone healing increased by 10%.
• Terminus Signaling Beacon damage increased by 15%.
• Vitality Resonator Intellect increased by 10%.
• Demon Hunter
  • Havoc
    • Felreaper Vestments 2P Bonus changed to 40% Eye Beam damage (was 30% Eye Beam damage).
    • Felreaper Vestments 4P Bonus haste bonus changed to 25% (was 15%).
• Druid
  • Balance
    • Stormheart Rainment 4P Bonus – Starsurge and Starfall now increase your Haste by 2% (was 3%), stacking up to 4 times (was 5).
• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery
    • Serpentstalker Guise 4P Bonus – Kill Command now reduces the cooldown of Aspect of the Wild by 2.5 seconds (was 1.5 seconds).
  • Marksmanship
    • Serperntstalker Guise 4P Bonus – Marked Shot now has a 50% chance (was 30%) to fire an extra Marked Shot at up to 3 additional targets.
• Monk
  • Brewmaster
    • Chi'Ji's Battlegear 4P Bonus – Dodging an attack now reduces the remaining cooldown of Breath of Fire by 2.0 seconds (was 1.0 seconds).
• Rogue
  • Assassination
    • Regalia of the Dashing Scoundrel 4P Bonus – Your Deadly Poison or Wound Poison critical strike now generate 3 Energy (was 2 Energy).
  • Subtlety
    • Regalia of the Dashing Scoundrel 4P Bonus – Backstab and Shadowstrike now have a 4% chance (was 3%) to grant Shadow Gestures.
• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • Diabloic Rainment 4P Bonus – Spending a Soul Shard now has a chance to grant you 10% Haste (was 15%).
    • Grim Inquisitor's Regalia 4P Bonus – Unstable Affliction and Seed of Corruption now increase the damage targets take from your Agony and Corruption by 15% (was 10%).
  • Demonology
    • Grim Inquisitro's Regalia 4P Bonus – Demonic Empowerment now causes your Call Dreadstalkers to immediately cast another Dreadbite with 75% increased damage (was 50%).
• Warrior
  • Arms
    • Titanic Onslaiught Armor 4P Bonus – The amount of bonus Mortal Strike damage events has been reduced to 2 during Bladestorm (was 3), and 1 during Ravager (was 2).

Player versus Player

• Priest
  • Shadow
    • PvP Template Intellect increased by 2%.
    • Mind Blast damage increased by 5% in PvP situations.
    • Mind Flay damage increased by 15% in PvP situations.
• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • PvP Template Versatility increased by 25%.

Previous patch 7.3.2 hotfixes:

• December 1
• November 21
• November 14
• November 6
• October 26

[ArusVicious 156]

I really do hope Argus is at least some bit of a challenge... they made Kil'jaeden way too hard to a point where they had to nerf him 20 times till he became do-able, and he is still a cruel fight. But seeing that Argus needs buffs? I really hope this is not Xavius all over again. The last boss of the expansion needs to be a challenge. Otherwise there is no fun in trying to kill it. 

[Sikolik 5]

 

12 minutes ago, Maxkitty said:

I really do hope Argus is at least some bit of a challenge... they made Kil'jaeden way too hard to a point where they had to nerf him 20 times till he became do-able, and he is still a cruel fight. But seeing that Argus needs buffs? I really hope this is not Xavius all over again. The last boss of the expansion needs to be a challenge. Otherwise there is no fun in trying to kill it. 

the challenge to get there is big enough i think

[ArusVicious 156]

11 minutes ago, Sikolik said:

 

the challenge to get there is big enough i think

So you are in favour of another Xavius type scenario when the boss takes no more than 10 pulls to down on mythic? Quite the challenge.

I'm not cutting out the fact that the bosses before him might be a challenge. They should be. The Emerald Nightmare was similar. But in that raid, once you got past Cenarius, you basically completed the raid. Xavius was nothing but a joke. And that's the last thing I'd want in a raid like Antorus which I personally think is an exceptionally well made raid. 

Nobody is asking for a Kil'jaeden difficulty fight, nor a Xavius one either. And seeing that he needed buffs is worrisome to me.

Edited December 5, 2017 by Maxkitty

[Migol 425]

A bit sad that the tanking trinkets weren't touched :/

[Adamant 8]

I'm sad they didn't fix sheath of asara to not pull anymore. I ended up selling it even though it was an upgrade because the uses were so few. it also doesn't even hit bosses like garothi obliterator at all. It would be nice to have a bigger hitbox on the swords as well, since they are hard to hit small enemies like nightborne with.

 

Edited December 5, 2017 by nrotter2468

[Hedonismbot 9]

Finally Shadow priest Nerfs