wow Patch 8.3 Hotfixes: February 4th

Starym · February 5, 2020

We should first mention what today's hotfixes DON'T include, and that's the details on the just announced Corruption effect nerfs. They do show off the raid tuning that's already happened, including the Ra-den reset timer change that prevented the Warlock opener damage buff/exploit, but also nerfed the boss to compensate, Carapace also got tweaked and Mechagon and Siege got changes as well. There's also some Stormwind Horrific Vision nerfs, a lot of item tweaks and more.

February 4 (source)

Characters

Character transfers and faction changes no longer set back progress on the Titan Research Archive.

Darkmoon Faire

Players who have the Darkmoon Adventurer's Guide in their inventory should no longer receive error messages after killing enemies in Mythic Keystone dungeons.
- Darkmoon Arcade
  - Players who die on the HexSweeper board are now teleported near the Arcade console.
  - Players can now walk on top of flagged hexes without triggering them.

Dungeons and Raids

Ny’alotha, the Waking City
- Ra-den the Despoiled
  - Void Eruption should no longer damage pets on all difficulties.
  - Decaying Wound’s damage over time effect no longer persists after the end of the encounter on all difficulties.
  - Night Terror’s Dread Inferno spell no longer interrupts channeled abilities on Mythic difficulty.
  - Reduced the health of Ra-den, Essence of Void, Essence of Nightmare, Crackling Stalker, Void Hunter, and Night Terror by 5% on Mythic difficulty.
- Carapace of N’Zoth
  - Reduced the number of spells that stop Fury of N'Zoth's movement during the encounter.
  - Resolved an issue where Madness and Insanity Bomb could potentially remove the sanity of the primary afflicted target.
  - Resolved an issue where players could get stuck in the final chamber.
  - Resolved an issue where Adaptive Membrane was removing players’ buffs on Mythic difficulty.
Operation: Mechagon – Junkyard
- Scrapbone Grunters in the King Gobbamak encounter now inflict the same amount of damage as their counterparts in the rest of the dungeon on all difficulties.
- Scrapbone Grunters' melee damage has been reduced by 43% on all difficulties.
- Heavy Scrapbot and Malfunctioning Scrapbot now cast Gyro Scrap and Exhaust less frequently on all difficulties.
Operation: Mechagon – Workshop
- Fixed an issue where players were sometimes unable to utilize Spires of Ny'alotha on Mythic Keystone difficulty.
Siege of Boralus
- Adjusted the Spire of Ny’alotha’s position when the Awakened affix is active on Mythic Keystone difficulty.
  - Developers’ note: This Spire was near a group of powerful enemies for Alliance players, but not for Horde players. It should now be in a more comparable location for both factions.

Horrific Visions

Stormwind
- Fallen Riftwalker
  - Rift Strike damage reduced by 37.5% and is cast less frequently.
  - Shadow Shift now reduces damage taken by 50% (was 75%).

Items and Rewards

Unguent Caress ’ Corruption Effect now properly takes enemy target radius into account, ensuring that it more consistently damages very large enemies.
Using Remote Guidance Device now always properly incurs the shared 20 second cooldown for on-use trinkets and item effects.
Sparks of Unwavering Strength should no longer erroneously create Quickening Azerite Geode for Guardian Druids and will correctly create Manual of Unbalanced Tactics .
Corrupted Items
- Obsidian and Searing Breath (Corrupted Effects) no longer strike targets that are not in line of sight.
- Corrupted Ring - Thing From Beyond (Corrupted Effect) is now slightly less terrifying in Timewalking, as it will scale down to the wearer’s item level.
- Corrupted Ring - Thing From Beyond's presence will no longer cause other monsters to attack the wearer.
- Corrupted Ring - Thing From Beyond can no longer daze the wearer.
- Fixed an issue that caused Corrupted Ring - Thing From Beyond to sometimes miss players. Corrupted Ring - Thing From Beyond always gets its target, in the end.