wow 9.1 Necrotic Mostly Un-Nerfed but May Receive More Tuning Still

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Many players rejoiced when they found out that the  Necrotic affix was being nerfed in 9.1, but then had a very different reaction when the change was reverted back this week. Apparently the affix is too powerful on live, but was over-nerfed on the PTR, where all mobs got the boss mechanics of applying it only every other swing. At the moment, the nerf/every other swing change is only being applied to the new seasonal lieutenants, but there may be more changes coming soon:

Necrotic Un-Nerf (Source)

Hello.

This seems like a good place to remind ourselves that often, a test environment is where we test works in progress, and works in progress can sometimes be applied to that test environment in an incomplete state.

In this case, “lieutenant” (level 61) enemies that are generally immune to crowd control are keeping their new every-other-swing behavior. The intent of the previous change on the PTR was clearly to nerf Necrotic, but the nerf was likely too much.

In the live game, Necrotic is probably a little more oppressive than we want it to be, so don’t be surprised if more tweaks to it hit the PTR over the next few days.