Class and Dungeon Tuning: War Within Season 3 Hotfixes, August 12th

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Frost
    • Obliterate damage reduced by 5%.
    • Rider of the Apocalypse: Mawsworn Menace now increases the damage of Obliterate by 5% (was 10%).
    • Rider of the Apocalypse: Hollow Sentinel’s Wake 2-piece now increases Trollbane’s Obliterate damage by 15% (was 35%).
    • Deathbringer: Exterminate first scythe damage increased by 10%.
    • Resolved an issue causing Howling Blast to not consume Rime procs at high Haste levels.
    • Resolved an issue causing Frost Strike to not generate Killing Machine in Obliteration windows at high Haste levels.
    • Resolved an issue causing Frostbane casts to fail at high Haste levels if it is cast as soon as it is available.
• Demon Hunter
  • Havoc
    • All ability damage increased by 5%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
• Druid
  • Balance
    • All ability damage increased by 8%.
    • Keeper of the Grove: Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 4-piece now accumulates 3% of damage done (was 2%) and Dryad’s Favor is now capped at 10x spellpower (was 6x) and splashes 15% (was 20%) of its damage onto nearby enemies.
    • Elune’s Chosen: Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 2-piece Starfire damage increase changed to 20% (was 25%), and has a 40% chance (was 50%) to launch a Starsurge at 45% effectiveness (was 50%).
    • Elune’s Chosen: Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 4-piece Split Starsurges deal damage at 40% effectiveness (was 80%).
  • Feral
    • Ferocious Bite and Ravage primary target damage increased by 6%.
    • Shred damage increased by 5%.
    • Sabertooth causes Ferocious Bite to increase damage taken from your bleeds and other periodic effects by 6% per combo point (was 5%).
    • Wildstalker: Bloodseeker Vines damage increased by 5%.
  • Restoration
    • Wildstalker: Fixed a bug causing the Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 4-piece bonus to generate extra Symbiotic Blooms for Regrowths cast by Rampant Growth.
    • Wildstalker: Fixed a bug preventing Twin Sprouts from generating extra Bloodseeker Vines or Symbiotic Blooms from the ones created by the Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 4-piece set bonus.
    • Wildstalker: Symbiotic Bloom and Bursting Growth healing increased by 15%.
    • Wildstalker: Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 2-piece bonus increases the rate of Symbiotic Bloom growth by 45% (was 30%).
    • Wildstalker: Ornaments of the Mother Eagle 4-piece now causes Symbiotic Bloom healing to have a 35% (was 20%) chance to trigger Bursting Growth at 100% effectiveness (was 80%).
    • Developers’ notes: The bug involving Rampant Growth was generating a large number of unintended Symbiotic Blooms, which consolidated a lot of Wildstalker’s healing power into the 4-piece and Clearcasting procs. We’ve added healing power to counteract the healing loss from the bug fix.
• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery
    • Tireless Collector’s Bounties – 2-piece chance to fire a free Barbed Shot reduced by 50%.
• Mage
  • Frost
    • All damage dealt reduced by 3%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
• Monk
  • Brewmaster
    • Shado-Pan: Crash of Fallen Storms 2-piece bonus Flurry Strikes deal 10% increased damage (was 20%).
    • Shado-Pan: Crash of Fallen Storms 4-piece bonus Flurry Charge generation increased by 30% (was 50%).
    • Shado-Pan: Damage dealt by Flurry Strikes from Wisdom of the Wall reduced by 20%.
• Priest
  • Shadow
    • Fixed an issue causing Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch applications from Shadow Crash to ignore line of sight.
• Shaman
  • Enhancement
    • Lava Lash damage increased by 15%.
    • Windstrike damage increased by 20%.
    • Totemic: Surging Bolt damage increased by 25%.
    • Totemic: Searing Bolt damage increased by 35%.
    • Stormbringer: Awakening Storm damage increased by 35%.
    • Stormstrike damage increased by 10%. Does not affect Windstrike.
    • Elemental Blast damage increased by 8%.
    • Stormbringer: Tempest single target damage increased by 8%.
• Warlock
  • Threatening Presence now increases the threat generation of your Voidwalker and Felguard by 950% (was 400%).
  • Affliction
    • Spliced Fiendtrader’s Influence 2-piece set bonus adjusted – Jackpot! chance reduced by 30%.
  • Demonology
    • Wild Imp damage reduced by 20%.
    • Immutable Hatred damage reduced by 30%.
  • Destruction
    • Diabolist: Inquisitor’s Feast of Madness 2-piece has been adjusted – Eye Blast damage reduced by 45%.
• Warrior
  • Protection
    • Mountain Thane: Damage dealt by Ionizing Strikes reduced by 30%.

Player versus Player

• Death Knight
  • Frost
    • Frost Strike damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
  • Unholy
    • Festering Wound damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.
• Druid
  • Feral
    • All damage reduced by 8% in PvP combat.
• Mage
  • Arcane
    • Nether Flux now increases the damage an enemy receives from the next targeted spell by 40% (was 100%).
  • Fire
    • Meteor direct damage reduced by 40% in PvP combat.
  • Frost
    • All damage reduced by 10% in PvP.
• Paladin
  • Holy
    • All healing reduced by 12% in PvP combat.
    • Divine Plea (PvP talent) duration increased to 30 seconds (was 20 seconds).
• Priest
  • Shadow
    • Void Volley damage reduced by 30% in PvP combat.
• Rogue
  • Assassination
    • Garrote damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
• Warlock
  • Diabolist: Fixed an issue where Summon Demonic Gateway would cause Diabolic Ritual to work incorrectly.
  • Demonology
    • All damage reduced by 5% in PvP combat.

Delves

• Players using Waygates to change levels in Archival Assault should no longer break stealth.
• Enemies now teleport after players who move up or down levels in Archival Assault more reliably.
• Fixed a bug in Sidestreet Sluice where Maulspike would run back to his spawn point instead of respawning.

Dungeons and Raids

• Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
  • Avanoxx
    • Insatiable’s damage increase reduced to 30% (was 50%).
    • Starved Crawlers can no longer critical hit on their melee attacks.
• The Dawnbreaker
  • Speaker Shadowcrown
    • Shadow Shroud’s healing absorb reduced by 33%.
    • Fixed an issue that caused Shadow Shroud’s healing absorb to not scale with keystone level.
• Eco-Dome Al’dani
  • Adjusted the spawn locations of Frenzied Mites to be more consistent.
• Halls of Atonement
• • High Adjudicator Aleez
    • Pulse From Beyond’s damage now occurs every 1.5 second (was every 1 second).
  • Lord Chamberlain
    • Stigma of Pride removed.
    • Ritual of Woe’s group damage when it hits a statue reduced by 38%.
    • Resolved an issue where Lord Chamberlain’s statues collision could persist.
    • Resolved an issue where Lord Chamberlain’s Sinstone Statues did not inflict damage to players in their path during Telekinetic Onslaught.
    • Reduced the damage of Telekinetic Collision by 30%.
• Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
  • Addressed an issue where Adorned Overseers’s Drifting Star can be fired at a wrong angle.
  • Addressed an issue where So’azmi will stop using his abilities after being interrupted by Solar Beams during Double Technique / Triple Technique.
  • Addressed an issue where Zo’gron’s Crowd Control can go off if he is defeated while channeling.
• Liberation of Undermine
  • Chrome King Gallywix
    • Resolved an issue that caused the visual for Haywire Environment to go haywire.

Items and Rewards

• Fixed a bug that prevented Visions of N’zoth Revisited items in Season 3 from working with the S.A.D. Season 3 socketer. Season 3 items that drop after this fix can now be socketed.
• Resolved an issue where some World Quests were showing an incorrect low gold value as their primary reward.

K’aresh

• Devourer Mites from the Devourer Attack: Tazavesh event should now despawn after a short delay once the event ends.

Quests

• “Sparks of War: K’aresh” now correctly appears in the correct section in the quest log.
• The quest “Crest Transmutation” is once again available.