September 1 Hotfixes: Venomous Abyss Nerfs, Class Tuning Live

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Unholy
    • Resolved an issue causing Mastery: Dreadblade and Foul Infections to not increase the critical strike chance of Plague Erupt effects.
• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery
    • Resolved an issue causing Wild Thrash to not take target bounding radius into account.
• Rogue
  • Assassination
    • Fixed an issue allowing Caustic Spatter to trigger from non-class Nature damage sources, such as trinkets.

Delves

• Trinkets no longer drop as abundantly in Delves.

Dungeons and Raids

• Den of Nalorakk
  • Addressed an issue where interacting with Food Offering while mounted can cause it to no longer be interactable for a short period.
• Murder Row
  • Addressed an issue where Xathuux the Annihilator’s Axe Toss can sometimes inflict less damage than intended.
• The Venomous Abyss
  • Nek’zali the Soulcoiler
    • Nek’zali’s health reduced by 15% on Raid Finder difficulty.
  • Entombed Sentinels
    • Breath of Ula’tek and Blood of Ula’tek health reduced by 15% on Raid Finder difficulty.
  • Sszorak
    • Sszorak’s health reduced by up to 10% for smaller raid sizes on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
    • Reduced the number of players targeted by Raging Crosswinds on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
  • The Twin Fangs
    • Resolved an issue where immunities would prevent players from receiving additional applications of Eternal Venom beyond the death threshold on Mythic difficulty.
    • Increased the number of applications before the target dies from Eternal Venom to 10 on Mythic difficulty.
    • Increased the number of minimum targets to 4 for Ravenous Feast on Mythic difficulty.
    • Vexhul and Ithraz health reduced by 20% on Raid Finder difficulty.
    • Reduced the maximum health damage effect of Eternal Venom to 50% on Raid Finder difficulty.
    • Resolved an issue where Protection Paladin’s Mastery did not function correctly against Caustic Deluge or Eternal Venom.
  • The Coiled Altar
    • Coalesced Venom damage reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Venom Rupture damage reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Venom Rupture damage reduced by up to 15% on smaller group sizes on Heroic difficulty.
    • Volatile Venom damage reduced by up to 15% on smaller group sizes on Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic difficulties.
    • Spiteful Soulcoiler health reduced by up to 10% on smaller group sizes on Heroic difficulty.
    • Zul’jan’s health reduced by up to 10% on smaller group sizes on Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic difficulties.
    • Wail of Terror cast time increased by up to 20% on smaller group sizes on Heroic difficulty.
    • Reduced the minimum players needed to be hit by Guillotine and Grim Guillotine to avoid failure damage to 3 players on Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic difficulties.
  • Ula’tek
    • Killing a Blightscale Wretch while outside of its Toxic Womb no longer triggers the Spectral Head to submerge.
    • Adjusted the impact animation on a creature affected by the application of Revenge so their nameplate does not shift making interrupts more difficult.
• Tidebound Grotto
  • Nymrissa Wavecaller and her murlocs’ health reduced by up to 10% for lower group sizes on Normal, Heroic, and Mythic difficulties.
  • Frost Orb initial and periodic damage reduced by up to 33% for lower group sizes on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
  • Frost Orb initial and periodic damage reduced by up to 17% for lower group sizes on Mythic difficulty.
  • Frost Orb aura duration reduced to 12 seconds (was 16 seconds).
• Voidscar Arena
  • Updated visuals of Taz’Rah’s Darkbloom orbs to better match their impact radius.

Items

• Satchel of Corrosive Coins sold by Er’iyne is no longer unique.

Player versus Player

• Fixed an issue where the Training Grounds quest for casting an interrupt was not properly granting credit. Note that you may need to abandon and re-accept the quest for this fix to apply.

Quests

• Fixed an issue that prevented Midnight World Quests from rewarding Adventurer Crests.