Hotfixes: September 10, 2018, Ranked PvP Item Levels

September 10, 2018

Classes

[All class changes with weekly maintenance in each region.]

• Druid
  • Feral
    • All damage increased by 5%.
  • Restoration
    • All healing spells increased by 3%.
    • Rejuvenation mana cost reduced to 10.5% (was 11%).
• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery
    • All damage reduced by 5%.
• Mage
  • Fire
    • All damage increased by 6%.
    • Flamestrike damage increased by 15%.
• Paladin
  • Holy
    • Holy Light and Flash of Light healing increased by 7%.
• Priest
  • Discipline
    • Smite damage reduced by 9%.
  • Holy
    • All healing reduced by 3%.
  • Shadow
    • Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch damage increased by 20%.
• Rogue
  • Outlaw
    • All damage reduced by 5%.
    • Deadshot (Azerite Trait) reduced by 20%.
  • Subtlety
    • All damage reduced by 5%.
• Shaman
  • Restoration
    • Healing Rain healing increased by 12%.
    • Riptide healing increased by 6%.
• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • Summon Darkglare damage reduced by 20%.
  • Demonology
    • All damage increased by 5%.
  • Destruction
    • All damage increased by 5%.

Dungeons and Raids

• Uldir
  • Vectis
    • Omega Vector will last longer with smaller raid sizes, lowering the number of forced Lingering Infection stacks per player.

Items

• Fixed a bug where some shields and off-hands had a chance to Titanforge. Existing items that have dropped will not change, but new drops of these items should no longer have a chance to Titanforge.
• Fixed an issue where Rotcrusted Voodoo Doll did not scale correctly with Haste.
• Darkmoon Deck: Blockades will now shuffle more often based on Haste.
• Heart of Azeroth
  • Fixed a bug causing Inevitable Demise to give more additional healing than intended.
  • Inevitable Demise bonus increased by 33%, and the benefit of having multiple copies of the trait active is reduced.

Player versus Player

• Level 120 Water purchased from vendors is now usable in Rated Battlegrounds.
• Unrated PvP rewards now have a minimum of item level 300 at player level 120, and will improve with the player’s item level, up to iLvl 325.
• Druid
  • Feral
    • Rake deals an additional 60% damage in PvP situations while Stealthed (was 100%).
    • Shred deals an additional 35% damage in PvP situations while Stealthed (was 50%).
• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery
    • Dire Beast: Basilisk now has a 60 Focus cost.
    • Dire Beast: Basilisk damage reduced by 30%.
    • Hunter Pet Basic Attack damage (Smack, Bite, and Claw) reduced by 30%.
    • Aspect of the Beast increases the damage of your pets by 20%, down from 30%.
    • Bestial Wrath increases the damage of you and your pet by 20%, down from 25%.
• Rogue
  • Outlaw
    • Deadshot deals 30% less damage in PvP (was 45% less damage).
• Shaman
  • Riptide healing reduced by 6% in PvP situations.
• Warrior
  • Arms
    • Deep Wounds damage to enemy players reduced by 25%.
    • Sharpen Blade increases Mortal Strike damage by 15% (was 30%).
    • Lord of War (Azerite Trait) effectiveness reduced by 40% when engaged in combat with enemy players.
    • Executioner’s Precision (Azerite Trait) effectiveness reduced by 35% when engaged in combat with enemy players.
    • Test of Might (Azerite Trait) effectiveness reduced by 30% when engaged in combat with enemy players.

World Quests

• Corrected an issue that caused two sets of enemies to spawn in front of Priestess Alun’za on “From the Shadows”.

Hi guys,

Just to clarify a few more things about the Conquest System:

• Players who did not finish their Conquest cap this week can resume next week. This means, for example, characters you have who have never earned Conquest this week can, in 3 weeks, progress through 3 weeks worth of the conquest earning 3 items.
• In order to gain loot for the Weekly Cache (the chest in Mugambala and Hook Point), you must complete your Conquest cap for this week.
• The Weekly Cache will reward you loot based upon the highest rating achieved in a rated 2v2, 3v3 or Rated Battleground the previous week. This means you could reach Duelist rank, then drop down to Rival and still receive Duelist quality loot.
• Until the Mythic raid opens, all base item level items are capped at 360 within Mythic+ and Rated PvP. This means that Challenger and above players cannot gain items higher than item level 360 until then.
• All Dread Gladiator gear – from the weekly Conquest, from the Weekly Cache, from end of match rewards – can have their item level boosted to the rating associated with your current rank using a Battleborn Sigil. Battleborn Sigil’s can be rewarded to you through PvP actiivites, as well as through a repeatable turn-in quest requiring 10 Quartermaster Coins through Xander Silberman at Mugambala and Marshal Gabriel at the salt and Shanty Inn within Hook Point. Quartermaster Coins can be earned if you lose a bonus roll in PvP.