Hotfixes: June 7, 2023

June 7, 2023

Classes

• Paladin
  • Retribution
    • Fixed an issue causing the Indomitable Justice Azerite trait to sometimes provide an unintended speed bonus.

Dungeons and Raids

• Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
  • The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn
    • Developers’ notes: These changes are directed at reducing the burden on tanks in smaller groups where Shrapnel Bomb was more difficult to handle with more limited amounts of utility from the group.
    • [With June 6 resets] Zskarn health reduced by 10% for small group sizes on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
    • [With June 6 resets] Shrapnel Bomb initial damage and DOT damage reduced by 50% on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
    • [With June 6 resets] Searing Claws damage reduced by 25% on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
    • [With June 6 resets] Unstable Embers damage reduced by 30% on Heroic difficulty.
  • Echo of Neltharion
    • Calamitous Strike’s debuff duration reduced from 40 seconds to 37 seconds on all difficulties. This is done to remove a problematic overlap in phase one of the encounter.
    • Calamitous Strike’s debuff will now be removed when the encounter enters intermission on all difficulties.
    • Fixed an issue where Neltharion immediately melee his target after casting Calamitous Strike on all difficulties.
    • Added a slight delay before the same player can trigger an additional stack of Shatter after destroying Twisted Earth on all difficulties.
    • Volcanic Heart’s radius reduced from 25 yards to 20 yards on Mythic difficulty.
  • Scalecommander Sarkareth
    • Developers’ note: A series of changes have been made to ease up a bit on the difficulty of this encounter on lower player size raids. Each of these changes are for non-Mythic difficulties only and scale back as raid size increases, evening out to about no changes for the 30 player raid.
    • [With June 6 resets] Health of Sarkareth and Null Glimmers reduced by 6% in 10 player raids.
    • [With June 6 resets] Duration of Astral Flare buff increased from 23 seconds to 30 seconds in 10 player raids.
    • [With June 6 resets] Oblivion damage per tick reduced by 50% in 10 player raids.
    • [With June 6 resets] Void Surge damage per tick reduced by 40% in 10 player raids.
    • [With June 6 resets] Dread raid wide damage reduced by 25% in 10 player raids.
• Halls of Infusion
  • Fixed an issue where Infuser Sariya’s Inundate spell could inflict inconsistent amounts of damage.

Items and Rewards

• Fixed an issue that prevented the Drakewatcher Manuscript for the Cliffside Wylderdrake – Black Hair customization option from dropping in some circumstances.
• Zaralek Cavern
  • Fixed an issue where Cobalt Shalewing’s drop rate was lower than intended. Its drop rate is now in line with other similar drops.

Quests

• Fixed an issue where Sparks of Life were not dropping in Zaralek Caverns from various content.

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June 6, 2023

Dungeons and Raids

• Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
  • Echo of Neltharion
    • Slightly reduced Neltharion’s health for smaller groups.
    • Volcanic Heart’s initial damage reduced on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
    • Echoing Fissures’ damage now scales with group size on LFR, Normal and Heroic difficulty.
    • Slightly reduced the Twisted Aberrations’ health for smaller groups.