Quite some news was released last night! The timewalking mage tower will finally be made available permanently starting with the reset of March 29th, in that same reset an Epilogue Judgement campaign chapter will be made available and there’s a new batch of hotfixes to cover that include more balance changes with the weekly reset!
The Mage Tower Returns Permanently
Quote from: Blizzard
UPDATE: When we originally developed the Legion Timewalking Bonus Event, we were looking for other fun features from Legion we could add to it. Timeworn Keystones were part of that, and the Mage Tower as well.
Having heard feedback and seen how it has played out, we agree that a personal skill challenge being available only for a short window of time every few months isn’t in the spirit of these types of events. As such, starting on the week of March 29, the Mage Tower will be accessible at any time, no longer tied to the Legion Timewalking Bonus Event.
Epilogue Campaign Chapter
Following the weekly reset tomorrow, players who finish ZM Chapter 7 (“The Purpose”) will receive an achievement for completing the Secrets of the First Ones campaign. We want to clarify that a final epilogue chapter, titled “Judgment”, will become available the following week.
— WarcraftDevs (@WarcraftDevs) March 22, 2022
Hotfixes March 21, 18, 17, 2022
Quote from: Blizzard
March 21, 2022
Classes
- Priest
- Discipline
- (2) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue where Manifested Twilight would sometimes not affect Shadow Mends if cast in succession.
- Discipline
- Warlock
- Fixed an issue that prevented the Sayaad’s Whiplash ability from stacking its debuff on targets immune to snares.
Dungeons and Raids
- Sepulcher of the First Ones
- Vigilant Guardian
- Fixed an issue that caused Mistweaver Monk’s Crane Adepts summoned by Fallen Order (Venthyr Ability) to fail to cast Enveloping Mist immediately after they spawn during the encounter.
- Anduin Wrynn
- [With realm restarts] Wicked Star duration decreased to 2 seconds on Normal and Heroic difficulty (was 4 seconds).
- [With realm restarts] Anduin’s Doubt and Anduin’s Hope health reduced by 20% on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
- [With realm restarts] Anduin’s Doubt and Anduin’s Hope movement speed reduced by 20% on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
- [With realm restarts] Purging Light damage reduced by 15% on Normal difficulty.
- [With realm restarts] Fixed an issue that could cause Empowered Wicked Stars to not damage and silence players.
- [With realm restarts] Fixed an issue that could cause Fragment of Hope to not properly deal damage.
- Lords of Dread
- Mal’Ganis and Kin’tessa no longer clear their debuffs when entering Infiltration of Dread.
- Fixed an issue that could allow Kin’tessa or Mal’Ganis to strike an unexpected direction with Anguishing Strike or Leeching Claws.
- Rygelon
- Reduced Rygelon’s health by 6% on Mythic difficulty.
- Reduced the damage of Stellar Decay and the health of Unstable Cores by 25% on Mythic difficulty.
- Reduced the magnitude of the healing absorb applied through Stellar Shroud by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
- Reworked the implementation for how Rygelon moves through phases, resulting in a more favorably consistent experience.
- Increased the responsiveness of Collapsing Quasar Fields if the contacting player has Dark Eclipse.
- Fixed an issue where Unstable Matter could fail to set their encounter boss UI frame after the first Shatter Sphere.
- Fixed an issue where Unstable Quasars could remain during Dark Quasar.
- Fixed an issue where Cosmic Radiation could persist after defeating the encounter.
- The Jailer
- The Persecution debuff now lasts 30 seconds on Mythic difficulty (was 40 seconds).
- Vigilant Guardian
- Mythic+
- Encrypted Affix
- Fixed an issue that could prevent players from gaining health and mana from the Decrypted Urh Cypher.
- Encrypted Affix
- Tazavesh: So’leah’s Gambit
- Hylbrande
- Added the missing Purifying Burst ability to the encounter’s Dungeon Journal entry.
- Hylbrande
- Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
- So’azmi
- So’azmi now uses his abilities less frequently on the final stages of the encounter.
- So’azmi
Items and Rewards
- The Protoform Sentience Crown will now correctly drop for all players who have unlocked Protoform Synthesis (Mount) and have not yet acquired all three mounts the Crown is required for (Buzz, Ineffable Skitterer, and Pale Regal Cervid).
- Fixed an issue that could cause enemies affected by the Gavel of the First Arbiter to pivot unexpectedly.
Pet Battles
- The Fierce Scarabid battle pet can now be traded.
March 18, 2022
Characters
- Players should no longer forget their Locus Shift travel points when they change factions.
- Developers’ note: Players who incorrectly lost their Locus Shift teleports from this issue will have them restored the next time they zone into Zereth Mortis.
Classes
- Death Knight
- Abomination Limb (Necrolord Ability) should now be more consistent when trying to pull valid enemies when they are nearby enemies immune to the grip.
- Druid
- Guardian
- (4) Set Bonus: The visual effect of Architect’s Aligner has been updated to prevent confusion with Mythic+ and raid mechanics.
- Restoration
- (2) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue where Renewing Bloom would not be extended by Verdant Infusion (Runecarving Power).
- Guardian
- Priest
- Fixed an issue where mouseover macros would not work for Fae Guardians (Night Fae Ability).
Dungeons and Raids
- Sepulcher of the First Ones
- Vigilant Guardian
- Point Defense Drones will now cancel Searing Ablation while shutting down during the Exposed Core sequence.
- Skolex, the Insatiable Ravener
- Fixed a combat log display issue with pets.
- Anduin Wrynn
- Anduin’s health has been reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the application of Domination’s Grasp to the Remnant of a Fallen King to be delayed.
- Lords of Dread
- Cloud of Carrion will now prefer targets without Biting Wounds.
- Fixed an issue where Anguishing Strike could do damage more often than intended.
- Fixed an issue where Cloud of Carrion could erroneously pass to the tank if it moved over a player inside Podtender (Dreamweaver Soulbind).
- Several spells no longer hit pets.
- Rygelon
- Fixed an issue where certain mechanic’s visual effects would become hidden when Hunters Feign Death.
- Vigilant Guardian
- Mythic+
- Encrypted Affix
- Fixed an issue where Wo’s stealth effect would not apply to pets and guardians.
- Encrypted Affix
- De Other Side
- Mueh’zala
- Fixed an issue that sometimes caused Mueh’zala to perform the wrong animation when hit by certain player abilities.
- Mueh’zala
- Tazavesh: So’leah’s Gambit
- Hylbrande
- Fixed an issue where if a player disconnected while carrying Bypass Codes, the code rune would disappear and be inaccessible for the Sanitizing Cycle phase.
- Hylbrande
Quests
- Players who tell Tal-Inara that they have been to Zereth Mortis before and have already met Pocopoc will now receive the Enlightened reputation they would miss out on by skipping those quests.
- Developers’ note: Enlightened reputation is strongly tied to the Zereth Mortis campaign, and we felt it was unfair to have a high hidden cost associated with using the dialogue option that skips the Zereth Mortis introductory quests for players who’ve already completed the introduction on other characters. This change addresses that by making the choice net neutral with regard to Enlightened reputation.
March 17, 2022
Creatures and NPCs
- All scarabids and annelids in Zereth Mortis now use the updated burrow spell visual effect.
Dungeons and Raids
- Sepulcher of the First Ones
- Fixed an issue when using the Ancient Console near Lords of Dread and Rygelon to teleport back to The Grand Design could place the player in combat.
- Vigilant Guardian
- Fixed an issue that would break player’s ability to pick up the Unstable Orbs after they had used certain player abilities or mounts.
- Artificer Xy’mox
- Fixed and issue where the visual effect of Massive Blast did not accurately portray its damaging area.
- Halondrus the Reclaimer
- Fixed an issue that prevented Brewmaster Monk’s Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox from auto-casting Stomp.
- Anduin Wrynn
- Remorseless Winter damage reduced by 20% on Mythic difficulty.
- Anduin’s Hope health reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
- Anduin’s Despair health reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
- Increased the amount of time it takes for Remnant of a Fallen King to reach maximum energy by an additional 2 seconds on Mythic difficulty.
- Fixed an issue that made Lost Souls treat crowd control effects with PvP diminishing returns.
- Rygelon
- Fixed an issue which could cause Dark Eclipse to not trigger a Dark Eruption.
- The Jailer
- Player guardians, such as Fire Elemental, are now protected while players are affected by Rune of Compulsion.
- Fixed an issue where Dominating Will could be removed via immunities. Dominating Will’s heal absorb reduced by 10% on Normal difficulty and reduced by 20% on Heroic difficulty to account for the potential increase in difficulty of the ability.
Items and Rewards
- Significantly reduced the respawn timer for the Sandworn Chest in the Endless Sands.
Quests
- Characters who had the “Match Made in Zereth Mortis” quest incorrectly automatically completed and became blocked on the Campaign chapter will now have the quest available to them when they next zone into Zereth Mortis.
- Developers’ note: Enterprising players who found a way to unlock all the teleporters in the area and proceed along the quest line without the quest will be allowed to proceed as normal, without needing to backtrack to this quest.