Upcoming Class Tuning Changes – March 29, Hotfixes 22 – 24 March, 2022

We’ll be making the following changes to increase the performance of select specializations in next week’s realm maintenance.

As always, these are subject to further change before they go live, and we’ll have the final adjustments in our hotfixes update next week.

Additionally, we’re not planning on nerfing any over-performing specializations with this week’s pass, as we want to gather more data and provide more advance notice.

Classes

Death Knight

• Unholy
  • All damage increased by 5%.

Druid

• Feral
  • All damage increased by 3%.
  • Primal Wrath damage increased by 10%.
  • Brutal Slash damage increased by 20%.
  • Swipe damage increased by 15%.
  • Thrash damage increased by 20%.

Hunter

• Beast Mastery
  • Beast Cleave now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets (was 5).
  • All damage increased by 3%.

Monk

• Mistweaver
  • Spinning Crane Kick damage increased by 30%.

Rogue

• Outlaw
  • Blade Flurry now strikes nearby enemies for 50% of normal damage (was 40%).

Shaman

• Elemental
  • All damage increased by 5%.

Warlock

• Destruction
  • All damage increased by 5%.

Warrior

• Ignore Pain now ignores 55% of the damage (was 50%).
• Protection
  • Demoralizing Shout now reduces the damage enemies deal to you by 25% (was 20%).
  • Ignore Pain now reduces the cost of Ignore Pain to 35 Rage (was 40 Rage).
  • Spell Reflection cooldown reduced to 20 seconds (was 25 seconds).
  • Vanguard reduces all damage taken by 15% (was 10%).

MARCH 24, 2022

Dungeons and Raids

• Sepulcher of the First Ones
  • The Jailer
    • Fixed an issue with Desolation’s spell description in the Dungeon Journal on Mythic difficulty that caused it to display an incorrect amount of damage inflicted to Azeroth by unblocked missiles.
    • Reduced the number of missiles fired by Desolation in Mythic difficulty from 20 to 17.
    • Fixed an issue that would occasionally cause Chains of Anguish to pull players who had already broken their chains.

Items and Rewards

• New Item: Bag of Explored Souls – Contains 1650 Soul Cinders and 5150 Soul Ash. Requirements: 3000 Cosmic Flux and Honored with the Enlightened. Available at Vilo (Enlightened Quartermaster).
• Players can now purchase additional Spatial Openers from Olea Manu if they have not already earned the “Sand, Sand Everywhere!” achievement.
• Players may no longer use Protoform Synthesis to craft mounts if the mount is already in the player’s mount journal. As a consequence, the Pale Regal Cervid recipe is now hidden until unlocked via the achievement.

Burning Crusade Classic

• Shadowmoon Valley
  • Fixed an issue where the Dragonmaw Illusion could persist upon leaving Netherwing Ledge.

MARCH 23, 2022

Classes

• Hunter
  • Marksmanship
    • Fixed an issue where Rapid Fire was not dealing reduced damage to secondary targets while under the effects of Trick Shots.
• Paladin
  • Retribution
    • (2) Set Bonus: Fixed a rare issue which could incorrectly cause Divine Purpose (Talent) to be usable twice after Ashes to Ashes triggered.

Covenants

• Night Fae
  • Podtender (Dreamweaver Soulbind) no longer activates if the user is mind controlled.

Dungeons and Raids

• Sepulcher of the First Ones
  • Vigilant Guardian
    • Fixed an issue that could cause the Vigilant Guardian to unintentionally reset.
  • Anduin Wrynn
    • Fixed an issue causing Fragment of Hope to trigger on Normal difficulty.
  • Lords of Dread
    • Fixed an issue where Mal’Ganis was not saying his last text line upon being defeated.
  • The Jailer
    • Fixed an issue that allowed players under Compulsion to use Demonic Gateways.
• Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
  • Fixed an issue where Path of the Streetwise Merchant’s teleport cooldown would not be reset when completing a Mythic+ dungeon.

Items and Rewards

• Slightly increased the drop rates of Progenium Essentia and Heavy Callous Hides.
• Slightly increased the drop amounts of Lightless Silk, Shadowlands Ores (other than Progenium Ore), and Callous Hide.
• Significantly increased the amount of Soul Ash and Soul Cinder earned by completing Torghast, Tower of the Damned.

MARCH 22, 2022

Classes

• Demon Hunter
  • Vengeance
    • (4) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue with the set bonus not always reducing the cooldown of Fel Devastation or Immolation Aura while Unity (Kyrian Blind Faith) was equipped.
• Hunter
  • Fixed an issue with Marksman’s Advantage (Conduit) that could cause it to apply to targets without your Hunter’s Mark active.

Dungeons and Raids

• Sepulcher of the First Ones
  • Artificer Xy’mox
    • Players affected by Spirit of Redemption will no longer trigger Interdimensional Wormholes during the encounter.
  • Lords of Dread
    • Fearful Trepidation’s visual should more closely match its effect radius.
  • Rygelon
    • Fixed an issue where Unstable Quasar could strike players outside of the Singularity.
  • The Jailer
    • Fixed an issue where Tainted Azerite could critically hit.
• Tazavesh, Streets of Wonder
  • Mailroom Mayhem
    • Fixed an issue where Invulnerable players could fail to pick up Unstable Goods.
• Scholomance
  • Instructor Chillheart
    • Fixed an issue where Ice Walls were not visible during the encounter.

Items and Rewards

• Fixed an issue which prevented Unity (Runecarving Power) from being applied to Grim-Veiled Robe for Mages, Warlocks, and Priests.