- Author: Passion
- Date: February 21, 2024
- Updated: February 21, 2024
- Expansion: WoW Classic
A few Season of Discovery players have noticed that their Gnomeregan raid lockouts have gotten a little bit messy. Players that raided the day before maintenance still had their lockouts sticking around, despite the lockouts being changed to a 3-day cycle instead of the 2-week cycle of the first two resets.
This was confirmed as incorrect and has since been corrected, resetting the lockout for everyone with maintenance. The lockout has also moved onto the same cycle as Blackfathom Deeps. This means that if you clear Gnomeregan today (the 21st), your lockout period should be clear on the 22nd, together with Blackfathom Deeps.
The Class Tuning that was previewed last week has also gone live, with a few additional tweaks. These new tweaks are:
- Druids Swipe will now scale with Attack Power
- Hunters Raptor Strike is now normalized weapon damage.
- This makes slower weapons significantly less impactful for Raptor Strike damage.
- Paladins using Fiery Weapon or Fiery Blaze enchants will no longer be able to proc Seal of Martyrdom with them, or vice versa.
- Priests have had the damage of Shadow Word: Death significantly reduced, but the damage of Mind Spike and Void Plague slightly improved to compensate.
- This does amount to an overall DPS nerf, but not nearly enough to make them unviable as a DPS.
- Rogues Shuriken Toss will now only bounce a maximum of 10 yards, down from 15.
- This change was made to avoid Rogues accidentally pulling enemies with long distance bounces. The new range matches that of Chain Lightning & Avengers Shield.
- Shamans Fire Nova will now correctly benefit from Elemental Mastery.
All of the other tweaks listed do seem to have gone live, though reports have mentioned that Mages Conjure Water is only conjuring 10 Water, not the originally stated 20 per cast.
February 20, 2024
WoW Classic: Season of Discovery
- Increased the number of crafting materials found in Boxes of Gnomeregan Salvage and slightly increased the drop rate of Grime-Encrusted Salvage throughout Gnomeregan.
- Druid
- Berserk now also increases the number of targets struck by Lacerate while it is active.
- Starsurge bonus damage to Starfire increased to 80% (was 66%). Corrected a bug causing this bonus damage to be lower than intended at level 40.
- Swipe now scales with attack power, gaining 10% of attack power as damage.
- Threat caused by Swipe greatly increased.
- Rip duration increased to 16 seconds (was 12 seconds).
- Hunter
- Raptor Strike damage when the Melee Specialist rune is active is now normalized weapon damage.
- Paladin
- Fixed an issue where Fiery Weapon enchantment and Seal of Martyrdom were triggering each other. Neither can be triggered by the other any longer.
- Fixed an issue where Fiery Blaze and Fiery Weapon enchantments could trigger or be triggered by Seal of Martyrdom. Those interactions do not happen anymore.
- Priest
- Mind Spike damage increased by 10%.
- Void Plague damage increased by 10%.
- Shadow Word: Death base damage before modifiers decreased by 40% and spellpower coefficient adusted to 42.9% (was 64.3%).
- Developers’ notes: Overall, this should result in a 33-40% damage reduction on Shadow Word: Death, depending on the amount of spellpower the priest has. Shadow Word: Death has been doing a larger percentage of overall priest damage than intended, and we feel like this could begin to put additional pressure on healers in PvE, as spellpower gear improves and the damage that priests inflict on themselves continues to scale upwards. It could also prove to be increasingly oppressive in PvP, as it’s an instant attack that can be used on the move, from range, with very little counterplay.
- Rogue
- Shuriken Toss bounce range reduced to 10 yards (was 15 yards).
- Developers’ notes: This should reduce the chance of it bouncing a little too far and pulling extra packs in dungeons. It now matches the range of other chain spells like Chain Lightning and Avenger’s Shield.
- Shuriken Toss bounce range reduced to 10 yards (was 15 yards).
- Shaman
- Fixed an issue where Fire Nova did not benefit properly from Elemental Mastery.
- The Dual-Wield Specialization rune now provides 50% bonus damage to your offhand weapon swings.
- Lava Lash now gains 50% increased damage if Flametongue Weapon is imbued on your offhand.
- The proc chance of Maelstrom Weapon is now roughly 50% higher when your main hand weapon or your two-hand weapon is imbued with Windfury Weapon.
Hello again,
Wanted to provide an update and let everyone know that we’ve run an operation on our database that should have reset Gnomeregan raid lockouts for those who had been saved yesterday, Feb 21st and incorrectly had their lockouts persist after maintenance this morning.
If you ran Gnomeregan yesterday and are still seeing a raid lockout in your /raidinfo frame today, you may need to log out for several minutes for your raid lock to correctly reset.
Going forward, Gnomeregan will operate on the same reset schedule as Blackfathom Deeps. This means the next reset will occur on Thursday Feb 22nd in North America and Australia, with the following reset for those regions occurring on Sunday Feb 25th, then again on Wednesday Feb 28th, and so on resetting every 3 days going forward.
Thank you for your patience as we worked to resolve this issue, and we apologize for the confusion and inconvenience.
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