- Author: Shadostruct
- Date: January 19, 2023
- Updated: January 19, 2023
- Expansion: World of Warcraft
It’s that time again! It appears that the new dungeons introduced with Dragonflight are possibly… mayhaps… a little overtuned? Or, at least, they were when mythic+ was first unlocked for the 4 new dungeons. Blizzard has been trying their best to bring them more into balance with the rest of the pool for a bit now with several rounds of nerfs.
This time around we’re seeing nerfs to Ruby Life Pools (again), which focuses mostly on small mob casts with nerfs as big as a 50% reduction in damage to the “Cinderbolt” ability. While this cast was able to be kicked it can get a bit chaotic when there’s so much in the dungeon that needs to be interrupted, stunned, etc but letting that cast go off in higher keys could sometimes wind up with a one-shot!
Azure Vaults nerfs hit both bosses and mobs, but the boss ones are especially interesting with a significant reduction in health for both Umbrelskul and Telash Greywing. You’ll also notice on Telash that you won’t take damage from the ice aoe on the ground for 2 seconds after dropping it – maybe making stacking during that ability a more viable strategy to save room.
For all you mythic+ aficionados out there feel free to read on below for the full post with more details.
JANUARY 17, 2023
Dungeons and Raids
- Vault of the Incarnates
- Fixed an issue where the damage zone visual for Stonebreaking Leap from Quarry Stonebreakers sometimes did not match the actual damage location.
- Mythic+
- Algeth’ar Academy
- Overgrown Ancient
- Explosive Affix – Hungry Lashers no longer spawn Explosive Orbs.
- Overgrown Ancient
- Azure Vaults
- Arcane Fury’s Piercing Shards impact damage reduced by 30%.
- Unstable Curator’s Forbidden Knowledge cooldown increased.
- Arcane Construct health reduced by 25%.
- Crystal Thrasher no longer use Splintering Shards.
- Nullmagic Hornswog health reduced by 15%.
- Telash Greywing
- Telash Greywing health reduced by 10%
- There is now a 2 second delay before players take damage from Frozen Ground after Frost Bomb.
- Umbrelskul
- Umbrelskul’s health reduced by 15%.
- Oppressive Miasma now reduces movement speed by 6% per stack (was 7%).
- Ruby Life Pools
- Reduced the damage of Primalist Cindweaever’s Cinderbolt by 50%.
- Reduced the periodic damage of Thunderhead’s Rolling Thunder by 30%.
- Reduced the damage of Flamegullet’s Molten Blood by 25%.
- Reduced the periodic damage of Blazebound Destroyer’s Inferno by 25%.
- Melidrussa Chillworn
- Explosive Affix – Infused Whelps no longer spawn Explosive Orbs.
- Kokia Blazehoof
- Increased the cast time of Blazebound Firestorm’s Roaring Blaze to 3 seconds (was 2 seconds).
- Kyrakka and Erkhart Stormvein
- Reduced the periodic damage of Kyrakka’s Inferno Core by 20%.
- Reduced the damage of Erkhart Stormvein’s Interrupting Cloudburst by 30%.
- Algeth’ar Academy
Quests
- Lunar Festival now starts on 1/24 to allow for new Elders to search out on the Dragon Isles.
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
- Azjol-Nerub
- Krik’thir the Gatewatcher
- Skittering Swarmers and Skittering Infectors can no longer cause additional web wraps when completing the Heroic version of this encounter with Defense Protocol Alpha active.
- Krik’thir the Gatewatcher
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