- Author: Shadostruct
- Date: October 11, 2024
- Updated: October 11, 2024
- Expansion: World of Warcraft
Some changes going through that have large impacts to gear progression.
First off, Gilded Crests (For upgrading gear on the “Myth” gear track) will now be awarded for completing M+ keys at lv 8 and higher. It was previously at 9+, so this should make things considerably easier to farm as there was a decent jump in difficulty between an 8 and 9.
There was also a bit of a chokepoint for crafted gear with the Profaned Tinderbox having an extremely low droprate causing some serious inflation for the mat itself and any crafts that relied on it. Blizzard has upped the droprate from Delves as well as added some vendors that give you alternate materials to trade in for them which brought the value of the tinderbox down to normal levels.
As for the seasonal affix – it’s getting a small nerf as well as the buff uptime for doing the mechanic correctly now lasts 30 seconds – allowing teams to eek out more of an advantage if they play it right.
For the full set of changes, read on down below!
October 10, 2024
Classes
- Warlock
- Demonology
- Fixed an issue where summoning Vilefiend, Charhound, or Gloomhound would break opposing players stealth.
- Demonology
- Warrior
- Fury
- Mountain Thane: Fixed a bug that could cause Bloodthirst to fail to proc Thunder Blast in some cases if the player had swapped from the Protection specialization.
- Fury
Dungeons and Raids
- Runed Crests are now awarded up to Mythic+7.
- Gilded Crests are now awarded beginning at Mythic+8.
- Increased the duration of the buffs granted by Xal’atath’s Bargain Affixes to 30 seconds (was 20 seconds).
- Developers’ notes: We’ve been closely monitoring the impact of the bonuses provided by Xal’atath’s Bargain affixes, and we’re increasing their overall power level on players. We will continue to monitor the effectiveness of these buffs as well as the challenges these affixes present.
- Xal’atath’s Guile now increases enemy health and damage by 10% (was 20%).
- Developers’ notes: With the increase to the buffs granted to players by Xal’atath’s Bargain we’re reducing the effectiveness of of Xal’atath’s Guile, to allow players to push deeper into the Keystone system with current item levels.
- The Dawnbreaker
- Resolved an issue causing the previsual for Dark Orb on Anub’ikkaj to scale with player size.
- Mists of Tirna Scithe
- Dodgeball will no longer inflict damage to illusions or adds created by Xal’atath.
- Siege of Boralus
- Resolved an issue allowing Chopper Redhook to be pulled by spells such as Halo, and Starfall.
- Nerub-ar Palace
- Silken Court
- Corrected issues causing Anub’arash to not burrow during the first intermission and failing to cast Spike Storm in the second intermission.
- Silken Court
Player versus Player
- Fixed an issue causing the Rated PvP tab to be unintentionally grayed-out.
Professions
- Delver’s Pouch of Reagents sold by Sir Finley Mrrgglton at the Delver’s Headquarters in Dornogal now costs 500 Undercoin (was 1500) and contains 3 random Delve reagents (was 2).
- Profaned Tinderbox can now be purchased from Blacksmithing Supplies vendors Borgos and Sofee Batalsworn in exchange for 3 Ringing Deeps Ingots, or 3 Vial of Kaheti Oils, or 3 Viridian Charmcaps, or 3 Gloomfathom Hides.
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