WoW Hotfix March 21st: Even More Mythic Tuning

Author: Baed
Date: March 22, 2022
Updated: March 22, 2022
Expansion: World of Warcraft

As the Race for World’s First draws closer to the end in Sepulcher of the First Ones, Blizzard continues their efforts to balance fights for Mythic progression, as well as the other difficulties. On realm restarts, Anduin and Rygelon will be receiving a series of changes. Anduin is receiving a 2 second reduction to Wicked Star’s duration, dropping it to two seconds, on normal and heroic; Anduin’s Doubt and Anduin’s Hope are receiving 20% health and movement speed decreases on normal and Heroic; Purging Light is receiving a 15% damage decrease, and two bugfixes to ensure abilities deal proper damage. Most of Rygelon’s changes are to his Mythic difficulty, with a 6% health decrease overall, a 25% damage reduction to Stellar Decay and a 25% health reduction to his Unstable Cores, the way he moves through phases has been adjusted to be more consistent, and Collapsing Quasar Fields should be more responsive to Dark Eclipse afflicted players. The Jailer has also received a nerf to his Persecution debuff, now lasting 30 seconds instead of 40.

Other changes in this hotfix include fixes to Mythic+, with So’leah in So’leah’s Gambit using abilities less frequently in final phase, Purifying Burst being added to Hylbrande’s Dungeon Journal, and a fix to an issue that stopped player’s from gaining health and mana from the Decrypted Urh Cypher.

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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.
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).
Mythic+
- Encrypted Affix
  - Fixed an issue that could prevent players from gaining health and mana from the Decrypted Urh Cypher.
Tazavesh: So’leah’s Gambit
- Hylbrande
  - Added the missing Purifying Burst ability to the encounter’s Dungeon Journal entry.
Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
- So’azmi
  - So’azmi now uses his abilities less frequently on the final stages of the encounter.

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.

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