WoW Hotfix May 3rd: Sepulcher Raid Scaling and Minor Class Tuning

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While the May 3rd hotfixes are very brief, they were preceded by several changes that went live on the weekly realm restart for changes listed in May 2nd’s notes. Arms Warrior, Affliction Warlock, Outlaw Rogue, Windwalker Monk, and Beast Mastery Hunter have all received a 4% damage increase across the board, with the latter two specs not having the 4% applied in PvP. The Gladiator’s Echoing Resolve effect in PvP now increases crowd control durations by 25% instead of 20%, lasts 12 seconds instead of 15, and no longer applies to roots nor makes the target immune to roots.

In Sepulcher, Vigilant Guardian’s Unstable Core mechanic should no longer become non-interactive when dying with it. In Lihuvim’s encounter, Acquisitions Automa’s Detonation radius has been halved to 20 yards on Normal and Heroic, as well as having the cast time increased to 2.5 seconds on those difficulties.

Prototype Pantheon has had Wildstorm completely removed from Normal and Raid Finder, Sinful Projections removed from Heroic, and had health of Necrotic Ritualists and Withering Seeds health reduced on several difficulties. Both receiving a 30% health reduction in normal, the Ritualist’s receiving a 15% reduction and the Seeds a 20% reduction on Heroic, and the Seeds receiving a 10% reduction on Mythic difficulty. The Withering Seeds have also had an issue fixed where larger raid sizes gave them too much health scaling.

Halondrus’s Lightshatter Beam has had its damage reduced by 30% on all non-Mythic difficulties, and Reclaim’s periodic damage ramps slower on Heroic. Skolex’s Devouring Blood missile has had its travel time increased to 2.5 seconds, up from 2 on Heroic. Dausegne’s Disintegration Halo has had its debuff lowered from 6 to 5 seconds. Rygelon’s health has been reduced by 5% on Heroic, and Collapsing Quasar’s duration has been increased to 10 seconds on Normal and Heroic. The Jailer has received a few different changes, with all trapdoors in Phase 3 closing in Normal difficulty, Decimator’s Knockback reduced on Raid Finder and Normal, Misery’s knockback reduced on Normal, and Defile’s growth rate lowered on Normal Difficulty.

Blizzard Entertainment – (Source)

May 3, 2022

Classes

  • Demon Hunter
    • Vengeance
      • Fixed a bug that allowed Demonic (Talent) to extend Metamorphosis to excessive duration.

 

Dungeons and Raids

  • Sepulcher of the First Ones
    • Prototype Pantheon
      • The encounter’s enrage timer has been increased to 11 minutes on Heroic difficulty (was 9 minutes).

May 2, 2022

Classes

  • Death Knight
    • Blood
      • [With realm restarts] (2) Set Bonus: Maximum Strength stack cap is now 40 (was 75).
  • Hunter
    • Ambuscade (Conduit) will now grant the correct amount of cooldown reduction to Disengage at item level 278.
    • Beast Mastery
      • [With realm restarts] All damage abilities increased by 4%.
        • This change does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Monk
    • Windwalker
      • [With realm restarts] All damage abilities increased by 4%.
        • This change does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Rogue
    • Outlaw
      • [With realm restarts] All damage abilities increased by 4%.
  • Priest
    • Holy
      • Guardian Spirit will no longer fail to heal an ally who receives multiple fatal blows at the same time.
  • Warrior
    • Arms
      • [With realm restarts] All damage abilities increased by 4%.
  • Warlock
    • Affliction
      • [With realm restarts] All damage abilities increased by 4%.

 

Dungeons and Raids

  • Sepulcher of the First Ones
    • Vigilant Guardian
      • Fixed an issue where dying with the Unstable Core could cause it to become non-interactive.
    • Lihuvim, Principal Architect
      • Lihuvim’s corpse can no longer become stuck in the air if killed while casting Realignment.
      • [With realm restarts] Acquisitions Automa’s Detonation radius reduced to 20 yards (was 40) on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
      • [With realm restarts] The cast time of Detonation has been increased to 2.5 seconds (was 2 seconds) on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
    • Artificer Xy’mox
      • [With realm restarts] Xy Spellslinger health reduced by 20%.
      • [With realm restarts] Debilitating Ray periodic damage reduced by 20%.
    • Prototype Pantheon
      • [With realm restarts] Wildstorm has been removed from Normal and Raid finder difficulties.
      • [With realm restarts] Sinful Projections has been removed from Heroic difficulty.
      • [With realm restarts] Decreased the health of Necrotic Ritualists by 30% health on Normal difficulty, 15% health on Heroic difficulty.
      • [With realm restarts] Decreased the health of Withering Seeds by 30% health on Normal and Raid Finder difficulties, 20% health on Heroic difficulty, and 10% health on Mythic difficulty, but also resolved a bug that caused them to trigger an Invigorating Bloom at 90% health instead of 100% health as the spell description states.
      • [With realm restarts] Resolved a scaling issue causing the Withering Seeds to increase their health too steeply on larger raid sizes.
    • Halondrus the Reclaimer
      • Fixed an issue causing damage from Lance and Lightshatter Beam to ignore some damage reduction effects.
      • Fixed an issue causing Volatile Charges to break if the player carrying the Volatile Charge disconnected.
      • [With realm restarts] Lightshatter Beam damage decreased by 30% on Raid Finder, Normal and Heroic difficulties.
      • [With realm restarts] Reclaim’s periodic damage effect scales more slowly on Heroic difficulty.
    • Skolex, the Insatiable Ravener
      • [With realm restarts] Missile travel time for Devouring Blood increased to 2.5s (was 2s) on Heroic difficulty.
    • Dausegne, the Fallen Oracle
      • [With realm restarts] Duration of Disintegration Halo debuff lowered to 5s (was 6s) on Heroic difficulty.
    • Rygelon
      • [With realm restarts] Increased the duration of Collapsing Quasar Field to 10 seconds on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
      • [With realm restarts] Decreased Rygelon’s health by 5% on Heroic difficulty.
    • The Jailer
      • [With realm restarts] All trapdoors will now close in Phase 3 on Normal difficulty.
      • [With realm restarts] Decreased knockback of Decimator on Normal and Raid Finder difficulties.
      • [With realm restarts] Decreased knockback of Misery on Normal difficulty.
      • [With realm restarts] Decreased rate of growth of Defile on Normal difficulty.

 

  • Tazavesh, The Veiled Market
    • Fixed an issue causing Bazaar Strongarms to sometimes ignore a player carrying market goods.
    • P.O.S.T. Master
      • Fixed an issue where the P.O.S.T. Master was missing a boss frame.
  • Mythic+
    • Encrypted Affix
      • Fixed a bug that would cause two sets of Encrypted Relics to spawn with Amarth, the Harvester after the boss reset in The Necrotic Wake.
      • Fixed a bug that could sometimes prevent Encrypted Relics from spawning with the dueling warlords before Xav the Unfallen in Theater of Pain.

 

Player versus Player

  • Items
    • [With realm restarts] Gladiator’s Echoing Resolve now increases the duration of crowd control by 25% (was 20%).
    • [With realm restarts] Gladiator’s Echoing Resolve now lasts 12 seconds (was 15 seconds).
    • [With realm restarts] Gladiator’s Echoing Resolve no longer increases the duration of root effects.
    • [With realm restarts] Gladiator’s Echoing Resolve no longer causes the target to become immune to root effects.

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