- Author: Shadostruct
- Date: June 13, 2023
- Updated: June 13, 2023
- Expansion: World of Warcraft
As the weeks go on Aberrus is slowly beginning to receive tuning passes to make its clear rates a bit less punishing. This time around we’re seeing nerfs to Zskarn and Echo of Neltharion. For Zskarn, it appears that only Normal and Heroic difficulties are going to be affected. Bit of a strange choice for no Mythic nerfs yet considering as of right it’s actually tougher and less consistent to down the boss than it was during the race to world first. It’s most definitely a strong wall for a lot of the more “casual” Mythic raiding teams currently. Echo of Neltharion is receiving some changes to mechanics in it that should stop difficult overlaps and awkward mechanical timings.
As for the scaling tweaks, we saw Blizzard start to change the scaling to be less punishing for small groups earlier. This time around we’re seeing changes to 10 man groups fighting Sarkareth, the final boss of Aberrus. This should made things quite a bit easier for those smaller groups, and will hopefully bring the difficulty of the encounter in line with the 20-30 player range.
There’s also some small changes to the Holy and Discipline 10.1 tier set bonuses which had some bugs. For the full breakdown and specific numbers check out the notes below!
JUNE 12, 2023
Classes
- Druid
- Balance
- Fixed a bug causing Astral Smolder to not deal appropriate damage to enemies with absorb shields.
- Feral
- Fixed a bug with Dreadful Bleeding causing it to increase Rip damage by less than intended.
- Balance
- Hunter
- Survival
- Fixed an issue where Fury of the Eagle did fewer instances of damage than expected when under the buff effects of the Bloodseeker talent.
- Survival
Dungeons and Raids
- Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
- The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn
- [With weekly restarts] Blast Wave damage reduced by 10% on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
- Dragonfire Traps is now magic dispelable on Heroic difficulty.
- Dragonfire Traps activation time increased to 5 seconds (was 3 seconds) on Normal difficulty.
- Dragonfire Traps activation time increased to 4 seconds (was 3 seconds) on Heroic difficulty.
- Added additional visuals to Dragonfire Traps during activation on all difficulties.
- The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn
- Mythic+
- Brackenhide Hollow
- Fixed an issue that caused summoned Infected Lashers to grant enemy forces credit.
- Brackenhide Hollow
JUNE 9, 2023
Classes
- Priest
- Discipline
- Fixed an issue where Radiant Providence from the Discipline Priest 4-piece set bonus would reset on when engaging a dungeon boss.
- Holy
- Fixed an issue where the duplicated Prayer of Mending from the Holy Priest 2-piece set bonus would cost twice as much mana.
- Discipline
JUNE 8, 2023
Classes
- Monk
- Brewmaster
- Fixed an issue causing Blackout Kick to double-dip on its recent buffs.
- Brewmaster
Dungeons and Raids
- Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
- Scalecommander Sarkareth
- The contribution of damage towards Blazing Blast and Void Blast is now properly reduced by absorbs.
- Scalecommander Sarkareth
Items and Rewards
- Nasz’uro, the Unbound Legacy’s primary stat and Speed granted to allies reduced by 70% in PvP Combat.
- Djaruun, Pillar of the Elder Flames’ damage reduced by 50% in PvP Combat.
- Fixed an issue where Ominous Chromatic Essence would continue to reapply to other allies when two players shared the same alignment.
JUNE 7, 2023
Classes
- Paladin
- Retribution
- Fixed an issue causing the Indomitable Justice Azerite trait to sometimes provide an unintended speed bonus.
- Retribution
Dungeons and Raids
- Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
- The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn
- Developers’ notes: These changes are directed at reducing the burden on tanks in smaller groups where Shrapnel Bomb was more difficult to handle with more limited amounts of utility from the group.
- [With June 6 resets] Zskarn health reduced by 10% for small group sizes on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
- [With June 6 resets] Shrapnel Bomb initial damage and DOT damage reduced by 50% on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
- [With June 6 resets] Searing Claws damage reduced by 25% on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
- [With June 6 resets] Unstable Embers damage reduced by 30% on Heroic difficulty.
- Echo of Neltharion
- Calamitous Strike’s debuff duration reduced from 40 seconds to 37 seconds on all difficulties. This is done to remove a problematic overlap in phase one of the encounter.
- Calamitous Strike’s debuff will now be removed when the encounter enters intermission on all difficulties.
- Fixed an issue where Neltharion immediately melee his target after casting Calamitous Strike on all difficulties.
- Added a slight delay before the same player can trigger an additional stack of Shatter after destroying Twisted Earth on all difficulties.
- Volcanic Heart’s radius reduced from 25 yards to 20 yards on Mythic difficulty.
- Scalecommander Sarkareth
- Developers’ note: A series of changes have been made to ease up a bit on the difficulty of this encounter on lower player size raids. Each of these changes are for non-Mythic difficulties only and scale back as raid size increases, evening out to about no changes for the 30 player raid.
- [With June 6 resets] Health of Sarkareth and Null Glimmers reduced by 6% in 10 player raids.
- [With June 6 resets] Duration of Astral Flare buff increased from 23 seconds to 30 seconds in 10 player raids.
- [With June 6 resets] Oblivion damage per tick reduced by 50% in 10 player raids.
- [With June 6 resets] Void Surge damage per tick reduced by 40% in 10 player raids.
- [With June 6 resets] Dread raid wide damage reduced by 25% in 10 player raids.
- The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn
- Halls of Infusion
- Fixed an issue where Infuser Sariya’s Inundate spell could inflict inconsistent amounts of damage.
Items and Rewards
- Fixed an issue that prevented the Drakewatcher Manuscript for the Cliffside Wylderdrake – Black Hair customization option from dropping in some circumstances.
- Zaralek Cavern
- Fixed an issue where Cobalt Shalewing’s drop rate was lower than intended. Its drop rate is now in line with other similar drops.
Quests
- Fixed an issue where Sparks of Life were not dropping in Zaralek Caverns from various content.
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