Dragonflight Hotfix Roundup – Ret Paladin Nerfs & Raz Nerfs

APRIL 5, 2023

Classes

• Paladin
  • Retribution
    • All damage reduced by 3%.
    • Instrument of Retribution duration reduced to 9 seconds (was 12 seconds).
    • Fading Light – Blessing of Dusk causes your Holy Power generating abilities to also grant an absorb shield for 3% of damage or healing dealt (was 10%).
    • Aegis of Protection increases the value of Shield of Vengeance by 10% (was 20%).
    • Shield of Vengeance duration reduced to 10 seconds (was 15 seconds).
    • Lightforged Blessing now heals you and your party for 2% of maximum health (was 3%).
    • Developers’ notes: Retribution Paladins have been overperforming both offensively and defensively, so we’re making some adjustments here to bring them more in line with our intentions. Additionally, we have a hotfix coming at a later date related to Execution Sentence and its unintended interactions with various damage boosts.

APRIL 4, 2023

Classes

• Hunter
  • Marksmanship
    • Fixed an issue where the Find The Mark buff effect could be consumed by Wind Arrows rather than Aimed Shot.
• Paladin
  • Fixed an issue with Blessing of Dawn’s tracking.
• Priest
  • Holy
    • Resolved an issue causing Holy Word: Salvation to not be castable during Divine Ascension nor have its ranged increased by Divine Ascension.

Dungeons and Raids

• Temple of the Jade Serpent
  • Sha of Doubt
    • Fixed an issue that caused Nothingness to not properly scale.
• Vault of the Incarnates
  • Raszageth
    • Raszageth’s health reduced by 5% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Reduced the push effect of Hurricane Wing by 5% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Intermission 1
      • Surging Ruiner health reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
      • Oathsworn Vanguard health reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
      • Stormseeker Acolyte health reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
      • Flamesworn Herald health reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
      • Frostforged Zealot health reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Intermission 2
      • Colossal Stormfiend health reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
      • Electrified Colossal Stormfiend health reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
      • Seeking Stormling health reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.

APRIL 3, 2023

Classes

• Evoker
  • Fixed an issue causing Ancient Flame to incorrectly be consumed by instant-cast Living Flames, such as from the Burnout talent or Lifespark set bonus.
• Paladin
  • Fixed an issue with the timing of Eye of Tyr’s floating combat text.

Player versus Player

• Classes
  • Paladin
    • Fixed an issue causing Retribution Aura to trigger from incorrect amounts of incoming damage.
    • [With weekly restarts] Judgments of the Pure (PvP Talent) now causes Judgment casts on an enemy to cleanse 1 Poison, Disease, and Magic effect they have caused on you (was allies within your aura).
      • Developers’ note: With Judgment’s cast frequency increasing in patch 10.0.7, Judgments of the Pure has been overperforming as a PvP talent. In a hotfix being applied this upcoming Tuesday, the talent will only apply to the Paladin and no longer have its effect applicable to allies.

Quests

• Heritage
  • During “The New Clessington Estate,” Cecilia Clessington will no longer accuse the player of smelling like rotten blubber when provoked.
• Ohn’ahran Plains
  • Fixed an issue causing some players to be unable to interact with the Waygate at the Shady Sanctuary.
  • The “Waygate Travel” debuff received from using the waygates will now continue to expire while the player is offline.

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• [With weekly restarts] Fixed a bug that caused tanks to benefit from roughly twice the intended amount of Dodge from the Dodge Rating statistic.
  • Developers’ notes: We’re fixing this to avoid seeing raid groups skew toward maximizing for it. This fix will not change your Dodge % displayed on your character sheet, as the bug was invisible to players.
• [With weekly restarts] Reduced Algalon’s melee damage by 10% in both 10-player and 25-player difficulties.
  • Developers’ notes: We feel that the increase in pressure on tanks and healers from the Dodge bugfix will be manageable in other encounters, but this one needs a compensatory tweak.
• Classes
  • Druid
    • Omen of Clarity will now always trigger when Faerie Fire (Feral) is used on a non-player-controlled target. It will no longer trigger from casting Gift of the Wild.
      • Developers’ notes: This change is intended to make Feral DPS gameplay more accessible to the average WotLK Classic player and resolve many of the design challenges created by “Bear-weaving” and “Flower-weaving” combat strategies. It is expected to be a slight buff to the best Feral DPS players around 5% to 10% depending on encounter, and a larger buff to players who were not employing these strategies.