Dragonflight Hotfixes Jan 17th – Ruby Life Pool & Azure Vault M+ Nerfs

Shadostruct • Published January 19, 2023

It’s that time again! It appears that the new dungeons introduced with Dragonflight are possibly… mayhaps… a little overtuned? Or, at least, they were when mythic+ was first unlocked for the 4 new dungeons. Blizzard has been trying their best to bring them more into balance with the rest of the pool for a bit now with several rounds of nerfs.

This time around we’re seeing nerfs to Ruby Life Pools (again), which focuses mostly on small mob casts with nerfs as big as a 50% reduction in damage to the “Cinderbolt” ability. While this cast was able to be kicked it can get a bit chaotic when there’s so much in the dungeon that needs to be interrupted, stunned, etc but letting that cast go off in higher keys could sometimes wind up with a one-shot!

Azure Vaults nerfs hit both bosses and mobs, but the boss ones are especially interesting with a significant reduction in health for both Umbrelskul and Telash Greywing. You’ll also notice on Telash that you won’t take damage from the ice aoe on the ground for 2 seconds after dropping it – maybe making stacking during that ability a more viable strategy to save room.

For all you mythic+ aficionados out there feel free to read on below for the full post with more details.

References

Blizzard

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JANUARY 17, 2023

Dungeons and Raids

Vault of the Incarnates
- Fixed an issue where the damage zone visual for Stonebreaking Leap from Quarry Stonebreakers sometimes did not match the actual damage location.
Mythic+
- Algeth’ar Academy
  - Overgrown Ancient
    - Explosive Affix – Hungry Lashers no longer spawn Explosive Orbs.
- Azure Vaults
  - Arcane Fury’s Piercing Shards impact damage reduced by 30%.
  - Unstable Curator’s Forbidden Knowledge cooldown increased.
  - Arcane Construct health reduced by 25%.
  - Crystal Thrasher no longer use Splintering Shards.
  - Nullmagic Hornswog health reduced by 15%.
  - Telash Greywing
    - Telash Greywing health reduced by 10%
    - There is now a 2 second delay before players take damage from Frozen Ground after Frost Bomb.
  - Umbrelskul
    - Umbrelskul’s health reduced by 15%.
    - Oppressive Miasma now reduces movement speed by 6% per stack (was 7%).
- Ruby Life Pools
  - Reduced the damage of Primalist Cindweaever’s Cinderbolt by 50%.
  - Reduced the periodic damage of Thunderhead’s Rolling Thunder by 30%.
  - Reduced the damage of Flamegullet’s Molten Blood by 25%.
  - Reduced the periodic damage of Blazebound Destroyer’s Inferno by 25%.
  - Melidrussa Chillworn
    - Explosive Affix – Infused Whelps no longer spawn Explosive Orbs.
  - Kokia Blazehoof
    - Increased the cast time of Blazebound Firestorm’s Roaring Blaze to 3 seconds (was 2 seconds).
  - Kyrakka and Erkhart Stormvein
    - Reduced the periodic damage of Kyrakka’s Inferno Core by 20%.
    - Reduced the damage of Erkhart Stormvein’s Interrupting Cloudburst by 30%.

Quests

Lunar Festival now starts on 1/24 to allow for new Elders to search out on the Dragon Isles.

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

Azjol-Nerub
- Krik’thir the Gatewatcher
  - Skittering Swarmers and Skittering Infectors can no longer cause additional web wraps when completing the Heroic version of this encounter with Defense Protocol Alpha active.

Author

Shadostruct

I've been playing WoW since beta with some breaks here and there. I'm a semi-hardcore to hardcore raider that focuses on retail mainly. I'm a big fan of giant dragons and am excited for all that Dragonflight will have to offer.