- Author: Shadostruct
- Date: June 22, 2023
- Updated: June 22, 2023
- Expansion: World of Warcraft
The most recent changes to Aberrus, that we covered here, apparently proved to be a bit too much of a nerf on Mythic difficulty. Sarkareth being the last boss in the raid and what would give you the coveted Cutting Edge achievement for this tier makes this somewhat of a big deal. This tier has been a bit plagued by unintended strategies going unchecked, balancing issues making progression for those not in the race to world first frustrating, and now unintended intensity of nerfs to the last boss. While unintended, Blizzard is stating that they’ll be keeping the live values the same.
Players are upset, and somewhat understandably. Zskarn is the “wall” boss of this raid, gatekeeping the most Mythic progression guilds from making it further. Before it was changed there was a cheesy strategy or two that involved 4 tanks that would trivialize the encounter. As it is now it’s actually much harder than when the first guilds downed it, and we’ve seen no significant nerfs to the encounter to compensate.
Those that were able to get past Zskarn and hold their lockout before the cheese strat was made non-viable are now seeing an easy path paved towards CE, while those guilds who didn’t push that fast and are now on post-change Zskarn are stuck toughing it out.
It definitely brings up the question of when and how Blizzard nerf encounters so as to not give teams an advantage or disadvantage just based on how fast they pushed in the first couple of weeks.
As many players have noted, yesterday’s hotfixes 45 included a reduction to Scalecommander Sarkareth’s Oblivion on Mythic difficulty that resulted in a much bigger reduction than we originally intended.
After deliberating this, we’ve decided to stick with the actual value that has now been live in the game since that hotfix.
We apologize for any confusion this caused.
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