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We’ve updated our hotfixes blog post with today’s hotfixes, including a fix to damage effects such as Laser Matrix and Ricocheting Inflatable Pyrosaw hitting crowd-controlled enemies:
We’ve updated our blog post with today’s hotfixes, including fixes to several Quests and World Quests:
We’ve just updated our hotfixes blog post with the latest, including a number of updates to non-boss enemies in (and other aspects of) dungeons:
[quote]can we get some sort of acknowledgement on the changes that happened to the qing system?
really frustrating sitting incredibly long q’s, its really obvious that something was put in place to prevent you from playing against the same team.
my question is why?/quote]
Hotfixes for December 17 have been updated, including class balance adjustments for Feral Druids and Frost Mages:
Today’s (Dec. 20th) hotfixes update includes the removal of unlock requirements for Siege of Boralus and Kings’ Rest, changes to world PvP quests, and # JusticeForSmoochums
Hotfixes update for December 20 includes PvP balance changes for Unholy Death Knight, Balance Druid, and Elemental Shaman:
We’ve updated our hotfixes blog post with hotfixes that have been implemented over the last few days, including today’s change to Ghuun’s Malignant Growth and health on all difficulties:
The Reaping affix was enabled for Mythic Keystone dungeons on the 8.1.5 PTR about 5 hours ago. Please post your feedback here:
EU:
NA:
We’ve updated our hotfixes blog post, including a number of fixes to Isle of Conquest:
We’re working on some PvP tuning:
We’ve updated our hotfixes blog post with the latest, comprising hotfixes that address Island Expedition issues and today’s PvP tuning:
With this week’s restarts, a hotfix was applied applied that causes items not intended for your class to no longer provide Titan Residuum when disenchanted or scrapped.
Our Tides of Vengeance Update Notes now include all of the content available with this, the start of Season 2 and the new raid:
It appears that a PTR tuning hotfix for the Stormwall Blockade encounter didn’t make it to the live servers. We’ll be applying that hotfix, and we’re also reducing health and damage of several portions of the encounter, shortly.
In a hotfix on December 14, Bursting went from 10% to 14% of maximum health per stack (over 4 seconds). A bugfix late in Legion had removed occasional extra Bursting ticks, but made the affix something you could almost ignore. This change restores it to its original lethality.
Yep! The Dreadflame Illusion is still available in Season 2 by reaching 2100 rating.
Head over to our hotfixes blog post to see today’s hotfixes affecting Mythic Keystone Dungeons, Invisibility Potions, and Azerite Traits in PvP:
The change made today overrides any earlier PvP-specific balance changes made to those Azerite Traits. For example, if a trait’s effect was previously reduced by 55% in PvP, it is now only reduced by 50%.
We’re aware of and investigating a fix for the disconnect some players are experiencing when riding a rooted Stun Bot during the Mekkatorque encounter in Battle for Dazar’alor.
In today’s hotfixes: adjustments to new PvP trinkets, a fix for scrapping the new Engineering goggles, and Emissary armor, weapon caches, and rewards from faction assaults now reward the item by loot specialization.
We’re working on some targeted tuning to three specs for maintenance next week:
The Against Overwhelming Odds quest is only offered to a faction when they have recently been severely outnumbered, with a War Mode bonus of 20% or more. This week, Alliance players have a 15% War Mode bonus in the American region.
We’ve updated our hotfixes blog post with the latest updates. Most are now live in the Americas, and many of the tuning changes will go live with scheduled weekly maintenance in each region:
Quick hotfixes update today:
Recent hotfixes blog post updated, including some fixes to Jaina Proudmoore in Battle of Dazar’alor.
Earlier today, we applied a hotfix that unintentionally increased the difficulty of the Jaina encounter. That hotfix has since been reverted.
We’ve updated our hotfixes blog post with recent hotfixes, most of which will go live with scheduled weekly maintenance in each region:
In 8.1.5, there is not a damage reduction to Barbed Shot. The change we’re testing is to have Barbed Shot ignore armor. The reduction on the tooltip for the Feeding Frenzy Azerite Trait is intended to keep Feeding Frenzy at the same value as before.
PvP hotfixes - including a significant change to healer mana management - are incoming very soon*. Full details are here:
EU: PvP Hotfixes - Feb. 13
NA: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/pvp-hotfixes-incoming-feb-13/100586
(*NB these fixes are already live)
With Whirling Dragon Punch, there seems to be a bug causing a cooldown discrepancy. We’re testing it in 8.1.5, where it appears to be fixed, and appreciate the heads-up.
We’ve just updated our hotfixes blog post with today’s Rise of Azshara hotfixes, including fixes for Queen Azshara, the Tussle Tonks encounter, quest credit in the Heroic Warfront, and a significant increase to Blingtron 7000’s dueling capabilities: