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PATCH 10.1.7 CLASS GUIDES
JULY 18, 2023
Classes
Druid
Balance
Fixed a bug that could cause Shooting Stars to hit enemies not affected by Moonfire or Sunfire.
Evoker
Augmentation
Spatial Paradox now increases the range of melee spells for Paladins, Monks, and Druids. It now also increases the radius of Ancient Teachings and Stampeding Roar while it is active.
A single player may now only benefit from a maximum of 4 each of the Ebon Might, Prescience, and Shifting Sands effects.
Breath of Eons can no longer proc the Fate Mirror effect.
Mage [With weekly restarts]
Developers’ notes: Mage AoE damage is generally trending a little higher than we’re comfortable with after the most recent update. We’re planning to make a few targeted adjustments to Mage AoE spells to bring them down to a more reasonable level. In addition to the AoE adjustments, Fire will be seeing some additional tuning, as Fire single-target damage is also trending higher than intended.
Arcane
Arcane Barrage damage increased by 3%.
Resonance increases the damage per target hit by Arcane Barrage by 10% (was 12%).
Arcane Explosion damage reduced by 6%.
Arcane Orb damage reduced by 8%.
Fire
Damage of all abilities reduced by 5%.
Flamestrike damage reduced by 6% and now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
Flame Patch damage reduced by 6% and now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
Sun King’s Blessing causes your next Pyroblast or Flamestrike to deal 260% increased damage (was 275%).
Frost
Frozen Orb damage reduced by 5%.
Blizzard damage reduced by 4%.
Comet Storm damage reduced by 5%.
Subzero damage to rooted and frozen targets reduced to 5/10%.
Paladin [With weekly restarts]
Developers’ notes: Holy Paladin is overperforming in all content in Fractures of Time. We are targeting a global decrease of healing and damage as we are not looking to change preferred playstyles, but Tyr’s Deliverance will also be receiving additional adjustments as this talent in particular has been more effective than we would like.
Holy
All healing decreased by 8%.
All damage decreased by 12%.
Tyr’s Deliverance healing decreased by 15%.
Shaman
Fixed an issue where area-of-effect damaging spells and abilities were not properly converting damage to healing while under the effects of Ancestral Guidance.
Dungeons and Raids
Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
Rashok, the Elder [With weekly restarts]
Searing Slam base damage reduced by 6.5% in Mythic difficulty.
Overcharged damage reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty.
Conduit Flare damage reduced by 12% in Mythic difficulty.
Fixed an issue where killing Conduit Guardians near Rashok can cause him to not gain energy.
Dawn of the Infinite
Iridikron
Fixed an issue where Iridikron would sometimes run out of melee range during Stonecracker Barrage.
Items
Echoing Tyrstone’s functionality has been updated to split heal targets in its range and deal increased healing based on how many targets received it (was a heal to all nearby allies for a flat amount). The amount of healing that can be recorded is increased by 70%.
Echoing Tyrstone no longer targets pets.
Developers’ notes: We’ve made this change as we’ve seen this trinket performing strongly in raids to the point of competing with major class cooldowns, but its performance overall is varied based largely on how many people are with the healer. We’re hoping that this change to its functionality will help stabilize its performance in both dungeons and raids so that it doesn’t under, or over perform as much as it currently does.
Fixed a bug causing Quantum transmog items to reward Dracthyr cloth transmog instead of mail.
Player versus Player
Resolved an issue that could prevent the Farm base status icon status from updating correctly in Deepwind Gorge.
Hunter
Intimidation’s cooldown will no longer be consumed when attempting to stun a Subtlety Rogue during Shadowy Duel.
Aspect of the Turtle will now protect Hunters from a Monk’s Ring of Peace knockback.
Paladin [With weekly restarts]
Developers’ notes: Holy Paladins’ mana pools have been more plentiful than we would like in PvP. We’re targeting their base Mana regeneration to encourage player engagement with the variety of mana talents available.
Holy
Holy Paladins now regenerate 55% less Mana in PvP combat (was 25%).
Fixed a bug that caused Greater Judgment to not be affected by Dampening.
Professions
Engineering
Nixx Sprocketspring is now less persistent about training Goblin Engineering schematics when trying to progress the quest “Short Circuit”.
Quests
Fixed an issue where weapons were not properly hiding while racing as a whelp during “Zhoomsa.”
Time Rifts
[With weekly restarts] Weekly Time Rifts quests will now award account-bound items that provide Paracausal Flakes and reputation with Soridormi (was directly awarded).
Time Rift weekly quests no longer grant a Drake’s Shadowflame Crest Fragment. Each player-character can now earn 10 Drake’s Shadowflame Crest Fragments by defeating their first Fractured Causality each week.
Weekly Time Rifts quests will now award account-bound items that provide Paracausal Flakes and reputation with Soridormi instead of awarding those directly.
Shi Everbreeze in Tyrhold Reservoir now sells a Paracausal Crate, allowing players to send Paracausal Flakes between characters.
Fixed a bug where Paracausal Fragment of Thunderfin, Humid Blade of the Tideseeker’s effect does not trigger on melee abilities.
Fixed a bug where Paracausal Fragment of Azzinoth’s effect would attack enemies you are not yet in combat with.
Fixed a bug where Paracausal Fragment of Frostmourne’s passive effect would break stealth.
Fixed a bug where Paracausal Fragment of Frostmourne would not activate the healer transformation on use when used by a healer.
Fixed a bug where Paracausal Fragment of Sulfuras’ AOE damage effect would not trigger from ranged abilities.
Soridormi should now display her friendship faction on her gossip pane.
Resolved an issue where the map marker for Time Rifts would occasionally display the incorrect invading groups during the 5 minutes prior to the event beginning.
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
Titan Rune Dungeons – Protocol Alpha and Beta
Azure Ring Captains will no longer proc mirror images.
Mage-Lord Urom will no longer have mirror images proc when Empowered Arcane Explosion is cast.
Classes
Druid
Guardian
Fixed an issue preventing Ursoc’s Fury from benefiting from Flashing Claws’ Thrash casts.
Evoker
Augmentation
Upheaval will no longer cast if your target leaves your line of sight.
Upheaval will no longer go on cooldown and fail to deal damage if you are crowd controlled at the same time as completing your empower cast.
Adjusted Fate Mirror’s visual to be less overwhelming when many instances of damage occur in a short period of time.
Preservation
Fixed an issue where Temporal Anomaly’s absorption cap could be miscalculated when shielding multiple allies at once.
Paladin
Holy
Fixed an issue where Daybreak may cause enemy targets to incorrectly change their target or facing when used.
Priest
Holy
Fixed an issue causing Empyreal Blaze to be usable while silenced.
Epiphany should now correctly trigger from Holy Word: Chastise.
Updated Epiphany to trigger more consistently.
Shaman
Restoration
Fixed an issue causing Downpour to cost more mana than intended.
Dungeons and Raids
Dawn of the Infinite
Fixed an issue that caused Temporal Deviations to ignore combat when respawning during the Twisted Timeways, prior to Time-Lost Battlefield and Morchie.
Fixed an issue with the Infinite Slayer’s animations during Infinite Fury and Bronze Exhalation.
Fixed an issue where Timeline Marauder’s Infinite Schism visual effect could fail to appear on certain environmental terrains.
Increased the engagement distance of Timeline Mauraders.
Manifested Timeways
Fixed an issue that could cause Manifested Timeways to attack players during the initial conversation between Manifested Timeways, Chromie, and Nozdormu.
Time-Lost Battlefield
Fixed an issue where Kaboom! cast by Dwarven Bombers and Goblin Sappers could fail to inflict damage if the explosions were rapidly cast.
Fixed an issue where the Alliance Destroyer and Horde Destroyer could fire Volatile Mortar outside of the encounter arena.
Fixed an issue that can cause players to experience line of sight failures in the encounter arena after defeating the encounter.
Chrono-Lord Deios
Fixed an issue where the final group of enemies before the boss encounter could be attacked while performing their intro conversation.
Fixed an issue that could cause a single Infinity Orb to be created when casting Infinity Orb.
Fixed an issue that could cause a Proto-Aspect Dragon to become stuck on the terrain.
Fixed an issue that caused Infinite Keeper’s Infinite Blast to appear as interruptible in the Chrono-Lord Deios Adventure Guide.
Events
Secrets of Naxxramas
Eyes of Naxxramas should now correctly drop Ward of Naxxramas for eligible players while in a group. Remember to equip your Argent Dawn Commission!
Time Rifts
Enemies now spawn in 1.5-2.5 seconds (was 2-4 seconds).
All Black Empire areas now spawn more enemies.
All northern spawn locations now spawn least one Elite enemy.
The following enemies are now Elite and grant 5 Temporal Essence:
Walking Nightmare
Klaxxi Monstrosity
Great Glorious Alliance Lieutenant
Blood Horde Reaver
Murloc Gillbeater
High Keeper Orendi
Timestream Anomaly
Added additional jetpacks and increased their size in the Warlands Time Rift scenario.
Plagued Grain, Stinky Crate of Fish, Stinky Barrel of Fish, and Stinky Pile of Fish no longer make your character walk wobbly.
Fixed an issue where players not on the Time Rift objective “Freezer Born” could ride the Rotting Colossus.
Fixed an issue where the Temporal Essence count could reset a few seconds after the event starts.
Items and Rewards
All gear granted from Gear Update and Boosts has had its item level increased by 13. This change is retroactive, so if you Boosted or Gear Updated in the past, your gear will update to the new item level automatically.
Player versus Player
Evoker
Dreamwalker’s Embrace snare effect should now properly be removed by spells like Blessing of Freedom.
Priest
Holy
Fixed an issue causing Spirit of the Redeemer to be usable while silenced.
Silence effects are no longer applied to the Priest while in Spirit of Redemption.
Classes
Druid
Guardian
Fixed an issue causing Rage of the Sleeper to grant crowd control immunity.
Evoker
Fixed an issue causing Ancient Flame to not be properly consumed in some cases.
Augmentation
Fixed an issue causing Breath of Eons’ final damage to benefit from critical damage modifiers.
Fixed an issue causing some damaging abilities from other classes to not contribute to Breath of Eons’ damage as intended.
Time Skip and Spatial Paradox now correctly have their cooldowns reset when an encounter ends.
Chrono Ward’s absorption cap will now function properly when dealing damage to multiple enemy targets with Temporal Wounds.
Motes of Possibility will now reduce the cooldown of Avatar for all Warrior specializations, instead of Shield Wall, Recklessness, and Colossus Smash.
Fixed an issue causing back-to-back Eruption casts to not benefit from Ignition Rush if Hoarded Power procs occur.
Warlock
Fixed an issue where Demon Skin was not correctly increasing Soul Leech’s absorption amount.
Fixed an issue where Drain Life would not target enemies affected by Soul Rot via Soul Swap.
Fixed an issue where Haunt would apply Shadow Embrace.
Fixed an issue where Neltharion’s Call to Dominance trinket could fail to trigger or consume stacks for Warlocks in certain situations.
Dungeons and Raids
Resolved an issue where players were unable to queue for Shadowlands raids at max level from Ta-elfar in Oribos.
Dawn of the Infinite
Addressed an issue causing Iridikron’s finale sequence to sometimes fail to trigger.
Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
Magmorax
Addressed an issue preventing Preservation Evokers’ Cycle of Life from working properly during the Magmorax encounter.
Events
Time Rifts
Usable Horde and Alliance guns will now remove shapeshifts.
The ability “Waste Cannonball” deals less damage, and should no longer deal damage to friendly units.
Fixed an error caused by aiming the Great Glorious Alliance Cannon too high in the air.
Increased spawn counts and respawn rates for Drifting Watchers, required for the task “Keep the Skies Clear”.
Fixed an issue causing some Time Rifts bosses to occasionally evade.
Increased spawn counts and respawn rates for Void Prisons.
The Great Glorious Alliance creature “Blessed Inquisitor” now has abilities once its shield is popped.
Wan’she Skystrider, contrary to her name, now obeys gravity.
Player versus Player
Evoker
Augmentation
Class set bonuses from Vault of Incarnates and Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible are now appropriately reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
Quests
Removed an unnecessary Dragonflight campaign header, so that the 9 available chapters are properly displayed.
Fixed a bug preventing the Dragonflight campaign header from hiding itself once the chapters are all completed.
Fixed an issue that was causing some players to be unable to unlock the Zandalari Troll Allied race on “A Royal Occasion”.
Secrets of Naxxramas
Invader’s Scourgestones can now be exchanged prior to unlocking Corruptor’s Scourgestones at Light’s Hope Chapel.
Many Corruptor’s Scourgestones and Many Invader’s Scourgestones should now correctly award reputation with the Argent Dawn.
Invader’s Scourgestones, Corruptor’s Scourgestones, and Argent Dawn Valor Tokens are now all Bind on Account (was Bind on Pickup).
The Hand of Naxxramas will no longer obliterate itself if it successfully escapes.
Ward of Naxxramas from the Eyes of Naxxramas should now correctly drop for eligible players while in a group. Remember to equip your Argent Dawn Commission!
World
Resolved an issue where players riding a Druid player entering the travel portals in Dawn of the Infinite would become stuck until logging out.
Classes
Death Knight
Resolved an issue causing Army of the Dead to summon fewer ghouls than intended in non-PvP combat.
Druid
The Rising Light, Falling Night talent now correctly increases the damage or healing of periodic effects during the daytime.
Evoker
Range indicator and raid frames should again match after logging into an Evoker and then into a different ranged class.
Paladin
Holy
Holy Prism can no longer radiate to nearby enemies that are in breakable crowd control or not in combat with you.
Retribution
Resolved an issue that could cause Heartfire Sentinel’s Authority to consume two charges of Hammer of Wrath when cast.
Player versus Player
Resolved an issue that could prevent players from earning the Elite appearance when changing PvP tiers.
Quests
Fixed an issue preventing Lord Banehollow from respawning properly “When Revenge Burns Green”.
User Interface
Fixed a bug causing the ‘Delete Character’ button to select a different character than intended.
Fixed a bug causing displayed health to not update and match actual health values.
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
Fixed an issue with Deep Wounds, Ignite, and Piercing Shots and their interactions when on a target that has been Cycloned.
Warlock
Fixed an issue where Demonic Knowledge was not properly updating its effectiveness when the active demon’s stamina or intellect was changed.
Kaivax
Community Manager
#7 – July 18, 2023, 2:50 p.m.
JULY 18, 2023
Classes
Druid
Balance
Fixed a bug that could cause Shooting Stars to hit enemies not affected by Moonfire or Sunfire.
Evoker
Augmentation
Spatial Paradox now increases the range of melee spells for Paladins, Monks, and Druids. It now also increases the radius of Ancient Teachings and Stampeding Roar while it is active.
A single player may now only benefit from a maximum of 4 each of the Ebon Might, Prescience, and Shifting Sands effects.
Breath of Eons can no longer proc the Fate Mirror effect.
Mage [With weekly restarts]
Developers’ notes: Mage AoE damage is generally trending a little higher than we’re comfortable with after the most recent update. We’re planning to make a few targeted adjustments to Mage AoE spells to bring them down to a more reasonable level. In addition to the AoE adjustments, Fire will be seeing some additional tuning, as Fire single-target damage is also trending higher than intended.
Arcane
Arcane Barrage damage increased by 3%.
Resonance increases the damage per target hit by Arcane Barrage by 10% (was 12%).
Arcane Explosion damage reduced by 6%.
Arcane Orb damage reduced by 8%.
Fire
Damage of all abilities reduced by 5%.
Flamestrike damage reduced by 6% and now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
Flame Patch damage reduced by 6% and now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
Sun King’s Blessing causes your next Pyroblast or Flamestrike to deal 260% increased damage (was 275%).
Frost
Frozen Orb damage reduced by 5%.
Blizzard damage reduced by 4%.
Comet Storm damage reduced by 5%.
Subzero damage to rooted and frozen targets reduced to 5/10%.
Paladin [With weekly restarts]
Developers’ notes: Holy Paladin is overperforming in all content in Fractures of Time. We are targeting a global decrease of healing and damage as we are not looking to change preferred playstyles, but Tyr’s Deliverance will also be receiving additional adjustments as this talent in particular has been more effective than we would like.
Holy
All healing decreased by 8%.
All damage decreased by 12%.
Tyr’s Deliverance healing decreased by 15%.
Shaman
Fixed an issue where area-of-effect damaging spells and abilities were not properly converting damage to healing while under the effects of Ancestral Guidance.
Dungeons and Raids
Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
Rashok, the Elder [With weekly restarts]
Searing Slam base damage reduced by 6.5% in Mythic difficulty.
Overcharged damage reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty.
Conduit Flare damage reduced by 12% in Mythic difficulty.
Fixed an issue where killing Conduit Guardians near Rashok can cause him to not gain energy.
Dawn of the Infinite
Iridikron
Fixed an issue where Iridikron would sometimes run out of melee range during Stonecracker Barrage.
Items
Echoing Tyrstone’s functionality has been updated to split heal targets in its range and deal increased healing based on how many targets received it (was a heal to all nearby allies for a flat amount). The amount of healing that can be recorded is increased by 70%.
Echoing Tyrstone no longer targets pets.
Developers’ notes: We’ve made this change as we’ve seen this trinket performing strongly in raids to the point of competing with major class cooldowns, but its performance overall is varied based largely on how many people are with the healer. We’re hoping that this change to its functionality will help stabilize its performance in both dungeons and raids so that it doesn’t under, or over perform as much as it currently does.
Fixed a bug causing Quantum transmog items to reward Dracthyr cloth transmog instead of mail.
Player versus Player
Resolved an issue that could prevent the Farm base status icon status from updating correctly in Deepwind Gorge.
Hunter
Intimidation’s cooldown will no longer be consumed when attempting to stun a Subtlety Rogue during Shadowy Duel.
Aspect of the Turtle will now protect Hunters from a Monk’s Ring of Peace knockback.
Paladin [With weekly restarts]
Developers’ notes: Holy Paladins’ mana pools have been more plentiful than we would like in PvP. We’re targeting their base Mana regeneration to encourage player engagement with the variety of mana talents available.
Holy
Holy Paladins now regenerate 55% less Mana in PvP combat (was 25%).
Fixed a bug that caused Greater Judgment to not be affected by Dampening.
Professions
Engineering
Nixx Sprocketspring is now less persistent about training Goblin Engineering schematics when trying to progress the quest “Short Circuit”.
Quests
Fixed an issue where weapons were not properly hiding while racing as a whelp during “Zhoomsa.”
Time Rifts
[With weekly restarts] Weekly Time Rifts quests will now award account-bound items that provide Paracausal Flakes and reputation with Soridormi (was directly awarded).
Time Rift weekly quests no longer grant a Drake’s Shadowflame Crest Fragment. Each player-character can now earn 10 Drake’s Shadowflame Crest Fragments by defeating their first Fractured Causality each week.
Weekly Time Rifts quests will now award account-bound items that provide Paracausal Flakes and reputation with Soridormi instead of awarding those directly.
Shi Everbreeze in Tyrhold Reservoir now sells a Paracausal Crate, allowing players to send Paracausal Flakes between characters.
Fixed a bug where Paracausal Fragment of Thunderfin, Humid Blade of the Tideseeker’s effect does not trigger on melee abilities.
Fixed a bug where Paracausal Fragment of Azzinoth’s effect would attack enemies you are not yet in combat with.
Fixed a bug where Paracausal Fragment of Frostmourne’s passive effect would break stealth.
Fixed a bug where Paracausal Fragment of Frostmourne would not activate the healer transformation on use when used by a healer.
Fixed a bug where Paracausal Fragment of Sulfuras’ AOE damage effect would not trigger from ranged abilities.
Soridormi should now display her friendship faction on her gossip pane.
Resolved an issue where the map marker for Time Rifts would occasionally display the incorrect invading groups during the 5 minutes prior to the event beginning.
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
Titan Rune Dungeons – Protocol Alpha and Beta
Azure Ring Captains will no longer proc mirror images.
Mage-Lord Urom will no longer have mirror images proc when Empowered Arcane Explosion is cast.
