BFA Pre-Patch Hotfixes for August 7th - Retribution, Discipline, Rogue Nerfs

Live Posted 2018/08/07 at 11:32 PM by Neryssa

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Blizzard

August 7, 2018

Appearances and Animations

Fixed display issues with Void Elf Heritage Armor and Shadowform with Glyph of Shadow.
Isle of Conquest Airship Cannon's ball of fire visual should again match the actual trajectory of the shot.

Classes

Death Knight

Unholy

Raise Dead's Claw ability will no longer incorrectly gain damage from Mastery: Dreadblade. The Dark Transformation upgrade to Sweeping Claws still benefits from Mastery.

Druid

Sunfire will no longer apply to secondary targets that are immune to its effects, such as Rogues with Cloak of Shadows active.
Restoration

Photosynthesis now increases rate of all HoTs by 20% (was 15%).
Photosynthesis haste effect now affects Efflorescence.
Cultivation healing is now 10% of spell power per tick (was 12%).
Improved Rejuvenation healing is now 18% of spell power per tick (was 17%).

Mage

Arcane

Mana Shield drains 50% of damage as mana (was 20%).

Fire

Phoenix Flames's single-target damage now correctly hits Totems and similar targets.

Frost

When using Concentrated Coolness, the Regalia of the Arcane Tempest 4-piece set bonus will properly reduce the cooldown of Frozen Orb.

Monk

Chi Wave healing increased by 25%.
Mistweaver

Renewing Mist healing correctly generates threat.

Windwalker

Blackout Kick damage reduced by 27%.

Paladin

Retribution

All damage abilities have been reduced 3%.

Priest

Improved Smite damage reduced by 6%.
Divine Star healing increased by 25%.
Discipline

Shadow Word: Pain reduced by 9%.
Shadowfiend damage reduced by 16%.
Mindbender damage reduced by 8%.
Fixed a bug where Sins of the Many was not increasing Atonement healing from Shadowfiend/Mindbender.

Holy

Binding Heal now costs 2.4% of mana (was 2.0%).
Holy Word: Salvation cast time increased to 2.5 seconds (was 2 seconds).
Angel's Mercy cooldown reduction increased.

Rogue

Assassination

All damage abilities reduced 4%.

Outlaw

All damage abilities reduced 3%.

Subtlety

All damage abilities reduced 4%.

Warlock

Affliction

Summon Darkglare will no longer remove all nearby Rogues from stealth.

Warrior

Arms

All damage abilities increased 3%.

Creatures and NPCs

Myra Tyrngaarde was having some trouble understanding how to cross the bridges in Ironforge, but she's been shown the correct path.

Social

Fixed a bug preventing Guild ranks with invite permissions from properly inviting.
Fixed a bug that caused Guild and officer note updates to be delayed if the member was offline.
Fixed multiple bugs that caused some players to be unexpectedly removed from General and Trade chat channels.

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Comment by RomireWas Tyrngaarde blind not to see bridges?Comment by TheOldBearI feel 3% shorter.Comment by Matsen115 Blackout Kick damage reduced by 27%. Comment by Kanariya Summon Darkglare will no longer remove all nearby Rogues from stealth.Comment by NulgarMyre Tyrngaarde has been reprogrammed. Literally.Comment by tellxBlackout Kick damage reduced by 27%.Comment by DarkliteDid they seriously nerf Blackout Kick? Windwalker became a garbage spec after the pre-patch, with a significantly noticeable increase in TTK, and they felt it needed nerfed? Also, across-the-board rogue nerfs. Well done. /s

Pull your heads out of your asses Blizzard.Comment by BerlWhy cant they just improve the underperforming dps instead of nerfing the well performing ones?Comment by elorrSmite nerf, shadow word: pain nerf, shadow fiend / mindbender nerf...

Is this because of Schism? Too many changes 'coz of one talent that not everyone uses.Comment by PerothviusYou need like 6 dps to kill a discipline priest... im sure that this trash nerf will fix it xDDComment by LitvanRogue
- Assassination
-- All damage abilities reduced 4%.
- Outlaw
-- All damage abilities reduced 3%.
- Subtlety
-- All damage abilities reduced 4%.

Well eff you VERY MUCH Blizzard!Comment by aljung21Why cant they just improve the underperforming dps instead of nerfing the well performing ones?Comment by KismetiWhy cant they just improve the underperforming dps instead of nerfing the well performing ones?Comment by Serendipity09Why cant they just improve the underperforming dps instead of nerfing the well performing ones?Comment by EpoqxwRIP paladins... :/Comment by DhrallWhat happened to all the Rogue nerfs that was announced a while back? Doubt these changes are going to have a big impact on frost/sin/disc... Frost burst is overtuned, and Rogues are ultrabroken. The disc nerfs might reduce the damage of the comp a tiny bit, but the assasination nerf here is a bad joke..Comment by OberroDid they seriously nerf Blackout Kick? Windwalker became a garbage spec after the pre-patch, with a significantly noticeable increase in TTK, and they felt it needed nerfed? Also, across-the-board rogue nerfs. Well done. /s

Pull your heads out of your asses Blizzard.Comment by scourge2Discipline priest could use a bigger nerf. Shadow priest and affliction warlocks (albeit they were op in legion) could use a slight, tiny buff. Ret paladins and assassination rogues needed a nerf. Not sure why the monk class got nerfed and 27% at that.... Wondering where the 100-0% hunter nerf is, unless that already happened.... Aaaand, I do believe Holy Paladins are in need of a buff :/

Those are my thoughts anyways. BFA HERE WE COME!Comment by JustSkillI think they went too far with rogues. Last nerf (on beta) was more then enoughtComment by EssllDid they seriously nerf Blackout Kick? Windwalker became a garbage spec after the pre-patch, with a significantly noticeable increase in TTK, and they felt it needed nerfed? Also, across-the-board rogue nerfs. Well done. /s

Pull your heads out of your asses Blizzard.

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