Blizzard Roundup: June 6 Hotfixes, Mythic Raid Testing, 7.2.5 Elemental Shaman, Blue Tweets

Blizzard Posted 2017/06/06 at 7:31 PM by Squishei

Class Mount inforevamped our front pageJune 6 Hotfixes

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Hotfixes Legionfall Campaign

“Blood of a Titan" should now count toward the campaign quest “Championing Our Cause”.
“Relieved of Their Valuables” now requires 5 Hidden Wyrmtongue Caches (was 10).

Class Mount Quests

Kalec will remain visible in the Mage Class Hall while the player is on or eligible for any of the class mount quests, even if he has been sent on a mission.
Fixed a bug with spawning of the Silvermoon and Exodar marks for "Hiding In Plain Sight"

7.2.5 Elemental Shamantoday's PTR build.

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Sorry for the confusion on this. The intended set of changes was:
1) Earth Shock buffed (didn't make into build, still planned)
2) Earthquake no longer scales with haste, but buffed to compensate.

Earthquake was double-dipping haste, because its damage per cast scales with haste and Maelstrom generation also scales with haste. That's not necessarily something that always needs an immediate fix, but when it encroaches so heavily on Earth Shock (let alone occasionally surpassing it), that's more of a problem. Trying to pull the two spells apart numerically could have delayed the problem a bit, but even the fact that they're close enough for this is to be an ongoing question is a red flag.

The size of the compensatory buff to Earthquake is open to adjustment if needed, and rigorous feedback on what's a reasonable amount of haste currently used on an "average" Earthquake can help there. It's inevitable that an Earthquake stacked with e.g. Bloodlust and Whispers in the Dark will go down in damage, but an unbuffed one should be able to come up slightly.
In any case, I was posting to flesh out the numbers I presented earlier. Assuming we hit the 3rd tick breakpoint (which is reasonable in M+ assuming you use sephuz) then accounting for the loss of Seismic Storm procs then we're looking at Earthquake needing to be buffed to 92.5% per tick to be equal to live Earthquake.

9 Live EQ procs at 60% = ~540% SP
9 SS proc chances @ 728% SP per proc with the current 5% proc chance = ~327.6% SP

Total average damage as SP per EQ on live = 867.6% SP.

6 PTR EQ procs at 78% = 468% SP
6 SS proc chances @ 728% SP per proc with the current 5% proc chance = ~218.4% SP

Total average damage as SP after the change = 686.4% SP

In order to bring these two numbers together, the damage per Earthquake tick needs to be brought from 65% per tick to 95.2% per tick assuming no other changes are made.

If we assume that the average haste is low enough that you get 8 ticks instead of 9, the average live damage is ~680%. That would require that Earthquake is brought up to ~79.13% damage per tick (474.8% SP over 6 seconds) to be equal to live.

Edit: I forgot The Ground Trembles & Call The Thunder in my original calculations. The numbers above have been updated appropriately.

Mythic Raid TestingTomb of Sargeras release date

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On Thursday and Friday, June 8-9 we will be conducting testing of Mythic Tomb of Sargeras bosses.

Thursday, June 8

Harjatan - Mythic Tomb of Sargeras
13:00 PDT (16:00 EDT, 22:00 CEST)

Demonic Inquisition - Mythic Tomb of Sargeras
14:00 PDT (17:00 EDT, 23:00 CEST)

Friday, June 9

Maiden of Vigilance - Mythic Tomb of Sargeras
13:00 PDT (16:00 EDT, 22:00 CEST)

The Desolate Host - Mythic Tomb of Sargeras
14:00 PDT (17:00 EDT, 23:00 CEST)

As always, this testing schedule is very fluid and subject to the realities of a PTR environment. We might have to change the time of a testing session, change the bosses being tested, or cancel a test entirely, due to bugs, server hardware issues, etc. Keep an eye on this forum for the latest information, and thank you in advance for testing and providing feedback.

Blue Tweets

Comment by Interest“ Relieved of Their Valuables” now requires 5 Hidden Wyrmtongue Caches (was 10).
Comment by DKong27Some of my alts have more than 5/10 progress, so I assume it'll be marked complete on log-in? Great change, but I'm not really in a hurry anyway. Looking for caches is annoyingly inconsistent though, you might find 10 in 10 minutes, or go 20 minutes without a single one.Comment by Sh1n1gam1Meanwhile, here i am waiting for a invation pop up soo i can finish the lock quest zzzComment by perculiaMeanwhile, here i am waiting for a invation pop up soo i can finish the lock quest zzzComment by xcessSome of my alts have more than 5/10 progress, so I assume it'll be marked complete on log-in? Great change, but I'm not really in a hurry anyway. Looking for caches is annoyingly inconsistent though, you might find 10 in 10 minutes, or go 20 minutes without a single one.Comment by OhmyphellieThey changed 10 to 5 caches. But still 100 marks of the Sentinax..... i really wish they nerfed that one!Comment by kodora1316They changed 10 to 5 caches. But still 100 marks of the Sentinax..... i really wish they nerfed that one!Comment by Kakashi31They changed 10 to 5 caches. But still 100 marks of the Sentinax..... i really wish they nerfed that one!Comment by kodora1316They changed 10 to 5 caches. But still 100 marks of the Sentinax..... i really wish they nerfed that one!Comment by 1482629They changed 10 to 5 caches. But still 100 marks of the Sentinax..... i really wish they nerfed that one!Comment by Cambrius13Looking forward to the new goodies coming with the Point-Five. And I'm really liking the new front page layout. Much more concise and efficient information display. Nice job, Wowhead! :)Comment by Greensmower1Really, 5 instead of 10... so if you've waited to start the campaign, its even EASIER than it was yesterday.... I think 100 marks of the Sentinax was the most time consuming, only because of RNG and drop rates... that is something the player can't control.. that one took 15-20 minutes, above and beyond the time I would have spent finishing the WQ's, and if you find a group of people dropping portals, just hang out and pick up the outliers.... The rest simply finished themselves within the time I spent doing the WQ's... outside of the follower missions being time gated, I turned in each one within 15 minutes to 2 hours of picking it up... Yesterday for example, the prisoner WQ and the Harpy WQ on the little island off the coast to the north, I killed 100 demons, and finished 2 WQ's in like 10 minutes...The caches were only hard because by the week that quest dropped, about half of the player base already had flying, and even with being phased, the caches would pop on the minmap, and by the time I got my slow as ground mount there, they had been tapped by 5-6 fliers and had despawned... I found plenty in caves and such where flying was less of an advantage...Comment by FelweedReally, 5 instead of 10... so if you've waited to start the campaign, its even EASIER than it was yesterday.... I think 100 marks of the Sentinax was the most time consuming, only because of RNG and drop rates... that is something the player can't control.. that one took 15-20 minutes, above and beyond the time I would have spent finishing the WQ's, and if you find a group of people dropping portals, just hang out and pick up the outliers.... The rest simply finished themselves within the time I spent doing the WQ's... outside of the follower missions being time gated, I turned in each one within 15 minutes to 2 hours of picking it up... Yesterday for example, the prisoner WQ and the Harpy WQ on the little island off the coast to the north, I killed 100 demons, and finished 2 WQ's in like 10 minutes...The caches were only hard because by the week that quest dropped, about half of the player base already had flying, and even with being phased, the caches would pop on the minmap, and by the time I got my slow as ground mount there, they had been tapped by 5-6 fliers and had despawned... I found plenty in caves and such where flying was less of an advantage...