Challenge Rift - Week 86
Celebrate a Wild Valentine's Day - Find and Build Themed Decks!Patch 8.1 Hotfixes - February 14, 2019
Dungeons and Raids
Player versus Player
- Battle of Dazar’alor
- High Tinker Mekkatorque
- Wind Up now grants 10% Haste and Movement Speed in Heroic difficulty (was 20%).
- Boss health lowered by 5% in Heroic difficulty.
- Wind Up now grants 10% Haste and Movement Speed in Heroic difficulty (was 20%).
- King Rastakhan
- Seal of Purification, Scorching Detonation, and Withering Burst should no longer hit pets.
- Seal of Purification, Scorching Detonation, and Withering Burst should no longer hit pets.
- High Tinker Mekkatorque
- Uldir
- Taloc
- Orbs of Harmony will now respawn when the Taloc encounter resets.
- Orbs of Harmony will now respawn when the Taloc encounter resets.
- Taloc
Player versus Player
- Restoration Druid mana regeneration is now reduced by 55% in PvP.
- Holy Priest, Holy Paladin, Restoration Shaman, and Mistweaver Monk mana regeneration is now reduced by 50% in PvP.
- Discipline Priest mana regeneration is now reduced by 45% in PvP.
- Balance Druid, Feral Druid, and Elemental Shaman mana regeneration is reduced by 35% in PvP.
- Developers’ notes: We’ve taken a careful look at healer mana during longer PvP engagements in both Arenas and battlegrounds, and the changes above are intended to address several concerns. In PvP, we want mana to feel like a more critical resource, and we want mana efficiency to be an important part of PvP healing. At the beginning of Battle for Azeroth, mana regeneration from all healer specs was reduced by 15-30% (depending on the class), and after reviewing the current state of the game, we feel like further reductions are necessary to both healer specs and a few hybrid specs.
- Developers’ notes: We’ve taken a careful look at healer mana during longer PvP engagements in both Arenas and battlegrounds, and the changes above are intended to address several concerns. In PvP, we want mana to feel like a more critical resource, and we want mana efficiency to be an important part of PvP healing. At the beginning of Battle for Azeroth, mana regeneration from all healer specs was reduced by 15-30% (depending on the class), and after reviewing the current state of the game, we feel like further reductions are necessary to both healer specs and a few hybrid specs.
Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
- Restoration
- Nourish mana cost increased by 30%.
- Nourish mana cost increased by 30%.
- Restoration
Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
- Assassination
- Neurotoxin now increases the cooldown of affected spells by 1 second (was 3 seconds).
- Neurotoxin now has a 45 second cooldown (was 25 seconds).
- Neurotoxin now has a 3 second duration (was 10 seconds).
- Developers note: Unfortunately, we are unable to fix several technical issues with this spell at this time. We’re working on a fix for it that we hope to include in 8.1.5.
- Developers note: Unfortunately, we are unable to fix several technical issues with this spell at this time. We’re working on a fix for it that we hope to include in 8.1.5.
- Neurotoxin now increases the cooldown of affected spells by 1 second (was 3 seconds).
- Assassination
Patch 8.1.5 PTR - Portal Room Portal Model Updates
The portals in the portal rooms of Stormwind and Orgrimmar have received updates from the old mage portals on the PTR.
Blue Posts
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Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
While I don’t represent Blizzard anymore, I want to say that despite how hard this week was - the folks still there are some of the most dedicated and passionate developers in the world. They give their ALL daily...... for YOU guys.
Yes, the business end of things can be tough sometimes - but that’s every company. Blizzard’s not done. Or over. Or on fire. Rough patch, maybe? But the people there are brilliant and working hard every day. Support them. Encourage them where you can.
Flailing about the apocalypse doesn’t help. Positivity and faith in the long run actually DO help. A community that doesn’t support each other won’t last. Be positive for each other. Be constructive. Anger just breeds anger. I think Yoda said that once...
...the vast majority of people there that build and support products can’t/don’t control the top end of the business. Claiming that it all on fire and dead does a huge disservice to the people that are there doing their best. (Source)
https://www.mmo-champion.com/content/83 ... Blue-Posts
