World of Warcraft released a hotfix Tuesday bringing with it some changes to Azshara’s Eternal Palace. This is in addition to the usual improvements brought about by such an update.
One fix focuses on Orgozoa, one of the bosses in Azshara’s Eternal Palace. The change involves Orgozoa now transitioning phases when at 40% health instead of 3.5 minutes.
According to the development team, the goal of this particular change is generally neutral in terms of the encounter’s difficulty. It is expected that player damage is going to increase over the next weeks and this change makes sure that the overall pacing of the encounter is not skewed.
Other fixes related to the Eternal Palace are:
- Radiance of Azshara
- Fixed a bug causing Radiance of Azshara's Stormwraith Gale Buffet to increase its damage by 10% per stack, rather than the intended 25% on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
- Za’Qul, Harbinger of Ny’alotha
- Shattered Psyche now has a unique icon.
- Queen Azshara
- Players with the Beckoned debuff can no longer be afflicted with Charged Spear.
- Players broken out of Devotion should not be prevented from using their abilities.
For characters and classes, World of Warcraft added these fixes:
- Characters:
- Undead
- Touch of the Grave (racial ability) no longer causes the user to enter combat when it procs from periodic effects.
- Undead
- Classes
- Death Knight
- Death Gate no longer occasionally strands players in Acherus after being used, and it should always return them to the entry point where it was originally placed.
- Mage
- Arcane
- Damage for all spells and abilities increased by 6%.
- Arcane
- Death Knight
There were also a number of changes related to the Heart of Azeroth and Essence. These are:
- Vision of Perfection (Essence) no longer activates for Arms Warriors if they are under the effects of crowd control that prevents them from controlling their character (e.g. Polymorph or stuns).
- Vision of Perfection (Essence) no longer grants Unholy Death Knights with the Minor Power’s Rank 2 healing effect at Rank 1.
- Vision of Perfection no longer forcibly shapeshifts Druids out of Flight Form if they are flying when it activates.
- Vision of Perfection (Essence) Rank 2 now grants Guardian Druids the correct amount of healing when Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc activates.
- Vision of Perfection (Essence) no longer grants Guardian Druids twice the intended amount of cooldown reduction for Survival Instincts when placed in the Minor Slot.
- Vision of Perfection (Essence) Rank 2 now grants Brewmaster Monks the correct amount of healing when Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox activates.
- Vision of Perfection (Essence) no longer grants Protection Warriors twice the intended amount of cooldown reduction for Avatar when placed in the Minor Slot.
- Fixed a bug where the critical strike chance for Blood of the Enemy (Essence) would not apply to a player’s pets or guardians.
- Essence of the Focusing Iris (Essence) Major Power damage has been lowered by 15%.
For the last change, the developers revealed that while the Essence of the Focusing Iris serves as a strong tool when it comes to area burst damage, it overshadowed the other available Essences that also deal area damage. This change fixes that, but ensures that it remains to be strong when it comes to dealing damage to high priority targets.
A full list of changes can be viewed here.
