Reminder - Developer Live Stream Today at 11 AM PDT
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
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With Battle for Azeroth in full swing, we’re sitting down with Game Director Ion Hazzikostas to get a peek at the next content update.
Join us live on Twitch Tuesday, September 18 at 11:00 a.m. PDT.
Patch 8.0.1 Hotfixes - September 17th, 2018
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
/ Official Forums
)
Classes
- Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
- Skystep Potion and Lightfoot Potion will no longer drop shapeshifting forms, and shapeshifting while having one of these active will no longer cancel them.
- Paladin (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
- Protection
- Last Defender now has a cap of up to 50% reduction in damage taken.
- Protection
Dungeons and Raids
- Shrine of the Storm
- Vol'zith the Whisperer
- Consume Essence cast time increased by 2 seconds.
- Abyssal Eruption damage decreased by 20%.
- Consume Essence cast time increased by 2 seconds.
- Vol'zith the Whisperer
- Uldir
- G’huun
- Bursting Boils should no longer spawn close to the boss.
- G’huun
Items
- The Frenetic Corpuscle now activates more often.
- Heart of Azeroth
- Archive of the Titans: Primary stat bonus increased by 20%
- Laser Matrix: Damage reduced by 30%
- Thunderous Blast: Damage reduced by 35%
Death Knight (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
- (Frost) Frozen Tempest: Damage increased by 100%
Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
- (Feral) Blood Mist: Damage increased by 125%
Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
- (Beast Mastery) Feeding Frenzy: Damage increased by 400%
- (Marksmanship) Arcane Flurry: Duration increased to 10 seconds, damage reduced by 45%
Mage (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
- (Arcane) Brain Storm: Duration increased to 30 seconds, Intellect bonus reduced by 75%
- (Fire) Firemind: Intellect bonus increased by 30%
Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
- (Windwalker) Iron Fists: Required targets reduced to 3
- (Windwalker) Swift Roundhouse: Damage bonus reduced by 55%
Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
- (Assassination) Shrouded Suffocation: Damage bonus reduced by 40%
Shaman (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
- (Elemental/Enhancement) Natural Harmony: Secondary stat bonuses increased by 40%
Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
- (Affliction) Sudden Onset: Damage bonus reduced by 30%
- (Demonology) Demonic Meteor: Damage increased by 200%
- (Destruction) Flashpoint: Duration increased to 10 seconds, Haste bonus increased by 25%
Warrior (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
- (Fury) Simmering Rage: Damage increased by 35%
Player versus Player
- Hook Point Arena has reopened for play.
- Epic Battlegrounds now award bonus Conquest for first win of the day (was the first win of the week).
- Fixed a bug that caused Enlistment Bonus gained from participating in battlegrounds as a Mercenary to not increase Honor gain from some sources.
- The absorb granted by Mchimba's Ritual Bandages is reduced by 55% while engaged in combat with enemy players.
- The absorb granted by Xalzaix's Veiled Eye is reduced by 70% while engaged in combat with enemy players.
Professions
- Hydrocores now have a chance to drop off the final bosses of BfA dungeons in Heroic difficulty.
- Inscription
- [With weekly maintenance in each region] The strength of Vantus Runes has been reduced to the same potency they had in Legion.
- Developers’ notes: Vantus runes are a unique consumable that provide an extra boost when your raid group is focusing on a single boss. But if they’re too powerful, they can create a sense of regression as you try to re-kill the boss without their aid in subsequent weeks.
- [With weekly maintenance in each region] The strength of Vantus Runes has been reduced to the same potency they had in Legion.
Quests
- Fixed a bug where Pa’ku could fail to appear as expected during “Zandalar Forever!”.
- Collecting Incandescent Duskwings or Crown of Torcali in a group now shares credit on “Alchemy is an Inexact Science”.
PvP Scaling Clarification on Twitter
PvP Game Designer Chris Kaleiki clarified on Twitter how PvP scaling works!
In Remembrance: The Harvest Festival Has Begun
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
/ Official Forums
)
The yearly Harvest Festival is now underway in Azeroth. This is a solemn time when the Alliance honors Uther the Lightbringer by lighting a candle at his tomb in the Western Plaguelands, while members of the Horde show their respect to Grommash Hellscream by leaving a bottle of spirits at the base of the Hellscream Memorial in Demon Fall Canyon in Ashenvale.
When: September 18-25
Where: Outside Ironforge and Orgrimmar
Commemorate those who have sacrificed their lives to help friends and allies. Feasts are also held outside Ironforge and Orgrimmar in honor of these fallen heroes.
Azurethos, The Winged Typhoon - Tiragarde Sound World Boss
Azurethos is this week's BfA world boss!
LevelTypeSlotNameModel Viewer
355TrinketTrinket
Plume of the Seaborne Avian355TrinketTrinket
Galecaller's Beak355TrinketTrinket
Azurethos' Singed Plumage355ClothFeet
Sandals of Rustling Rage
355ClothHands
Windcaller's Down Handwraps
355LeatherChest
Chestguard of Dire Winds
355LeatherFeet
Footpads of the Encircling Storm
355MailHead
Feathered Galeforce Crest
355MailWrists
Bindings of the Winged Typhoon
355PlateLegs
Roost-Defender's Legguards
355PlateFeet
Galebreaker's Sabatons
Island Expeditions for Week of September 18th, 2018
The islands expeditions for the week are Verdant Wilds, Whispering Reef and Skittering Hollow!
Weekly Bonus Event - Pet Battles
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
/ Official Forums
)
An extra weekly quest and rewards are here— the Pet Battles bonus event is underway!
This Week
All week, get out there and fight with your mighty minions. When the time comes to take on other players, open your Pet Journal and hit the “Find Battle” button to be matched up with an opponent whose team is competitive with yours.
Look for the following all week long:
- The Adventure Guide has a quest for you.
- Quest requirement: Win 5 pet battles versus other players with a team of three level-25 pets.
- Reward: One Ultimate Battle-Training Stone.
- Quest requirement: Win 5 pet battles versus other players with a team of three level-25 pets.
- Passive bonus: All Pet Battle experience gains are increased by +200%.
Call to Arms: Drustvar
This week's Call to Arms is Call to Arms: Drustvar or Call to Arms: Drustvar. Head to Drustvar with warmode enabled to kill 10 players of the opposing faction. You no longer have to loot an air supply! This will reward you with conquest and 75 reputation for either 7th Legion or The Honorbound.
Also, if you capped your conquest last week you can now work towards this week's reward, a pair of ilvl 355 gloves!
PvP Brawl: Shado-Pan Showdown
The PvP brawl for the week is Shado-Pan Showdown, so use the PvP Group Finder to complete Something Different!
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Step into Tiger’s Peak Arena and get ready for the Shadow-Pan Showdown. You’ll race for control of a center control point to activate one of two bosses. The first to kill the other team’s boss wins!
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