World of Warcraft is picking up the pace in its newest expansion. With Season 1 of The War Within now live, thousands of players are flocking to try out the new raid, Mythic+ dungeons, and the higher-difficulty Delves. All of this excitement also warrants some feedback from players as balancing this game can be quite tricky.
Having that in mind, the dev team has released a bunch of new changes to The War Within, so we will briefly go over all of the balance adjustments, bug fixes, and quality-of-life changes added to the iconic MMORPG.
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The War Within Class Changes September 13th
Vengeance
- Shattered Souls missiles will no longer display for allies.
Feral
- Fixed a bug preventing Ferocious Bite from damaging crowd-controlled targets.
Devastation
- Fixed an issue where Mass Disintegrate was not benefiting properly from Iridescence or Titanic Wrath.
Preservation
- Cycle of Life no longer accumulates healing done to pets and guardians.
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Mistweaver
- Fixed an issue that caused Jade Bond’s increase to Yu’lon’s Soothing Breath to not function in some scenarios.
Protection
- Fixed an interaction causing Judgment to trigger Righteous Protector’s cooldown reduction when Bastion of Light was active.
- Fixed an interaction causing Bastion of Light’s stacks to not be consumed when Shining Light was active.
Retribution
- An issue causing Empyrean Hammer to not function on training dummies has been resolved.
- Instrument of Retribution will no longer trigger Dawnlight.
- An issue causing Instrument of Retribution to trigger Avenging Wrath when talented into Crusade (and vice versa) has been resolved.
Shaman
- Fixed an issue causing Farseer Ancestor spells to have a damage reduction adjustment applied twice to their spells.
- Corrected an issue where Stormbringer Tempest would consume multiple stacks when striking multiple enemy targets.
- Fixed an issue causing Mastery: Elemental Overload to not increase damage from all pets.
Elemental
- Fixed an issue causing Mastery: Elemental Overload to not increase damage from all pets.
Warlock
- Increased the threat generation of Voidwalkers’ and Felguards’ Threatening Presence.
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The War Within General Changes September 13th
Achievements
- Players will now earn the achievements Harbinger of the Weathered, Harbinger of the Carved, and Harbinger of the Runed immediately upon outgrowing the use of those crests.
Delves
- Addressed scaling issues causing enemies in Delves to deal more damage than intended, especially for groups and tanks.
Developers’ notes: Over the last day, we’ve sought to address the unintended circumstance where certain group compositions made the health of enemies lower than they would be if you went into a Delve by yourself. We also tried moving some of the harder affixes from first appearing in Tier 9 and above into Tier 8. The results were not what we hoped for. We’ve now brought enemy damage back down closer to our targets, the most-difficult affixes have been sent back to Tier 9, and scaling adjustments should make group and solo play less lethal.
Nightfall Sanctum
- Resolved an issue where players could get stuck in combat after dying to Speaker Davenruth.
The Underkeep
- Reduced Crazed Abominations’ health.
The Waterworks
- Waxface’s Throw Wax damage done reduced by ~15%.
- Waxface should not immediately begin casting a new spell upon completion of Noxious Gas.
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Dungeons and Raids
Nerub-ar Palace
Silken Court
- When Binding Webs is broken by immunity, it will now correctly remove it from ally and they will no longer falsely appear connected.
- Triggering intermissions while a boss is stunned will no longer cause Anub’arash or Skeinspinner Takazj to stay during the other’s intermission.
Events
Awakening the Machine
- Addressed an issue causing the Awakened Phalanx to become stuck in an unattackable state.
Items and Rewards
- Class Set items purchased with Web-Wrapped Curio or Mark of the Spelunker Supreme should now be refundable.
- Fixed a bug where reaching Renown Rank 11 with the Council of Dornogal was not presenting a quest with Carved Harbinger Crests as a reward.
- Warbound-until-Equipped gear obtained from seasonal legacy dungeons should now have correct item levels. This fix is retroactive.
Quests
- Pale Weavelashers should now respawn accordingly in the Silken Ward, improving the local quests and the World Quest Enforcer Extermination.
- Zekvir, Hand of the Harbinger no longer requires that you complete the Delve seasonal journey.
- In Azj-Kahet, Special Assignment: A Pound of Cure has been adjusted to be faster to complete.
And that covers all of the changes this time around for The War Within. If you would like to check out the official notes, you can click, here.
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