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 updates 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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PvE Changes (October 10)
- Fixed an issue where summoning Vilefiend, Charhound, or Gloomhound would break opposing players stealth.
- Mountain Thane: Fixed a bug that could cause Bloodthirst to fail to proc Thunder Blast in some cases if the player had swapped from the Protection specialization.
PvP Changes (October 10)
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Fixed an issue causing the Rated PvP tab to be unintentionally grayed-out.
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General Changes (October 10)
Dungeons
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Runed Crests are now awarded up to Mythic+7.
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Gilded Crests are now awarded beginning at Mythic+8.
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Increased the duration of the buffs granted by Xal’atath’s Bargain Affixes to 30 seconds (was 20 seconds).
Developers’ notes: We’ve been closely monitoring the impact of the bonuses provided by Xal’atath’s Bargain affixes, and we’re increasing their overall power level on players. We will continue to monitor the effectiveness of these buffs as well as the challenges these affixes present.
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Xal’atath’s Guile now increases enemy health and damage by 10% (was 20%).
Developers’ notes: With the increase to the buffs granted to players by Xal’atath’s Bargain we’re reducing the effectiveness of of Xal’atath’s Guile, to allow players to push deeper into the Keystone system with current item levels.
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The Dawnbreaker
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Resolved an issue causing the previsual for Dark Orb on Anub’ikkaj to scale with player size.
Mists of Tirna Scithe
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Dodgeball will no longer inflict damage to illusions or adds created by Xal’atath.
Nerub-ar Palace
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Corrected issues causing Anub’arash to not burrow during the first intermission and failing to cast Spike Storm in the second intermission.
Professions
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Delver’s Pouch of Reagents sold by Sir Finley Mrrgglton at the Delver’s Headquarters in Dornogal now costs 500 Undercoin (was 1500) and contains 3 random Delve reagents (was 2).
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Profaned Tinderbox can now be purchased from Blacksmithing Supplies vendors Borgos and Sofee Batalsworn in exchange for 3 Ringing Deeps Ingots, or 3 Vial of Kaheti Oils, or 3 Viridian Charmcaps, or 3 Gloomfathom Hides.
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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