The Sunken Temple Raid

• Significant adjustments were made to trash and boss health. Please note: In order for these health adjustments to take effect you will need to soft reset your instance. We’re sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

• Updated the levels of Fireguard Destroyers in Black Rock Depths to be more appropriate for Phase 3 of Season of Discovery.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Druid Trainer Loganaar to vanish periodically.
• Non-Engineering and non- Blacksmithing nightmare armaments recipes no longer require a blacksmith hammer to craft.
• The materials required for the quest “ Mixology For Fun and Profit” have been adjusted.
• Items

  •  Darkmoon Card: Sandstorm no longer triggers on every instant cast spell.
  • The flasks specifically for Sunken Temple now persist through death.
  •  Tenacity Chain is now Mail (was Leather).
  •  Membrane of Dark Neurosis now has spell hit (was Spirit), and now has a spellpower proc (was haste).
  •  Breadth of the Beast is now Unique.
• Druid

  • The Free Wrath cast from  Fury of Stormrage will no longer consume  Clearcasting.
  •  Rumsey Rum no longer 100% procs  Omen of Clarity.
• Mage

  •  Balefire Bolt now procs and consumes clearcasting.
  •  Balefire Bolt now correctly benefits from the Spellpower Rune.
  •  Displacement no longer requires a target.
  •  Balefire Bolt now works with Ignite.
  •  Conjure Water Rank 6 now conjures 20 waters.
  •  Molten Armor now falls off when the rune is swapped out.
  •  Balefire Bolt now benefits from and consumes  Arcane Blast stacks.
  •  Balefire Bolt now benefits from and spends the charges of  Combustion.
• Priest

  •  Void Zone damage no longer resets the casting time on your wand.
  • Void Zone now locks the Priest out of the Shadow school when kicked.
  • Void Zone visual changed to be less disruptive.
• Rogue

  • Fixed a bug with  Honor Among Thieves where it could stop working if you tried to gain a combo point on an ally or had your target die from a critical ability.
  •  Honor Among Thieves should no longer consider whether the Rogue or their allies are flagged for PvP.
  • Carnage will no longer fall off while Rank 4  Rupture is active.
• Shaman

  •  Tidal Waves will now always apply its increase in  Healing Wave case spell, even if the Healing Wave was spell queued.
• Warrior

  •  Shield Slam now correctly has 200% increased threat.
  •  Devastate correctly deals 150% weapon damage per second (was 100%)
• Warlock

  • Felguard will now cast Cleave even when there is only 1 target.
  •  Demonic Sacrifice buffs now fall off when the  Summon Felguard rune is removed.
•  The Sunken Temple

  • Fixed an issue where Festering Rotslime would despawn and then soft-lock the raid in combat.
  • Avatar of Hakkar

    • Avatar of Hakkar and Hakkari Bloodkeeper health lowered by 35%.
  • Eranikus

    • Players should no longer be able to walk on the raised edges of the room.
    • Number of Whelps spawned in second phase reduced to 6 (was 8).
    • Number of Nightmare Scalebane spawned during third phase reduced to 2 (was 3).
    • Period for the Summoning Effect of last phase increased to 9 seconds (was 6 seconds).
    • Number of Whelps and Scalebane spawned during last phase dropped to 3 and 1 (was 4 and 2).
• Nightmare Incursions

  • Retuned the Unstable Wisp in the Hinterlands Nightmare Incursion to be a bit less punishing for players to deal with.
  • Quest objects for Nightmare Incursions now have multiple simultaneous spawn locations.
  • Reduced the experience awarded by Nightmare Incursion quests.
  • Increased the reputation granted by level 50 quests.

   

And it seems it’s not just the health that was nerfed. Players have reported on Reddit that some of the boss abilities were hit with the nerf bat, and we’ve been able to gather the data to show exactly which abilities were changed:

•  Acid Shot cast time increased to 2.5 sec (was 2 sec)
•  Bellowing Roar cast time increased to 2.5 sec (was 2 sec)
•  Corrosive Breath damage reduced by 40% but debuff now lasts for 20 sec (was 12 sec)
•  Corrosive Breath now goes through line of sight.
•  Deep Slumber cast time increased to 2.5 sec (was 2 sec)
•  Lethargic Poison damage reduced by 50% but debuff now lasts for 15 sec (was 30 sec)
• Thrash is no longer used
•  Tail Sweep damage reduced by 33%

There is also one more documented change that we don’t know what it is tied to – except that it interacts with the new profession reagents  Inert Mantle of Nightmares and  Shard of the Void.

•  DNT SF Phase

  • Effect #1 Apply Aura: Phase Modifies Damage/Healing Done
    Value: 01