Legion – September 7th Hotfixes
by Its_Immanis - 8 years ago show comments
Blizzard has released the latest set of hotfixes added to Legion and they include some fine-tuning of Hunter’s Barrage spell, a reduction in the number of players seen in your class hall, and some other fixes to improve players in-game experience.
The Developer Note for the Barrage fix is particularly interesting as it provides some insight to the decision-making process and how invested Blizzard is in promoting class fantasy with this expansion while still maintaining fun gameplay.
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment (Blue Tracker / Official Post)
Hotfixes
Classes
Hunter
- Barrage now fires in a tighter cone, and its visual has been improved to better show its area of effect.
- Developers’ Notes– Barrage fulfills a fantasy of a wild spray of shots in a large area. Of course, that can be dangerous, and often Hunters accidentally pull additional enemies with Barrage, especially in Legion dungeons. We saw this as a failure on our part to convey what it actually does. This hotfix should allow Hunters to get a feel for the shape and size of it and build a reliable expectation of what will happen when they cast Barrage. No change was made to Barrage’s damage. We hope that this helps Hunters and their groupmates to have a more pleasant dungeon experience.
Rogue
- Outlaw Rogues with Curse of the Dreadblades ability active will no longer take the backlash damage if Saber Slash strikes a second time.
Shaman
- The Enhancement Shaman Stormflurry Artifact Trait will now properly interact with the Ascendance talent and the Windstrike ability.
Warrior
- The Fury Warrior Artifact Trait Odyn’s Champion has had its chance to activate doubled, but its effectiveness has been lowered. The tooltip will be incorrect until a future patch.
Class Halls
- The Vault Ticket (Rogue) is now a daily reset instead of weekly reset. This may not take effect until next Tuesday if you have already looted the Vault this week.
- The “Deadlier Warglaives” quest (Demon Hunter) will now only consume a single Obliterum.
Dungeons
Maw of Souls
- Helya: Decreased the frequency of Helya’s Taint of the Sea during the Breached Vessel phase.
- Helya: Altered the visual of Corrupted Bellow in order to perform better on lower-end machines.
- Helya: Lowered the baseline damage of Corrupted Bellow and added a damage increase on subsequent damage events.
Holiday
- Darkmoon Faire tinctures and droughts no longer work at 110.
NPCs
- Vault Keepers in Stormheim should no longer become stuck and prevent players from looting the Glimmering Treasure Chest.
PvP
- Players in a raid group will no longer earn PVP credit, nor receive Sightless Eyes in the Underbelly.
Professions
Cooking
- (Work in progress) Fixing a bug that prevents players from being able to turn in “Opening the Test Kitchen” to Nomi.
Fishing
- Players with the artifact trait “Better Luck Next Time” now have a chance to catch boots.
Quests
- The damage done by the Fel Annihilator in the Battle for the Exodar scenario has been reduced.
- Players who have completed “Jarl Come Back Now” but are not Neutral with Jandvik Vrykul can return to Toryl in Jandvik to get their reputation reset.
Suramar
- Blackhawk’s Bulwark PvP Captains should respawn more quickly.
- Fel Cannons in Felsoul Hold should respawn more quickly.
Zones
- An unintended increase in player population in certain zones, notably Class Halls, has been fixed.
