Artifact Challenge boss nerfs and other WoW Hotfixes for April 10

April 10

Hotfixes

Artifact Challenges

• Inquisitor Variss’s health has been reduced by 10%.
• Nether Horror’s health has been reduced by 20%.

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Black Claws (Artifact trait) can no longer incorrectly burst multiple Festering Wounds per swing.
• Demon Hunter
  • Erupting Souls (Artifact trait) will now strike all targets hit by Soul Cleave.
• Hunter
  • Cobra Commander’s Sneaky Snakes (Artifact trait) damage increased by 25%.
  • Thunderslash (Artifact trait) damage reduced by 50%.
  • Thunderslash (Artifact trait) deals 30% less damage with the Dire Frenzy talent.
• Mage
  • Glacial Eruption (Artifact trait) damage increased by 20%.
• Warlock
  • Jaws of Shadow’s (Artifact trait) bonus is now 10% (was 20%).
• Warrior
  • Executioner’s Precision (Artifact trait) bonus increased to 75%/stack (was 50%/stack).
  • Oathblood’s (Artifact trait) proc chance increased to 15% (was 10%).

Class Halls

• More Follower missions are now available for players who have several followers above item level 855.
• Challenge Mission now has a reward of Champion’s Trophy.
• The Cathedral of Eternal Night World Quest enabled by the Command Center building now awards Legionfall reputation.

Dungeons

• The Cathedral of Eternal Night
  • Agronox
    • Reduced Timber Smash damage by 20% on all difficulties.
  • Thrashbite the Scornful
    • Pulverizing Cudgel’s unavoidable damage reduced by 30% on all difficulties.
  • Domatrax
    • Reduced the amount of damage from Shadow Sweep on Mythic difficulties.
    • Hellblaze Mistresses do significantly less damage on Mythic difficulties.
  • Mephistroth
    • Mephistroth health reduced by 30% on all difficulties.
    • Felblaze damage reduced by 30% on all difficulties.
    • Demonic Upheaveal’s unavoidable damage reduced by 60% on all difficulties.
    • Creeping Shadows gain stacks more slowly on all difficulties.
    • Shadow Blast impact damage reduced by 50% on all difficulties.

Items

• Infallible Tracking Charm now does an appropriate amount of damage in Timewalking dungeons.
• Potion of Trivial Invisibility should now make you invisible. You should be trivially invisible, but invisible nonetheless.
• Weapon appearances from the Armaments of the Ebon Blade and Armaments of the Silver Hand should be restricted to Death Knight and Paladin, respectively.
• Dreadstone of Endless Shadows may now proc from healing spells, as well as damaging spells. The tooltip will be updated to reflect this in a future patch.
• Splinters of Agronox will no longer drop for characters whose Loot Specialization is set to a Tank specialization.

Player versus Player

• Mage
  • Fixed a bug where a Fire Mage’s Ignite could interact incorrectly with Duel (Arms Warrior PvP Talent), resulting in significantly reduced or increased damage to secondary targets.
  • Cauterizing Blink’s heal is reduced by 50% in PvP situations.
• For rated PvP, we’re adjusting the item levels for some end-of-match rewards, weekly rewards, and Gladiator obliterum tokens:
  • End-of-match rewards for players whose rating is between 0 and 1799 have been improved, starting at a minimum item level of 870 (was 865).
  • Weekly rewards have been raised to a minimum of 880 (was 870).
  • The tokens purchased with Echoes of Battle, gained by obliterating Gladiator gear, now create an item at item level 880 (was 865).
  • These changes will take effect this week with maintenance in your region.