WoW TWW Hotfixes (September 17, 2024) - Delve, Class & Dungeon Changes (2024)

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.

Table of Contents

  • PvE Class Changes (September 17th)
  • PvP Class Changes (September 17th)
  • General Changes (September 17th)
    • Delves
    • Dungeons and Raids
    • Items
    • Professions

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PvE Class Changes (September 17th)

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San’layn

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Blood

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Havoc

  • Fixed an issue that caused Eye Beam’s damage to be reduced beyond 1 target instead of 5.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Eye Beam from benefitting from Isolated Prey’s damage bonus.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Eye Beam from benefitting from Chaotic Disposition’s damage bonus.

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Balance

  • All ability damage increased by 6%.
  • Starsurge damage increased by 16%.
  • Starfall damage increased by 20%. Not applied to PvP combat.
  • Elune’s Chosen: Lunar Calling increases Starfire’s damage to its primary target by 80% (was 65%). The bonus remains 50% in PvP combat.

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Feral

Developers’ note: In response to feedback that this change reduced the value of maintaining Rip and complicated using Bloodtalons in AOE, we are reverting this change.

  • All ability damage increased by 3%.
  • Rip damage increased by 6%.
  • Ferocious Bite damage increased by 3%.
  • Feral Frenzy damage increased by 10%.
  • Druid of the Claw: Ravage damage increased by 3%.

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Restoration

  • All healing increased by 8%. Does not affect PvP combat.
  • Wrath damage increased by 20%.
  • Starfire damage increased by 20%.
  • Starsurge damage increased by 20%.

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Evoker

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Devastation

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Mage

  • Living Bomb’s explosion visual now only plays on the unit that is the Living Bomb, rather than each unit damaged by its explosion.

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Fire

  • All ability damage increased by 6%.
  • Living Bomb damage increased by 25%.

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Mistweaver

  • All healing increased by 3%.
  • Tiger Palm damage increased by 15%. Does not affect PvP combat.
  • Rising Sun Kick damage increased by 15%. Does not affect PvP combat.

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Windwalker

  • Darting Hurricane’s passive trigger rate reduced by 50% and it now reduces the global cooldown by 0.25 seconds (was 0.5 seconds).

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Holy

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Retribution

  • Herald of the Sun: Dawnlightdamage reduced by 15%.

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Shadow

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Outlaw

  • All ability damage reduced by 4%.
  • Melee auto attack damage reduced by 8%.
  • Dispatch damage reduced by 10%.
  • The War Within Season 1 2-set bonus now grants listed abilities a 35% chance to deal 30% increased damage as Shadow (was 20% chance, 15% damage)
  • The War Within Season 1 4-set bonus for Between the Eyes increased to 15% damage per stack, up to 4 stacks (was 6%, 3 stacks)

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Enhancement

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Restoration

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Demonology

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Destruction

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Colossus

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Mountain Thane

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Arms

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Fury

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PvP Class Changes (September 17th)

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Death Knight

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Havoc

  • The Hunt damage and damage-over-time are now reduced by 15% in PvP combat (was 28%).

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Evoker

  • Disintegrate damage is no longer increased by 20% in PvP combat.

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Preservation

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Beast Mastery

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Mistweaver

  • Peaceweaver (PvP Talent) now reduces the cooldown of Revival by 30 seconds (was 60 seconds).

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Windwalker

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Holy

  • Sanctified Plates now increases Armor by 20%, Stamina by 10%, and area-of-effect damage reduction by 6% in PvP combat.
  • Divine Protection’s damage reduction increased by 50% in PvP combat.

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Protection

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Rogue

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Enhancement

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Affliction

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Destruction

  • Chaos Bolt damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  • Incinerate damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  • Soul Fire damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  • Decimation now reduces the cast time of Soul Fire by 60% in PvP combat (was 80%).
  • Hellcaller: Wither damage reduced by 30% in PvP combat.
  • Diabolist: Ruination damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.

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General Changes (September 17th)

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Delves

Zekvir's Influence

  • The health and damage of the special invasion creatures in Tier 9 and above have been reduced to more closely match the difficulty of lieutenants.

Dungeons and Raids

  • On Normal and Heroic difficulties, dungeon bosses other than the final boss no longer drop Valorstones.

Ara-kara, City of Echoes

Ki’katal the Harvester

  • Erupting Webs stun duration reduced to 3 seconds (was 6 seconds).
  • Erupting Webs damage reduced by 18%.
  • Grasping Blood is now susceptible to interrupt effects.

Dawnbreaker

  • There is now a Worn Anvil to repair next to Arathi Lamplighter on the Dawnbreaker.

Mists of Tirna Scithe

Mistcaller

  • Addressed an issue where Dodgeball was inflicting damage to unintended targets.

Siege of Boralus

  • Irontide Waveshaper's Watertight Shell cast time increased to 3 seconds.
  • Bilge Rat Buccaneer's updated all visuals associated with Banana Rampage.
  • Players can now use both Alliance and Horde portal to enter the dungeon.
  • Leaving Siege of Boralus now puts players at the correct exit location based on their factions.
  • Jaina Proudmoore now teleports players to the correct exit location based on their factions.

Chopper Redhook

  • Added various visual improvements for the encounter.

Nerub-ar Palace

  • Becoming a slime from drinking an Unstable Mixture can now be dispelled.
  • Nerubian Ballistas in The Swaying Span now properly fire their loaded projectiles.

Queen Ansurek

  • Fixed an issue that caused an inconsistency with Feast's healing absorb effect, where it would unexpectedly fail to apply through immunities after the Queen's first usage of the ability.

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Items

Professions

Alchemy

  • Fixed a bug that caused Algari Potion Cauldrons to sometimes offer fewer charges than specified in the tooltip.

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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