With the new Sunken Temple Level-Up Raid in Phase 3 of Season of Discovery by far being the hardest raid since SoD released, Blizzard had early on said that they were prepared to nerf it. While we already saw significant nerfs to boss health across the board just a few days ago, Shade of Eranikus was still putting up a fight for most groups. Until now! It has been reported that an update went live while players were still in the instance, bringing the boss's health down to 1.45 million. The boss went live with around 4 million HP, which goes to show you how large this nerf really is. 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:
Rime Arrow and Faeform Nerfed - More Plunderstorm Hotfixes
23.03.2024 - 02:47 / wowhead.com
More Plunderstorm hotfixes have been pushed to live servers today which now also includes Rime Arrow and Faeform nerfs.
Evening Hotfixes
Here are the Plunderstorm hotfixes for the evening (6:48 PM PST)!
- Rime Arrow:
Rank 1: Cooldown unchanged at 10 sec - Rank 2: Cooldown increased to 8.5 sec (was 8 sec)
- rank 3: Cooldown increased to 7 sec (was 6 sec)
- Rank 4: Cooldown increased to 5.5 sec (was 4 sec)
Faeform:
- Damage reduction reduced to 50% for 1 second (was 90% for 3 seconds)
Afternoon Hotfixes
Here are the Plunderstorm hotfixes for earlier today (5:12 PM PST)!
- Fire Whirl damage nerfed at all ranks.
Rank 1: Damage reduced by 23.3% to 0.0575 of AP per tick (was 0.074) - Rank 2: Damage reduced by 21.4% to 0.0605 of AP per tick (was 0.077)
- Rank 3: Damage reduced by 21.4% to 0.0638 of AP per tick (was 0.081)
- Rank 4: Damage reduced by 21.8% to 0.0665 of AP per tick (was 0.085)
Stormproof Sloop now lasts 40 sec (was 60 sec)
Storm Winds now pierces immunities
Players are now immune to knockbacks when standing near Da’kash Grimledger in the preparation area.
Outfits are now retained between matches.
Blue Post
A blue post confirming these hotfixes is now live.
- Fire Whirl damage reduced by 20%.
Developers’ notes: we want to reign in Fire Whirl’s damage a bit more, so that it’s close to the performance of other offensive spells.
Faeform now provides a 50% damage reduction for the first 1 second you’re in Faeform (was 90%).
- Developers’ notes: Faeform offered too much defense without providing for counterplay.
Rime Arrow cooldown increased at higher ranks, and now has a cooldown of 10/8.5/7/5.5 seconds (was 10/8/6/4 seconds).
- Developers’ notes: Rime Arrow’s short cooldown made it a too-low-risk poke, often used to deny healing and chase fleeing targets. Increasing the cooldown at higher ranks will give targets more chances to act against Rime Arrow.
We’ll have all of the above, along with more updates to Plunderstorm in our next hotfixes update.
Ability Chart
We've updated our Ability Compendium with these hotfixes. Fire Whirl still does the highest damage per cast, but it's not by an overwhelming amount anymore.
See the table below for up-to date damage comparisons!
(Rank 1)Uncommon
(Rank 2)Rare
(Rank 3)Epic
(Rank 4)Extra Notes AP ModCDAP ModCDAP ModCDAP ModCD 0.166 yard range. Earthbreaker0.44180.47160.5140.531212 yard AoE, 2 sec stun, 3% run speed while charging, Knockback 110 Fire Whirl0.0575
(0.8625 Total)180.077
(0.9075 Total)160.081
(0.9570 Total)140.085
(0.9975 Total)128 yard AoE, Movement Speed +70%. Ticks every 0.2s for 3s Holy Shield
(Shield)0.1275
140.135
120.14
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