Blizzard has rolled out a new hotfix that makes it harder to join Battle for Azeroth Warfronts by requiring a minimum iLvl to queue.
The newly implemented patch requires players to have a minimum iLvl of 320 to queue for Warfronts. This change makes it harder for players to gear up their characters. Prior to this hotfix, a large number of fresh level 120 players would use Warfronts to gear up their characters with iLvl 340 gear to get ready for Mythic+ dungeons and raids, thereby skipping large amounts of gear progression.
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The new BfA hotfix also boosts healing and health effects for various trinkets in the game, including the Dread Aspirant’s Emblem, Dread Gladiator’s Emblem, and Mchimba’s Ritual Bandages.
“We re-evaluated our guidelines for budgeting defensive and health-restoring effects in comparison to damage-dealing effects, and concluded that several such trinkets needed a significant increase”, Blizzard writes.
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In addition to the above, the most recent hotfix includes nerfs to Mythic Fetid.
A few minutes ago, we applied the following hotfix. This will appear in our next full hotfixes update, and is now live:
Uldir
Fetid Devourer’s health, and the health of Corruption Corpuscle and Mutated Mass have been lowered significantly in Mythic difficulty.— WarcraftDevs (@WarcraftDevs) September 12, 2018
We’ve included the release notes for the September 11 patch down below. Please note that the Fetid nerf isn’t yet included in those notes:
September 11, 2018
Classes
Hunter
- Primal Rage (Command Pet ability) should now correctly reset its cooldown at the end of an encounter.
Items
- Dread Aspirant’s Emblem and Dread Gladiator’s Emblem maximum health value increased by 55%.
- Inoculating Extract healing increased by 44%.
- Lingering Sporepods healing increased by 140%.
- Mchimba’s Ritual Bandages absorb increased by 190%.
- Revitalizing Voodoo Totem healing increased by 33%.
- Xalzaix’s Veiled Eye absorb increased by 190%.
Developers’ notes: We re-evaluated our guidelines for budgeting defensive and health-restoring effects in comparison to damage-dealing effects, and concluded that several such trinkets needed a significant increase.
Heart of Azeroth
- Fixed an issue where Blessed Portents would not trigger from self-inflicted damage.
- Synaptic Spark Capacitor (Druid) now correctly reduces the damage you take from affected enemies by 5%.
- Fixed an issue where Wild Fleshrending (Feral Druid) would not increase the damage of Brutal Slash.
Player versus Player
Inevitable Demise now functions in PvP.
Hunter
- Command Pet will now properly change to the appropriate ability (Survival of the Fittest, Master’s Call, Primal Rage) when entering Arenas.
Quests
- Grasping Thorns should now despawn when their shapers are killed during “Goldfield’s War.”
- Fixed a bug that caused daily Pterrodax raising quests to disappear after entering an instance.
Warfront
- The Warfront queue now requires a minimum item level of 320.
- Unlocking the fifth tier of War traits now only requires defeating two unique enemy Warfront commanders (was three commanders).
Battle for Azeroth, World of Warcraft’s seventh expansion, is available now.
