Blizzard has released a new World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth hotfix for patch 8.1.5 that reduces the difficulty of the Jaina Proudmore encounter in the Battle of Dazar’alor raid.
The latest hotfix reduces Jaina’s health by 5% on all difficulties. On mythic difficulty, the health of her Tide Elemental has also been reduced by 35%, and Jaina’s Chilling Touch Damage has been nerfed by 10%.
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In addition to the Jaina encounter nerfs, the hotfix also fixes several visual issues and aims to improve realm performance.
We’ve included the release notes for this new hotfix down below:
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth hotfix March 12 release notes
Dungeons and Raids
Battle of Dazar’alor
Lady Jaina Proudmoore
-Jaina’s health reduced by 5% on all difficulties.
-Jaina’s Tide Elemental health reduced by 35% on Mythic difficulty.
-Jaina’s Chilling Touch damage reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.Textures and Animations
Fixed several visual issues such as missing targeting reticles and Hunters’ Barrage, which again has its intended visual.System
Applied updates to improve realm performance, which are rolling out over a period of a few hours. No downtime is expected. We continue to monitor latency as these updates are applied.
Last month, Blizzard reverted an unintentional hotfix that increased the difficulty of the Jaina encounter. “Earlier today, we applied a hotfix that unintentionally increased the difficulty of the Jaina encounter”, community manager Aerythlea wrote last month. “That hotfix has since been reverted.”
Battle for Azeroth’s latest content update, patch 8.1.5 Crucible of Storms, was released yesterday.
