World of Warcraft’s Raid Tuning Cuts Ula’tek’s Health and Damage

Ula’tek’s raid tuning is now partly live. The November 6 hotfixes apply a 15% health reduction on Heroic and cuts to several attacks across difficulties. They also revise two announced damage figures: Caustic Waves impact damage is down 32% on Heroic and Mythic, and Falling Debris damage is down 77% on Mythic.

Blizzard’s raid-tuning notice covered five encounters. The November 6 hotfix notes confirm that Ula’tek and Vashnik’s changes are live, while adjustments to Entombed Sentinels, Twin Fangs, and The Coiled Altar remain pending. Blizzard said its hotfixes page would be updated as changes went live.

The Ula’tek changes also adjust health scaling for five enemies on Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic, accounting for smaller groups while reducing base health so larger groups do not push it back up. An earlier Ula’tek tuning pass targeted stages 2 and 3. The current set reaches other parts of the fight too, including egg counts, the number of targets selected by several abilities, and Caustic Waves during Phase 3.

World of Warcraft Patch Notes

The list below preserves the announced tuning. The live hotfixes changed the Caustic Waves impact and Falling Debris figures noted above. Vashnik and Ula’tek’s entries are live, while the other encounter changes remain pending.

The Venomous Abyss

• Entombed Sentinels
  • Reduced the maximum scale of Blood Venom pools on Heroic and Mythic difficulty.
  • Blood Venom pool duration reduced to 2 minutes on Mythic difficulty (was 5 minutes).
• Vashnik, the Malignant
  • Malignance damage reduced by 37% on Mythic difficulty.
  • Malignance damage over time duration reduced to 16 seconds on Mythic difficulty.
• Twin Fangs
  • Visceral Burst damage reduced by 40% on Mythic difficulty.
• The Coiled Altar
  • Axegrinder movement speed reduced by 20% on all difficulties.
  • Axegrinder damage reduced by 20% on Mythic difficulty.
  • Gloombomb damage reduced by 20% on Mythic difficulty.
  • Venom Rupture damage reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
  • Malevolent Resonance damage reduced by 60%.
  • Gravebound Soul Fragments last an additional 2 seconds before fading away on Mythic difficulty.
  • The number of Spiteful Soulcoilers that spawn from Spiritcackle reduced to 1 on Mythic difficulty (was 2).
    • Developers’ notes: With this change Soulcoilers will now spawn similarly to how they spawn on Heroic difficulty.
• Ula’tek
  • Adjusted the health scaling on the following enemies on Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic difficulties to better account for smaller raid sizes. Their base health has also been reduced on these difficulties to ensure the health scaling does not increase their health with larger raid sizes.
    • Ula’tek
    • Blightsclae Rawling
    • Blightscale Viper
    • Blightscale Shrieker
    • Weakened Doomscale
  • Ula’tek health reduced by 15% on Heroic difficulty.
  • Unchecked Rage damage reduced by 61% on all difficulties.
  • Caustic Waves impact damage reduced by 17% on Heroic and Mythic difficulties.
  • Caustic Waves damage over time reduced by 75% on Normal, 61% on Heroic, and 89% on Mythic difficulties.
  • Malice damage reduced by 63% on Normal and Heroic difficulty, and 45% on Mythic difficulty.
  • Virulent Spit damage reduced by 46% on Raid Finder, 33% on Normal and Heroic, and 36% on Mythic difficulties.
  • Falling Debris damage reduced by 46% on Raid Finder, 33% on Normal and Heroic, and 36% on Mythic difficulties.
  • Viscous Echoes impact damage reduced by 53% and damage over time reduced by 25% on all difficulties.
  • Reduced the number of eggs summoned by Call of the Serpent on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
  • Reduced the number of targets selected by Serpent’s Bite on all difficulties.
  • Reduced the number of targets selected by Grasping Fangs on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
  • Removed 2 eggs from each side during Phase 2, reducing the total to 8 eggs per side on Heroic difficulty.
  • Ula’tek no longer generates additional Caustic Waves from Spectral Tails when sending walls of waves across the platforms during Phase 3 on Heroic difficulty.
  • Noxious Splash initial damage reduced by 33% and damage over time reduced by 84% on Mythic difficulty.
  • Putrid Membrane duration reduced to 20 seconds (was 30 seconds) on Mythic difficulty.

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Source: Icy Veins