WoW’s September 1 Hotfixes Take the Edge Off The Venomous Abyss
Raid Finder bosses and several smaller-group mechanics received reductions, while fixes addressed Unholy Death Knight, Beast Mastery Hunter, and Assassination Rogue abilities.
World of Warcraft’s September 1 hotfixes take the edge off The Venomous Abyss, with the heaviest reductions aimed at Raid Finder and smaller raid groups. Nek’zali the Soulcoiler loses 15% health on Raid Finder, Vexhul and Ithraz lose 20%, and several raid mechanics now deal less damage or require fewer players to avoid failure damage.
Mythic groups also receive changes to The Twin Fangs and The Coiled Altar. Eternal Venom now reaches 10 applications before its death threshold, Ravenous Feast requires at least 4 targets, and multiple Mythic damage effects have been reduced. Smaller Heroic groups receive several health and damage adjustments as well.
Outside The Venomous Abyss, Delves will offer trinkets less often, while Tidebound Grotto receives reductions to Frost Orb damage and duration. The batch also fixes class problems affecting Unholy Death Knights, Beast Mastery Hunters, and Assassination Rogues, alongside the previously announced class tuning.
The raid opened in stages beginning the week of August 18, with its Raid Finder wings following the broader difficulty launch. Our Venomous Abyss opening schedule covers how those releases were divided across the resets.
World of Warcraft: Midnight September 1 Hotfix Notes
Blizzard’s official forum post includes the following non-tuning entries from the September 1 hotfix batch.
Classes
- Death Knight
- Unholy
- Resolved an issue causing Mastery: Dreadblade and Foul Infections to not increase the critical strike chance of Plague Erupt effects.
- Unholy
- Hunter
- Beast Mastery
- Resolved an issue causing Wild Thrash to not take target bounding radius into account.
- Beast Mastery
- Rogue
- Assassination
- Fixed an issue allowing Caustic Spatter to trigger from non-class Nature damage sources, such as trinkets.
- Assassination
Delves
- Trinkets no longer drop as abundantly in Delves.
Dungeons and Raids
- Den of Nalorakk
- Addressed an issue where interacting with Food Offering while mounted can cause it to no longer be interactable for a short period.
- Murder Row
- Addressed an issue where Xathuux the Annihilator’s Axe Toss can sometimes inflict less damage than intended.
- The Venomous Abyss
- Nek’zali the Soulcoiler
- Nek’zali’s health reduced by 15% on Raid Finder difficulty.
- Entombed Sentinels
- Breath of Ula’tek and Blood of Ula’tek health reduced by 15% on Raid Finder difficulty.
- Sszorak
- Sszorak’s health reduced by up to 10% for smaller raid sizes on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
- Reduced the number of players targeted by Raging Crosswinds on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
- The Twin Fangs
- Resolved an issue where immunities would prevent players from receiving additional applications of Eternal Venom beyond the death threshold on Mythic difficulty.
- Increased the number of applications before the target dies from Eternal Venom to 10 on Mythic difficulty.
- Increased the number of minimum targets to 4 for Ravenous Feast on Mythic difficulty.
- Vexhul and Ithraz health reduced by 20% on Raid Finder difficulty.
- Reduced the maximum health damage effect of Eternal Venom to 50% on Raid Finder difficulty.
- Resolved an issue where Protection Paladin’s Mastery did not function correctly against Caustic Deluge or Eternal Venom.
- The Coiled Altar
- Coalesced Venom damage reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
- Venom Rupture damage reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
- Venom Rupture damage reduced by up to 15% on smaller group sizes on Heroic difficulty.
- Volatile Venom damage reduced by up to 15% on smaller group sizes on Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic difficulties.
- Spiteful Soulcoiler health reduced by up to 10% on smaller group sizes on Heroic difficulty.
- Zul’jan’s health reduced by up to 10% on smaller group sizes on Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic difficulties.
- Wail of Terror cast time increased by up to 20% on smaller group sizes on Heroic difficulty.
- Reduced the minimum players needed to be hit by Guillotine and Grim Guillotine to avoid failure damage to 3 players on Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic difficulties.
- Ula’tek
- Killing a Blightscale Wretch while outside of its Toxic Womb no longer triggers the Spectral Head to submerge.
- Adjusted the impact animation on a creature affected by the application of Revenge so their nameplate does not shift making interrupts more difficult.
- Nek’zali the Soulcoiler
- Tidebound Grotto
- Nymrissa Wavecaller and her murlocs’ health reduced by up to 10% for lower group sizes on Normal, Heroic, and Mythic difficulties.
- Frost Orb initial and periodic damage reduced by up to 33% for lower group sizes on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
- Frost Orb initial and periodic damage reduced by up to 17% for lower group sizes on Mythic difficulty.
- Frost Orb aura duration reduced to 12 seconds (was 16 seconds).
- Voidscar Arena
- Updated visuals of Taz’Rah’s Darkbloom orbs to better match their impact radius.
Items
- Satchel of Corrosive Coins sold by Er’iyne is no longer unique.
Player versus Player
- Fixed an issue where the Training Grounds quest for casting an interrupt was not properly granting credit. Note that you may need to abandon and re-accept the quest for this fix to apply.
Quests
- Fixed an issue that prevented Midnight World Quests from rewarding Adventurer Crests.
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