Mythic and Wing 1 LFR Nighthold Open January 24th

posted 2017/01/24 at 8:55 AM by perculia

Update: The weekly world boss is The Soultakers, weekly bonus event is Battleground Bonus Event, and weekly Nighthold quest is The Nighthold: Wailing In The Night. The Soultakers can drop Thrice-Accursed Compass and Runes of the Darkening. Check out Today in Broken Isles on the front page for Mythic+ Affixes, World Quests, and more.Nighthold Mythic

Skorpyron

Chronomatic Anomaly

Trilliax

Spellblade Aluriel

Star Augur Etraeus

High Botanist Tel'arn

Krosus

Tichondrius

Elisande

Gul'dan

Gear and Artifact Recommendation pagesNighthold Gear and Relic Loot GuideNew RewardsThe Nighthold: Darkness CallsThe Nighthold: Into the NightholdThe Nighthold: Delusions of GrandeurUnleashed MonstrositiesGlory of the Legion HeroKeystone Master

Fiendish Hellfire Core is a 100% drop on Mythic difficulty.

is a title for defeating Mythic Gul'dan.

Mythic Tier drops, which looks fancier than regular Tier 19 gear. Check out videos and models in the Tier 19 Armor Sets Preview.

Nighthold LFR

Armor:

Relics:

Armor:

Cloth Armor: Chaos-Scarred Mantle, Robes of Fluctuating Energy
Leather Armor: Stutterstep Treads, Temporally Displaced Gloves
Mail: Hood of Fading Opportunity, Pauldrons of Warped Memory
Plate Armor: Chrono-Tempered Legplates, Gauntlets of Fractured Eons
Amulet: Zealous Timestone Pendant
Trinket: Erratic Metronome, Royal Dagger Haft

Relics:

Armor:

Tier: Cape
Cloth Armor: Nighthold Custodian's Hood, Perpetually Muddy Sandals
Leather Armor: Cake Carrier's Girdle, Tunic of Unwavering Devotion
Mail: Pertinacious Legplates, Sterilizer's Insulated Gauntlets
Plate Armor: Gilded Nightborne Waistplate, Immaculately Polished Boots
Trinket: Arcanogolem Digit, Perfectly Preserved Cake

Relics:

The Nighthold: Delusions of GrandeurThe Nighthold: Into the NightholdMythic+ Reward Changes

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Dungeon Chest

Class Hall Chest

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890

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Blizzard

With the opening of the Nighthold on Normal and Heroic difficulties, the maximum item level for Warforged or Titanforged items is now 925. Any item that could previously drop at or above item level 895 can now reach a maximum of 925.

Next week, when Mythic Nighthold releases, we’ll be increasing the cap on Mythic Keystone dungeon rewards from 12 to 15 (at 5 item levels per difficulty level). If you’re able to complete a Level 15 Keystone run this week, you’ll have a Mythic 15 reward waiting for you in your Order Hall cache next week.

Hotfixes and Class Guides

Mage

Monk

Paladin

Priest

Rogue

Shaman

Warlock

Warrior

Blizzard

Here's the changes we're looking to make for Convergence of Fate's interaction with some of the throughput cooldowns it affects. These numbers are compared to the trinket's current performance on live, and are not additive with each other.

Frost Death Knight

with Empower Rune Weapon: +10% proc rate
with Hungering Rune Weapon: -23% proc rate

Unholy Death Knight

with Summon Gargoyle: +68% proc rate
with Dark Arbiter: no change

Feral Druid

with Berserk: no change
with Incarnation: King of the Jungle: -45%

Note: Incarnation was not properly working with Convergence of Fates, which has now been fixed. The number given here is relative to Convergence of Fates's proc rate with Berserk.

Windwalker Monk

with Storm, Earth, and Fire: -62% proc rate
with Serenity: -75% proc rate

Retribution Paladin

with Avenging Wrath: +250% proc rate
with Crusade: +25% proc rate

Note: This change should bring Convergence of Fates back to roughly its original effectiveness for Ret Paladins who are not using Crusade.

Additionally, on the topic of tank trinkets, we'll be increasing Animated Exoskeleton's maximum shield amount by 33%. We're continuing to investigate tank trinkets, but that change will make it in for this week's hotfix.

Blizzard

In general, we've found that our tuning on trinkets which relied on a direct damage or healing effect (as opposed to their raw stats) have come up a bit short this expansion. To help address that, we're making the following changes:

Claw of the Crystalline Scorpid: Damage increased by 30%.
Arcanogolem Digit: Damage increased by 30%.
Entwined Elemental Foci: The amount of Critical Strike, Mastery, and Haste granted by this item's proc has been increased by 5%.
Might of Krosus: Base damage reduced by 25%, but is now always a critical strike.

The tooltip for Might of Krosus will display the amount of damage that will result from the critical hit, not the base damage.
Also fixed a bug where the cooldown was incorrectly being reduced if Might of Krosus damaged at least 3 targets.

Draught of Souls: The Use effect of this trinket now respects the global cooldown.

The damage of this trinket is now reduced by 30% for Unholy Death Knighs (was reduced by 40%).
Designer Notes: Since Draught of Souls deals Shadow Damage, it's increased by Unholy's Mastery, which means we needed to reduce its base damage to keep its overall value similar to other classes. It's currently a little too low, however, so we're increasing the damage it deals for Unholy.

Icon of Rot: Damage increased by 40%.
Pharamere's Forbidden Grimoire: Damage increased by 85%.
Fury of the Burning Sky: Damage increased by 40%.
Star Gate: Damage increased by 30%.
Aluriel's Mirror: Healing-over-time amount increased by 140%. Detonate effect reduced by 35%.

Designer Notes: Aluriel's Mirror's detonation effect is strong when it activates, but hard to rely on. We're increasing the heal-over-time effect significantly to improve the up-front value of this trinket, and reducing the detonation effect slightly to compensate.

Perfectly Preserved Cake: Absorb amount increased by 140%.
Etraeus' Celestial Map: The amount of Critical Strike, Mastery, and Haste granted by this item's proc has been increased by 5%.

As for Convergence of Fates, we're spending a little extra time to make sure our changes here are as comprehensive as possible, so we don't have final numbers yet. However, we can share our overall plan for the changes we intend to make. We intend to reduce its base effectiveness (before talents) for Windwalkers, and increase its base effectiveness for Retribution Paladins and Frost and Unholy Death Knights. Separately, we plan to adjust its effectiveness individually for the following talents:

Serenity (Windwalker)
Crusade (Retribution Paladin)
Incarnation (Feral Druid)
Hungering Rune Weapon (Frost Death Knight)
Dark Arbiter (Unholy Death Knight)

We're planning to make these changes with the next weekly restarts, alongside the release of Mythic Nighthold. Overall, this should make the trinkets in Nighthold more competitive with other trinkets available elsewhere in the expansion.
Does this mean that the CoF changes will be there as well with the reset this week, since you said you wanted a little extra time to ensure they were as comprehensible as possible?

Hmm so DKs were doing too much damage with Draught, but warriors are/were doing more and nothing is changed for them?Draught of SoulsAny plans for Nightblooming Frond? It seems to be underperforming on Live servers greatly compared to simulations.Nightblooming FrondDraught of SoulsDraught of SoulsNightblooming FrondWill there be any changes to tank trinkets? They are all very poor...

Blizzard

January 23
HotfixesClasses

Druid

Feral

Increased the damage of most Feral spells and abilities by 8%. (Ashamane's Frenzy, Brutal Slash, , Maim, Moonfire, Rake, Shred, Swipe, Thrash, Rip)

Developer's Notes: Feral's playstyle feels good, but isn't putting up the numbers that it should be, so we're giving them an across-the-board damage buff.

Hunter

Combat Experience (Pet Passive) now increases the damage of primary pets by 60% (was 50%).

Developer's Notes: This is primarily a damage buff to Beast Mastery, but will have a tiny benefit to Survival and occasionally Marksmanship as well.

Marksmanship

Arcane Shot now generates 8 Focus (was 5).
Multi-Shot now generates 3 Focus per target hit (was 2).
Sidewinders damage increased by 33%.

Developer's Notes: Marksmanship has given a lot of feedback that the rotation often winds up casting too many consecutive Focus generators. We are making two changes: first, helping avoid that problem by increasing the Focus generation of Arcane Shot and Multi-Shot. Second, making it more attractive to use Sidewinders in more situations, for players who prefer the pacing of the rotation with that talent.

Mage

Arcane

Increased the damage of most Arcane spells and abilities by 8%. (Arcane Barrage, Arcane Blast, Arcane Explosion, Arcane Missiles, Arcane Orb, Nether Tempest, Supernova)
Overpowered now increases the damage and mana cost bonuses of Arcane Power to 60% (was 70%).
Amplification now increases Arcane Missiles damage by 12% (was 15%).

Developer's Notes: Arcane has been doing well in Patch 7.1.5, but its numbers are lacking a bit. We're giving them an across-the-board damage buff, but tempering that with small reductions to a couple new talents that are proving to be too strong.

Fire

Increased the damage of most Fire spells and abilities by 3% (Blast Wave, Cinderstorm, Dragon's Breath, Fire Blast, Fireball, Flame Patch, Flamestrike, Living Bomb, Meteor, Phoenix Flames, Pyroblast, Scorch).
Pyroblast mana cost reduced by 20%.
Flamestrike mana cost reduced by 17%.

Developer's Notes: Under certain circumstances, it was possible for Fire to run out of mana. It's only intended that mana is a constraint on Fire's utility, not its damage.

Frost

Increased the damage of most Frost spells and abilities by 4% (Ebonbolt, Blizzard, Cone of Cold, Flurry, , Frostbolt, Frozen Orb, Ice Lance, Ice Nova, Waterbolt, Ray of Frost, ).
Comet Storm damage increased by 30%.
Flurry now fires its missiles faster.

Developer's Notes: Comet Storm is failing to live up to expectations, so we're buffing its damage. The Flurry change will help Flurry feel more responsive, while simultaneously solving a potential issue where Winter's Chill could apply to two Ice Lances (instead of just one, as intended) at extremely high Haste levels.

Monk

Brewmaster

Keg Smash damage increased by 10%, and it no longer deals reduced damage to 6+ targets.
Breath of Fire damage increased 11%.

Developer's Notes: Brewmasters could use a bit of help on damage, especially in AoE.

Paladin

Retribution

Crusade now increases damage and Haste by 3% per stack (down from 3.5%).
Blade of Justice damage increased by 20%, unchanged in PvP.

Developer's Notes: Retribution's total damage is looking quite strong in 7.1.5, which is fine on its own. However, how that damage is delivered matters quite a bit as well. We've been seeing more and more than Paladins find that the optimal way to maximize their performance is to focus everything they can on boosting their damage during Crusade. This creates a number of problems, including: Crusade feels mandatory, your damage feels very unrewarding outside of Crusade, trinkets and artifact traits are viewed as either amazing or terrible based on whether they synergize with Crusade, and others.

As such, we're going to tone down Crusade, and compensate with a buff to Blade of Justice. For those that had maximized Crusade to an extreme degree, this may result in a small overall nerf – this is intended. This change also helps prevent Divine Hammer from being too dominant in single-target situations.

Warlock

Destruction

Chaos Bolt damage increased by 9%.
Rain of Fire damage increased by 30%.
Cataclysm damage increased by 29%.

Developer's Notes: Destruction's damage isn't as high as it should be. In particular, some of its spells that should feel the most rewarding aren't hitting hard enough, especially in AoE situations. We're buffing the damage of those spells.

Dungeons and Raids

Fixed a bug where some Warlords dungeon bosses were not always dropping loot.
The Windwalker Monk Vestments of Enveloped Dissonance 2-piece bonus and the Restoration Druid Garb of the Astral Warden 4-piece bonus should now scale down correctly in Timewalking dungeons.
Siege of Orgrimmar

Fixed a bug where Garrosh Hellscream would not drop loot on Raid Finder difficulty.

The Nighthold

High Botanist Tel'arn

High Botanist Tel'arn now takes more time between using abilities on Normal difficulty.

Gul'dan

Resolved an issue where Resonant Barrier would fail to apply its effects if the player was under the effects of immunities.
Resolved an issue where the Essence of Aman'thul abilities would disappear from players when using an immunity effect.

Items

Windwalker Monks who unequip the Vestments of Enveloped Dissonance should no longer gain the 4-piece bonus.
Feretory of Souls should no longer be activated by a spell that did not complete casting.

Player versus Player

All Artifact Power rewards from Rated PvP have been substantially (50%-100%) increased.

Note: The PvP UI will not properly reflect the amount of Artifact Power that will be rewarded until a future patch.

Season 19 Achievements that should not have been granted have been correctly removed.
You can no longer target a flag carrier with Guardian of the Forgotten Queen.
Demon Hunter

Eye of Leotheras will no longer scale with increased damage, and instead will always deal a maximum of 6% of the target's health in damage each time it activates.

Mage

Ray of Frost cannot be channeled if the Mage is interrupted and locked out of the Frost School, as intended.

Warlock

Cremation now correctly only applies the damage-over-time effect of Immolate. Cremation no longer allows Havoc to spread Immolate to a target who is out of line of sight of the Warlock when Incinerate or Immolate are cast.

Professions

Archaeology

The Nor'danil Wellspring digsite is no longer displayed in the middle of the ocean.

Quests

Players on the quest Fate of the Nightborne will no longer be sent into a separate phase of the Nighthold until they have spoken to Oculeth to begin the quest.
Felsworn Defilers now spawn in more locations during “The Felsworn Must Fall”.

Comments

Comment by SarthoriusFirst...
Time to grab that DK Frost Appearance here.Comment by KellydaManUnder the Frost mage hotfixes they have the wrong icon for come of cold. They have put the ice cream icon from children's week, not the spell. =)

Edit: hotfixComment by andrewgTrilliax hp in lfr way to low. Had only 300+ million hp with full 25 player lfr groupComment by HighlanderBootsIs there any more data on the weekly quest The Nighthold: Wailing in the Night?

The link says to kill Ariadne, but there is no further information on that rare mob, not even a location.Comment by perculiaIs there any more data on the weekly quest The Nighthold: Wailing in the Night?

The link says to kill Ariadne, but there is no further information on that rare mob, not even a location.Comment by thebl4ckd0g2 of my hatchling quests before the mounts are in the raid as well. One for the Bloodfeather and one of the others. Already have my other 2 mounts. :)Comment by KrosanWhy have you stopped listing the archeology quest?Comment by HighlanderBootsThank you for the weekly quest answer and the continuing fantastic resource that is Wowhead, Perc and everyone contributing.Comment by GulverWhy have you stopped listing the archeology quest?Purple Hills of EredathComment by PupsaderWill Chronomatic Anomaly have a chance of dropping Illusion: Chronos on LFR?Comment by TemplarianWhile I understand the Convergence trinket was probably too OP without a nerf, I can't help but make this comment --

"Why does Blizzard hate WW Monks? QQ"Comment by lagmooseWill Chronomatic Anomaly have a chance of dropping Illusion: Chronos on LFR?Comment by SayrixQuestion: will I get the 900 ilvl reward today 25/1/17 for completing an +15 last week? (Which was before mythic NH opened)Comment by PupsaderWill Chronomatic Anomaly have a chance of dropping Illusion: Chronos on LFR?

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