March 16th Hotfixes - Twisted Appendage and Tidesage Council Nerfs, Mythic Ny'alotha Chamber of Heart Fixes

Posted 2020/03/16 at 10:09 PM by perculia

Horrific Visionaccount-wide essences

Blizzard

March 16, 2020Dungeons and Raids

Ny'alotha, the Waking City

Resolved an issue that caused players to get locked inside the Chamber of Heart if both Carapace of N'Zoth and N'Zoth the Corruptor encounters were defeated but other bosses undefeated on Mythic difficulty.
N'Zoth the Corruptor

Tank-specialization characters should no longer be targeted by Paranoia on all difficulties.

Developers' note: Paranoia's coordination requirements when tanks are involved is a bit higher than we'd like. This fix prevents tanks from being targeted altogether, preventing awkward moments where a ranged character would need to run a long distance to meet up with a tank partner.

Mythic Keystone Dungeon

Tidesage Council

Blessing of the Tempest should now be more visible when active on Galecaller Faye.
Blowback damage reduced by 20%.
Slicing Blast damage reduced by 20%.

Waycrest Manor

Reduced the rate at which members of the Heartsbane Triad gain energy from the Focusing Iris, resulting in an increased delay before Dire Ritual is cast.

Items and Rewards

Corrupted Items

All equipment rewards from Horrific Visions are now Corrupted.

Developers' note: We've heard from many players that Corrupted Items were not obtainable enough, limiting their ability to play with the system and its inherent tradeoffs. This change will substantially increase the number of Corrupted Items reliably earned each week, allowing players to choose from among a greater selection of Corrupted pieces and enjoy those that work best in a given situation.

Twisted Appendage no longer benefits from buffs like Power Word: Shield or Earthen Wall.
Twisted Appendage and Infinite Stars can no longer trigger more than once every 12 seconds during player versus player combat.

Heart of Azeroth

Players who have Rank 3 Azerite Essences on at least one character can now more easily acquire those Essences on other characters on the same account via a new currency: Echoes of Ny'alotha. MOTHER will offer any eligible character a Rank 3 Essence for 500 Echoes of Ny'alotha each. Any player who is eligible to purchase at least one Essence from MOTHER will now receive Echoes of Ny'alotha from a wide range of activities in current content:

Black Empire Assault – 125 Echoes of Ny'alotha
Aqir/Amathet/Mantid/Mogu Assault – 75 Echoes of Ny'alotha
Horrific Visions – 50 Echoes of Ny'alotha, plus 25 per additional objective completed (i.e. 150 Echoes of Ny'alotha for a full clear)
Emissary Quest – 50 Echoes of Ny'alotha
Heroic Darkshore Warfront – 75 Echoes of Ny'alotha
Normal/Heroic/Mythic Ny'alotha raid bosses – 15-25 Echoes of Ny'alotha each, once per week per boss
Ny'alotha Raid Finder wings – 25 Echoes of Ny'alotha
Random Battleground wins – 15-25 Echoes of Ny'alotha
Rated Arena wins – 10-25 Echoes of Ny'alotha baseline, scaling up with PvP rank
Rated Battleground wins – 35 Echoes of Ny'alotha baseline, scaling up with PvP rank
Weekly PvP Cache – 175 to 300 Echoes of Ny'alotha, based on PvP rank
Mythic Keystone dungeon end-of-run chest – 3 Echoes of Ny'alotha per Keystone Level (i.e. 30 Echoes of Ny'alotha for a Mythic 10)
Weekly Mythic Keystone Dungeon Cache – 20 Echoes of Ny'alotha per highest Keystone Level

Developers' note: The general goal here is that doing Assaults and associated Horrific Visions should provide enough to get at least one Rank 3 Essence of your choice per week. Doing other content you like (PvP, dungeons, or raids) will increase that significantly, depending on the level of content you're doing. Of course, Essences can still be earned normally via their associated activities, so if you want to get your Essence of the Focusing Iris directly via Mythic Keystone dungeons and then buy others from MOTHER, that's now an option. Within a couple of weeks of hitting max-level on your alt, you should be able to obtain your preferred Essences by playing the game as you usually would.Please note: Echoes of Ny'alotha may appear to replace Azerite in the Emissary and PvP reward panes, however, it does not. Echoes of Ny'alotha are always additive with existing rewards. We believe that it is more important to release this update with a reward display issue than hold the change for a fix. We expect to fix the display issue in the next week or two.For more information read our forum post.

Comment by Benjamen00Nice change to Paranoia, was always so frustrating to get linked to the tank.Comment by AdradiaTwisted Appendage and Infinite Stars can no longer trigger more than once every 12 seconds during player versus player combat.Comment by Zharkoswhy do they keep making m+ the worst way to grind things? +10 keys shouldn't be giving the same rewards as random battlegroundsComment by sinangeluswhy do they keep making m+ the worst way to grind things? +10 keys shouldn't be giving the same rewards as random battlegroundsComment by TrishaceDear Devs please make Twisted Appendage not taking aggro from mobs in pve situation or even become untargetable for mobs and hostile npc. It's rly annoying after ages when it proc it took aggro and the mob slap itComment by SeganoTwisted Appendage and Infinite Stars can no longer trigger more than once every 12 seconds during player versus player combat.Comment by MapekzHow about getting the Eternal Palace essence for the first time on your characters? Seems few bother running that raid anymore.Comment by Everlaastiwhy do they keep making m+ the worst way to grind things? +10 keys shouldn't be giving the same rewards as random battlegroundsComment by StahlitzTwisted Appendage and Infinite Stars can no longer trigger more than once every 12 seconds during player versus player combat.Comment by SackofpuppysThe M+ changes are amazing. So glad to see.Comment by Honduras888Nice to see a lot of the currency comes from world and solo content. Like my alts could get in groups ;).Comment by IshtorWhy can't we just get the essences ffs? By the time you've grinded out the 4-6 essences, depending on class and ingame activities, that you need you've spent about a month. Yay us. Wohoo. How is this a timesave exactly? What exactly is Blizz trying to accomplish here? All that this does is sidestep from grind into another. Granted, it's slightly faster, but only slightly after all.

Look, I'm happy we got it but this grind is clearly not what we asked for and they know it. Why this obsession with pointless grinds?Comment by waelkdMythic Keystone Dungeon

Tidesage Council

Blessing of the Tempest should now be more visible when active on Galecaller Faye.
Blowback damage reduced by 20%.
Slicing Blast damage reduced by 20%.

Waycrest Manor
Reduced the rate at which members of the Heartsbane Triad gain energy from the Focusing Iris, resulting in an increased delay before Dire Ritual is cast.
Comment by Falconn241It will take 4 full runs of an horrific vision (for example) to get any R3 essence. That's easily done in around an hour if you're slow. Big difference in that and one month.Comment by xenolithixWhy can't we just get the essences ffs? By the time you've grinded out the 4-6 essences, depending on class and ingame activities, that you need you've spent about a month. Yay us. Wohoo. How is this a timesave exactly? What exactly is Blizz trying to accomplish here? All that this does is sidestep from grind into another. Granted, it's slightly faster, but only slightly after all.

Look, I'm happy we got it but this grind is clearly not what we asked for and they know it. Why this obsession with pointless grinds?Comment by Wombat62Why can't we just get the essences ffs? By the time you've grinded out the 4-6 essences, depending on class and ingame activities, that you need you've spent about a month. Yay us. Wohoo. How is this a timesave exactly? What exactly is Blizz trying to accomplish here? All that this does is sidestep from grind into another. Granted, it's slightly faster, but only slightly after all.

Look, I'm happy we got it but this grind is clearly not what we asked for and they know it. Why this obsession with pointless grinds?Comment by IshtorIt will take 4 full runs of an horrific vision (for example) to get any R3 essence. That's easily done in around an hour if you're slow. Big difference in that and one month.Why can't we just get the essences ffs? By the time you've grinded out the 4-6 essences, depending on class and ingame activities, that you need you've spent about a month. Yay us. Wohoo. How is this a timesave exactly? What exactly is Blizz trying to accomplish here? All that this does is sidestep from grind into another. Granted, it's slightly faster, but only slightly after all.

Look, I'm happy we got it but this grind is clearly not what we asked for and they know it. Why this obsession with pointless grinds?Comment by 1893802This post was from a user who has deleted their account.Comment by 1893802This post was from a user who has deleted their account.Comment by IshtorYou can fairly easily get two rank 3 essences a week with this system; 125 for the Black Empire assault, 75 for each of the minor assaults through the week, then 50 for doing your emissary every day. That's 625 alone before you even set foot in any visions, raids, m+, or BGs. On top of that, you can still work on some essences normally which don't have time or rep gated grinds, and split your focus that way. Sure, it's not ideal, but it is what it is.

As-is, it's a fairly decent balance between speeding up essence acquisition on alts, without being obscenely slow. After all, if this is a fresh alt, it takes a little bit of time to hit neck 75 to get your third essence slot unlocked. Unless you're switching mains THIS late in the expansion, there's no real reason to have an alt's essences kitted out with the best of the best for any situation anyway.

My best guess for why the system is like this would just be largely due to this being the last patch. Shadowlands is hardly "just around to the corner" so they're at least trying to fill out the time until then to not be so much of a content drought. If we could just get all the essences we wanted immediately on all alts, people would very quickly complain about there being nothing to do.

I mean, people are going to complain anyway. That's just how this community is, sadly.