New Interrupt Philosophy Showcased in Midnight's Mythic+ Testing

Posted 2025/11/27 at 10:30 AM by Squishei

Changes to Enemy Casters in Midnight

Fewer enemy casters overall.

Longer casts and cooldown times on important interruptable abilities

Bolters nerfed massively

Bolters

With the removal of interrupt capabilities from healers, we’re making an effort to change the behavior of enemies that use spells like Shoot or Frostbolt. We want enemies with these spells to more evenly spread their targeting to different players of your group, which should reduce cases where a single player might take a large spike of damage while others receive none.

Blizzard

CLASSES

The Global Interrupt duration has been increased:
- Developers’ notes: We would like players to have more effective tools against caster enemies, particularly in dungeons. To that end, we are increasing interrupt durations across the board in PvE content.

~118k in Seat

~118k in Al'gethar

~130k in Skyreach

~120k in Pit of Saron and ~125k in Pit of Saron

~5.5M for Holy Smite in Priory and ~6.3M for Fireball in Priory

~6.7M for Web Bolt in Ara-Kara

~6.7M for Arcane Bolt in Eco-Dome

Holy Smite

Bolters are less common and more spread out.

Bolters now spread their targeting across the party.

Bolts deal less damage.

Bolters have longer casts.

Bolters will be locked out of casting for longer when kicked.

Midnight Mythic+ Breakdown of Interrupts

Name of Mob
Spell Name

Seat of the Triumvirate

Dark Conjurer
Casts Umbral Bolt

Max per pack: 2

Ruthless Riftstalker
Channel Shadowmend

Max per pack: 2

Ravenous Umbralfin
Casts Piercing Shriek

Max per pack: 2

Viceroy Nezhar
Casts Mind Blast

Boss

Al'gethar Academy

Ancient Branch
Casts Healing Touch

Boss Add

Corrupted Manafiend
Casts Surge

Max per pack: 2

Unruly Textbook
Channel Monotonous Lecture

Max per pack: 1

Spectral Invoker
Casts Arcane Bolt

Max per pack: 2

Skyreach

Driving Gale-Caller
Casts Repel

Max per pack: 2

Blinding Sun Priestess
Casts Blinding Light

Max per pack: 1

Initiate of the Rising Sun
Casts Solar Bolt

Max per pack: 2

Pit of SaronYOUPlease note that there were significant changes to Pit of Saron mid-last week reducing the total number of casters. The list below has been made post-nerf.

Gloombound Shadebringer
Casts Shadow Bolt

Max per pack: 1

Arcanist Cadaver
Casts Netherburst

Max per pack: 1

Dreadpulse Lich
Casts Icy Blast on Tank

Max per pack: 2

Plungetalon Gargolye
Channel Plungegrip

Max per pack: 1

Rimebone Coldwraith
Cast Ice Bolt

Max per pack: 1

Shade of Krick
Cast Shadowbind

Boss add

Krick
Cast Death Bolt

Boss

Scourge Plaguespreader
Cast Plague Bolt

Boss Add

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Comment by fillwand when do they plan to introduce that? because we all know it wont happen at midnight startComment by Melkromwastakenand when do they plan to introduce that? because we all know it wont happen at midnight startComment by ChochuIs not like people interrupt anyway unless you are the few players that do the higher lvl content. Heck people whine about wanting to have a buff to bring but they dont even use them on the group.Comment by KarthusTeemoThey saw you guys post too many reality checks of beta and sent the PR corrections out lmaoComment by Rick442Impressive, so they basically revert the changes they did for TWW when you disorient or stun and enemy etc. they immediatly startet casting again, by making a kick actually useful, like people wanted in TWW.

They really cant stand by anything they do, it always has to be done, reverted and done again.

Also should be easier now for Xbox Players to interrupt.Comment by MayuneechanOn a side note, I tried a delve on the midnight beta that i finally got ( can't remember the name of the delve, I sent a feedback after the run anyway ) as healer. The last boss teleport to random location and just cast spells. Since I cannot interrupt it, I cannot make him move at all he just spam casts infinitly. It took me 6 attempt to kill it because being unable to make it come back to the center of the room means he eventually ends up reseting after a couple of teleport.

It just teleport randomly and start casting again until next teleport, only thing I can do is pray for him to not teleport out of the map and reset. I don't know the whole deal about removing interrupt on healers but solo content should then be adapted to not have any interrupt required at all...Comment by LiquidorNice. This is great.
Alpha/Beta feedback and they are making changes. Good stuff!Comment by AowenA +12 bolt never had to be interrupted anyways

What happens on an 18+? Do bolts take 60%+ of your HP? Then you know this is still an issue and they need to add a cooldown between bolt castsComment by CentrifugeThey saw you guys post too many reality checks of beta and sent the PR corrections out lmaoComment by MarkElfCool, now make all kick spell lockouts the same for all ranged (7s) and all melee (5s).Comment by GleemA +12 bolt never had to be interrupted anyways

What happens on an 18+? Do bolts take 60%+ of your HP? Then you know this is still an issue and they need to add a cooldown between bolt castsComment by Gleemand when do they plan to introduce that? because we all know it wont happen at midnight startComment by kehrseiteand when do they plan to introduce that? because we all know it wont happen at midnight startComment by oingoboingo55and when do they plan to introduce that? because we all know it wont happen at midnight startComment by CorpselanceIncluding Delves right? ...Because as a Tank in Beta, bolters are hitting me for 15% of max HP.Comment by ethadTell me you haven't played on the beta without telling me you haven't played on the beta. They didn't change anything - mobs still spam casts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFlobgifXS8&t=489sComment by DaviddicksWComment by ReLoneRWhy are there spells with cooldown. Like make minimum CD on the spell a couple of seconds globallyComment by DolourLess enemy casters overall.Comment by WOWRayonOn a side note, I tried a delve on the midnight beta that i finally got ( can't remember the name of the delve, I sent a feedback after the run anyway ) as healer. The last boss teleport to random location and just cast spells. Since I cannot interrupt it, I cannot make him move at all he just spam casts infinitly. It took me 6 attempt to kill it because being unable to make it come back to the center of the room means he eventually ends up reseting after a couple of teleport.

It just teleport randomly and start casting again until next teleport, only thing I can do is pray for him to not teleport out of the map and reset. I don't know the whole deal about removing interrupt on healers but solo content should then be adapted to not have any interrupt required at all...

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