Tyrannical Mythic+ Affix No Longer Affects Minion Health in Shadowlands

Posted 2020/07/01 at 3:23 PM by Squishei

Bosses have 40% more health. Bosses and their minions inflict up to 15% increased damage.

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Note: Currently, BFA boss adds vary between scaling with Fortified, Tyrannical and not scaling at all. This seems to indicate that the plan for Shadowlands is to make sure to boss adds will only scale damage on Tyrannical weeks.

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Boss enemies have 40% more health and. Bosses and their minions inflict up to 15% increased damage.

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Comment by minka25Don't like.Comment by Pathstriderjust get rid of tyrannical and fortified, replace them with something interesting. buffing hp/damage of mobs is not a fun mechanicComment by AltonisPlease just remove tyrannical and fortified.Comment by LinaoriTbh I rather have this affix removed.Comment by uncommondoorShould've been a thing in BfA. But hey, better late than never.Comment by bkbkbk30Remove Tyrannical and Fortified zzz.Comment by kuramatdTyrannical and Fortified are not compelling affixes and don't add interesting gameplay. They just punish players. Remove them. Maybe just tune the scaling of keys to Incorporate some of the damage/health among all mobs or something, but not to the extreme that Tyrannical ruins keys.Comment by JudylockRemove Tyrannical.Comment by hippostarRemove tyrannical and fortified and come up with something to promote class/spec diversity.Comment by phaizIf we applied this change to BFA dungeons it would only be relevant to a handful of boss fights. Ask anyone who has ran hundreds of m+ dungeons what they think about tyrannical and they're going to tell you that this change would be "meh" at best.

Either replace tyr with something that's actually interesting or at least remove the extra boss damage part.Comment by Stichman34Tyrannical and fortified are bad for the game tbh, you can't balance a dungeon for mythic 0, then give the trash more damage and health and expect that to be fine, then next week give the bosses more health and reset the adds back to base and have all 3 have the same feeling of difficulty in relevant gear. People often say "easy trash week" on fortified and "hard boss week" on tyranical because fortified is significantly easier than tyranical for scaling higher. Please, remove them.Comment by PlorkyeranAdds in BfA dungeon boss fights mostly aren't modified by Tyrannical at all, and some are actually modified by Fortified. If all boss adds are now getting the +15% damage buff, this change is actually making Tyrannical harder.Comment by NevcairielI agree that Tyrannical and Fortified are not really "fun", and they create the biggest imbalances between M+ weeks.

The biggest problem is that Fortified actually has counters. You can pull less. You can CC, you can focus dangerous mobs. And even if you wipe, chances are that you killed at least some of the trash.
Tyrannical on the other hand has no real counters. You just have to get through that boss fight. If you wipe, there is no progress, it starts fresh all over.

This disparity is what makes Tyrannical just so much worse for me. There is absolutely no gameplay there.Comment by BeaceThis change actually seems like it'd make bosses between dungeons more unbalanced. The whole M+ community pretty much agrees that fortified and tyrannical needs to go away. Please listen Blizzard.Comment by thandzolI feel like blizz never listen to the community ever at this point, all i keep hearing lately is to remove tyrannical and fortified and yet.. nopeComment by Yagerbombs83Just remove Tyrannical and Fortified, they are the main difference between weeks just being canceled. They just aren't fun affixes and are just bad to balance and bad to play with. It's fun playing around some affixes and having to focus on changing the dungeon because of the affixes. You don't play around Fortified and Tyrannical, you just don't do dungeons with Tyrannical because of how bad dungeons are with some of the bosses lasting 6 minutes, or some dungeons having 5 bosses instead of 4.Comment by ArchimtirosAdds in BfA dungeon boss fights mostly aren't modified by Tyrannical at all, and some are actually modified by Fortified. If all boss adds are now getting the +15% damage buff, this change is actually making Tyrannical harder.Comment by TOMRUSWhy even have Tyrannical and Fortified? Key level scaling is more than enough...Comment by Naga28cmon, just remove tyrannical and fortifiedComment by SeganoThis is actually terrible news because it means they plan on keeping the tyrannical affix.

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