August 19th The War Within Hotfixes - Chaos Brand and Arcane Intellect Nerfs with Weekly Reset

Posted 2024/08/19 at 5:28 PM by Anshlun

August 19, 2024

Classes

Developers’ notes: To make our raid buffs more equal across varied group compositions, we’re reducing the effectiveness of Arcane Intellect and Chaos Brand from 5% to 3%. We feel this will help to improve the balance of caster heavy versus melee heavy groups when participating in non-raid content.
Demon Hunter

Chaos Brand reduced to 3% increased magic damage taken (was 5%).

Evoker

Preservation

Fixed an issue where Rank 2 of Renewing Breath was not increasing the heal over time portion of Dream Breath.

Mage

Arcane Intellect reduced to 3% Intellect increase (was 5%).
Fixed an issue causing Concentrated Coolness (PvP Talent) to not function properly.

Paladin

Fixed a bug preventing Holy Power spenders from stacking up Radiant Glory Crusader when cast with Divine Purpose.
Fixed an issue where Retribution Aura persisted on old characters.

Items

Fixed a bug that prevented the application of the Nitro Boost belt enchant on some equipment.

Player versus Player

Rated Battleground Blitz

Resolved an issue where the absorb from Shield of Protection was scaling too high.

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Comment by tykus20Get nerfed nerds.Comment by dvfaaMax strikes aganeComment by SneakybeakyThanks Max!Comment by TerribleTurnipjust when i though blizzard couldnt make dh worseComment by DreadfuryDKAbsolutely needed to happen, but this is like a 4% nerf to SPriest when SPriest was already really bad on Beta. I hope some casters can get brought up as a baseline to compensate.Comment by WrathlingThey are REALLY pushing hard for melee meat grinder season.Comment by Reding4862Max did it.Comment by Bollash2 more entry on Max's tombstoneComment by ZewinterNiceComment by MehetMore for Max's tombstoneComment by pghcrewMax continues his villain arc.Comment by MarkElfGood, now nerf mage further and the other god comp buffs that provide survivability which lock in their spots (MoTW, Fort).

The number of braindead comments here is concerning. This is a good change - 5% main stat compared to random secondary stats was way too strong. 2-3% is fair enough and still stronger than some other raid buffs like weak Hunter's Mark doing only 1% overall. Many people, myself included, have said Arcane intellect has been way too strong for years. If Max brought attention to it finally, good. It's long overdue.

If you're casual - none of the tuning matters to you anyway, none of the class tuning ever does for you.Comment by psz90Buff mm hunters noob blizz devsComment by CrimborYes, please do everything in your power to destroy caster meta Blizzard I am in full support.Comment by ChristgirlClearly the devs don't play the god damn game they design. Stupid asses nerfing Fire into the ground and now making Arcane Int 2% less to "prevent a meta" when in reality it's a cover for the &*!@ dungeons and mechanics they design. Wouldn't be a meta if you could ^&*!ing balance the god damn game %^&*!@#es.Comment by selkiesidhe3%? why even HAVE the buff then?

anyone else starting to hate all these 1%, 3%, ect in our talents and now our buffs? how about instead you make buffs worth the effort to click on?Comment by ChoppaDKPerfect now give DK a raid buff !Comment by BlightroseI assume DH gets a +2% damage buff then, right ? Oh they dont, oh ok...
TBH just remove all raid buffs.Comment by YeeterpanYeah let’s make DHs worse than they are. Sometimes the wonder if they know what is even going on.Comment by MChoiceUnironically thank you, Max.

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