Dragonflight Hotfixes Jan 17th – Ruby Life Pool & Azure Vault M+ Nerfs

Shadostruct • Published January 19, 2023

It’s that time again! It appears that the new dungeons introduced with Dragonflight are possibly… mayhaps… a little overtuned? Or, at least, they were when mythic+ was first unlocked for the 4 new dungeons. Blizzard has been trying their best to bring them more into balance with the rest of the pool for a bit now with several rounds of nerfs.

This time around we’re seeing nerfs to Ruby Life Pools (again), which focuses mostly on small mob casts with nerfs as big as a 50% reduction in damage to the “Cinderbolt” ability. While this cast was able to be kicked it can get a bit chaotic when there’s so much in the dungeon that needs to be interrupted, stunned, etc but letting that cast go off in higher keys could sometimes wind up with a one-shot!

Azure Vaults nerfs hit both bosses and mobs, but the boss ones are especially interesting with a significant reduction in health for both Umbrelskul and Telash Greywing. You’ll also notice on Telash that you won’t take damage from the ice aoe on the ground for 2 seconds after dropping it – maybe making stacking during that ability a more viable strategy to save room.

For all you mythic+ aficionados out there feel free to read on below for the full post with more details.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

Dungeons and Raids

Vault of the Incarnates
- Fixed an issue where the damage zone visual for Stonebreaking Leap from Quarry Stonebreakers sometimes did not match the actual damage location.
Mythic+
- Algeth’ar Academy
  - Overgrown Ancient
    - Explosive Affix – Hungry Lashers no longer spawn Explosive Orbs.
- Azure Vaults
  - Arcane Fury’s Piercing Shards impact damage reduced by 30%.
  - Unstable Curator’s Forbidden Knowledge cooldown increased.
  - Arcane Construct health reduced by 25%.
  - Crystal Thrasher no longer use Splintering Shards.
  - Nullmagic Hornswog health reduced by 15%.
  - Telash Greywing
    - Telash Greywing health reduced by 10%
    - There is now a 2 second delay before players take damage from Frozen Ground after Frost Bomb.
  - Umbrelskul
    - Umbrelskul’s health reduced by 15%.
    - Oppressive Miasma now reduces movement speed by 6% per stack (was 7%).
- Ruby Life Pools
  - Reduced the damage of Primalist Cindweaever’s Cinderbolt by 50%.
  - Reduced the periodic damage of Thunderhead’s Rolling Thunder by 30%.
  - Reduced the damage of Flamegullet’s Molten Blood by 25%.
  - Reduced the periodic damage of Blazebound Destroyer’s Inferno by 25%.
  - Melidrussa Chillworn
    - Explosive Affix – Infused Whelps no longer spawn Explosive Orbs.
  - Kokia Blazehoof
    - Increased the cast time of Blazebound Firestorm’s Roaring Blaze to 3 seconds (was 2 seconds).
  - Kyrakka and Erkhart Stormvein
    - Reduced the periodic damage of Kyrakka’s Inferno Core by 20%.
    - Reduced the damage of Erkhart Stormvein’s Interrupting Cloudburst by 30%.

Quests

Lunar Festival now starts on 1/24 to allow for new Elders to search out on the Dragon Isles.

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

Azjol-Nerub
- Krik’thir the Gatewatcher
  - Skittering Swarmers and Skittering Infectors can no longer cause additional web wraps when completing the Heroic version of this encounter with Defense Protocol Alpha active.