The War Within Hotfixes for August 19th – Nerfs to Arcane Intellect & Chaos Brand

Shadostruct • Published August 21, 2024

It seems like Blizzard is attempting to make team compositions a little more flexible by reducing Arcane Intellect and Chaos Brand’s power level by a couple of percentage points. This should equal out to a small overall nerf to casters.

There are also some small bugfixes to Evokers and Paladins. For the full set of changes check out the post below!

References

Blizzard

Source

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
- [With weekly maintenance] 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
  - [With weekly maintenance] 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.

Season of Discovery

Rogue
- Crimson Tempest will no longer cause the Nightslayer 6-piece set bonus to grant two charges of Clearcasting.
Warlock
- The Warlock Molten Core tank set now uses the correct 30-second duration for Banish rank 2 (was incorrectly 20 seconds).
- Warlocks who log out while Banished will no longer lose the effects of Metamorphosis or their Chronoboon Displacer.

Cataclysm Classic

Items obtained through Mark of Honor Hold and Mark of Thrallmar no longer have a vendor price.