Blizzard Tuning Firelands Raid Closer to Original Difficulty - Cataclysm Classic
Blizzard has released Development Notes for Firelands Raid Testing on the Cataclysm Classic PTR. Players will be able to test these changes on Cataclysm Classic PTR beginning on Friday, October 4th starting at 1:00 p.m.
PDT.
Firelands Raid Testing Reopens October 4th at 1:00 p.m. PDT
First and foremost, we’ve heard many players’ feedback that the current challenge across all difficulties in Firelands on PTR is not as satisfying as they hoped.
Firelands is an iconic raid and throughout original Cataclysm there were a number of significant changes (both documented and undocumented) that impacted the challenge of the raid.
For Cataclysm Classic, we’ve gone through every single creature and spell record across all four difficulties in the Firelands raid and reviewed all changes to original creature health and damage values, as well as spell damage for each individual difficulty. We then determined if the change was appropriate and, in most cases, we restored the original values where it made sense to do so.
We want this raid to live up to its challenging, but iconic status and to maintain a meaningful sense of progression across all raid sizes and difficulties, so we’ve made sufficient adjustments to restore much of the “feel” of the original state of the raid.
At the same time, we’ve tried to leave behind some of the more frustrating mechanical elements that weren’t as fun as the team had originally hoped when first released.
The exception to this rule is Rhyolith. Due to the nature of the fight, we have decided at this time to not make any aspect of this encounter more difficult through restoring original HP and damage values.
Here’s a summary of many of the post-4.2 adjustments that we have reverted and are no longer present in Cataclysm Classic:
Enemy Health
- The 25% health reduction on most Normal Mode enemies
