Blizzard has added additional changes to the Season of Discovery Hotfixes that will be going live with realm maintenance starting on December 12. To see the previous changes listed, check out our previous article here.
The following additional hotfixes have been added to the OP, and will come into effect with maintenance.
- Hunter
Hunter pet attack values have been updated to better scale with Hunter attack power.
Developers’ notes: Pets that cast spells such as scorpid poison or Lightning Breath were scaling too well and pets using physical abilities were scaling too little. We’ve now normalized the amount of attack power gained, to scale with the focus cost of individual pet abilities. This means that abilities with a higher focus cost, that are cast less often, will receive more benefit from attack power per attack than abilities with a lower focus cost that can generally be used more often. Overall this should level out the damage and reduce situations where some abilities were scaling too much or too little with hunter attack power.
Scorpid poison now distributes the additional damage it gains from attack power evenly over each stack of Scorpid Poison on the target.
- Developers’ notes: Previously, Scorpid poison received most of its benefit from the Hunter’s attack power in the very first stack. Now the additional damage gained from the controlling hunter will not be gained until the full 5 stacks of poison are on the target. This increases the ramp time a bit and makes it less immediately deadly in PvP.
Pets now receive a smaller portion of a hunter’s armor and stamina.
- Developers’ notes: Hunter pets were gaining far too much durability from hunter stats, to the point where some pets could get more than
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