Firelands - The premature nerf!

So, the time came, Blizzard noticed their playerbase was stalemating, and what was their solution?

LETS NERF EVERYTHING!


Dungeons & Raids
Firelands

• Hell Hound Rend Flesh damage has been reduced by 25%.
• The damage multiplier granted by energy to Unstable Magma has been reduced by 50%.

Alysrazor

• Health and damage have been reduced by 25% on normal difficulty. Health and damage have been reduced by 15% on Heroic difficulty.
• Alysrazor now drops 1 additional feather in 10-player mode and 2 additional feathers in 25-player mode in all cycles.
• The Wings of Flame buff duration on Alysrazor is now uniformly 30 seconds.
• Alysrazor’s Fiery Tornados now move slower.

Baleroc

• Health and damage have been reduced by 25% on normal difficulty. Health and damage have been reduced by 15% on Heroic difficulty.
• Baleroc now swings 25% slower while Decimation Blade is active.
• The duration of Tormented has been reduced on normal difficulty.

Beth'tilac

• Beth'tilac's health and damage have been reduced by 15% on both normal and Heroic difficulty.

Lord Rhyolith

• Health and damage have been reduced by 15% on both normal and Heroic difficulty.
• The health and damage of additional enemies in this encounter have been reduced by 15% on both normal and Heroic difficulty.

Majordomo Fandral Staghelm

• Health and damage have been reduced by 25% on normal difficulty. Health and damage has been reduced by 15% on Heroic difficulty.
• Druid of the Flame have had their health reduced by 15%, and Sunfire damage reduced by 25% on both difficulties.
• The health and melee damage of Spirit of the Flame have been reduced by 25% on normal difficulty, and reduced by 15% on Heroic difficulty.

Ragnaros

• Ragnaros' health and damage have been reduced by 25% on normal difficulty.
• Ragnaros' damage has been reduced by 15% on Heroic difficulty.
• Magma Trap damage has been reduced on all difficulties.
• The health and damage of additional enemies in this encounter have been reduced by 25% on normal difficulty and 15% on Heroic difficulty.
• Wrath of Ragnaros now knocks targets up, but not back, on normal difficulty.

Shannox

• Health and damage have been reduced by 15% on both normal and Heroic difficulty.
• Riplimb's health has been reduced by 15%.
• Rageface's health has been reduced by 15%.
• Magma Flare damage and Hurl Spear damage have been reduced by 15% on both difficulties.

If you ask me, was the nerf needed? No!

The nerf should have been introduced once 4.3 was released, the same way they did when 4.2 was introduced.

This is the first time in World of Warcraft's history that they nerf current content to such an extent, and to the majority of the community, it was not a welcomed one.

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On a different note, we got Heroic Alysrazor down today, post-nerf, though we had never tried her pre-nerf, i kinda wish we had.

Getting 280k+ combustion ticks sure was nice! :). Post in your comments below how high you have gotten on your combustion ticks!

Dragonwrath Questline - Smoldering Essences Updated Changes

With all the changes back and forth, here will be the final decision from blizzard about the droprate of Smouldering Essences:

• 25-player heroic has 44% lower drop rates in phase 3 relative to 4.2 launch.
• 25-player normal remains unchanged from 4.2 launch.
• 10-player heroic remains unchanged from 4.2 launch.
• 10-player normal has 33% higher drop rates in phase 3 relative to 4.2 launch.

With theese changes it seems more fair for the 10 man people compared to the 25 man players, and well, to be fair, the nerf was kinda fair, since having too many legendaries around, really takes the legendary out of legendary.

Atm in my own guild, we almost have 1 legendary, and i am about to start collecting my Smouldering Essences. We have one guy on the Seething Cinders and one guy on the Eternal Embers.

Though i must applaud blizzard for the way they enables multiple people to be on the quest at the same time.