…are out.
I’ll give them credit for 1 thing, there were certainly a lot of changes that were not discussed in the campfire chat.
Yeah. Lots of SB buffs. That’ll fix the issue.
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They hardly talked about anything during the campfire the notes look interesting. Let the show begin, wait for it. 
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Where?
200 million characters
2.0.5 Build #59712 (All Platforms)—November 19, 2024
They are also on Wowhead.
I like that they did something with the mercenaries.
Mercenaries
Raheir
Shield Throw-
Increased Taunt duration from 3 to 5 seconds.
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Increased number of bounces from 3 to 9 targets.
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Increased damage from 225% to 450% damage.
Iron Wolf’s Ward- Increased Valiance Cooldown Reduction from 25% to 35%.
Iron Wolf’s Virtue- Increased Valiance Cooldown Reduction from 25% to 35%.
Iron Wolf’s Arrival- Increased Valiance Cooldown Reduction from 25% to 35%.
Sundering Shield- Increased the burst damage of
Crater by 200%.
Draw Fire- Removed the ability to use a Potion while at Maximum Life.
Varyana
Ancient Harpoons- Increased Stun duration from 2 to 4 seconds, damage from 140% to 200%.
Whirlwind- Increased Physical Damage from 65% to 85%.
Annihilator- Increased Slow duration from 3 to 5 seconds.
Intimidated- Increased Damage Reduction from 10% to 15%.
Taste of Flesh- Increased Heal amount from 1% to 2%.
Subo
Bargaining Chips- Increased Overpower damage from 2% to 5%.
Thrillseeker- Reduced detonation timer from 3 to 1.5 seconds.
Mastermind- Increased Crowd Control duration from 15%[+] to 25%[+].
Pin Cushion- Increased Immobilize duration from 2 to 3 seconds.
Snipe- Increased damage from 300% to 450%.
Aldkin
Exhaustion- Increased Daze chance from 5% to 10%.
Wave of Flame- Increased damage from 300% to 550%.
Curse of Flame
- Reduced Resource drain from 10% to 8%.
Fire Shot
- Increase damage from 40% to 90%.
So chance to deal double samage fixed or not?
No. They bumped HT damage to compensate. Guess they didn’t want to bother with bug fixes since they aren’t fixing the SB “bugs.”
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Very true. I try to be positive about things in forums but I’m going down the “constructive criticism” road here. I appreciate the work they put into this update and a lot of these changes are welcomed (some more than others) but the 2 biggest items that needed to be addressed, weren’t (for the record, these are my opinions and no one else’s).
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Ancestral drop rates/Max aspect availability - I didn’t expect them to rework these mid season but a simple number increase would have been a nice gesture. Same with the Aspects. They can’t be reworked completely that quickly but at least give us more chances to get it. Let’s hope the juice the drops to the moon during the events. If they do that, I will most likely take this off the list. I also understand they are addressing this next week for S7. This post is just for the remainder of S6.
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Paragon - Way too “grindy” for the majority of players but, I will say this. I understand that once you hit 220ish, gains become severely diminished but my issue here is they locked rewards behind getting to 300. I just hope the XP from these events are enough to somewhat make up for this. I will add Glyphs too because most builds struggle to hit pit 100 this season and you have to do pit 100 to max your glyphs unless I am mistaken (which I have been many times LOL).
Now I can sit back and patiently wait for the comments to kick in. XD
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Typo on Rogue.
Asheara’s Kanjar
- Damage cap increased from 20-40% to 30-50%.
Should be attack speed cap. 
The person wrote the patchnote plays Dance of Knives. 
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It’s cute how you leave out the part where the buffs were to unused skills that are not tied to the overpowered or broken builds. And the other classes got just as many buffs.
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That Neske buff. Too little too late.
Special K is just the god tier item. Probably should’ve been mythic for how required it is for 99% of SB builds.
Necro did not get much love. Bone storm buff is also like the orphan boy saying “please blizzard, I’d like so more buffs”. Cool skill with some interesting uniques and aspects that just doesn’t do enough of anything to build around. Shame they didn’t add more related to the skills damage bump here.
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A double sammich…WHERE?!!
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SB’s toxic skin build already doing pit 150 prior to upcoming buff but idk.
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- Fixed an issue where the chat log would display that you were killed by your Hired Mercenary if you were killed by an already defeated enemy. (Turns out they weren’t traitors after all!)
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It’s cute where you ignore the fact that almost every SB build is head and shoulders above all the other classes and they literally have their own tier. Really cute even.
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Oh, look. Even more power creep so no one has to play the game. Meh.
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Thanks for the headsup bro.
If every SB build is beating you, me thinks a skill issue may be involved.
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Gonna have to uninstall after reading these patch notes and seeing the campfire chat.
The buffs are pitiful and meaningless damage boosts in the context of what the broken class can do, and will continue to do because for some reason its getting stacked with buffs this patch.
Nothing that makes breakpoints for the very fun resource dump banished lord playstyle more accessible on other classes. No quality of life bug fixes (Preparation will only refund a maximum of 10 seconds on a beastfall boots proc. Fix that. That’s an ez W fix). And even though they took the time to say “We want class parity” they also say they are still committed to making every season an exploit fiesta.
I think it’s time to give up on this game, unless you really like streamer culture. Literally no game that makes you pay for it is this bad when it comes to balance and design.
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