Bug Report: Boss ability may be slightly overtuned

Raid: Castle Nathria
Difficulty: Fated Normal
Encounter: Council of Blood
Ability in Question: Baroness Frieda, Empowered with Anima, Soul Spikes.

Issue: It will one or two hit the raid within 1-2seconds of activation.

We had to kill the bosses in a different order to get past the encounter.

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Can confirm, base hit on the raid is the same damage the tank is taking instead of a percentage of the damage.

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Same here, Hit each member of our raid for 35k per tick on normal

We had the same issue as well where tick 1 of soul spikes was doing 90k dmg to a tank and wiping the entire raid.

We had the same issue. Had to change order of kills.

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Agreed, 1-2 shot the raid, immunities just got some of us to the second soul spike.

That’s how we got it too… We killed her 2nd instead

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Same was happening on heroic. Entire raid got hit for 70k per tick even with multiple defensives on the tanks.

Tank is supposed to use physical mitigation to reduce the AoE shadow damage and the ability is not working with that intention and doing the full shadow damage regardless of mitigation. only took 6k per hit physical and rad still took 50k pulses.

Also chipping in on this. Used every external cooldown we had including double spirit link and AMZ and the ability was still doing 40k per tick to the raid.

We noticed this last night as well. When going back and reviewing the damage numbers on the logs from last night vs historical data, it looked like:

Previous Soul Spike damage: Average of 36% of tank damage done to raid
Season 4 Soul Spike damage: Average of 239% of tank damage done to raid

Yep! Can confirm this was wiping us last night as well.

We ended up having our Paladin tank take the Final Stand talent and we were able to mostly survive through it. Saved Heroism for Frieda instead of using on the second half of phase two.

Our guild had problems with this as well. Same as everyone else, Soul Spike damage to entire raid would wipe us since the scaling on it was wrong.

We switched up kill order and did Frieda second instead of last.

It’s still doable with the kill order changed, but was a good bit harder killing Tavros last.

This wiped my friend’s raid group twice. it was hilarious but yes please fix blizz.