September 18th Hotfixes (with scheduled weekly maintenance)

[Holycow-uldaman]

@Kaivax

Player versus Player [with scheduled weekly maintenance]

• Evoker
  • Disintegrate damage increased by 33% in PvP combat (was 20%).
  • Developers’ notes: Devastation’s killing power outside of cooldowns is lower than we’d like, so we’re increasing Disintegrate damage further to help Devastation in PvP. In future patches, we would like to further expand on this effort and move damage out of Dragonrage and into other areas.
• Priest
  • Discipline
    • Penance healing is increased by 35% in PvP combat (was 15%).
  • Shaman
    • Elemental
      • Volcanic Surge now increases the damage of Lava Burst by 45% (was 55%) and Lightning Bolt / Chain Lightning by 50% (was 35%).
    • Restoration
      • Riptide healing is now increased by 25% in PvP Combat (was 10%).
      • Healing Stream Totem healing is now increased by 30% in PvP Combat (was 20%).
    • Warlock
      • Affliction
        • Unstable Affliction’s backlash damage increased by 35%.

[Biebz-sargeras]

These were posted a bajillion days ago

[Swolethyr-emerald-dream]

Looks like I’m playing dev tomorrow.

[Kennie-malganis]

[Manfighting-westfall]

I appreciate your patch notes updates. Helps me catch any added changes and just generally acts as a good excuse to review them.

[Zlyrax-moon-guard]

@Kaivax

Disintegrate damage increased by 33% in PvP combat (was 20%).

Yay but also

Devastation needs a more interesting rotation than Disintegrate + Fishing for Disintegrate. I’d rather some of our rotational spells (like Pyre or Living Flame give us a buff, like a few seconds of Dragonrage)

That way the rotation feels more complex, we get to use our mastery outside of big CDs, and the mastery can be tuned in a way that doesn’t provide massive burst every 2 minutes