Season of Discovery Hotfixes - 22 May

[Linxy]

March 12, 2025

Season of Discovery

• Druid
  • Pressing Starfall a second time after it has been cast, and the Global Cooldown is finished, now cancels Starfall.
• Mage
  • Presence of Mind will no longer unexpectedly stay on the Mage under certain circumstances.
• Shaman
  • The Elemental Shaman Tier-2 4-piece set bonus now removes your Loyal Beta when the set bonus is removed or broken.

[Linxy]

March 17, 2025

Season of Discovery

• Changing difficulties or activating and deactivating orbs in Naxxramas will no longer interrupt the drinking or eating of players in the raid that aren’t channeling on the orb or conduit.
• Hunter
  • Enchanted Flare will no longer disrupt allied players’ channeled effects.
• Warrior
  • Rampage now increases attack power by 15% (was 10%).
  • Rampage cooldown decreased to 90 seconds (was 120 seconds).
  • Removing the Protection Warrior T3 4-piece set bonus will now correctly remove the cooldowns it effects.

[Huitzø-living-flame]

@Linxy

Player versus Player

• The (up to) 50% health increase in Battlegrounds has been removed.
• The global Damage Reduction to spells in PvP has been increased to 50% Physical/60% Magic reductions (was 25% Physical/40% Magic reductions).
  • Developers’ notes: Players should now have 50% more effective health in PvP against both Physical and Magical damage in the open world, and PvP in Battlegrounds should feel unchanged.

NGL this is truly awfull

[Ragnorak-living-flame]

Can you please think about reducing the effectiveness of the defence stat to 0 in pvp and block chance by 20-30%. You will also need to nerf healing by 20-30%.

[Nahmon-living-flame]

Where Is THE 50% NERF TO HEALING BLIZZARD!

[Bulka-doomhammer]

So no more oneshot palas?

[Lookback-living-flame]

“Should feel the same” Healers 1v5 killing ppl cuz they refuse to die with how lil dmg we do…
Sad that blizz did the same thing back in p3 with the flat out dmg reduce but took them a month to click in their chimp brains… “Hmm maybe we should do the same for healing” STOP BREAKING UR GAME EVEN MORE!!!

[Nahmon-living-flame]

Yo the monkey parade over at blizz classic sod team, you gimped up yet again turns out u added a 50% dmg reduce on top of the 30% dmg reduce and forgot to nerf healing, so now we got unkillable shamans once more, even priests refuse to die and they in cloth with 1500 armor… Whoever made the change Kaviax or Aggrend pls delete ur characters and never touch sod again you complete buffons!

P.S after ur lil aura change the wait time for ab went from 10 min to 20 min… Great change monkeys! keep on flipping the levers you might hit the correct one some day!

[Beestorm-outland]

I returned to SoD a couple of weeks ago and was very much enjoying the pvp even with terrible gear but with this patch it makes it so people with no gear stand 0 chance at all.

I guess I will go back to another game.

[Nahmon-living-flame]

yep i stopped playing till the idiots at blizz either remove this aura no one asked for or nerf healing the same way, now a healer can 1v5 because aggrend is a filthy hybrid lover who has nothing in common with the og devs from 2004

[Bulka-doomhammer]

For what its worth hunters are still obnoxious in bgs

[Nahmon-living-flame]

for what it’s worth we got a 50% dmg nerf and no healing nerf so healers can 1v5… on my fresh 60 shaman i can 1v5 with resto spec and tank tier 1 and on my hunt if im caught im dead meat, so idk go play some pvp and you will see who are the strongest classes, and for what it’s worth ret still 1 shots even through the aura

[Bulka-doomhammer]

Well ofc Ret are still OP! I bet the magic dmg reduce dosent affect holy dmg

[Nahmon-living-flame]

True Aggrend is such a nerd when they asked to nerf his class he nerfed all classes insted XD fkin Dev, doesn’t play the game he is so passionate for only plays sandbox building like it’s minecraft making wrath zones apear as new

[Änglalik-azjolnerub]

We asked for paladin nerf, not nerf all classes by a flat %. Sealtwist still 1shot, even after “fix”… >.>

[Huitzø-living-flame]

worst patch , only pal/sham/hunt are playable in pvp now , it’s worse than ever.

[Nevolent-living-flame]

@Linxy

Player versus Player

• The (up to) 50% health increase in Battlegrounds has been removed.
• The global Damage Reduction to spells in PvP has been increased to 50% Physical/60% Magic reductions (was 25% Physical/40% Magic reductions).
  • Developers’ notes: Players should now have 50% more effective health in PvP against both Physical and Magical damage in the open world, and PvP in Battlegrounds should feel unchanged.

HELLO? what about pets???

[Nahmon-living-flame]

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WHAT ABOUT PALA NERFS!?

[Potatomilk-living-flame]

just a paladin andy casually killing a group of 4-5 players on his own, using a castsequence macro and a bubble.
nothing out of the ordinary.
and this is post-pvp aura update
very balanced.

[Nahmon-living-flame]

YES!!! You don’t see hunters doing that but you still cry for killshot nerfs when it hits for 550dmg with full bis and slavemaker meanwhile he got ashkandi and t1 set from mc with t2 set and the aq 3 set on should enchant with 2 immunities a battle stead heals and blessing of freedom telling you kite me while killing 3 people in bubble!!! AND KEEPING 2 OF THEM STUNNED W HAJ AND REPENTANCE!!!