WoW: Failure less painful – nerf for creation spark affix
With a new hotfix for the WoW live servers, the Blizzard developers have taken away some of the affixes from the Fateful Raids. The Spark of Creation now deals significantly less damage if you don’t play the mechanic properly.
The raid affixes that were introduced with the fateful raids in Season 4 of WoW: Shadowlands are intended to provide additional difficulty on the one hand and to reward you if you play them correctly on the other. However, there are significant differences in terms of difficulty. While some affixes are played casually, others require a high level of player attention to avoid becoming a reason for wiping. Above all the spark of creation.
Players get a ticking debuff that, when removed, creates three areas that players must intercept. Any player standing in an area gets a strong buff. If, on the other hand, an area is not intercepted, the entire raid will suffer high damage from a debuff. The more areas are ignored, the more severe the damage will be. Thanks to a hotfix, this damage will now be reduced.
August 26, 2022 Hotfix – Creation Spark nerf
- Dungeons and Raids
- Fateful Raids
- Destiny Powers
- The raid-wide damage-over-time effect of spark of creation has been reduced by 30%.
- Developer Note: This change should reduce the negative impact of missing a Spark of Creation impact location.
- Initial stacks of spark of creation reduced to 2 (from 3).
- The number of spark of creation -Impact points reduced to 2 (from 3).
- The raid-wide damage-over-time effect of spark of creation has been reduced by 30%.
- Destiny Powers
- Fateful Raids
In practice, the affected players only get two stacks of the initial debuff, which means that the damage is less. This, in turn, makes it easier to leave the debuff active longer and remove it at a convenient time. Since only two debuffs result in only two areas, it will be more difficult to secure your buff, but the risk of an area remaining unoccupied drops drastically.
So you’re less likely to get raid-wide damage. And if that does happen, this damage is now significantly less than before. All in all, the negative effect of the kiss/curse affix is significantly reduced. In terms of difficulty, it should be much closer to the rest of the affixes.
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