World of Warcraft: Shadowlands Hotfixes For July 19th

Blizzard has posted Hotfixes for July 19th, which focus on Sanctum of Domination fixes including nerfs to world-first strategies to Kel'Thuzad and Guardian of the First Ones, as well as Sylvanas Windrunner and other miscellaneous changes.

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands Hotfixes For July 19th

Classes

Death Knight

• Fixed an issue with Shackle the Unworthy (Kyrian Ability) not spreading to valid enemy targets.

Covenants

Soulbinds

• Venthyr
  • Nimble Steps (Nadjia the Mistblade) will no longer cause excessive Immunity messages when the target is immune to its movement reduction effect.

Read more: Same-Faction Battlegrounds Are Returning To The Burning Crusade Classic.

Dungeons and Raids

Sanctum of Domination

• Remnant of Ner’zhul
  • Orbs of Torment should no longer be able to sneak in a melee attack.
• Painsmith Raznal
  • [With regional restarts] Floor spikes created by Instruments of Pain now inflict their damage more closely aligned with the visual effect of the spikes on all difficulties.
• Guardian of the First Ones
  • [With regional restarts] The Physical damage portion of Obliterate is now correctly increased by Obliterate’s vulnerability effect, and Obliterate’s vulnerability effect has been increased to 5000% on Heroic and Mythic difficulties.
    • Developers' note: On Heroic and Mythic difficulties, the Guardian's Sunder and Obliterate combo is meant to be shared between two tanks. Prior to this change, stringing together multiple immunity effects could allow a single tank to survive the entire encounter; this should no longer be possible. Our goal is to avoid a scenario where the optimal strategy for the encounter involves having only a single tank, unlike all other encounters in Sanctum of Domination.
• Kel'Thuzad
  • [With regional restarts] Soul Shards will no longer despawn if the target of Soul Fracture is defeated prematurely.
• Sylvanas Windrunner
  • Fixed an issue that could cause Sylvanas to cast a non-intermission Domination Chains prior to casting the intermission Domination Chains if pushed over the health threshold very close to the cooldown of Domination Chains.
  • Fixed an issue that allowed Thrall to affect Dark Sentinels with a knockback.
  • Bolvar should now more reliably cast Winds of Icecrown on Mythic difficulty.
  • Fixed an issue that would prevent Mawforged and Mawsworn enemies from granting on-kill procs.
  • Fixed an issue where Merciless could spawn an unreliable number of zones.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause players to teleport to the wrong location at the start of Stage 3.
  • Sylvanas should now move defeated players between platforms after casting Raze.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause Veil of Darkness to be applied to targets but do no damage.

Read more: How Echo Achieved World First Kel'Thuzad.

• Mythic+
  • Tormented Affix
    • Oros Coldheart's Frost Lance should no longer damage or knock back pets.
• Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
  • Mailroom Mayhem
    • Fixed an issue where entering The P.O.S.T. while mounted could prevent players from picking up Unstable Goods during the encounter.

Torghast, Tower of the Damned

Anima Powers

• Druid
  • Fixed an issue where the Mote of Blood Thirst anima power was increasing the duration of Ravenous Frenzy (Venthyr Ability) with Sinful Hysteria (Runecarving Power) equipped.

You can find the full list of hotfixes over on the World of Warcraft website here.