Sapphiron and Malygos hotfixes
by Adam Holisky 
Feb 5th 2009 at 8:30PM
Just in time for everyone's raiding tonight, Lead Encounter Designer Daelo has announced two important hotfixes that have gone live.Sapphiron and Malygos both should now be working as intended.
Sapphiron's Frost aura has been hotfixed to return to levels that we've all seen previous to patch 3.0.8. This means there should be 1200 damage every 2 seconds in the 10-man version, and 1600 damage every 2 seconds in the 25-man version. Note however that the tooltip is incorrect, in that it says the damage occurs every second. According to Daelo this will be fixed in the next client patch (and no, there is no indication of when that is).
As for Malygos...
He's been hotfixed to add a small amount of time from the point when he lands after the Vortex to the point where he does his Arcane Breath. Ideally this will let hunter pets get in position. Malygos 10-man should have been working fine already, and this change should only affect 25-man Malygos.
There is no indication if the lag induced and healing-related problems of Malygos have been fixed. I'm betting they have been though.
We'll update this post if we get any more information in on this tonight.
Filed under: Patches, Bugs, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
equinn Feb 5th 2009 8:43PM
Good. Bout time in my opinion.
Luthvian Feb 5th 2009 8:44PM
what about maly blowing breath out his ass? that's an unpredictable and irritating bug. would love to see that cleared.
Edeese Feb 5th 2009 8:53PM
No, it's not actually him blowing breath out of his ass. The hunter pets get hit by the Arcane Breath when he comes down, and then they move into position and all the melee blow up.
Averlin Feb 5th 2009 8:58PM
Did Heroic Malygos last night, and both Priests and Druids can now heal again during Vortex
Averlin: Priestess
Jubei'Thos
Nimangma Feb 6th 2009 11:57AM
Hey Avs!
-Kancho
Hogan Feb 5th 2009 8:59PM
Good! finally :D
node159 Feb 6th 2009 9:03AM
"Sapphiron's Frost aura has been hotfixed to return to levels that we've all seen previous to patch 3.0.8"
Were the levels higher or lower than what they should have been.
Gnosh Feb 6th 2009 9:26AM
sapph's aura was hitting twice as often as normal. The encounter became crazy hard.
hsubaru Feb 6th 2009 11:03AM
Did it become harder? Didn't notice... but then again, I'm just a dps and we don't notice anything other than the bigness of a boss's ass.
Kiliani Feb 7th 2009 2:36PM
In bugged encounters, the frost aura was ticking around 3 times per 2 seconds (when it should have been ticking once).
I believe this only happened on 10 man... hadn't heard of anyone getting it on 25 man, at least on my server. Also, not every group got a bugged encounter, so if you didn't notice it as DPS, you probably didn't get a bugged one.
When you did get a bugged encounter it was very noticeable - healers just could not keep up with the frost aura damage. The first week we got the bug, we had 3 healers in our 10 man group, and I was the only one who had a frost resist set (but even then, the damage was unhealable for our group). The second week, we had two healers with 25 man gear, and the only way we could get through it was to have our offtank get on his 25-man geared resto shaman - even then it was hard. Most groups had to do 4 healers or give up.
gundamxzero Feb 6th 2009 1:05PM
No hunter feign death fix.
Annoying.
Soulbento Feb 6th 2009 5:59PM
...So locks being able to Demonic Circle port our of the vortex is intended then. Awesome :)