Several hotfixes were made to Primordial Stones today. The intent here is to bring other Primordial Stones up to the competitive level where the Humming Arcane Stone is currently performing. Although, a portion of this level of performance can be attributed to a bug, even when fixed the Humming Arcane Stone was still the top performer. With these changes we’re hoping to make other combinations more viable in comparison, but not necessarily overtake it over from being the best option. In addition, area of effect stones have gotten a considerable increase to their output. These changes are listed below. Thank you for your feedback!
- Cold Frost Stone effect increased by 12%.
- Deluging Water Stone effect increased by 22%.
- Desirous Blood Stone effect increased by 18.5%. Decreased trigger rate.
- Echoing Thunder Stone effect increased by 12%.
- Excluding Steam Stone effect increased by 25%.
- Flame Licked Stone effect increased by 12%.
- Freezing Ice Stone effect increased by 12%.
- Gleaming Iron Stone effect increased by 12%.
- Humming Arcane Stone - Fixed an issue that caused it to trigger more than intended.
- Indomitable Earth Stone effect increased by 12%.
- Pestilent Plague Stone effect increased by 72%.
- Raging Magma Stone effect increased by 12%.
- Searing Smokey Stone effect increased by 34%.
- Shining Obsidian Stone effect increased by 12%.
- Storm Infused Stone effect increased by 34%.
- Wild Spirit Stone effect increased by 50%.
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Some classes feel bad to play when missing large chunks of secondary stats
That’s my feedback
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Agreed. I am not even considering ditching my stats for more of the azerite gear feeling.
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Can you look into the changes you’ve done to Preservation Evokers? The changes do not feel good at all.
I haven’t been the biggest fan of this particular addition to the game in general, but I’d simply like to point out that the 20 second internal cooldown for Humming Arcane was overkill, and definitely causes it to be overtaken by alternatives.
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Give reduced secondary stats with the ring or buff them even more, they’re still not up to par with most classes secondary stats.
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as long as they remain worthless in pvp I’m happy.
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Can you guys just throw secondary stats on this as well and thanks!
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As a result of this tuning, upgrade tokens spent on Humming Arcane Stone now feel completely wasted. I know we’re only three days into the patch and upgrades will come quickly next week, but I’ve cleared the Vault completely and the rate at which I can crafting order Primordial Stone upgrade consumables has significantly slowed. Please consider allowing to refunds of these upgrade consumable items to then be allocated to stones that have seen significant tuning that bring them ahead of Humming Arcane Stone.
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Hmph. So what are the “good” damage options now?
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Was there not a PTR that existed to test these things prior to 10.0.7’s release so that y’all wouldn’t need to buff the living daylights out of some of these after people have already invested into them?
I hated this absolute joke of an item from the moment it was announced and this is all but confirming every suspicion I had about it.
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When are we going to get secondaries on it so that it’s best in slot as advertised in the dev interview
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One day in after the patch and many people have farmed and socketed their rings, you change it. Just lol…
Small indie?
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Check your class discord. I’m sure the number-crunchers are already working this out.
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Ive been giving praise as it was deserved, but why in the world were these not tested? There is absolutely no way the output of these was tested to need 70% buffs and not finding the interactions. This is nonsense. I already spent what I earned in vault.
You mention a bug but not what it was. Is the Prophetic/Desirious interaction still working?
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at least we still sim lower dps with the ring than with a crafted 418
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The ring will be BiS for nearly every spec with or without secondaries whine all you want it’s borrowed power and you’re gonna farm it >: ( They want to see more Raz kills from people who simply can’t make dps checks. lol
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Why are we so allergic to AOEs just going off instead of having to make them periodics? It already only has a chance to apply, it feels crappy that you’ll inevitably lose value because everything’s a DoT.
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All this dev time, once again going down the toilet, to repair a system nobody asked for. That will be gone in a little over a month. Nothing learned from SL /sigh
How about putting all this time into something people actually want… like TAILS FOR WORGEN?
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They’re not gonna stop buffing this until it’s BiS to the point of being 10%+ upgrade for most classes and it will force tryhards like me to farm it.
I’d suspect more like 3 months for most heavy end game players, longer for casual.
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