Blizzard has hotfixed the Coiled Altar encounter in World of Warcraft's Venomous Abyss raid, cutting the hidden health bonuses that made the fight one of the tier's hardest, Wowhead reported. The changes are live and apply on every difficulty.
The encounter had been badly out of line on Normal, where it was a harder boss than Normal Ula'tek despite sitting earlier in the tier.
What the hotfix changes
When the Coiled Altar reaches the Intermission at the end of Phase 2, two hidden health modifiers, both named Increase Max Health, activate and grant the bosses extra maximum health. The hotfix reduces both of those modifiers by close to 100 percentage points at every difficulty level.
- Malacrass health bonus on Normal: now 38 percent bonus health, down from 133 percent
- Malacrass health bonus on Heroic: now 87 percent bonus health, down from 180 percent
- Malacrass health bonus on Mythic: now 35 percent bonus health, down from 135 percent
- Zul'jan health bonus on Normal: now 120 percent bonus health, down from 220 percent
- Zul'jan health bonus on Heroic: now 155 percent bonus health, down from 246 percent
- Zul'jan health bonus on Mythic: now 160 percent bonus health, down from 260 percent
Why the final phase gets faster
The reduction does more than shorten the damage check. Because the bosses' healing ability, Ghastly Regeneration, restores a percentage of maximum health rather than a flat amount, smaller health pools also mean smaller heals. Wowhead noted that the combination will greatly speed up the final phase of the encounter, since groups are both chewing through less health and undoing less healing.
The Mythic figure for Malacrass, at 35 percent, now sits below the Normal value of 38 percent, and the Zul'jan modifier remains the larger of the two on every difficulty. Measured in percentage points, the biggest single cut is 100 points, applied to Malacrass on Mythic and to Zul'jan on both Normal and Mythic, while the smallest is the 91-point reduction to Zul'jan on Heroic.
