Blizzard has changed which specialisations can bonus roll for two items from The Venomous Abyss, in hotfixes pushed to live World of Warcraft servers. Bonus rolls are not yet available; they become obtainable from the Great Vault starting on August 25, Wowhead reported.
Zul'jin's Guillotine Technique, a trinket that drops from the raid's penultimate boss and comes in at Myth 9/6 item level on Mythic difficulty, was previously available to bonus roll only for damage specs. It has now been added to the loot table of all six tank specialisations:
- Blood Death Knight
- Vengeance Demon Hunter
- Guardian Druid
- Brewmaster Monk
- Protection Paladin
- Protection Warrior
Wowhead rates the trinket as very good for Protection Warriors and Protection Paladins and less so for the other tanks, which is why some tanks wanted it as a damage option in the first place. A second item from the same boss, the two-handed weapon Maze-roa, Warlord's Fury, also Myth 9/6 on Mythic, has been added to the Survival Hunter bonus roll table. The August 14 hotfix notes record both changes as loot rules: tanks may now roll Need on Zul'jin's Guillotine Technique, and Survival Hunters may now roll Need on two-handed axes and swords with Agility.
The changes matter because raid bonus rolls drop much higher item level gear, and strategies about which bosses to spend them on have already formed ahead of the season, shaping what players craft and how guilds award loot.
Trinket tuning and a delve power nerf
The same round of hotfixes carried broad trinket tuning. Coiled Fangstone, Fang of Umbral Malignance, Knot of Writhing Serpents, Mindpiercer's Sigil, Sapling of the Dawnroot, Sszorak's Ferocity, Tiny Electromental in a Jar, Vashnik's Sanguine Rancor and Vexhul's Everflowing Gland all had damage increased by 15%, First Mate's Shellward by 25% and Font of Venomous Rage by 20%, while Kyrakka's Searing Embers gained 80% healing and 50% damage. On the other side, Gaze of the Alnseer lost 20% primary stat, Gebbo's Bottomless Bag 29% of its secondary stat effects, and Knot of Writhing Serpents no longer drops for healing specialisations. Extra bonus rolls obtained during Season 1, via Nebulous Voidcores from Void-Twisted Sporbits, have been removed for Season 2.
Blizzard also trimmed a delve power. Ula'tek's Gift, one of the 12 powers on the Corrosive Codex from The Vaults of Atal'Utek, had its damage reduced by 30%, with Gift Expunction cut by a further 60% in PvP and Ula'tek's Gift itself by a further 60% in PvP; the hotfix notes list a matching fix for the power dealing more damage to players than expected. Players can equip one Corrosive Codex power at the start and eventually unlock a second, which Wowhead advises unlocking before next week's delve boss.
