Undocumented Nerfs to Codex of the First Technique Tank Trinket in Patch 9.2.5

Live Posted 2022/06/06 at 2:36 AM by Mandl

Codex Undocumented Changes in Patch 9.2.5Codex of the First Technique

The effect tooltip on Codex of the First Technique was corrected and no longer includes an incorrect multiplication by versatility percentage. Instead, it is now correctly (1 + vers%)
Undocumented: Codex of the First Technique no longer reflects Brewmaster's Stagger, friendly fire effects such as Undulating Maneuvers and other things that would normally be used to pull through obstacles in Mythic+
Undocumented: The damage reduction part of the trinket is now capped at 1946 * (1 + vers%) modified by healing amplification effects, per individual hit, for any Codex of the First Technique of any item level. This used to be unlimited.

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Meyra of Fel Hammer and Nomeratur of Skyhold spent time quantifying the effect and behaviour of the new cap

Sinzhu spotted the stagger change, and I spotted the Undulating Maneuvers change

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Comment by camerashy247Weird, guess they really wanted people to be stuck using SoD raid trinkets as tanks.Comment by KryplixxI have been farming that trinket since 9.2 started. I never got it even I tried more 40 times. So I do not know how I feel nowComment by hotaru251WoW dev's and their undocumented changes....you think in the yrs since launch and seeing how mad users are when fidn these...they would STOP doign them and just document everythingComment by YuckiesLove learning that I wasted days of my life farming this item on two characters and then spent thousands of valor on them only for the devs to flush my efforts down the toilet along with this item.Comment by NavilleI'm seeing a maximum reflected damage value of 11211 on my Codex tooltip tonight.

Base formula seems now to be 9600 * (1 + versatility) at 272 ilvl.

Nerf reverted / adjusted?Comment by IronskullzI'm seeing a maximum reflected damage value of 11211 on my Codex tooltip tonight.

Base formula seems now to be 9600 * (1 + versatility) at 272 ilvl.

Nerf reverted / adjusted?Comment by ApocalypseAPThe trinket is still good, according to last night's logs with our blood DK tank, because the damage was still much higher and reflecting the updated tooltip people seem to have now... the tooltip was probably bugged out?

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