Hotfixes August 31: Mythic Altar Defilement Cut, Ula’tek Egg Damage
August 31 notes finally publish a Mythic Coiled Altar number — Defilement absorb −20% — plus Ula’tek egg damage treated as periodic, an intermission re-emerge bugfix, and class clean-ups.
August 31 is the first published hotfix list since August 27. No class-tuning wave — that still lands with September 1 maintenance. This pass is Mythic raid numbers, Ula’tek bugfixes, and a handful of spec/delve clean-ups.
Coiled Altar (Mythic)
Defilement of the Coiled Altar healing absorb −20% on Mythic. That is the first Mythic Altar tuning line in an official blog this week — earlier live health-bonus cuts never made the Aug 27 notes.
Also on the altar: Coalesced Venom can no longer spawn inside a Virulent Mutation rim on Mythic, and Soul Sever highlights the correct Manifestations of Dread.
Ula’tek
Player-facing for the Race to World First:
- Damage from carrying eggs is now periodic (was direct) — absorbs and HoTs that care about that distinction should actually work on the carriers
- Grasping Fangs range increased
- Ula’tek no longer re-emerges during the intermission
- Occasional extra Blight Vein / Toxic Burn damage closed
- Dancing Rune Weapon can hit the Venomous Heart again
Classes, delves, UI
Unholy Death Knight Dread / Virulent Plague Erupt now respects the intended target and caster modifiers. Restoration Grove Guardians prioritize Swiftmend / Wild Growth targets; Everbloom is back to 5 targets. Fire Mage 2-piece Flamestrike grants Hot Streak on Pyroclasm-guaranteed crits. Also: Mistweaver Soothing Mist canceling the wrong aura, Holy Guardian Angel not cutting Guardian Spirit’s cooldown on an ally, and Affliction Hellcaller Blackened Soul missing Unstable Affliction from Fatal Echoes.
Gnarldor Isle — Minchi’s Osseous Adventure is 4 bone piles (was 6). Housewarming groups sit in Premade Group Finder’s Questing section. Rune of Lingering no longer breaks crowd-controlled enemies.
Source: Hotfixes: August 31, 2026.