The Horrific Visions in World of Warcraft are the major feature of Patch 8.3. However, for some players, this content has now been massively simplified.
Since the release of Patch 8.3 Visions of N’Zoth, many players daily farm their daily quests and complete the invasions to gain access to the Horrific Visions. This is the “big new feature” of the patch, although this is hotly debated. Those who want to do this alone usually switch to a DPS spec to even have a chance. However, that may change now, because tanks and healers now have it much easier.
What has changed? In a hotfix, Blizzard has changed the Horrific Visions for all players who venture solo into this adventure as a tank or healer. The health points of the enemies have been drastically reduced. From now on:
- Tanks fight in the Horrific Visions against enemies with 25% less health points.
- Healers fight in the Horrific Visions against enemies with 42% less health points.
Healers and tanks now have a significantly lower difficulty than before.
Why did Blizzard do this? Blizzard revealed in the patch notes that they do not want to force any player to change from their favored specialization to be effective in the visions. It says:
We want players to be able to upgrade their legendary cloak without having to change their specialization. The difficulty of the Horrific Visions dynamically adapts to the group composition but is still a bit too hard for solo healers or solo tanks, which is why we are providing some assistance to these players.
Is the vision worthwhile as a healer or tank? Even though the visions are now easier, it can be clearly stated that they are primarily designed for DPS characters. After all, one often needs to interrupt enemy abilities, which healers can only do in rare cases. Although they can heal themselves easier, without a proper “interrupt,” they also take more damage to their mental health.
At least currently, you can get into the Horrific Visions much more often.
The optimal solo gameplay is still likely a damage specialization, even though healers and tanks now at least have better chances.
