{"id":41712,"date":"2026-10-05T08:23:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T08:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/?p=41712"},"modified":"2026-10-05T08:23:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T08:23:24","slug":"survival-hunter-wildfire-bomb-buff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/survival-hunter-wildfire-bomb-buff\/","title":{"rendered":"Survival Hunter Wildfire Bomb Buff: The 20% Hotfix"},"content":{"rendered":"

The October 1<\/strong> hotfix increased Wildfire Bomb<\/a>'s periodic damage by 20% for Survival Hunters. It corrects the September 22 tuning pass, which did not properly increase the periodic damage of an untalented variant of Wildfire Bomb<\/a>. So the survival hunter wildfire bomb<\/a> buff lands on the damage-over-time component of the ability, not on its impact hit.<\/p>\n

What exactly changed on October 1<\/h2>\n

The hotfix raised Wildfire Bomb<\/a>'s periodic damage by 20%. The developers' notes state that the tuning hotfix from the week of September 22 did not properly increase the periodic damage of an untalented variant of Wildfire Bomb<\/a>, and that this hotfix corrects that issue. Nothing else in the Survival kit was touched in that batch, which also carried a Feral Rampant Ferocity<\/a> fix and a change to Ula'tek<\/a> in The Venomous Abyss<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How this differs from the September 22 pass<\/h2>\n

The September 22 class tuning pass increased Wildfire Bomb<\/a> damage by 20% and changed the ability so it only hits the primary target for 50% additional damage<\/strong>, down from 80% additional. The stated intent was a neutral change against a single target and an increase to area damage when fighting more than one enemy. That pass also cut Takedown<\/a> Hunter damage by 10% and Takedown<\/a> pet damage by 15% in PvP combat, targeting Survival's burst window. The October 1 hotfix is narrower: it applies to the periodic damage of the untalented variant that the earlier pass missed.<\/p>\n

Where the damage shows up<\/h2>\n

The buff is on periodic damage<\/strong>, so it pays out over the bomb's damage-over-time duration rather than in the initial hit. Its overall performance is average across the board, with solid AoE and single-target damage that is only solid, and it trails Marksmanship without trailing enough to drop a tier.<\/p>\n

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The Survival hunter Wildfire Bomb buff lands on the damage-over-time component, not the impact hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33680,"featured_media":41713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,81],"tags":[1444,1442,1443,45],"post_kind":[],"ppma_author":[127],"class_list":["post-41712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wow","category-all","category-epiccarry-game-news","tag-survival-hunter-121-hotfix","tag-survival-hunter-wildfire-bomb-buff","tag-wildfire-bomb-20-buff","tag-wow","author-dina"],"acf":{"faq_header":"","faq_items":[{"question":"

Which Wildfire Bomb variant was affected?<\/h3>","answer":"

The untalented variant's periodic damage, which the September 22 tuning hotfix failed to increase properly.<\/p>"},{"question":"

Was the initial hit buffed too?<\/h3>","answer":"

No. The October 1 change is specifically to periodic damage.<\/p>"},{"question":"

Did the September 22 change to primary-target bonus damage get reverted?<\/h3>","answer":"

No. The 50% additional damage to the primary target, down from 80%, stands as the September 22 change.<\/p>"}],"wpwp_short_description":"The Survival hunter Wildfire Bomb buff lands on the damage-over-time component, not the impact hit.","wpwp_plus_for_views":""},"authors":[{"term_id":127,"user_id":33680,"is_guest":0,"slug":"dina","display_name":"Dina","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dina-avatar.webp","url2x":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dina-avatar.webp"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41712"},{"taxonomy":"post_kind","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_kind?post=41712"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epiccarry.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=41712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}